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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

bayous to the mills, travelling some
three thousand miles in its course.
Modern Improvements are used on
this plantation. You are taken to
the field in sugar-cane cart run on
rails and drawn by Sarah Bernhardt,
pensive mule,
Here hundreds of hands are cut
ting, piling and loading the cane.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

thing are brought out to handle the
immense sugar crop harvested in
Louisiana. The bayous and swamps
are no longer stagnant resting places
for the lazy alligator, but are filled
with putting steamers, pushing barges
and flatboats all loaded down with
with sugar.
Flat steamers holding in them
selves trainloads of barreled sugar
are carefully padding their way to
some railroad landing from which
the sugar is shipped in cars.
"Where is this sugar going to-"
"Where you from?"
Chicago"
Thought so. This sugar goes to
New Orleans"
This seems to be the shipping point
for all sugar in the State, and Is the
board of trade or middleman be-
tween the merchant and producer,
The sugar is carefully weighed on the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

THE discovery OF pipes and drink
ing vessels among relics Of prehis-
toric races may in part explain the
cause of their determination, A Wig
Orous search will be made for cigar
ette butts to confirm this theory.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

IT is stated by authorities entitled
TO credence that two-flfths of the en-
tire area of the United States con-
slsts of arid land, and that upon six
hundred ANA sixteen million acres Of
this land crops could be raised If
water were supplied.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

A MASSACHUSETTS woman has in
vented an envelope which it is i'm
possible to open and reseal without
detection. That woman's ingenuity
will bring down upon her devoted
head the maledlctlons of all mem
bers Of her sex who are married and
most of those who hope to be.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

A FRENCHMAN claims to have dis
covered drug that is an infallible
antidote for snake bites, That fell
low, If he values his life, will keep
out Of Kentucky.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18
THE SUGAR HARVEST.
A TIME WHEN THERE'S HUSTLlNG
IN THE SOUTH.
Everybody and Everything Turn Out 10
Handle the Immense Crop-sugar Mill
at Abbevllle-New Orleans the Great
shipping Point


AY, boy, what yo'
doing there? Get
them legs going,
now; you don't roll
no cigareets and
work for me. If
you want cigareets
you go right up
that hill there and
press yo' pants"
Sugar is moving
now, says a New
Orleans correspon-
dent of the Chica-
go Record, and
moving fast. The
old tradition Of a
sleepy South does
not hold good in
sugar time, Ev-
erybody and every
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

To ONE woman who has to put up
with her husbands kin living with
her, there are ten men who have to
be patient under the burden Of their
wives relations
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

If a man is out late at night, it is
good protection 10 have woman
along, A woman has a way Of
screaming that curdlos a highway
mans blood.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

THERE Is hope FOR the coming gen.
Grafton, 1t is predicted that our
grandchildren will not have hands
large enough TO reach an octave on
the piano,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

THE English have been toasting
the American navy and Americans
have been roasting IT, Between the
two the navy ought to be well done.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

IF steaming the face is good for
the complexion, why don't more girls
do the family washing? One can
get a lovely steam bath over Il wash
Al
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

brought in barges and begins its jour
ney somewhere on the Allegheny
River. II first comes down the Ohio
and the NJ sisS;ppi, chen UP the Red
River and into some of the small
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18

How dear to our hearts is
Cash on subscription,
When the generous subscriber
Presents it to view;
But the man who won't pay
We refrain from description,
For perhaps, gentle reader,
That man might be you.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-18
Cotton Is King.

The United States has produced
two thirds of the cotton consumed by
the world for the last 7ixty-sereU
years.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-03-24
A SONG or CHEER.


There are many will tell yous "The best has
been done;
There is nothing worth STRIVING for under the
sun;
There's no hope for achievement when all Of
the past
Is pitred against you--an army so vast,
Overwhelming in numbers and deeds OF renown,
Ii were foolish to struggle and wise 10 lie
down"
But turn deaf ear when these croakers come
near:
Keep steadily at It and be Of good cheer.
''The height you can climb to Is nothing at all,
So why make the effort and risk the rude fallf''
Oh, take but ore breath Of that sweet mountain
And having inhaled # you'll never despair
But striving still upward and onward each day,
1.-THE labor love fl" at last you will say,
Then turn deaf ear when the croakers come
near:
With face toward the summit oh. be of good
cheer!
Think not for q moment all songs have been
sung
There are sorrows and joys that have never
found tonguc
There are hearts to-day waiting the message
you bring; 49,.
They listen for songs that you only can s!ngl
So think not Of Shakespeare or Milton OF
Burns,
But sing as they sung, make your sweetest re-
turns,
And turn deaf ear when the croakers appear;
Sing life as you live 1t and be of good cheer.
William s. Lord. in Chicago Record
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August.
Flower

