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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
AdmirnbIe Tmpu(Ienoe.

One day. the Industrious Chocquart
saw an elderly gentleman nestled In
a corner of Tortoni's, reading the
Constitutional, WAITER" he cried,
give me the Constitutional" "Sir,
it is in hand" was the reply Five
minutes elapsed, and Chocquart,
growing inpatient again cried;
waiter ! thought / asked you for
the Constitutional" "Sir, it is still
In hand" he answered. Chocquart---
who was a tall, thin man, with waxed
mustacho like rat-talls, kind Of
Don Quixote--rose from his seat,
advanced toward the elderly gentle
man, and snatched the paper from
him. High words followed, seconds
were named, and the next morning
Chocquart received a sword-thrust In
his chest which laid him up for a
month. AS soon as he had recovered,
he went again to Tortonl's, and found
his adversary reading the same paper,
and in the same corner, "Waiter!"
heshouted, "the Constitutional" at
is in hand, sir" was the response.
He again waited Ave minutes, and
then, placing himself In front OF the
gentleman in military attitude,
said to him; swell, sir do you wish
ME to give you another lesson9"
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A Grnss.Grown nnt.lofeld.

GrnRs-GrOWn BhttlCHelu'
Sweet grasses clothe the valley where they
fell;
OF that dark time, Nature has naught to tell I;
The tender flowers nod where breathed their
last
A thousand soldiers in the bloody past.
You would not dream that once this tranquil
spot
Had felt the burning hail OF rife shot,
Or heard the screaming OF the deadly shell,
Or the wild triumph of the rebel yell
Hank Is not that the marshaling OF menS
Does not warlilIe bugle wake the glenY
is not the trampling OF ten thousand feet
Heard, keeping rythm to the drummer's beatty
No; not an infant In It's mothers arms
Breathes freer than this scene from war
alarms;
The record OF that awful day is writ
In human hearts; here Is no trace OF 1t.
1t should be haunted; phantom hosts should
rise
And cloud with battle smoke the smiling skies;
The clash OF eeing bayonets we should hear
And booming cannon shock the listening ear.
We stand In awe and list with bated breath
To catch some echo OF their tragic DEATH
II does not seem that time could Danish quite
The pain, the horror, or the dread alright,
But earth is not in sympathy with war;
How speedily she covers every scar
Is not the screen she weaves DER graves forgot
A mute denial OF the battle foughtS
American Tribune.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28

The people were asleep on the floor
on mattresses, old carpets pallets,
and bundles of straw and rags. In
the basement l found fourteen
double-deckers (bunks ranged one
above anOther). There are also sew
eral double-deckers upstairs. The
upper floor had twenty more BEDS
There are on an average three per-
sons in each room. The rooms are
Sx10 feet In dimensions, | found
children sleeping on the floor on bags,
bundles of rags, and some under the
beds while the parents were sleeping
above them. The basement was
foul and reeking with dampness,
There l found sick man lying on a
mattress on the floor, which was all
wet and rotted away with dampness.
l asked him why they did not put
him in a bed upstairs. They said he
had no money and that was good
enough for him. The basement is
six feet four inches from the floor to
ceiling. The walls we're dirty and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
1t Made IL Difference.

The Chicago Record tells Of a girl
who was seized with the bicycle
mania. About a month ago she In
vested her savings in bicycle.
Every morning she disappeared for
several hours and returned home
with tandaged fingers, torn skirts,
q banged-in hat, sour temper, and
a painful limp. The other day she
invited the family to assemble at
certain riding school to see her per-
form. She nimbly mounted, spun
around the hall twice, jumped of
and on with the agility Of a young
kitten, and excited the admiration
OF the whole crowd. Then some
oelcious person said: go around
the other way" She had always
practiced 10 the one direction, but
such Q trlae did not worry her q shs
Wheeled around and fo3e of Ike d
runaway cable-car When she ar.
rived at the first turn there was q
terrible crash, a shrek, q resOunding
crack made by her head coming In
contact with the floor, and then all
was still. The family had her taken
home In an ambulance, and she has
already made arrangements to have
the machine patched up and sold at
half price.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
NOT FIT FOR BEASTS.
Horrible Condition OF Cheap LOdgInI
Houses In Chicago.

