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Our Debt to Europe.

us it true, /" asked great thinker,
"that England alone holds 81, 500. 900, :
900 OF United States securities, bearing
interest, including exchange, of q per
cent payable in gold?''
Eyes, according to the public state
ments of London statisticians. The Sec
rotary Of the treasury says there Is no
public record in this country showing
the amount of foreign investments.
We must therefore go to Europe to
learn not only how much we are in
debt to Great Britain, but that at least
$500, 900, 900 additional of United
States Investments are held in France
and Germany. This makes total III
three countries of $4,000, 900, 900, i'm
posing an interest charge, including
exchanges, OF $3.50, 900, 900 per annum.
A nice state of serfdom, isn't it?'--
Kate Fields Washington.
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Nature Pursues a Liar.

"The forces Of the universe are III
league against lie," says Emerson,
and what his terse, penetrating pen
would find to say where the lying in
wolves perhaps mortal danger to human
beings we will not presume to say, but
will illustrate our meaning as follows:
In December, 1887, child that had
died in Connecticut of diphtheria was
brought to Pittsfield, Mass, for burial.
The parents came with the body to q
house in Pittsfield, and public funeral
was held. Within week and while
the parents of the child still remained
as visitors at the house q child who
lived in the house was taken i'll with
diphtheria and died. Then came hui
initiating confession from the Cenneot-
icut parents They said that the symp-
toms of the second child were just like
those of their own and finally aoknowl-l
edged that arrangements had'been made
with the physician in attendance upon
the case to write a certificate Of death
by bronchitis instead Of diphtheria-
Other cases followed in the same house.
philadelphia Press.
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THE MAKING OF THIEVES.
A Significant Increase In tho Nusnber OF
Child Criminals.

Ohhu OEhhAAnAss
There has surely been of late very
greatand significant increase in the num-
Der of child criminals that axe brought
to our police courts. There are more OF
them, and they are much younger than
they used to be, and they are vastly
tougher " Their manner shows plain
~ that the street has been their teacher,
and that they have been apt pupils. Its
method is simple and varies In Hell's
Kitchen and in Jewtown enly In the
opportunities offered. To begin with,
tho boy idler in the street during school
hours is there In defiance of law, wheth-
or the fault is his own or not, and he
knows it. He is In the attitude of OPP
position, the normal attitude Of the
street. The policeman is his enemy, and
the policeman stands for the establish
ed order of things.
Thus tho groundwork Is laid for
whatever mischief GENES along. 1t is
not long in coming, rarely longer than
the dinner hour of the first day. The
boy is hungry. He wants something to
eat. A boys hunger is not like a mans.
which can be appeased with promiges.
He wants something at once. Ii he n
playing hooky, he does not want to &c
homo to get 1t. Anyway there Is no
neod to do so. The street can show him
an easier way. A grocer's stand is
handy, or pie wagon; better still,
soda water wagon. The bottle is worth
30 much cash at the junkshop. The
drivers back is turned. The boy
'swipes" one.
1t is not very great crime, but it is
the stepping stone to many greater. A
horse blanket or copper bottoned boil
er may be the next thing IL is the
first step that costs an effort. and that
not very great one, with tho clamor
of hungry stomach to drown the warn
ing voice within him that whispers OF
the policeman and the lookup. The
friends he makes in the street soon hehp
him to contempt for the one and Sc
cret pride in the other. Jacob A. Rin
in Century.
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STORY or A WEDDING.
Ana Present That Turned Out to Re a
White Elephant.

