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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05
STOCK AND FARM.

The Sterling Bulletin publishes list
Of farmers who are building new houses,
and it fills almost a column.
Jewell City Republican: John Elliot,
the big poultry man Of Vicksburg
township, purchased J. II. Woollen's
farm, one mile west OF Burr Oak, Mon
day morning, paying $4,000 for the
same. Mr. Elliot will stock the farm
with hens, in which he has found more
profit than in grain or stock.
Cove City Gazette: A. d. Kerr, hav-
ing finished sowing wheat, returned to
his home in Red Oak, Ia, Monday.
The company of which Mr.. Kerr is
president have put in about 5000 acres
Of wheat in the county this FALL They
will ship in an additional force Of men
and teams in February and break out
between 5000 and 1000 acres more
ground next spring.
Cedar Vale Star: e. M. Cole has 80
head of calves and yearling heifers on
feed, had them on clover pasture up to
December l, the pasture being fine till
about that time. There is thirty five
acres of alfalfa on the place, it is the first
sowed in the country and is holding ont
as well as ever. This summer there was a
little foxtail grass in it but the last cut
ting seemed to put the alfalfa ahead
again.
Jewell City Republican: Jewell
county land will not be any cheaper
than it is now, you may depend upon
that, because there are enough well-to-
do farmers right here on the lookout for
bargains who will snap up every piece
that drops below the ruling price; and
what pieces there are in this section
that have been bought in on foreclosure
have, with very few exceptions, already
gone into the hands Of home-makers.
Cedar Vale Star: N. G. Marsh sowed
sixty acres to alfalfa this year thirty in
the spring and thirty this fall, and has
pan excellent stand on all but abopt 81
acres. He lost about s acres in the
spring on wet, spouty land drowned
out, and the gaasshoppers took about
half an acre for him this fall along the
edge Of fall sowed field, but the rest
is looking extra we'll. He now has the
Wakefield place all down in alfalfa that
has ever been plowed. He is fixing for
fattening cattle at lower cost than by
straight corn feeding
Cedar Vale Star: William White had
forty head of 1,251-pound cattle on the
market the 10th that brought him $40.
They were the tops out of 215 head
not the heaviest but the best fatted.
They are described as nice, blocky fell
lows. He bought them in Kansas City
year ago, they weighing right at 800
pounds then.--The horse market is next
to no market at all this winter, but
William Burden sold a span of 900
pound 3-year-old horses to George Ray
last week for $40, and L. N. Case
bolt span one and two years older,
and considerably heavier, to Webster
jeff for $3.50. Low prices, but better
than the eastern or western market
would afford.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

A LITTLE speck of quarrel appeared
on the horizon of our diplomatic re-
lations with Venezuela the other day.
The Venezuelan authorities appear
to have been DESTROYS of taking pas
senger off from the Philadelphia de-
spite the fact that it is a war vessel
of the United States, and even
threatened to train the guns of the
fortof La Guayra on the United States
flag But the Phladelphia's captain
stood firm and would have sent the
Venezuelan fur flying if there had
been airy aggression.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

THE immense amount Of money
spent by the Duke of Marlborough's
American wife in reinstating Blen-
helm from ruin to it's former glory as
a place. is probably lost to her for
ever. 1t is not probable that the heir
of such a father Will make restitution,
and the laws of England give him the
entire estate. Out of the magnificent
fortune the charming Mrs Ham
mersly is liable to retain little save
her dearly bought title, Yet there
are many American women who will
regard the duchess as an enviable
creature because her millions paved
the way to place among the nobility.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

THE birth records of New York and
other cities shows that hundreds of
innocent babies will carry a life re.
minder of this anniversary season.
The name of Columbus is being sad.
died upon them, and where sex sug-
gests necessary variation, Columbia
is substituted. Spare the little ones
and especially the girls, for in future
years the name will be an almost in
fallible guide to the age. When it is
known that a lady's name is Column
bia, it will be perfectly natural to say
that 'she must have been born back
in 1892"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