Horrible Condition of Cheap Lodging
Houses In Chicago.
The horrible condition Of some Of
the cheap lodging houses in Chicago
has recently been made known
through the report Of an inspector.
This gentleman, w. G. O'Connell,
went through several, inhabited
mainly by immigrants, and situated
In the worst districts. I'm two
buildings" he says, 81 found twelve
apartments Of four rooms each.
Each apartment is rented out to fam
lilies, each family having from four to
ten men boarders. ! found In these
rooms, which are Sxl0, three beds
each. / found sinks In each Of the
sleeping rooms with open joints, In
each kitchen are two stoves, one for
the family and one for the roomers.
Under the beds / found fruit,
bananas and watermelons, kept there
during the night and until the ped
oilers get ready to offer it for sale on
the streets. A rough estimate Of the
people in these rooms is about 200.
Il called at another building and
found this house full Of immigrants.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
A Famous Horse.

Winchester" Gen. Sheridan's fam
GUS charger, which, as the poet has
told, carried his master twenty miles
away" in one of the severest battles of
the war, died in 1878, and his skin has
been preserved by the taxidermist's
process. Winchester was jet black in
color, with small white star almost
in the center of the forehead-a sort Of
"lucky star" He stood sixteen and a
half hands high, and was trim built
and active and proud-spirited. When
Sheridan took command of the Second
Michigan Regiment in 1862, Capt.
Campbell presented him with the ami
NAL, which was then spoken Of as g.
year-old colt. His owner dubbed him
Rienzi after the Mississippi town of
that name. He carried his master
through the battles of Stone River,
Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and a
score of other engagements in the
Tennessee campaign. He pranced
around among the mules and ordinary
steeds at the battles of Opaquin, Fis-
hers Hill, Cedar Greek, Petersburg,
Trevillian Station, the Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Gordons-
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each time that the line was reported
permanently disabled, and yet within
thirty hours the Confederates had
everything repaired. On one occasion
Fitzpatrick DESTROYED four miles of
track at once. The rails were removed,
heated in the center and bent around
trees until the ends passed each other.
Every culvert was torn out, every cut
filled up by blasting down the banks
and every tie burned up. Fitzpatrick
reported to Sherman that the break
could not be repaired in a month, but
the cars were running in less than
sixty hours. Ten thousand Federal
cavalry worked for II month to disable
the Macon Line, but could not do it.
Sherman had to move his whole army
before he could accomplish that event.
AS soon as the Federals had cut and
destroyed the line and retired, a force
of Confederates set to work on the
road-bed and a fewsshours would place
it in order Fresh ties were cut, rails
were brought up from the store laid
aside for such an emergency, and
trains were soon running. The ties
would be twice the usual distance
apart, and not bedded, but as trains
reached these breaks they slowed
down and crawled safely over.
1t was the same when Forest and
Wheeler were operating on Sherman's
line. Twelve miles of road was de-
stroyed on one occasion, and this de-
struction included the blasting down
into cuts of so much rock and earth
that Confederate civil engineer said
that 10000 laborers could not repair
the damages in three weeks. They
were repaired within four days.
While soldiers became adept in the
work of destroying railroads, they be-
came equally skillful in the matter of
repairing them. Sherman had to de-
stroy thirty miles of the Augusta Road
before he could permanently cripple
IL.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
Famous sherman-yOhnson Interview.