White Elephant.
know man named Jack Barnes,
who was married one Thanksgiving
day, writes Howard Fielding in the
Boston Herald. His wife had quite
number of rich relations. One of them
was in the furniture business. His pres
ent was undoubtedly the handsomest of
all. 1t was mahogany bedstead big
enough for Mormon elder and carved
In the highest style of the art. The
happy couple were enraptured whom
they saw it. The exhibition occurred in
the store OF the furniture man, for of
course such thing couldn't be sent to
the BRIDES fathers house like sugar
spoon in box. An expressman who
subsequently moved the bedstead told
me that it weighed nine tons, but
think he exaggerated. Moreover, it was
certainly as massive piece of furniture
as ever saw. On this account perhaps
the generous donor had been unable to
sell it and had had it numbering up his
salesroom until he had grown sick Of
the sight of it.
The bridegroom gave directions for
its removal to the Harlem fiat He then
thanked his wife's uncle for this mag
nifcent gift with tears In his eyes.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes returned
from their wedding journey, they found
the mahogany bed already established
in their fat They knew it was there,
because they were unable to open the
parlor door. The bed was inside, and
there was an alley foot wide all the
way around it between it and the wall
This may seem improbable to person
who does not know much about New
York flats of the $40 month grade
but the sophisticated will only wonder
that the bed got in there at all / am
told that the men who set it up had to
climb out of window afterward, but
think this is an exaggeration, because
the tall, carved bedboard entirely COW
cred the two windows and thus cast
gloom over the otherwise happy home.
They found the furniture which had
previously been in the parlor divided
between two bedrooms and completely
filling them.
Housekeeping under these ciroum-
stances was not what this young woman
had been led to expect In "a hours she
had demanded larger fiat Mr.. Barnes
went fiat hunting. The adventures Of
tho Wandering Jew are a mere stroll
compared to those of the fiat hunter in
New York. Jack was looking for bed
room big enough to hold the mahogany
bedstead. He tells me that this piece of
furniture was SO big that he could hard
ly carry memorandum of its dimen-
sions in his largest overcoat pocket.
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WHOLE NO. 1,154

Arthur Stout, Bryan Taylor. 90 per
cent. and under 95.: Ernest Kinmel,
Edward Thorne, Blanche Finger, Ger
trude Miller, Reba Smith, Joseph Smith,
Marvin Case, Lille Bayard, William
Malloy, Anna M. Reinert.
Miss Gallagher's Room-95 per cent.
and over /. Ethel Reed g. Paul Dur
yea, Edith Udy, Emma Ryan, Kate
Buchanan. 90 per cent. and under 90 /:
Davena Gordon, William Joiner, Her
bert Pascoe, Ethel Shamaiia, Ada Beau-
mont, Camilla Joiner
Miss Micke's Room-95 per cent. and
over; l. Paul Conouer 2. Carrie
KnoWies, William Crowley, Ethel Ser
geant, Marie Regain, George Coryell.
90 per cent. and under 95: John Byrnes,
Charles Reynolds, Thomas Walker,
Robert Hughes, Louisa Holcombe, Mary
Thorne, Vernerva Hull, Irene White
head, Clarence McGill.
Names of those whose REGULATIONS and
Department have been commendable
FIRST WARD PRIMARY.
Miss Broadhurst's Room-Lucinda
Hull, Ellen Hughes, Mabel Fisher, Mary
Roe, Beulah Fisher, Mary Burd, Reba
Weller, Mary Leigh, Jane Kroesen.
Clara Bayard, Grover Minor, Thomas
Banahan, George Price, John Sharpe,
George Sharpe, Anderson Slack, Harry
Petrie, John Everett.
Miss Purcell's Room-Ethel Sproat.
Pearl Daniel, Reba Naylor, Nellie Cof-
fey, Joe Carmody, Harry Clarke, Rus.
sell Slick, Ely Cooper, Hannah Bo.e,
Charles Smith, Ethel Sutphin, Charles
Handy, Horace Pew, Fred Massey.
Miss Reynolds ROOMMATE. Coombe,
Matte Reinert, Ethel Fisher, Elsie
Moore, Efiie Leigh, May Akers, Ellen
Roberts, Maggie Slack, Nellie Hurley,
Carrie Foster, Lizzie Trusty, Harry Car
", Harry Gilbert, Thomas Hughes, Carl
Eye, Harry Bowe, Elmer Conover, Hor-
ace Daniels, John Ferguson, George
Carly.
THIRD WARD PRIMARY.
Miss Davis Room-IreneE ggart, Nell
lie Heath, Lizzie Bice, Lille Heath,
Mary Finger, Jessie Holcombe, Anna
Petrie, Alfred Crimson, Thomas Malloy,
Horace Hoagland, William Convover,
Albert Regain. George Johnson, James
Moonan, Harry Hunt, Dorie Sebold,
Nicholas Bodine.
Miss Searborough's Room-Ida Pro-
basco, Lizzie V. Shepherd, Florence
Bainbridge, Stella Wilson, Ethel Farley,
Ethel Servis, Viola Sewers Lucy Crow
ley, Lettie Sattherthwaite, Russell L.
Bowden, Willie Sharp, Samuel Percy,
Joseph Percy, Joseph Storr, Willie Viii
son, Leroy Cronce, Preston Kelly, Clar-
ence Hoppock.
Miss Brittains Room-Rita Gordon,
Nettie Green, Alice Micke, Tressie Mid
dleton, Alice Naylor, Louisa Seals, Ma
bel Titus, Eddie Vert, Jessie Sharp,
Norman Conover, Edwin Duryea, Chas.
Malloy, Henry Malloy, Robert Percy,
Chester Ruth, Howard Wilmot, Charles
Reid
. Mrs. Miller's Room-Annie Moore,
Alice Gregg, Myrtle Hurley, Lizzie
Field, Frances Sebold, Millie Regain,
Bertha Lewis, Annie Bowers, Ida
Moore, Louisa Young, Lizzie Bright,
Lizzie Bodine, Addie Johnson, Mabel
Reed, Fred N. Finger, Christopher Bow
ers, Edgar Ruth, George Cooper, Gideon
Cook, Theodore Souders, Wallace Len
nox, Willard Todd, Charles Rose, HAIR
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pom.stio weather prophets.

