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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10
THEY JUST ESCAPED.
Phillip Hart's Family Nearly Burned tc
Death.

Death.
WEsTCHEsTER, o., March Phillip
Hart and his family had a narrow
escape from being burned to death The
Hart family consists of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hart and two daughters. They live
in two-story brick and frame
house, the first floor of which is occu-
pied as saloon. The second floor is
the sleeping apartment About $3.50
o'clock in the morning Mrs. Hart
awoke almost smothered from smoke.
She gave the alarm and opening the
door of her room was met by sheet of
flame that was rapidly eating its way
to her own room. In a few moments
the whole village was aroused, and the
fire, after considerable hard work, was
extinguished by a bucket brigade. The
family chad barely time to step into
their clothes and escape from the build
ing.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10
Cumbsrland RIVER Interests

WASHINGTON, March z--Representa-
tive Washington, of Tennessee, appear
ed before the house committee on riv-
ers and harbors on behalf of liberal
appropriations for continuing the inn
provement of the Cumberland river in
Kentucky and Tennessee by means of
the system of locks and dams already
commenced
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10
Jewslry smugglers Caught.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., March Gus
tave Wustinger and Gustave Kuhn,
both employed as cooks aboard the
Lain, were arrested as they landed
here. Ten packages of jewelry Were
found hidden upon their persons and in
their quarters on the vessel The jew
elry consists of chains, bracelets and
rings and is worth about $4,000
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10
THE HEATER EXPLODED,
Killing Two Passengers and InJuring Sew
eral Others.


Topeka, Kan, March IA peculiar
and fatal accident occurred on the
Santa Fe and St Joseph passenger
train. The train left st. Joe at $50
o'clock on its way to Topeka. AtMeri-
den the heating apparatus in the
smoker exploded with terrific force.
The passengers in the car were
hurled from their seats, and
two of them, Almon Richards
and Alexander Erickson, both of this
place. were so badly hurt that they
afterward died of their injuries. Five
others were painfully injured, but it is
not expecteRsany of them will die. The
injured were brought to this city, and
were removed to the Santa Fe dispen-
sary, and every thing possible done for
them. The inside of the car was COM
pletely wrecked
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10
A Great Grandmother at Fifty-Four.

Troy, N. Y, March'7. The census
enumerator at Warrensburg found a
child three months old, the mother,
Mrs. Fred Chandler, one month less
than Is years, grandmother Mrs. John
Allen aged 33 years, and great-grand-
mother Mrs. Oscar Greene, aged 81
years, all residing in close proximity
about six miles north of Warrensburg
village.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10

Socialists Against the Congo Enterprise.
BRUssEIs, March IA discussion be-
tween the friends and foes of the Con-
go enterprise, which began Thursday
night at the Mason Du peuple, the So
cialists' headquarters, only terminated
at o'clock Friday morning The So
cialists carried by large majority res
olution declaring that money spent on
the Free State would be better employ
ed in favor of white slaves in Belgium,
that the Belgium parliament abuses its
power in using public money to abet
the African follies of the king This
is the workingman's declaration of war
against the Congo enterprise, and
causes an enorlnops sensation here.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10
CROP OUTLOOK.
Reports From a Number Of Cali
fornia Correspondents.

A Larger Acreage of Wheat sown Than
Ever Before. But Too EARLY to MIKE
Predictions-The supply of Oranges
Small - Fruit Prospects Good. ss1
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10

SraRlN the whole of the west coast
sof south America is supplied with Peru
wian petroleum. The petroleum beds
s~ccyrT- an srea of 1900 square miles.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-10

WslAT goes up when rain comes down?
uR=brslias
The advocate., 1892-01-13

required TO pay on the appraiSment Of
actual cost OF construction, and even that
has been reduced In this state by the
board of railroad assessors. We discount
the example of despotic Russia where
the nobility are only exempt from poll
tax.
An increase of the circulating medium
would be of no permanent good to the
people without restrictions placed upon
The great corporations and capitalists Of
the country to prevent them from alb
sorbing it in enormous salaries, exorbi-
taut railroad transportation rates, interest
and tariff. A reduction Of salaries, Of
interest and the tariff, as well as the es
tablishing of an equitable system Of taxa
tion, properly graduated income tax
the only just method Of taxation-would
be necessary corollaries, or subsidiary
measures in order to permanently secure
to the people the advantages of an in
crease of circulating medium, ss import
ant as the increase of the circulation IT.
self. D. r. KINsEY.
Kingman, Kan.
The advocate., 1892-01-13