It was on the 18th of April, 1865,
that Gen. w. 7. Sherman and Gen. j.
E. johnson met for the first time.
The interview was only less memorable
than that between Grant and Lee at
Appomattox. 1t is thus described by
Gen. Sherman; AT noon of the day
appointed / met Gen. Johnson for the
first time in my life, although we had
been exchanging shots continually
since May 1868. Our interview was
frank and soldier-like and he gave me
to understand that further war on the
part of the Confederate troops was
folly; that the cause was lost, and
that every man sacrificed after the sur
render of Lees army was the highest
possible crime. He admitted the
terms conceded to Gen. Lee were mag
unanimous and all he could ask; but he
did want some general concessions
that would enable him to allay the
natural fears and anxieties of his fol-
lowers and enable him to maintain his
control over them until they could be
got back to the neighborhood of their
homes, thereby saving the State OF
North Carolina the devastation that
would inevitably result from turning
his men loose and unprovided for on
the spot and our pursuit across the
state. He also wanted to embrace in
the same general proposition the fate
of all the Confederate armies that re-
NAMED into existence. 1 never made
any concessions as to his own army or
assumed to deal finally and author
itatively in regard to any other, but it
did seem to me that there was chance
presented for peace that might be
deemed valuable to the Government
of the United States and was ct least
worthy the few days that would be
consumed in conference, and to push
an enemy whose commander had so
frankly and honestly confessed his in
ability to cope with me were unworthy
the brave men 1 led. Inasmuch as
Gen. Johnson did not feel authorized
to exercise power over the armies in
Texas we adjourned to the next day at
noon" This interview took place at q
point five miles from Durham Station,
N. G. It may be added that the terms
of surrender agreed upon then and on
the following day were not approved
by the Government and had to be
modified in some important respects.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
A CURE FOR soMNAMHuLIsM.
After All Other Remedies Had Failed the
Lady Was Sewn Up in bag.

After All Other Remedies Had Failed the
Lady Was Sewn Up in bag.
A young lady at school became a
somnambulist. She rose from bed
and walked In her sleep. l was taken
into consultation, and suggested va
rious expedients, such as sedatlves,
sleeping draughts, and network to
put around the bed at night. All,
however, had been tried In this in
stance, and all in vain. l then
thought for little, and hit upon the
following plan:
| directed her night-dress to be
sewed up at the foot 80 that 1t formed
large bag, and then l had the
sleeves heightened so much that each
sleeve, after going round the body,
reached the front, where 1t met the
other sleeve, and was securely fas-
tened to 1t.
The whole dress was loose, but the
long sleeves prevented the hands
from being used to get rid OF the
dress, while, from the end being
sewed up, the feet could not be used
In progression. At the same time
the dress freely permitted the wearer
to roll about from side to side In her
slumber.
Night came, and our charge retired
to bed in her new-fangled night
dress, with which she was amused.
The usual hour for the night walk
came. Her attendants were strictly
enjoined not to stir. She raised her
self up as usual In the sitting pos
ture, then stood upright and COM
menced to walk. The second step
was trip, for the foot behind held
the bottom OF the bag In which she
stood. She stumbled, fell forward,
and awoke, and was put back into
bed, where she soon fell asleep.
And now came curious change in
the phases Of the afiliction. She
would still rise from bed each night,
but made no further attempt to walk
as before. She would stand erect,
and keeping the knees perfectly rigid,
spring straight upward from the floor.
and thus dance about the room. This
she would continue until thoroughly
fatigued, and then retired quietly to
bed to sleep. l am glad to add the
case ended In a perfect cure. Pear
sons Weekly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
How Il Struck Poor Lo.

A United States marshal from
frontier district, who was here re.
Gently settling up his accounts, said
that he had once arrested an Indian
for selling whisky to his fellow abo'
rhymes on government reservation,
this, OF course, being contrary to
law. After the arrest the marshal
felt 1t his duty to tell the Indian
how depraved had been his conduct.
The Indian listened stolidly until
the marshal had gottsh through
with his hoplly, and then inquired:
me want to get out Of this trouble.
Can't white chief help me?"
"No one can help you now but
God" said the marshal, with a sort
of irreverent solemnity.
The Indian shook his head in a
hopeless sort OF way and exclaimed:
Humph God he heap like Uncle
Sam. Injun never see him. Wash
ington News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
Not Enoupb 10 Go Round.

