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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-15

Hail, Cyclone and
Fire Insurance writ
ten in best companies
and at lowest rates by
Pratt 81 Lewis.
The Globe-republican., 1893-01-13

times without Conrad dreaming that
did SO.
It was a proposal to undertake the op.
GRAFTON Of our disjunction, and it gave
me pangs Of mingled delight and hope
My last examination, ran one pas.
sage OF the letter, has convinced me
that both you and your brother stand ar
excellent chance of recovery. What.
ever other surgeons may have told you
rest sure that I am right. That tn.
operation will be highly perilous I dc
not deny. But that any scruples Of
sacrificing Conrad should restrain you
is on your part unwise to q foolish
degree. You, the superior mind and in
telligence-yOu, as am so firmly con.
WINGED, craving and hungering after
your liberty, should by no means recoil
from trying to attain it because fearful
of sacrificing your brother. On my
word Of honor as scientific man, Con.
rad will run no greater risk than your
self. He need know nothing Of the
| coming trial. Ether would, naturally,
be administered to you both. He could
receive it while asleep, as matter Of
course. should choose the night, after
you have retired. Schreiner had best
little sympathetic soul, should not be
shocked by any previous tidings Of the
truth. Think this communication care
fully over and answer me at your future
convenience"
Soon afterward I found an occasion
to give Oscar Schreiner the letter from
Aveling.
"Read,"I enjoined, "and decide 70,
u.s." 1 was fearfully agitated, and he
perceived that was.
IL know something of this" he
faltered, after having glanced at the
letter.
-Aveling has told you?" I whispered.
Yes"
But you've not breathed a word to
Linda?"
NO, and I shall not"
He left me, and during another hour
Conrad and retired to bed. I passed
a most anxious and troubled night. and
my distress reacted upon my brother. or
so it seemed. He grew feverish at mid
night, and as wakeful as myself A
horrible fear beset me. toward dawn.
that he might perhaps be on the verge
OF some serious seizure.
All the next day he was so restless
and vigilant that had the greatest diff
ficulty in obtaining from Schreiner his
opinions and views.
But at length did obtain them. I
see now that he was immensely under
the influence of Aveling's private per-
suasions. But these were not his sole
motive for desiring that the operation
should take place. He had observed
only too we'll my eager longing for free
dom, though its chief cause 1 am but too
sure that he did not then even remotely
suspect.
ITO BE Continued
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BY any means enamored Of 1t. Besides.
now that your charming daughter has
como to live with US we ought to make
the happiest sort of q household: Surely
Linda prefers to remain with you. But
that will be impossible II you again
travel
Schreiner looked at me with q smile
that slowly deepened. and then drew
near to me. taking my hand in his 1T
shall be az you say, Victor. he replied.
After all believe you are right. But
how will you and Conrad pass your
time? fear that after q certain term
of leisure you will both long for the old
life again:
oh" I said. laughing, Il will talk
with Linda for an hour or two every
day. That will never tire me-"
These words were gayly thrown at LII.
da Schreiner, who had just then entered
the room. But Immediately her father
echoed my laugh, saying, lightly:
oh, you must be careful how you
talk too much in that straini Olaf
Aveling might overhear you and grow
jealous"
This was the dawn of my discovery
that DR.. Aveling cared In the least for
the daughter OF our dear friend.
Linda tossed her curly blonde head
and gave a contemptuous smile, not
wholly unmixed with blush. Then, in
the kindliest way, she looked at ne and
said:
I'VE don't care straw, do we, Victor.
whether he's jealous or no?"
Not straw" returned, though the
affected gaiety with which I spoke cost
me inward pain
Linda had become a very beautiful
girl now, and it is not in the least
strange that a man of Aveling's COM
parative youth should have been fascin-
ated by her radiant face, aureoled in
bounteous hair of silky gold. When she
and next held one of our private talks
together (which means when Conrad's
head had sleepily dropped itself upon
my shouldeD 1 somewhat boldly ques-
toned her.
Tell, me" said, do you think that
Olaf Aveling really wishes to marry
you?"
Il think nothing whatever on the SUBJ
ject, declared Linda, with little for
bidding frown.
But if he should ask you to be his
wife. Linda. persisted, answer me
frankly, would you refuse him?"
She gave me strange, fervent look,
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ITO BE Continued
Presentiments.