chasing agencies and cut us of in that
direction, they may succeed in go dis
couraging the manufacture Of hemp
twine In the west that no more mills viii
be started. The farmers Of Kansas can
not afford to fall into this trap. They
will lind 1t largely to their interest to
have their binder twine made In the state
out Of home grown hemp, as 1t will be II
manufacturers locating In the state can
depend on farmers buying their twine.
have two more sets of hemp machinery
now running in Illinois. l will locate In
Kansas and make twine there as soon az
I can find q good location where narties
will take sufficient interest with me as
has been done here In Fremont.
M. JEROME.
Fremont, Neb., January 2, 1892.
The advocate., 1892-01-13
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Correction.

ENTERPRISE, Kan, January 16, 1892.
EDITOR ADVOCATE - The printers
made quite q serious mistake in my ar
tlcle by making me say SUNDAY regula-
tlons" when meant sanitary regula-
TONS" As there has been, and is now, q
good deal Of discussion ON that subject,
I do not want to be on record as favor
ing what are generally called Sunday
laws. While l believe in and practice
rest from ordinary work on Sunday, /
do not believe in one set of men pre-
scribing for others how they shall OBJ
serve 1t. So please Oblige me by noting
the correction in your next Issue. Re-
spectfully, NJ. SENN.
The advocate., 1892-01-13
THE BINDER TWINE BUSINESS AND
THE NATIONAL UNION COMPANY.

[As practical Illustration Of the working Of
the National Union Company we publish the fol-
luwlrg extract from private letter Of manu-
facturer Of binder twine which speaks for itself.
Ed
To the Editor Of THE ADVOCATE.
l notice you are questioning the ad-
Visibility of permitting the gobbling of
your purchasing agencies by the $780,
100000 trust syndicate of New York.
Permit me to call your attention to one
of the Africans concealed In the trusts
fuel supply, that may have escaped your
attention.
I have q method and machinery for
handling and cleaning hemp, loose and
tangled, cut 1t with q moving machine,
stir it with hSy tedders, rake with horse
rake, and handle with pitch forks, in
stead of cutting with hemp hooks and
keeping straight, as done the old way.
My method saves q large part Of the ex-
pense heretofore necessary In handling
and cleaning hemp. That binder twine
can be made from it and sold at a reason
able price, while the hemp can be raised
and twine made almost anywhere in the
west. l originated my method and ma
chinery for manipulating hemp cheaply
over sixteen years ago when manufac-
turing in Illinois bagglng for covering
cotton bales-usng mainly fax tow
but sometimes mixing hemp with it;
seven years ago began making binder
twine from this style OF hemp, selling
twine mainly to Alliances In Dakota.
The mill started in Illinois is now max
ing about six tons Of twine per day. l
have put In some of my machinery here
and we are making about two tons of
twine per day from hemp grown about
our mills. We sell our twlne largely TO
Alliances aud Oranges, the latter have
just arranged to buy their entire supply
of twine for the state Of us. These two
factories have demonstrated that hemp
can be raised and good binder twine
made from 1t almost any where In the
west Should our example be largely
followed, the eastern manufacturers will
lose their western market For this
reason they wish to suppress ua They
have the dealers generally with them be-
cause we are selling direct to farmers or
ganizatlons and because they can buy
sisal and New Zealand twine cheap and
sell It at much higher price than ma
nllla. Now il the trust can obtain control
OF the Alliance purchasing agencies and
stores they think they can cut of oul
market entirely and freeze US out They
tried last season to do this by selling
twine In our market at lesS than cost
but found that method too expensive. II
they can get control Of the Alliance pur'
The advocate., 1892-01-13
Am enc PIeces Want It.
DOVER, Kan, january 4, ]

DOVER, Kan, January a, 1892.
EDITOR ADvoCATE:-On the evening
of December 80, Dover Alliance had an
oyster supper and social, at which 200
took supper. 1t was one of the most en-
joyable times we have ever had in this
place. The entertainment consisted Of
vocal and instrumental music, declama-
tions and short speeches from the mem
bers.
We concluded that the Alliance was
oil going to pieces and / took it upon
myself to see If each one of the pieces
would not like THE ADVOCATE to read.
succeeded in finding twenty-five, which
| send you, together with money for
same. Yours fraternally,
A. Fl. ALDRICH.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-02-26
Rostieal.
OVER AND ovER.
NO. "a.