A sO-CALLED athleticaclub Of New
Orleans proposes to give purses ag-
gregating $4,000 for couple of
prize fights to be held under its aus
pices. This is about $40, 600 an hour
of actual work, and is a muni6cent
Offering for a brief period of alleged
sport To say that such exhibitions
as these tend to the cultivation Of
cOmmendable athletics is a shallow
pretense, Prize fights remain prize
fights though they be dignitled by the
name Of glove contests They call
together the worst elements Of the
world and tempt Others who soon cul-
tivate a taste for seeing two trained
gladiators pummel each other. De-
Tense of the practice is usually sought
by reference to the pugilism Of classic
times, when Greece and Rome had
not shaken off the clinging habits of
barbarism, or later On when their
civilization had become elfete. There
may be a defense for amateur pugil-
ism as the least civilized of athletic
sports, but the payment of a fortune
to four professional bruisers, with
the assurance of Il handsome profit,
shows how much of the brute still
remains in our humanity
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.

once Building ImprOvements-A Hun
dred Miles OF Electric Road to lie
Built-sellinR Franchises.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 24.-Every new
office building that rises with its ten
and twelve stories in St. Louis has an
Improvement on the one built the
month before, that shows what inven-
lion is doing for the convenience Of the
business man. Rapid and intelligent
elevator service is the one thing needed
In these big edi6ces, At present, in
most Of them, this is very irregular.
You may ring the bell, wanting to go
down, and along comes an elevator
going up You have to wait till it
comes back. The newest idea is u
double bell ON each floor, one of them
marked, "up" and the other down"
You ring the bell that shows what you
want, and the elevator going your way
comes to your floor and stops. The
elevators that run continuously up and
down without bells are being aban-
doned, as there is too much waste of
power with them.
If the Assembly passes the street
railway bills now before 1t, over hun.
dred miles of electric roads will be
added before next fall to those now
running in the city. There are men in
the city who, taking advantage Of this
intention of the railway builders to
extend their lines into every nook and
corner of the city, are making fortunes
by keeping their eyes open and invest
ing small sums OF money judiciously.
There are some of these men at every
meeting of the Assembly. When an
application for new franchise Is
made, they take note of the route
The next day they drive along the pro-
jected line looking for vacant lots.
Then they see the owner and offer to
pay his taxes in exchange for years
option. In most cases he is glad to
get the offer and closes with it at once.
The other man pays the taxes and
watches the railroad bill. Ten to one
he closes the option before the year is
put, and makes thousand per cent
IN the investment, as the property
jumps up at the approach of the new
road. A business of this kind could
not be carried on at all in city grow
ing less rapidly than st. Louis is.
There are thousands of people all
over the United States who have pleas
ant memories of visits to the great
woodland resort of St. Louis, Forest
Park. They have walked through it
by the footpaths, or driven along its
beautiful drives, and have marveled at
its scenery, its geological collection
and it's botanical garden. All these
tourists will doubtless be interested in
knowing that in year or less there
will be belt line of electric railway
running around the park and connect
ing with the city lines so that visitors
may see the park from every side and
return to their hotels without leaving
their seats. At certain points on the
line it will be possible to leave the
cars and, by walk of few hundred
yards, reach the lakes with their boats
and music, the tennis courts and the
haunt of the wheelmen at the summit
Of lung-testing hill. The franchise
for this road is to be sold at auction,
and as it is certain to be largely pat
ronized the price will be big one.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05
KANSAS CHURCHES.

Independence Tribune: The Metho-
dist society have placed in their church
one of the best steam heating plants in
the county, and will hereafter heat their
church by steam.
Sterling Champion; The colored
people OF this city viii soon have a
church building Of their own, as we
LEAN that the necessary steps have
been taken for its erection, ground hav-
ing already been broken for the founda-
ton walls.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

THE worthy Queen Of Honolulu
seems to be a lulu indeed. She
has pardonable desire to name her
own cabinet, but majority in the
legislature insist that they will
save her that trouble. Her majesty
wakes very warm at what she regards
as an attempted act of usurpation,
and vows by sacred things that if her
will be thwarted she will forthwith
cede her queendom to these United
States. An angry woman is Il desper-
ately uncertain image of divinity, and
this government may have to appear
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05
Fatality of Cholera.