During the rebellion regiment Of
volunteers was posted along the front
in heavy timber. AS soon as the
firing began In earnest, recruit
limped of to the rear, but soon struck
a gait that would have made Maud
s. tremble for her record. He was
halted In his flight, and when asked
what was the matter, said: II just
couldn't stand out there In the open
all by myself" He was then asked
why he did not get behind tree; he
was puzzled a moment, and then
said: "There amt only enough for
the officers"
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numbered. Two or three times day
he had asked if any letters had come
for him, and one night [ heard him
talking about Jimmie" and praying
that he might live to see him again. l
said 10 myself that Jimmie was the boy
baby he had left behind him when he
marched away to the front, and / hoped
for the letter almost as much as he did.
That day, during an hour when he
suffered bit less than usual, figured
with him about his expected letter. 1t
would go down to his regiment and
follow him back to the hospital, and
he had not given it enough time. 1t
might possibly come on the afternoon
the nurse feelingly notified him that
his hours were hurrying away, but he
could surely expect it by next day
noon.
"Has my letter Gomez" he asked, as
he looked up at the nurse, who was a
man, bus yet he had tears in his eyes,
"No letter for you.
"Then 1 shall not die tonight. ]
must hear from Jimmie first. The let
Ter Will come tO-mOrrOW.
1t was a strange thing to witness
that man fighting death away-fght-
ing to gain few hours more time.
They said he could not live till mid
uight, but they did not know what was
giving HIM strength to fghton. When
that hour came he was whispering a
prayer. When sunrise came the mark
of death was on his face, but his eyes
fairly blazed with determination. He
lay where he could see the clock, and
for the last three hours of his life he
never lost sight of the hands marking
the hours and minutes which carried
him nearer and nearer the shore of the
dark river He must have lived life
time during those hours. AS both
hands pointed to high noon he whis'
pered to me:
ut is noon and the mail is here.
shall hear from Jimmie before die =
Five minutes later the nurse brought
him the expected letter, mailed from O
New England village.
"Read it and tell me of Jimmie,
said the dying man.
The nurse opened the letter, read 0
few lines and handed it to me and went
away with pale face and fearful eyes
1t was q LETTER from a sister. phe dy
ing man was a widower, and Jimmie
was his only child, boy 8 years old
who had been left in her care. Jimmie
was dead and uried-drowned, she
said, by falling into an open cistern
Had the letter come to him at the
front it would have broken his heart
"Well, tell me of Jimmie" said the
dying man, as 1 laid the letter down.
"He is better off, ] finally answered
"Dead?"
Eyes"
"Thunk God! I shall be with hin
this very day. 1t is good news-glori
GUS news God knows what is best 7
Then he closed his eyes, clasped hi
hands together, and death came SO qui
city that we knew it not. Chicago
Times.
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DrIvinr a Horse to DRINK.

A sculptor in town has had the
horses of several fashionable private
stables at his disposal for models this
summer. One day some Of the sculp-
tors friends had some whisky To
drink In his studio They gave the
horse a little. The next day the
groom wondered why that horse tug
ged at his halter so when he was be-
ing led to the studio. He seemed to
be very anxious to get there. He
was restless and whlnnled cOaxingly,
and was entirely useless as model,
until the sculptor thought OF the
whisky. The horse got another
drink, and thereupon became mod
ell model. Now he demands a drink
every day before he will pose, and &C.
caslonally he demands a drink be-
tween drinks. New York Sun.
HE who travels by short cuts is
80, ..ckAfna, fntN Sam TNaa
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black. There was running water In
some nert Of the building from some
burstGd pipe, the water soaking
through the walls"
AS far as possible attempts were
made to clean out these houses and
put them in a fit condition to be
lived in.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
To Clean Gold.