10y
lust the same thing over and over r.
But that Is the way of the world, my dear
')yer and over, over and over,
pld things repeated from year to yearl
Hear whst the sun saith ;.sPatIent still,
The vanlted heavens climb and climb,
Over and over with ,ireless will,
Day aiser day Ill the end oftImei
Never pause and never a rest
Vet every morning The earth is new,
And ever the clouds 10 the golden weat
Have fresh glory shining through"
Hear what the grass saith up the hills
z And through the orchard creep aud creep,
Over the meadows aud whore the rills
Laugh IN the shadows cool and deep.
! yasy spriag i Is lust ne ssmet
And because u Is am sure to see
The orioles flash Of vivid flame
In the pink white bloom OF the apple tree"
Hear what dear love saith "Ah, | hear
The same old story over and over;
Mother and maiden year by year
Whisper it still to child aud lover
but sweet II grows from age to age,
The song begotten 80 long ago,
When first man came to his heritage,
And walked with God IN the even glow"
--Juiid G. II. Dorr.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-02-26
Mi5Cellaue9Ms.
~~--~-~-->-~~1~-~-~~~~~-~>~
LOVED THE GOVERN ESS,

blackness of the night; pencil Of light
from the station lamp, shimmeriug upon
the wet platform dimly outlined the
figure of young girl clad In water
proof. A carriage drew up, with the
curtains closely drawn, and loud but
not unpleasant voice called out.
This way. please"
A drive over rough road brought
them to commodous residence, sur
rounded by grounds ample enough for
park. AS it was late she was shown
at once to room.
She arose early the pext morning,
awakened by the brightness of the at
mosphere and the sweet singing of the
birds.
She had given her name as Kate
Conover, and had come to accept the
position of governess in the family.
Presently the lady Of the house knock
ed and entered the room, Evidently
she was much pleased with her new ar
rival, for her eyes rested upon a sweet,
frank face, agraceful, compact form and
an attire as neat "a it was sensible
81 hardly expected to find you 80
young" Mrs. Cameron said
"No9" asked Miss Conover, ''still-
you will find me proficient
"Ob, to be sure,' Mrs. Cameron hur-
riedly said. PLEASE walk down to
breakfast"
The breakfast room reached, she said
Miss Conover-Brice Rutherford,
my nephew"
The name startled the young lady so
much that her self.possession almost
failed her. She bowed in recognition
Of the introdu ction, aud then turned
her attention to the two children who
we're to be under her charge.
During the morning meal she cast
several furlive glances at Brice Ruthcr-
ford, not quite sure whether he was the
man who had driven her from the sta.
ton or not. lie was rcticent then-he
seemed 10 be reticent now. lie was
young, handsome, refined, with perhaps
rather an exalted opinion Of himself
1t was remarkable that during the
summer BIO began to take considerable
interest in the pretty little governess.
He was thrown almost daily in her So
ciety, and her frankness was especially
charming to him, because he was not
much disposed to DO frank himself.
His interest at last assumed n more
fervent shape, and finally led him to
make declaration Of love. A look of
triumph crossed her face, but it escaped
his notice, for she was seated in the
shadow.
"This isn't unexpected" she replied,
"but-"
Brice Rutherford frowned at the re
mark, and awaited for her to conclude il.
"You see, you don't know anything
about me-" she said. starting in afrcsb.
"Oh, but ! aatter myself | do" was
bis reply. 81 never act without proper
consideration"
81 mean as to my-my--antece-
donts"-Miss Conover said Gas to
my-my-purposos-"
doh = care about your anteced-
chts' ne interrupted And as tor
your purposes, | hope one of them will
"ob 10 ha sn,a "1P 49,, IT, ill., '
,.Wau ~ 80 oI' 'oP''o' o"v'
o.oh o,ha. a ~ s"' '""' VIZ '"'''''""u
.'Rn, 7 S"n,, L,o~ ,l., :;
.S ~" A , '"a az We W, ~
YOU nronosed IN ma b,, c.nno, r.caII
that I accented Won "
"Ob p he eiaeula,ed with n cros,-
fallen look
Miss Copover lauobcd sof,lv and said
81 am willing IN bo1J vonr otrer ,nJer
adyisement y
"Tbat will mt ss,;.rv mn uho ro,l;od
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-02-26
VIM. SMTTH,