Mozart's sad notion that the re
QUEEN he had undertaken to write
for his mysterious customer would
be his own death-chant, proved as
prophetic as HOgarth's serious assent
to the jocular suggestion when 1.-THE
End of All Things" was completed
there would be an end to the painter.
Fechter's intuition was not al
fault when 1t made him urge the
sculptor taking his instructions re.
specting his last resting place, to SET
to work at once, as there was no time
to lose; when the tomb was ready fol-
the tenant the tenant was ready fol
the tomb.
Tom Sheridan, bidding Angelo
good-by with the remark, Il have
twenty months to live," gagged the
term of his existence to a nicely.
Awakened from a sick mans slum.
Der by the baying of hounds and the
uproar attending the pulling down OF
a stag in a neighbor's garden, sport
hating Millet exclaimed, 1T is an
omen!" and in few days took leave
of pencil and paper forever.
Not long before his fatal illness,
Prince Albert said to the Queen:
Il do not cling to life. You do,
but 1 set no store by it. II 1 knew
that those 1 loved were well cared
for, 1 should be quite ready to die to-
morrow. I am sure if l had q severe
illness l should give up at once.
should not strugge for life"
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The Irish Harp.

The old-style Irish harp was about
four feet high, had no pedals, and
was strung to the back with straps.
The one belonging to King Brian
Boru, who was killed at the battle Of
Clontarf in 1914, is still preserved in
the museum at Trinity College, Dub
lin. 1t Is black with age, and pol
ished, but worm-eaten. The old relic
Is adorned with silver ornaments
The Kings sor, league, took the
harp to Rome after the battle, and
presented it to the Pope, together
with the crown and regalia that had
been worn by his father. A succeed.
ing Pope gave it to Henry VIII. to-
gether with the title of defender Of
the Faith, and Henry gave it to the
Earl of Clanricarde, in whose I: mily
it was held until The beginning of the
eighteenth century. 1t then passed
through several hands, until 1886.
when the college became it, owner.
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noticed. brother! you needn't deny it,
Il do deny It, dissented. craving
my lips Then I made swift sign Of
dismissal to DR.. Aveling, who quilted
the room with an odd smile on his lips
which l did not like. yet dimly compre-
hended.
That evening, while Conrad had fallen
into one Of his dozes. q servant slipped
Aveling, and read 1t through severn
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Pay the Price of the
Royal for Royal only.

Actual tests show the Royal Baking
Powder to be ~ per cent. stronger than
other baking powder is forced upon you
by the grocer, see that you are charged
the correspondingly lower price.
Those baking powders sold with gift.
or advertised or sold at half the cost of
Royal, are invariably made from alum, and
are dangerous to health.
Every of Royal Baking Powder contains giving
obtain Royal Baker
the cooking
The Globe-republican., 1893-01-13

At the meeting Of the state assoc;a-
ton of sheriffs a Legislative committee
consisting of Sherlffs Wiikerson of
Shawnee, Dobson OF Barber, Need of
Clay, and Blaylock of Pottawatomie
was appointed to protect the interests
Of the officers in the legislature. This
committee will also advocate improve
ments in the law concerning indemnity
bonds in attachment cases, uniformity of
blanks, pauper affidavits, which are be-
coming too numerous, and the offering
OF rewards by the boards Of county
commissioners.
For a number of years it has been
the custom of the legislature to make
an appropriation providing for the pub
LEGATION of 10000 of the biennial reports
of the state board of agriculture. The
legislature Of two years ago failed to do
this, and now it is necessary to fall
back upon the old regulation Of the
statute providing for the publication Of
but $500 copies. This will seriously
handicap the board if an order for
more copies is not made early in the
session. Each senator has, heretofore,
been allowed sixty copies OF the report
for distribution, and each representative
forty copies. This alone would take
over 1000 copies. An effort will be
made to have joint resolution passed
soon after the legislature meets, to pro-
vide for printing the usual number Of
reDOrto
The Globe-republican., 1893-01-13
CHAPTER III.