I used August Flower for Loss Of
vitality and general debility. After
taking two bottles I gained 60 lbs.
] have sold more of your August
Flower since I have been in business
than any other medicine ever kept.
Mr.. Peter Zinville says he was made
q new man by the use of August
Flower, recommended by me. /
have hundreds tell me that August
Flower has done them more good
than any other medicine they ever
took. GEORGE w. DYE, Sardis,
Mason Co., KY. q
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nm humble confession assures you abb
solution. Come, tell me how it hap
pcned!"
Hear me then, reverend father! She
was lovely child, scarcely seventeen
years of age. Sweet and tender, and
as pure as the Madonna signor, her
eyes were as clear as the light of the
moon. and her soul as white as the
mountain SHOWS. She had promised to
be my wife. Her father was a peasant
of the Campagna, who lived at Formel-
10. One day, as I drove my goats to
pasture, saw her standing near the
fountain, with her long, black hair
twisted Into simple knot, and red
kerchief wound around her white fore
head A bunch of asphodelos blossoms,
of which the lasses of the Campagna
are so fond. was pinned to her crimson
breast-cloth. She SMILED st me. rever.
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Pend father, as l wa liked by, ali. such .
aweet and GOV smilel

pend father, as / wa liked by, ah. such .
sweet and coy smile!
There came a day, when the count
rode by Marianita's humble hut on his
return from the chase. He saw her
coming from the we'll, carrying Jug
on her head. Her sight was pleasing
to his blase eye, and, alighting from
his horse, he asked her for drink of
water. Marianita chatted with him.
1t was the first time in her life that she
had met so rich and grand gentle
man, and he himself perhaps had never
seen prettier lass. Ha! Father, he
poured into her ear soft, caressing
words. Old Mia, her neighbor, informed
me that Mar$anita met the count not
far fiom the fountain three times in
succession. From that time on she
avoided me. After that / carried my
carbine with me every day. went to
the trysting- place, where a dense clus-
ter of Expresses covers pile of de bris,
at an hour which Mia had named to
me. They were not there Not far
away, where the lane describes sharp
turn, came upon them sitting on q
stone under an olive tree. She saw me
first and jumped to her feet like a
frightened fawn. My face. my gun,
told their own tale. The count escaped
into the adjacent orange grove. My
hands trembled nervously, reverend
father. / could hardly hold the car
bine. raised 1t like fash, for / saw
him crouching behind some shrubs.
My aim was good, and l would have
killed him then, had not Marianita
thrown herself before the muzzle of my
gun. dropped it. caught her by the
shoulder, and threatened both with
ms :ant death, If ever found them to.
gether again.
''She pleaded with me, and promised
to heed my warning. But he had al
ready won her heart with caresses and
allurements, and 1t was noised abroad
that the two still met candestinely,
here and there, in the many hiding
places among the debris, the ruins and
the dark pine forests of the Campagna-
81 sought the count one evening in
his palace, but his servants refused to
let me enter. and drove me with gibes
and curses from his door. Several days
later laid in waiting for him, as he
strolled through his park. / sprang
from the laurel bushes which had con-
cealed me, and implored and threat
ened him to keep away from my prom
ised wife. / told him that Marianita
and ! were soon to be married. He
laughed at me and repulsed me with
disdain. I grasped my knife-and
caught him by the throat. He vowed
then not to modest the girl again.
'Signor,' cried, there will be MUIR
der, II you forget what you promised
me this day.
81 returned to my home and put my
little house in order. The wedding was
to take place fortnight later. But
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W!a rfinRntR.
Ny LnXA SNNAAKNN.