Virginia Avenue and 9th Street, N. W.,
oct 27-tf WASHINGTON, d. @.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-02-26

A little New Yorker was reading
newspaper. Looking up he says.
Aldermen are called city fathers,
amt they, pa p
Eyes, my son"
"Well, what's the difference between
them and other fathers 7"
"Tbe difference is very similar. As
a general thing the sons run in debt
and their fathers have to pay; but tho
city fathers contract debts and their
sons, and even their grandsous, have to
pay That's the difference, my SON."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-02-26

Marriage has not chasged him
much" said Mrs. Potts. before we
were married he would not let mo carry
the ligbtest bundle--and he does not
now IIo let's inc lug tho heavy ones"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-02-26

Take a pencil and multiply--twicc
two IRE four. twice four are eight, etc..
and you will find that in the twentieth
generation you had l,048,57G ances-
tors.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-02-26

II never withhold anything from my
wife. tell her every night oil that
have done during the day"
"And do you tell her every day what
you have done during the nighf?'
swell, that's different"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-02-26
j . B p RI N TIN 6
suoH
LARGE POSTERS, HANDBILLs
cn CIRCULARS,
cAkDs, BLANKS,
BILL-HEADs.
Together with every other description Of
PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING,
Executed with neatness and dispatch.

Yearly advertisers will be allowed "a
change four times during the year wiihou,
charge. Advertisements should be marked
with time and space they are to occupy.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-12-23

!
the materials, and sees to packin' the or
der boxes, and she checks of the time,
and she jest sets there at the desk all
day long, like cat a-watchin' mouse
hoe. An ole Bill Boone, the cutter, he
allows she's better manager and a
quicker hand at figures than Harry him
self. And that's saYin' pretty consid'a-
ble.n
"Well, T--do--declare- -for'tlu slowly
uttered Juliana Joyce. 81 didn't think
It was ii herl But she she can't keep
1t up long. She amt used that sort OF
thing
'sDon't know about that" grunted the
tinman, as he packed bunch Of dippers
where the wheeltires should not spatter
them with mud. "she's got an amaz-
in sight o grit"
Old Peppercorn was right. Mrs.
Harry Haddon has found her level at
last. Late and early she was at her
post.
'sIt would be sorry home coming
for Harry" she thought, "to find the
factory shut up and his bread-winner
gone. don't pretend to be business
man, but believe that have some COM
mon sense, and can surely accomplish
what any other woman was expected to
do"
Nevertheless strange sensation Of
loneliness came over her on Christmas
Eve, when she sat alone by the blazing
logs on the hearth of the old farmhouse.
"Ain't we to have no Christmas, Mrs.
Harry'" hannah, the hired girl, had
asked, with an aggrieved countenance,
and the young wife had answered, cheer
fully:
"of course, Hannah. But the turkey
must be the very smallest in the yard,
and one little mince.pie win do for you
and me. I'll just put up "a few sprigs of
the mistIetoe that Johnny Barton brought
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-12-23


travelled night and day to spend Christ.
mas with Lily.
"And / have made up my mind to
bring you back to the Hot Springs with
me, darling" he said.
"But cannot gol'' said Lily. with
sparkling eyes. "I've great deal too
much to do"
"Where is Juliaua Joycel"
"she is not here; she has never been
here"
Then Lily told her tale.
"And you have managed the factory,
Lily-alonelp he cried, almost incredul-
ously.
ayes, alone; aud the foreman says,
Harry, that we have never had more
successful season."
''It does not seem possible, Lily"
"But it is possible she said, smiling.
~ am not such brainless toy as your
parents think, Harry-not so useless an
appendage as"
She stopped short. She was loo mag
nanimous TO reprosch him in this, her
hour of triumph, even by the merest
implication.
"You see," she added, II simply fell
back on practical good sense. Even
Juliana Joyce could have done no more
than that"
"There is not one woman in thou
sand who would have had the courage to
do this thingp exclaimed Harry.
"Lily, you are the greatest treasure man
ever won! I'd give hundred dollars
to see my fathers face when he reads
the letter ! shall write to-night-.o hear
my mothers commcntsp'
Shave | pleased you, Harryf"
"More than words can express, dear
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-12-23
LILY'S CHRISTMAS.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