In the year 186-we drifted again to
Berlin for The fourth or fifth time. A
young physician. named Olaf Aveling. a
Dane who had already won some little
note in the medical and surgi al world
and was believed anxious to win con-
siderable more. came very often to see
US, and with Schreiner's full sanction
made repeated minute examinati, MS of
the peculiar link that bound us together.
had never especially liked Aveling.
He struck me as cold and unsympa-
thetic, and could not but comprehend
that il he should ever make a proposal
to perform upon US q distinctive opera
ton, it would be from motives Of a
severely selfish character.
Still. liked his conversation. which
was often brilliant and forcible. He
Was handsome fellow, with a pale,
keen face lit by small though shining
dark eyes, and an air Of command and
assertion which became his shapely
build
All in all. rather priced his visits;
and though for many days he did not
let fall even a single hint that he de-
erred to operate upon our bond of flesh.
he still contrived to make it clear that
such was his actual aim and wish.
Shortly after our arrival in Berlin the
daughter Of Schreiner left a relative
with whom she had been living since
her graduation at the German boarding
school, and came to dwell with her
father. I took this for sign that
Schreiner had finally yielded to my
persuasions on a certain subject, and
rejoiced in consequence.
One day said to our friend: This
IL Q pretty little home, and I hope sin
cerely that instead of merely passing
the next few months here for purposes
Of rest, we may reside indefinitely under
its peaceful roof"
Oscar Schreiner started. while Con-
rad looked up a. me inquiringly with
his placid, trustful eyes.
do you mean. brother" he asked,
that you want rs never to appear In
public any mofe?"
-Never!' I said emphatically. and FIX
ed my gaze upon Schreiner. Have We
not gained enough?" went on. Con
rad and can live comfortably on our
money for the rest Of our days, be they
many or few. As for yourself. you have
acquired . snug little fortune beyond
all doubt
YES" said Schreiner, Il have told
you every thaler.'
-Of course you have, broke In. with
impetus. That is just my reason for
now speaking straight to the point.
And the point. dear oscar. 10 this: Let
~ give up 'showmanship' forever.
detest Il, - you know. and Conrad 1sn't
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OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The Growth Of . Yoo-Tho Nev v>A.,
Works Conduie Completely
llusScal Sueoeaa

me Growth Of . Year-1he New water
WORKS coad.is cenplsesA-A
Assscal s.eosss.
81. LOUIS, Mo-. Jan. 5, 1soa.-Bs.
tween years Of census taking, one who
wants accurate information about the
population Of q city can get Il much
better from the reports Of the water
tax collectors than from the votins
fists People cannot dodge the nav.
ment OF . water tax Is they can the
taxes on real and personal property.
II the water tax is not paid the water
Is shut on promptly. Water il used
In every house. and the receipts in.
crease in . steady ratio with the
population. The water collections Of
St Louis went over those of the wear
preceding in 1892 by moro than .
quarter Of a million dollars, and this
is interpreted by the statisticians to
mean that the city has gained in the
last year about q hundred thousand
people. who live in dwellings and pay
their taxes These figures, too. are
borne out by the reports for last year
from other departments whose work
increases with the population. The
building of new houses last year put
twenty-three million dollars in the
pockets of mechanics, and demanded
the lighting of many more miles Of
streets by electricity. On the last day
OF the year the city paid bills for the
lighting of AS miles Of streets and
alleys.
Water Commissioner Holman made
the city New Years gift by complet-
ing the million dollar conduit which
is to conduct the water from the river
to the pumping engines Of the new
water-works- This conduit was the
most difficult and important part Of
the whole system. 1t was begun two
years ago, and work ON it has been
going on, night and day, ever since. 1t
will easily carry the one hundred and
fifty million gallons Of water a day
which the new engines are to pump.
The building of the conduit was the
engineering feat of the work, and its
completion relieves the Commissioner
Of all anxiety. BY next fall. when tho
sight-saers begin to arrive for the fes-
Invites here, a drive over the Broad
way Boul evard to the Chain of Rocks,
where the new works are, will be a
part of every tourists plan. 1,
Nobody can tell whether or not tho
stories are true about the attempt Of
an eastern syndicate to buy all the
street railways in St. Louis, but the
dealers in the bonds of the roads, who
know their financial condition, say
that the company that gets the lines
will have to pay at least fifty million
dollars to acquire the control The
four systems of street railways in this
city cover 600 miles of streets, and
most of the lines are run by electricity;
moreover, everyone of them is paying
good dividends. The rapidity and
cheapness of the service is not equalled
by the roads of any city in the coun-
try, and the people feel no grievance
that might interest them in clamoring
for change. So, the consolidating
is looked on generally with
Indifference. So far as anyone can 500
now, the patrons of the roads would
be largely the gamers by the change,
as there would be tablished, almost
thorough system Of
transfer tickets all over the city, by
which a passenger might ride twenty
or thirty miles for nickel
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-07-11
RIGHT ACTION.