Nearly three-fourths of all ne
cases Of cholera in Southern Russia,
or in the region between the Caspian
Sea and the Black, have proved fatal.
In ST. Petersburg, where better sani-
tary conditions exist, over half the
cases have proved fatal, In Hamburg
the ratio of deaths in cholera cases
has Deen nearly one-half, while in
Northern Germany in Belgium and
in France it has been about one-third.
About so per cent of the cases in Per-
STA are thought to have proved fatal.
A quarter of a million Pcrsans are
supposed to have persisted by the
Asiatic cholera this year,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

J. MALCoM FORBES offers So, 900 to
the first trotter that shall 90 a mile
IN two minutes, 1t is hoped that
this will inspire Nancy Hanks and
Others of her exclusive set to hoof it
around the circle with winning celer-
itY. Still, Nancy may be too cynical
to accept the lure. She trotted for a
prize once before offered for 2;O5
gait, earned it, and 10! the prize had
a string to it,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

Mrs. LANGTRY has purchased an
expensive yacht wherewith to pillow
the southern seas. 1t is not every
actress that is able to indulge in lux
urles Of this sort, but actresses less
successful in financial way may have
several advantages over Mrs Lang
try, nevertheless. Among these
might be mentioned the ability to
act
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

THE silver wedding anniversary Of
the King and Queen of Greece brought
them, among hundreds Of other costly
remembrances, handsome gold and
silver service for sixty-eight persons
from their imperial and royal friends.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05
ENGLISH society has been quite reg

ENGLISH society has been quite reg
ular in attendance upon Court Of late,
hoping to learn whether or not one
lady could with impunity brand
another as a thief 1t has learned
that the process costs the brander
about 81, 500, and is really not worth
the outlay, while the brandee energies
unsullied and with enough money in
her purse to buy a nice family crest.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

PRINCESS BEATRICE was recently a
witness IN court. The fee she earned
was 81. 25 and the satisfied smile that
lighted up her face after her demand
for the amount had been honored was
truly royal, and proved her a not un-
worthy member Of a distinguished
g.,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

LOUIS XAVIER, the French sculpt-
or, says that the feet of American
women are too small And he was
cruel enough to say this to a st. Louis
reporter, who was going to write an
article on the big feet of Chicago.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

LOVE is king wherever he elects to
plant his throne. He is as potent
among the lowliest as in the palace
of the mightiest emperor, and his
sceptre is welded with as much des-
potism as though it were studded with
precious stones and held over the
heads Of prince and archduchess.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05
KANSAS.

IMITATION almonds are the latest
output Of the food adulterators.
This is a bitter swindle.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

in the ungallant light OF refusing
gift rendered at the fair hands of out
ragged royalty.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05
A Timely Invention,

A Tennessee machinist has invented
a continuance which he calls a "Time
Torpedo" and warrants to explode at
any desired moment, with tle &C.
curacy Of an alarm clock, The me.
chanism Is self-acting, but can be ad.
justed in a way to resist ordinary
pressure, and go off only under the
hoofs Of charging cavalary. With a
little additional improvement the ap-
paratus could probably be made to
explode at the approach of Republi-
can ottiCehOlder
THE devil never gets tired Of set
ting traps for people who have faith
in God.
THE man who conquers himself has
God for a helper, whether he knows
it or not.
The only people who are discon
tented are those who are not doing
their whole duty.
THE devil likes to be around when
a wicked man is preached into heaven
at his funeral.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05
August
Flower

Miss c. G. McCLAvE, School
teacher, 753 Park Place, Elmira, N.
Y. This Spring while away from
home teaching my first term in a
country school I was perfectly
wretched with that human agony
called dyspepsia. After dieting for
two weeks and getting no better, a
friend wrote me, suggesting that ]
take August Flower. The very ney \
day purchased a bottle. am de-
lighted to say that August Flowe.
helped me so that 1 have quite re
covered from my indisposition." @V
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-05

IT REQUIRES no tariff prophet to pre-
dict that it will be exceedingly ditll-
cult to do away with the tacks on
carpets.
The record-union., 1893-03-23
Special to the REconp-uN1or.