)F1ER than a COW
erlet of elder down,
the first snow Of the
season had drifted
down over the rocky
pastures and brown
wooden fences Of
Callikoon Farm, aud
fha o1d rod forn,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-12-23

me from Callikoon Swamp, and we won't
let the blessed day pass by without some
good cheer, lonely though we are"
.'Poor dearl" thought Hannah, visit
fully regarding her young mistress pale
face. ats pretty hard on her to be
alone this Christmas Day of all othersl"
She was boiling down kettle of cider
apple sauce in the kitchen, when a chime
of sleigh-bells sounded as far as the
front door aud then stopped.
"You 60 to the door, please, Mrs.
Harry" she called out. "I've got my
apple-sass a-b'ilin' away like all creation,
and it'll be sart'in sure to scorch il l
leave it second now. Iguess likely it's
Reuhy Martin come for the pumpkins you
promised him."
Slowly she withdrew the frosty bolts,
that clicked beneath her touch, and
turned the key in the big, foot-square
lock.
There, outlined against the black blue
heavens rode beautiful youn3 moon i,
instinct with orange light. All around
it lay the white winter world, aud on the
step-the realization of all her hopes and
dreams-stood tall, mufiied figure, with
shining eyes.
"a merry Christmas to you, Lilyl Ny
Lilyr
"HaTyl"
Did she fainti No, surely not; and
yet the first she knew she was lying on
the sofa in front of the Gre, with Hsrry's
dear, tender face bending over her.
81 dreamed all this last night sh
murmured-" "sll-alll Aud now it ha'
come truew
Harry Haddon had taken advantag
of sudden and unlooked-for improve
ment in his fathers condition, and ha
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-12-23
Antiauitr Of Christmas ToIs.

The doll is thousands of years old; it
has been found inside the graves of lit
tie Roman children, and will be found
again by the archaologists of future
date among the remains of our own cul-
ture. The children Of Pompeii and Her
culaneum trundled hoops just as you and
did; and who knows whether the
ocking horse on which we rode in our
young days is not lineal descendant of
that proud charger into whose wooden
nanks the children of Francis rs time
dug their spurs.
The drum is also indestructible, and
setting time at naught across the Gen.
turies, it bears the Christmas-tide and
New Year summons that bids the tin
soldier prepare himself for war, and
shall continue to beat as long as there
exist boy arms to WELD the drumsticks,
aud grown up peoples ears to be
deafened by the sound thereof. The tin
soldier views the future with calm; he
will not lay down his arms until the
day of general disarmament, and there
is, as yet, no prospect of a universal
peace.
The toy sword also stands its ground;
it is the nursery symbol OF the ineradi-
cable vice of our race-the lust for bat
tie. Harlequins, fools capcrowned
and bell.ringing are also likely to en-
dure; they are sure to be found among
the members of the toy world as long as
there are fools to be found among the
inhabitants of our own. Gold-lacsd
knights, their swords at their sides,
curly-locked and satin-shoi princesses,
stalwart musketeers, mistachel pnd top
booted, are all types which still hold
their own. The Chinese doll IS young
as yet, but she has brilliant future be.
fore her.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-12-23
Cat. Are Independent An,m,,..

The cats spirit of Independence in
deed, is the most distinct character
istic Of her nature. AS Nine. de
Custine rightly said, the cats great
difference from, and, according to her
sentiments, superiority to, the dog
lies in her calm insistence on selec-
tion which invariably accompanies
her apparent docilitY. To the dog
proprietorship is mastership;he knows
his home, and he recognizes without
question the man who has paid for.
feeds and, on occasions, kicks him
with all the easyfamiliarity of owner
ship. He follows that man undoubt-
ing and unnoticed, grateful for a
word, even thankful for an oath.
But the cat is a creature of very
different stamp She will not even
stoop to conquer. nor be tempted out
of her nature by offers of reward.
She absolutely declines instructions;
nay, even persuasion is lost upon her
for any permanent effect it may be
designed to have. You may be the
legal possessor Of cat, but you can
not govern her afiections-H Henriette
ROnner.