Probably everybody knows that there
are microscopic plants which indicate
more or less clearly the quantity of
moisture in the atmosphere. A strip Of
seaweed hung in an exposed position
frequently does duty as a popular and
easily comprehended weather glass. al,
though it may be doubteu whether its
predictions are of much value. More
reliance can be placed In the behavior
Of pine twig, which may very readily
be pressed into service as a domestic
weather prophet. Cologne Gazette.
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Digestibie Food.

One of the biggest mistakes about
food which people make is to forget
that the true value of food to anybody
is the measure of its digestibility. Half
a pound of cheese is vastly more nour-
ishing, as regards its mere composition.
than half pound Of beef, but while the
beef will be easily digested and thus be
of vast service to us the cheese is put
out of court altogether for ordinary
folks by reason of its indigestibility.
We should bear this rule in mind when
we hear people comparing one food with
another in respect to their chemical
value. London Hospital.
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Forest Fire Phenomena.

The phenomena Of sheets Of flame and
balls of fire which accompany forest
fires are explained by writer as due to
gases in the air, which arise from tur-
pentine. resinous gums and volatile oils
which exude from evergreen trees.
These are easily ignited and explode in
she air in dry weather.
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LINES BY LEO XIII ON HIS DEATH.

The setting sun at this thy close of day
On thee, o Leo, sheds its parting ray.
Within thy withered veins, thy wasted frame,
Slow, slow burns downward life's expiring
flame.
Deaths arrow flies, the funeral veil unfolds,
The cold remains the grave her conquest holds,
But swift the painting soul, her letters riven,
Spreads her free wings and seeks her native
heaven.
The long and toilsome road has reached its
end.
Thy holy will, my Saviour, attend
And, If SO great grace thou canst accord,
Receive my spirit in thy kingdom, Lordl
-Churchman
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Gus de Smith---Ah, Miss Birdie,
WEAKLY fear fatigue you.
Birdie McGinnis--I would not be SO
rude. Mr.. do Smith, as to contradict
you. -Tammany Times.
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LambertvilIe Public SCHOOLS.

Report of the Lambertville Public
Schools for the 0hird) month, ending
November 30th, 1894:
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MA ESNEss aud HEAD NOISES CURED.
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New York, sole depot Send for book and proofs
FREE.
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Advertisements.
PARK RS

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GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

Miss Persons Room-95 per cent.
and over: 1. Josie Lear; 2. Grace
Person, Edith Robson, Ida Whyte,
Mabel Hoagland, Bella Cooper, Robert
Phillips, Jennie Horn, Ethel Massey,
Eva Gordon, Walter Parker, Elizabeth
Naylor, Helen Shamalia, Carrie Pascoe,
Albertus Kitchener, Katie Chapman,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01