special 10 the hECORD-UN1ON.
WASHINGTON, March o. Secretary
Carlisle has replied to certain inquiries
whether he will enforce the provisions OF
the Chinese Exclusion Act, as follows:
'First-As the Act of May 5, 1892, en-
titled An Act to prohibit the coming
OF Chinese persons into the United States
has not been repealed, it will be enforced
so far as lies within the power of this de-
partment.
''Second-Section IA of the Act ap-
proved May 6, 1892, entitled AN Act to
execute certain treaty stipulations re-
lating to the Chinese provides that here
after no State court or court of the
United States shall admit Chinese to cit
izenship, and all laws in conflict with
this Act are hereby repealed. This pro-
vision of the law is in full force, and
the naturalization of Chinese is there
fore Illegal.
"Third-Chinese merchants established
in business in the United States, who
may depart therefrom with the intention
of returning thereto, will be permitted
TO land upon submission to the Collector
of Customs at the port of first arrival OF
evidence sufficient to satisfy him of their
identity as such returning merchants.
Chinese persons not of the exempt
class. as for instance, laundrymen, re-
siding in the United States. and who de-
part therefrom, will not be permitted to
return.n
The record-union., 1893-03-23
THE BUSINESS TALK
Concerning Prof. Tigner's Talk To
Business Men Tomorrow.

Concerning Prof. Tigner's Talk To
Business Men Tomorrow.
AtPythian Castle Hall to- morrow night
Prof. j. II. Tigner will address the busi-
ness men of the city, great and small, on
1.-The Best Methods of Encouraging
Trade" He ought to have good audi
ence. He is an enthusiast upon the sub
ject he handles, and travels to preach upon
it that he may enjoy the satisfa ction of
disseminating what he has found by OBJ
servation extending over a great many
years, to be eternal truths.
OF course, he cannot do this work and
live upon applause or criticism, and
hence he frankly puts it that an admis-
sion fee is necessary to enable him to hire
halls and travel in order to lecture on the
subject. Where he has lectured on the
best methods of presenting business
claims to the people upon whose GUS
tom all merchants from the corner gro
Gerry to the jobber, depend, the press
has commended the lecture. In San
Francisco he addressed very large audi
ences at the Metropolitan Temple and all
the papers spoke of his business talk as
straightforward and valuable to every
hearer.
He declares that last year over $780,
900 was spent in different methods of
presenting business claims and in bring
ing buyer and seller into closer relations,
and the effectiveness of the methods and
show they can be improved forms the
burden of his lecture,
The record-union., 1893-03-23
NEW PUBLICATIONS

The ''Art Aspects of the Worlds Fair -
by Isabel McDougall in the leading illus
trated article in Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly" New York; for April, make
beautiful and impressive showing of the
White City of Chicago. Two other arti-
view are DIR. Popoff's "Russian Folk
Songs" and Charlotte Coursen's "Bava-
rian Highlands "From Ashes to
Palms" is study in Lenten lore. Other
attractive illustrated papers are: birds
in Flocks," by Nelly Hart Woodwork;
IA Celestial Farm on Long Island" by
Don Seitz, THE Symbolism of Lines, u
by j. Carter Beard, and ex-Mayor Oakey
Halls "reminiscences of "The New York
Fanny Kemble." A second installment
OF Eta w. Pierces serial story, Jack o.
the Light" is given, and short tales and
sketches by David Ker. katherine Strick-
land, Charles III. Crandall. Serena Town
send, Mary A. Denlson, Eleanor WaddIe
and others.
Vogue" the elegant New York So
ciety weekly-and the best printed
weekly in the land-comes with as clean
face and crisp and bright an interior as
any could wish. Its plan is to produce a
paper more in accordance with the touch
and-go spirit of the time than most of the
fashion and society papers now published.
10 this end reliance is placed on the draw
lnSS Wnlcn are largely Self-eNplanatory-
OF the seen-at-a-glance variety. While
the sketches of costumes are actual repre-
sentations of current fashions, they are
pictorial in character and have nothing in
common either i'll style or composition
with the dreary procession of uressmak-
ers' models seen in other fashion periodi-
Gals. The text is entertainingly and
tersely put, and except the story, is con-
fined to matters relating to fashion and
society.
The cottage Hearth" for March Bos-
tom has these features: I'm the Old
Meeting Days" tfrontispiece drawn by
L. j. Bridgman); "A Diplomatic Check
mate" three illustrations), Jerold Dean;
The Strike at Arnstrong's'' -four illus
trationsl, Charles L. Brimblecom; "a Be-
lated Proposal" Constance G. Dubois;
"Erastus Faulkner" part III.-three
illustrations), Matt Grimm; 'Our New
Navy" -four illustrations), Lieutenant
VIM. Ledyard Rodgers, U. S. N; "In
the Old Town Meeting Days" (frontis-
piece, Hezekiah Butterworth; Five Days
on Kilauea, Hawaii" Sophie E. East
man; "A Wicasset Incident" Martin
Fem; "a Dangerous Pilot" (illustrated)
James Otis; "Mr. Whittier With Young
People" illustrated, Natalie L. Rice.
and the usual departments and poetry.
Nursery and Our Little Ones'' rus
sell Publishing Company, BOSTON, for
March is as bright, full and varied as any
previous issue. No better magazine for
very little ones is printed
The record-union., 1893-03-23
POLITICS IN KANSAS.
Bribery Offered In the Election I
United States Senator.