Powder some whiting, and make it
into moist paste with some sal-vol-
atlle. Cover over the gold ornaments
and surface with soft brush; let it
dry, and then brush it of with a
moderately hard brush.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
Newspapers as Necessities Of Life

Newspapers as Necessities of Life.
The newspaper has become neces-
sity to Americans, and to be shut out
from a knowledge Of what is going
on in the world would be as great a
hardship to them as any other eX-
cept lack of food, clothing, or shell
ter. The life Is more than meat, and
the body more than ralment, and the
satisfaction Of the mind Is as legiti-
mate as the satisfaction of the bodily
wants, and of higher order. The
newspaper is the university and the
library OF the people, the common
school Of manhood. 1t is the great
debating club Of politics, the ex-
change Of business, the record Of
each day Of human experience. 1t
is necessary to the proper discharge
Of the political duties OF the citizen.
But a newspaper, at least a good
newspaper, is more than necessity.
It brings into the narrowest life
some sense Of the vast life Of the
world. 1t is full Of tragedy and
comedy, wit and passion; the heroic
and the humble, the crime and the
merriment of nations. 1t Is a great
realist history. 1t is a daily COM
mentary upon human nature.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
carilsie.s Cheerful Reply,

Nearly every one who asks Secretary
Carlisle for place apologies for aug
menting the crowd which besieges his
Office. he always replies cheerHully:
We didn't object to your crowding at
the polls on election day
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
THEY DEAL IN DEATH.
BITS OF ORGANIC MATTER DAN.
GEROUS TO LIFE.

How DIphthoria, Malaria, Pneumonia, Ty-
phold Fever and AslntIo Cholera Microbes
Look and Act-Methods OF Checking and
Controlling Diseases.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-28
The Railroad In War.

HlLESherman
was operating
around Atlanta
the Federals
struck the Ma
con Road four
or five different
times, at four
or five different
places, and
worked such
1L 49,
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strength and normal condition he
made a second Injection with ordi-
nary microbes that had not been In
contact with the air long. He found
the chicken had acquired perfect I'M
munity against the disease, large
quantities of very active microbes
exercising no effects whatever Pas
teur at once saw the close analogy
between this case and the case OK a
person who after passing through
one attack of scarlet fever Is pro-
tected against a second one, and
basing his work on this first funda-
mental observation built up his
whole system. BY long contact with
the air the microbes, which had
given immunity to the chicken, had
lost a great deal Of their virulence.
They had been weakened.
The next thing to be done was to
weaken the virulence Of the different
kinds of microbes, to inject them,
cause a slight affection, and thus
bring about an artificial immunity.
This has been tried for almost every
known disease and In almost every
case with satisfactory results, especi-
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temperature few degrees, so killing
the germ and preventing the disease?
Some of the methods have been sat
isfactorily tried. At present, how
ever, there is a better means that
has already given splendid results
ada is destined to astonish the world.
Vaccination against cholera, pneu-
monia, typhoid fever, ETC., is now
only a question OF time. 1t may be a
few years only before a child can be
vaccinated against every infectious
disease and be thus protected for life
against the greatest danger that
constantly threatens humanity.
One OF the chief difficulties in all
these examinations is that man can
not be experimental on. Now and
then a courageous scientist, thor
oughly convinced Of the correctness
Of his ideas, will experiment. on him
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Is impossible to give a chicken pneu-
monia, although a mouse will readily
take 1t. Pasteurs first discovery In
this direction was this; He had
found that chickens, which are sus.
ceptlbIe to q disease. called chicken.
cholera" and which, without excep-
tlon, die II a chickon-cholera mi
Crobe is injected under their skin,
only have a slight and rapidly pass
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SWELL" exclaimed the damsel who
got free admission to the Worlds
Fair, things have come to pretty
pass. Washington STAR
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cholera and pneu-
monia are caused
by m icrO-o organ
isms, small beings
invisible to the
naked eye. Still,
bacteriology as a
science has been In
existence only a
shout tinaa Thia
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THE BOOMING CANNON
REClTALS OF CAMP AND BAT.
TIE INCIDENTS.

Survivors of the Rebellion Relate Many
Amusing and Startling Incidents Of
Weary Marches, Camp Life, ForaglnE
Experiences, and Battle Scenes.