The position taken by Mayor Steinman
and Trustee Green, in refusing a license
for iquor-drinking place at Twenty
first and o streets, will have the approval
OF the community. 1t makes no sort of
difference how long petition the appli-
cant filed--petitions ofthat sort are as easily
procured as dirt on a country highway.
But the protest of the people of the homes
OF the vicinity has great deal to do with
the case. The homes have a right to be
protected against the establishment of
such places in their midst. These people
in the residence section have built homes
there and are raising families far away
and when they respectfully protest
against the saloon following them to their
very doors, their protest ought to be
needed.
The man who made the application for
the Twenty-first and O-street location
did not respect the refusal of the Trustees
last week, but went on and opened his
dram-shop, and when confronted with
that fact Of contempt had the impudence
to reply that he was not selling liquor
but was giving it away. This thin pre-
tense was nothing less than an insult to
the board, and the Mayor and Trustee
Green very properly SO considered it.
The license was rightly refused. More
applications Of that order meeting with a
like fate will please the people well.
There are drinking places in plenty in
the city already, and to augment the
number, especially in the midst of the
homes of the city. would be more than
unwise-it would be in direct opposition
to the will of the people most immedi-
ately concerned.
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Is THIS THE NINETEENTH CEN
TURYl

The Christian Endeavor Society is a
peaceable, lawful and worthy organiza-
ton. 1t stands on the level with any
other civic organization. 1t is not organ
lied on political or narrow sectarian lines;
its sole aim and purpose is to promote
the spread of the Christian religion. To
this end it has local societies which are
composed of protesting Christians, who
assemble every now and then and
strengthen one another by council, adj
vice and mutual exchange of thought.
1t is Protestant, as those other Chris
tian societies, the Institutes, are Roman
Catholic, and the Hebrew religious So
cieties are Jewish, and the Unitarian So
cial and helpful societies are independent
moral conservators. But it would seem
that even in the blaze of the latter DAYS of
the nineteenth century, on the fair face of
this continent there are countries and
cities where intolerance runs so wild that
the Christian Endeavor Society cannot
meet without being mobbed. Last week
the international body of the society met
in Montreal ten thousand strong. The
Montreal press speak of them as a fine
body of people from all the States OF the
Union and the subdivisions Of the Do
minion. Mainly young men and women,
they are represented as ladies and gentle
men, well behaved at all times, not OBJ
trusive, and as having conducted the pro-
ceedings of the grand body with dignity
and in fine spirit.
But the intolerant spirit of the French
Canadians of Montreal could not brook
the assembling of such an organization
in that city. Accordingly these law
abiding, respectful guests of the city
We're twice mobbed, stoned and NAL
treated by the thousands of a brutal mob
of intolerants who hate them because.
forsooth, the Endeavorers are not Of a
particular faith. So bitter and furious
was the assault on the visitors by the
hoodlum element posing under the guise
of a religion that not only did the police
have to interfere, but the English soldiery
had to be called out to protect these peace
able ladies and gentlemen from the fury
OF ruffians.
Reading the story of this outrage in
the month of July, in the year 1898. we
pause to reassure ourselves that we are
not dreaming; that we really read of
scenes that would have disgraced the
darkest days of the inquisition. We
pause long enough TO ask the question of
ourselves, Are we retrograding. that
such things can be after all these years ?v
At least we may form the judgment that
Canada has been outraged, her name
brought into contempt, the Catholic
Church Inundated and lowered in the
esteem of men, and the running wheels
of progress blocked in the city Of Mont
real, of which it will be as well for
decent ana tolerant people hereafter to
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-07-11
WHEN IRELAND HADAPARIAMBNT
The Palmy Days of Dueling. Hard
Drinking, Fun and Qualification.