THE law looks with disfavor upon
all contracts in restraint Of trade. II
the contracts are unreasonable, they
will not be enforced. Contracts of
this kind are held unreasonable when
they would prevent a person from
ever again, anywhere, engaging in q
particular business, or where, though
not so broad they still cover too
much territory. Reasonable restric-
tlons will, however, be enforced when
there is a sufficient consideration.
These rules apply with full force to
agreements not to buy live stock. In
case recently decided, the Supreme
Court Of Nebraska upholds a contract
by which a party, who sold his BUSH
ness and the good will thereof, agreed
not to buy hogs or cattle to ship from
a certain point named, the agree
ment to be in force so long as the
purchaser should remain in the bust
ness Of buying and shipping from
that place, One thousand dollars
was the consideration paid. The SELL
or of the business, however, it would
seem, sought to break up the bust
ness of the purchaser. Thus, after a
number of farmers had sold their
hogs to the latter for as high a price
as the market would bear, he would
come in and offer them a greater
price. Such a course the court de-
clared clearly wrong. He should
either do business at some other
point, or else repurchase the business
sold.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01
HOME AND TIE FARM.
A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
The Ignorant Cannot Succeed in Farming
Directions for Cutting Up a Porker-A
Garden Wheelbarrow-on Great Ad-
vantage OF Farm Life.
How to Cut Up Pork.

There are many ways OF cutting
and curing pork. The accompanying
diagram will doubtless be of assist
ance in enabling the inexperienced
to master the process: The head
should first be cut off and the carcass
divided in halves by splitting the
backbone lengthwise. The shoulders
and hams, l and ?, should be taken
out The rump piece, 3, 7 and 9,
can either be sailed or used fresh; 4,
3 and 6, the "mess" FORK, are good
for chors outlets, or roasts, or the
ribs may be removed and the whole
side, including 8, may be turned into
bacon. The lower art s, is the
portion most highly esteemed for
bacon. 1t should be cut In long
stril S, convenient for smoking. The
head should be split down, and the
1owls IL, salted or smoked. The re.
mainder Of the head, with the ears
and feet, may be picked. To cure
pork put an inch layer of salt in the
bottom Of barrel and then rack in
a LAYER of ork as solldly and as closely
as possible with the rind next to the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01

POSTMASTER DAYTON, of New
York, has been obliged to make a
personal visit to Washington to call
the Postmaster Generals attention
to the DEFICIENCIES of the postal serv-
ice in his city. Philadelphians have
been importuning Congress to pro-
vide better facilities for handling
mails in the Quaker City, and for
years Chicago has been shouting in
the Congressional ear the defects of
her postal equipment. Thus the
three largest cities in point of popu-
lation, commercial Importance and
magnitude of postal business are dis
covered groveling at the feet of Con-
gress, appealing for the relief they
should rightfully demand and Justly
obtain. And the gentlemen from
Chinchburg, Seedville and Tomato
patch frank to their constituents the
forty-flfth annual report of the com.
mission on "The Absence of Horns
on Muley Cows" and imagine they
are born conservators Of the public
welfare.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01

per acre have been secured from one
acre of Strawberries but such results
are an exception. in this section the
experienced growers do not wait until
the season opens, but begin 10 work
as soon as the condition of
the ground permits. II manure Is to
be used, nothing that is coarse is
placed on the ground, only the finest
and most perfectly rotted material
being used. If fertilizers are resorted
to they are used before the young
plants begin to shoot out, and, il pos
sible, the rows are cultivated, the OBJ
1ect being to have the plant food
within reach Of the young plants at
a time when they need it most
In order to give the young plants
a start the land is made rich and they
are transplanted as early as possible,
so as to give them the advantages of
the spring rains, A dry spell not
only interferes with their growth.
but cuts the crop from the old bed
shoot The greatest enemy OF the
strawberry Ii the weeds. 1t is easy
enough to keep them down between
the rows and If The bed Is matted in
a wide row hand pulling must be re-
sorted to, but If the young plants are
well worked the first year, and the
space between each plant kept clean,
the weeds can be kept down so as to
protect the matted rows the second
year The young plants may be put
out in rows wide enough to permit Of
horse culture, and should be a foot
apart In the rows. Later in the sea-
son they will throw out runners,
which will cover every square inch of
space in the rows The plants that
are set out this spring will bear full
crop next spring
Raspberrles and blackberries will
soon I'll up the space between the
plants, and plenty of room, there
fore, should be allowed them. Once
established they will remain for years,
and If the plants are so arranged in
the rows as to permit of the check
row system Of cultivation a great
saving of labor will be effected The
best market blackberry-the Wilson
has been nearly eradiCated by the
attacks Of the borer, but some other
varieties seem to escape, though the
blackberry crop is not as large as in
former years, but there has been an
increase in the area devoted to straw
berries and raspberries. The best
variety depends on the climate aud
soil, and can only be known by test
ing several varieties, as experiments
show that the best varieties in some
sections are almost worthless in
others. Philadelphia Record.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01