Bribery Offered In the Election for
United states Senator.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-Burgard, of
the lower house of the Kansas Legis-
lature, now in this city, has given SEN
ator Martin an account of his experience
in connection with the attempts at brib-
cry in the election of United States Sem
ator in that State. He says proposition
was made to him to stay away from the
Populists and get two others to do so for
$500, and he was given to understand
the money would come from Watson,
who was said to have barrel of money
to spend, and everybody was trying to
get his shovel into the pile. Burgard
says he made up his mind as the gang
was trying to rob Watson, he would turn
in and rob the gang. He told the man
who made the proposition that he Bur
gard and two other men whom he named
would not vote at all, though, of course,
he intended to vote for Martin when the
time came, as did the other two. They
merely wanted to get hold of the money
and then let the other fellows whistle,
but the lobbyist would not trust him
with the money, nor would he trust the
man whom Burgard arranged to hold the
money and bolt as soon as he got it, SO
the matter fell through.
The record-union., 1893-03-23
THE GRAHAMS CAPTURED.
he and His Wife Arrested and Now c
the Way Hither.

He and His Wife Arrested and Now on
the Way Hither.
On the 18th of November last G. J,
Posey swore out warrant in Justice
Henry's court for the arrest of DIR. and
Mrs. Henry Graham. charging them with
stealing his ll-year old daughter Effie.
When both the families were living in
Stockton the Grahams became infatuated
with the child and Posey permitted her
to visit them. Then they disappeared.
taking the child with them. He traced
lhe Granams to this city, and here learned
that the doctor had gone to Oregon with
East. . WV
Posey declared, however, that he would
camp on their trail and not give I'D the
pursuit until he had one or both Of the
PAIR IN irons. Recently Graham was To-
Gated at Spokane, Wash, and Sheriff
ONeil. armed with the necessary requi-
SlIion papers, went north to arrest the al
ieged abductor. y press dispatch from
tncre states that Graham had eluded the
SherlH at Spokane but was overhauled at
Tacoma and his wife at Fairhayen.
Inc police OF Spokane believe that Gra-
nam Is the person who had masqueraded
there as the Rev. Wesley Lane of Lodi.
san joaquin County.
esterday telegram was received
from O'Neil, then "a Tacoma, saving he
nad his prisoners and would start imme-
dlateIy Tor home with them.
a later telegram from Tacoma saws that
Graham is under arrest there and Sheriff
ONell is there to take him back. but
may not succeed, as Graham has begun
haoeas corpus proceedings. John Posey.
uncle OF the abducted girl, swore out a
warrant for Graham's arrest last JuIy.
put has died since. Graham claims that
the girl was given to his wife to keep.
Mrs. Graham was arrested at Fairhaven
and lodged in Jail last night. Governor
Markham of California and Governor
McGraw of Washington have signed the
necessary requisition papers.
Graham had been practicing medicine
there, but month ago sent his wife TO
Fairhaven, and Effie and Ana Husted. a
pretty Norwegian girl, to Ellensbure.
The latter is % years old. She davs she
yielded to the doctor under promise of
marriage, supposing him single. She
makes no complaint against INN. Effie
Posey tells the jail officers that the doctor
had assaulted her.
The time of the Sheriff's departure will
depend on the outcome of the habeas cor
pus proceedings.