Inc rainy Days OF Dueling, Hard
Drinking, Fun and Notification.
Never was such a time of feasting and
jolliication as the palmy DAYS of the
Irish Parliament, says AU the Year
Round. The county elections we're a
scene of continued fighting, fun and rev
elry. 1t is one continuous Donnybrook
Fair, and the county elector, with a GOOD
coat on his back and money clfnkinp in
his pocket,
steps into a tent, just to spend half a crown
Steps out, meets friend, and for JOY knocks
With his sprig of shillalah and shamrock so
green
With the same gayety of heart, the
gentlemen fought their battles with more
deadly weapons. At that time dueling
was recognized part of the social code.
The "thirty-six commandments" ar
ranged by the gentlemen of Galway
formed complete set of rules on all the
punctilios of the duello. According to
the printed rules of Galway, seconds. If
DESTROYS, may exchange shots at right
angles TO their principals, and lest the
gentlemen should have forgotten their
mathematics, there is a diagram to ex-
plain how this right-angled fire is ar
ranged.
The pistol was the national weapon. the
long, heavy dueling pistol, which was
handed to the principal by his second:
1.-The fints hammered and the feather.
spring set" Some Irish gentlemen who
had served in France tried to substitute
the small sword for the pistol, and duel
ing club was formed in Dublin-"a most
agreeable and useful association"-the
members of which styled themselves the
knights OF Tara" and who strove by
practice in the fencing school and on the
field Of honor to bring the rapier into
fashion again. But their practices were
denounced as frivolous by the regular
blazers, and national habits We're too
strong for the innovators. well hit. but
no lives lost" was the bulletin most
hoped for on the conclusion OF duel, for
the kindly Irish nature recoiled from oc-
casioning the death of q neighbor. and
perhaps friend, but wounds were glori-
Gus, and none could doubt the honor of
one who had been winged on such an oc-
casion.
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room, and waited to spring on its victim. \
signal was given, and in a silence which must
have chilled the blood Of all present the man
dled. What filed mems minds was not death
as a Just punishment for crime. but the bare
dreadfulness of life destroyed deliberately
under ones eye. This execution so brought
out the naked horrors of capital punishment
that it will be wonder if it is not used as a
tool in the hands of those who are anxious to
see it abolished
He then goes on to say that the con-
cealed mechanism was more terrible
than the gallows-the disappropriateness
of the visible means employed to the re-
sultant death gave freezing horror to the
Imagination. So Mr. Tunis concludes
that the new method of executing crimi-
nails is cruel-to the spectators. There is
no claim that it is cruel 10 the executed,
above the cruelty of the gallows. What
Mr.. Tunis finds so repugnant is that
there is not enough of ceremonial to in
vest the vindication of the law with the
solemnity of its majesty. Mr.. Tunis ad
vocates shooting instead of use of cleo
trical currents, as means of execution,
ACA Al4Oh Llo CIlLl1IUdl Will ulH IKE Il
man."
But this sensitive and nervous writer
forgets that execution is not for the pur-
pose of accommodating nervous people.
Privacy of execution is for the very pur-
pose, for one thing, of making the taking
off of the offender more terrible to other
offenders; to rob the gallows of its dra-
matte effects, which, instead of being ter
rible to the lawless, have become sensa-
tional and heroic in their eyes. If cleo
trical execution is all he describes it to
be-swift, painless, instantaneous, terri
Die, awful, because of the absence of the
dramatic element, then indeed it accom-
plishes that for which it was provided.
We are aware that something of the sem
sations experienced by the essayist are
felt by those on the outside, and hence,
electrical execution must be greatly more
a warning and a restraining influence
upon the lawless than was hanging, for
the gallows was and is, by large num-
Der, looked upon without fear, and rather
as stage upon which the offender may
crafty his vanity by posing if for but
moment before all the world. And it was
because of this fact that the State of New
York destroyed the gallows and sub
stituted the electrical chair. Certainly in
his attempt to discredit the new method
of execution, Mr.. Tunis has given the
best of reasons for its adoption. And now
that the State has electrical power on tap
at Folsom, lei us hope that an enlightened
Legislature will presently order the gal
lows tree burned in California and cleo
trical chairs substituted. We have pro-
crossed so far as to abandon publicity of
executions, now let us 60 step further
and set up the electrical method as means
of lawfully killing those for whom society
has no further use.