Copyright 1894. bv Emily S. Howardl
"What hast thou done, Peppino?"
Peppino does not answer.
Speak, Peppino," urges again the
priest THE Holy Virgin cannot for.
give thee, If thou refusest to confess
thy SIM"
Reverend father" falters the man,
trembling and shivering with cold, but
not from the damp and chilly atmos-
phere of the cathedral, with it's granite
pillars and marble floors. The shep-
herd of the Roman Campagna is accus-
toned to the drenching rains that wet
him to the skin as well as the burning
rays of the sun.
Peppino has cast of the coarse round
cloak in which his shivering form was
wrapped. Frustrated before the con-
fesslonal, he clutches convulsively the
arm Of the priest
Reverend father. l."
Speak. Peppino; was it thy neigh.
boris chatte1Y'
The shepherd shakes his head with
proud disdain.
To aid him in the difficult task the
aged priest winds his arm kindly
around the sturdy shoulders of the man
at his feet "Speak," he urges again,
twas 1t the knife. Peppino?"-
Peppino mods his head.
"Who was thy victim, my SOM"
The shepherd whispers: Count Lu.
dovico Purziano."
An expression of horror passes over
the priests pale face Count Ludo-
vico Porziano, for whose slayer the
Carabinieri have been hunting the
mountains for the last three years?"
at 10 he"
Peppino smiles grimly, as he reveals
his handsome teeth behind black
mustache. He seems proud to have
confessed a secret which the arm OF
the king has vainly sought to ferret
out
Count Ludovico Porziano! A most
pious gentleman Peppino?" exclaimed
the priest
"A pious gentleman, he? Corpo di
Bacco- very pious gentleman, in
deedr'
us It thus you rue tho sin. Peppino?''
Forgive me. reverend father! He
had stolen my sweetheart, and would
have Jared no better at another's
handl''
'Peppino!'
1.-THE provocation was great, rev
erend father, yet this very day on my
return to the city saw him again lie
before me sweltering in his blood. and
/ knew nothing that could rid me of
the horrible nightmare but confess
sion of the deedr'
my son, sincere repentance will ap-
pease the most gruesohe ghosts, and
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the count still knew whore 10 find
Marianita- l never met them in each
others company again, It's true, but
my heart was full of ominous nisgiv-
ings Three days before the wedding
day hurried to my sweet ones home,
to find no one but her aged father sit
ting gloomily before the hearth.
Forget that you knew her. Pep
pino,' said he. She is not worthy of
you. She went away during tho night,
and we do not even know where she
has gone. All her belongings are here.
and she has taken nothing with her but
my curse
my heart was filed with bitterness
l went away, and drove my goats up
into the mountains as had always
done. Every night hung around the
counts palace for more than year, but
his servants informed me that the sig
nor had gone away.
"When he returned, he came alone;
Marianita was not with him I met
him several times, in the fields and on
the country roads, and he, too, recog-
nized me But he was never alone
He was exceedingly cautious. and re-
Trained from hunting through the
woods, as had been his custom for
merly. always greeted him politely,
and wore a smiling countenance, as if I
had forgotten his treachery, and the
sorrow it had caused me.
SIN course of time the counts fears
were allayed He was afraid of me no
longer, and resumed his old habit of
riding through the country. Ere long,
too, he roamed again in the shadowy
avenues Of his park.
Two years had gone by since Mari
anita's disappearance. One evening I
came upon him in the same SPOT, where
he had given me his solemn pledge,
not to see her again.
above MS expanded the same blue
slky; the same soft breezes played with
the leaves of the plane-trees, and moth
ing but the mournful cry of an owl,
nesting in the ruins of an old pagan
temple not far away. disturbed the
profound silence. The count recor-
nized me al once, but this time, ere he
could take to flight / clutched his
throat and-buried my knife in his
treacherous heart"
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SCORPIONS DO NOT SUICIDE.
Interesting Description of the Creatures
Queer Habits.