THERE seems to be a distinction
between selling meat as merchandise,
not for immediate consumption by
the purchaser, and selling it to be
used by the latter as food. In the
former case there is no implied war
ranty Of soundness, while in the lat
ter case the courts hold that a war
ranty Of wholesOmeness will be i'm
piled. There has also been some eff
fort made to distinguish between
cases where the person selling meat
for consumption as food knew, or
ought to have known, that it was
not fit for use, and where he did not
know that fact. Thus, a Massachu-
sets decision excuses a farmer for
killing and selling hog, to be used
by the purchaser, where he made no
representation concerning same, and
although he had other hogs that were
diseased with hog cholera. The most
recent decision on the subject is one
of the Supreme Court Of Michigan,
where it is held that a dealer who
sells food for consumption implicitly
warrants that it is fit for the purpose
for which it is sold. And If, in addi-
tion to this implied warranty, it is
found that he was negligent in sell
ing meats that were dangerous to
those who ate them, he would be liza
BILE for the consequences Of his act,
if he knew it to be dangerous, or, by
proper care on his part, could have
known its condition. Keepers Of 9
retail meat market, engaged in the
business Of selling meats for food
are bound to use due care to see that
the meats are fit for human consump-
tion. II is also a question to be set
tied in such a case whether or not
the purchaser, or other person made
sick by eating unwholesome meat,
has exercised due care on his part in
partaking Of same, as in lease where
the meat did not smell right before
or after II was cooked.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01

The newspaper Of Chicago that re-
marked that Patti sang "Home, Sweet
Home" like a novice is entitled to
the credit Of working the only YER
liable modern miracle. 1t made
Patti mad enough to say that she
had been singing it forty years. Per-
haps it is necessary to add that the
number Of the years is warranted
inference, 1t was the span Patti de-
scribed, however. She says she has
been singing it from childhood. AS
the French proverb says that neither
woman nor music should be dated,
the confession wrought from the
finally farewelled diva must pass
among the monuments of successful
exacerbaton. 1t would be interest
ing to know where the critic came
from who pronounced Patti a novice
in anything, and where he has lived
since befo' the wah. He must he
brother to that other Chicago critic
who wrote seriously about "Shaks-
peare's play Of Rlchelleu."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01
KANSAS RAILROADS.

The county commissioners OF Atchi-
son county have settled the 1898 taxes
Of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad company OH the basis of the
assessment of 1892 and the levy of 1898.
The company further agrees to pay the
difference between the assessment Of
1892 and 1898 should the courts decide
that any county in the state is entitled
to the same.
During the last month 497 cars OF
stock zane into Atchison off the Central
branch, and this number is about an
average of the shipments monthly.
About forty cars were loaded with sheep,
the balance being cattle and hogs.
The various railroad companies whose
tracks are being jeopardized by the
washing away Of the river bank at
Atchison will Join forces and proceed to
protect their property, hoping that con-
gress will in due time reimburse them
as it did once before.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01
Ono Advantage of Farm Life.

The families of farmers certainly
know more of comforts this winter
than those who depend upon days
wages or salaries. The hand-to-
mouth existence works we'll when
there is a steady inflow OF money, but
when Saturday night no longer brings
the usual dollars there inevitably
comes time of pinching if not Of
actual suffering. A roof, fire, and
always enough to eat, without con-
tinuous worry lest the supply give
out make farm life seem one of COM
fort and plenty, The farmers wife
may not always see much money,
neither does she constantly spend it;
she does not begin to get dinner by
first looking to her purse, for there is
always something ready to be cooked.
Grange Homes.