Interesting Description of the Creatures
Queer Habits.
During many years of scorpion hunt
ing never remember to have seen two
individuals living together in amity;
and even their more tender relations
are tainted at times with the unamia-
BILE habit of cannibalism. The males
are decidedly smaller than their mates,
whom they approach accordingly with
the utmost caution. If the fair mann
orata doesn't like The looks of her adj
vancing sutton she settles the question
offhand by making murderous spring
at him, catching him in her claws,
singing him to death and making q
hearty meal off him. This is scarcely
lover-like. On the other hand, If du-
bious wife. the female scorpion is
devoted mother. She matches her eggs
in her own oviduct, brings forth her
young alive unlike her relations, the
spiders), and carries them about on her
back, to the number Of fifty, during
innocent childhood, till they are OF an
age to shift for themselves in the strug-
gle for existence.
Scorpions do not sting themselves to
death with their own tails when sur
rounded with fire. That silly, and. on
the very face of it. improbable, fable
has been invented by savages, and re-
peated by people who ought to know
better solely on the strength of the
curious way the creatures cock up their
tails when attacked, in the proper atti-
tude for singing.
Some years ago, however, q So
called IMAM of science" who appears
to have inherited his methods of inves-
tigation from q red Indian ancestry,
subjected several hundred of these
poor, helpless brutes to most unneces-
sary torture, for no other purpose on
earth than to establish the truth Of
this negative result, which sounds to
me like a foregone conclusion.
He burned the unhappy animals with
fire and acids, he roasted them alive on
hot stone, he scalded them with boiling
oil, he lavished upon them every form
and variety of torment that diseased
medi@val imagination could suggest;
but in the end he found no ingenuity
of the inquisitor could make the con-
slant scorpion take refuge in suicide.
merely mention this fact here, very
much against the grain, in the hope
that it may save other helpless scor.
pions from needless torture At the
hands Of such amateur investigation =
Cornhill Magazine
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Poor Sweetening.

ALTERATION is grace which may
easily be abused. Even in poetry it
should not be laid on with too heavy a
brush. Such SUGGESTIONS of sibilants
as we sometimes see in second-class
songs should be seduously Stunned.
OF what was probably an unintentional
ALTERATION, an exchange tells the
story
Got any good m'lasses, George?"
asked a farmers wife of the grocer.
Goods ever had in the store, Mis-
Little6eld," answered the grocer.
WAL, put me up tew gallons"
A week or so later Deacon Littlefielo
:alled the grocer to account for selling
his wife poorer molasses than usual
Its good 'nough in Injin pudd'n,"
he said, land in brown bread; but,
George, gin ye my word as a dck:u.
it's terrible tedious in tea-"-Youth's
Companion.
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FlREslDE FRAGMENTS.

baked Cranberry Pudding. Place
q quart of berries In an earthen bake
dish. Add two cupfuls of sugar. Cover
with light crust. Bake in moderate
oven one-haf hour. Serve with hard
sauce.-Good Housekeeping.
-Stewed Prunes. Wash the prunes
in cold water. Soak them in tepid
water about two hours, and set the
whole on the fire and boil gently.
When half done, add sugar to taste. II
the water boils away too much add
more.-Boston Budget.
Chocolate CaramelS over
q fire one cupful of molasses and two
teacupfuls of sugar; add oue-quarter OF
pound of grated chocolate and a
piece of butter the size of an egg; boil
for fifteen or twenty minutes; pour
into fat, buttered dishes to the depth
of a quarter inch. and when cold cut
into squares an inch in size.-N. Y.
World.
Layer Nut Cake. pound
butter, one pound sugar, one teacupful
sweet milk, three-fourths pound of
-four, whites of seven eggs, two tea
spoonfuls baking powder, one tea
spoonful extract of lemon, one-half
teacupful of cornstarch. Cream butter
and sugar, add milk with cornstarch,
fiavoring, flour, and lastly, the eggs
beaten stiff. Bake in layers Frost
ing: Beat the whites of two eggs stiff
with four ounces of sugar, one and one
half teacupfuls hickory nut meats
Orange Judd Farmer.
Beef Stew.-Procure Ave or ten
cent soup bone, which is usually half
meat. Cover with boiling water and
place where it will simmer for several
hours until the bone can be removed,
leaving the meat Cut this in small
pieces. add salt, pepper, few raw po-
tatoes sliced, sliced onions If one likes,
If not q small pinch of celery seed,
thyme or other favoring. Boil for half
an hour or longer, then add dumplings
made as for biscuit, only stirred stiff
instead of rolled. Cover closely and
boil for fifteen minutes, when it is
ready to serve.-Housekeeper.
Small Almond Cakes.-Chop half a
VOunu VA CAVLOA 0uSA A4AAA WIN ~ Sni VC-
quarters of a pound of shelled almonds
which have been blanched and sliced
into halves Beat six eggs thoroughly
and cream into them three-quarters of
a pound of sugar. Add the nuts and
citron, and, after thoroughly mixing,
sift gradually into the mixture half a
pound of -four. Pour the batter into
long, shallow tins, which have been
well buttered. Bake in quick oven.
When done roll in powdered almonds
and sugar. Packed carefully in tin
these cakes will keep almost inde6-
nitely.-N. Y. World.
Fried Hasty Pudding. Put one
quart of water on to boil Mix one
pint of corn meal, one heaping table,
spoonful of -four and one teaspoonful
Of salt, with one pint of cold milk.
Stir this gradually into the boiling
water and boil three-quarters of an
hour, stirring often. Fill q bread pan
with cold water and let it stand few
minutes. Throw out the water and
pour in the mush. When cold turn out
on'a platter, cut In slices three-quar-
tiers of an inch thick, roll them in -four
and brown each side in hot fat in a
frying pan. Or roll the slices in
crumbs. dip in egg, roll in crumbs and
fry in deep fat-Boston Budget.
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"A French author. noted in his own
time, produced in the seventeenth CEN
tury q folio volume on Moses" in
which he described all kinds, and told
what sort of nose every saint in the cal
endar must have possessed,
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According to the bureau Of statis-
tics the United States in 1899 exported
goods and products valued at 81
075. SIS, 400, and the imports of the same
year amounted TO sso7, 057, ooA
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Bound to Kick.

The man with two cork legs was in a
bad humor because he couldn't go
skating, and he growled when he
handed his fare TO the street car con-
ductor.
"Well. it is pretty hard" admitted
the conductor, "but you have one adj
vantage"
I'D like to know what it is"
"You are never troubled with cold
feet
perhaps not in the day time" he
admitted grudgingly, "but 1 am at
night"
20, come off," protested the conduc-
tor.
Its true, 1 tell you," he said sharp
ly.
Get out; you haven't any feet to be
cold"
N"Possibly not, but my wife has" and
the conductor rung up seven fares be-
fore he recovered from the shock.-De.
troit Free Press
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Be SURE TO read advertisement Of Plant
Seed Co., en- old reliable firm
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A COWARD is man who fears to be called
one-Ram's Horn.
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ENGLISH PHEASANT SHOOTING
The Farce Of Hunting the Birds ~
Sport.

The Farce of Hunting the Birds ~ =
Sport.
Why does anybody go to the expense
and bother of Matching out birds and
keeping them on the premises--whether
by means of coops or housekeeping
mixtures'-until they are ready for
shooting, when they can be bought
ready-made for the purpose? One en-
tcrprising tradesman was adver Using
the other day:
1.-Two thousand full-wing young cock
pheasants for shooting. Also two thou
sand last seasons pheasant Is; price low
this season"
Cock pheasants for shooting means.
take it, birds properly bred and fat
tened, and educated up to the business.
And q great convenience it must be to
those who have to entsrtain royal and
noble sportsmen, to be able to lay in
the raw material for big bags at few
days notice.
What l want to know is, why the
shooting of beasts cannot be brought
up to date, as the shooting of birds has
been? Why does not the Geological
society undertake to send out lions,
tigers, and big game generally, prop
erly fattened up, and not too fresh to
be ''battued' in the parks of the aris-
tocracy and plutocracy? Why should
it be necessary to travel all the way to
South Africa, and undergo all sorts of
fatigue and inconveniences-possibly
even personal danger-in the pursuit
of sport?''
At the German imperial hunts It is
now the practice to keep a careful
record of the names of the sportsmen
and of the game killed by each OF
them. A guest may get possession of
the antlers of stag, the horns of a
buck, or the tusks of wild boar, il he
wants to carry any such mementoes of
the sport; but the body of an animal
cannot be obtained unless its full
market value is paid to the treasury of
the court hunting Office. Even the en-
peror is subject to the rule, and the
whole OF the game which is killed il
sold en- bloc to dealers, under the SUI
perintendence of the chief forester in
whose district the hunt has taken
place.-London Truth.
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IRIS sure sign that ague has come to stay
when it gives you the shake.-lnter Ocean.