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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
WHEN GRAN'PAP LIT HIS CORN
COB PIPE.

When gran'pap lit his corncob ripe, how quiet
Within the semicircle, as around the hearth we
drew
Our rough, implanted oaken chairs and waited
for the tale
That ever followo that event mot oft did gram
pap fail
TO fight again. and yet again, the wars of long
ago;
TO tfal the Indian hunt the boar; there In the
backlogs glow,
He lived again his boyhood days. What men,
-, cries, rich and ripe
lit his pipe.
For gran'pap was pioneer; his honest, ready
hand
Had hewn the trees that made his home within
a new-touud land,
He had an endless stock Of yarns-a million,
more or Less
The history of his early life within wilderness.
And when he sometimes quite forgot, and told
aome story twice,
No one obiected no nor when he'd chance to
tell one thrice;
For tales like his ne'er lost their charm-thoBe
stories Of the type
That gran'pap use to tell us as he smoked his
corncob pipe
oh, good old man, who long hath slept the sleep
that bringeth rest
A patriarch unto tribe that Ger will call you
ble6t-
Gould you come back and join that group
around the roaring blaze
And tell, as in the long ago, those legends of the
days
Whom strong with youth aud hearty toll you
trailed the forest thu ough.
How would that group, though changed with
years do honor unto you'll
And many a trembling hand, gran'pap, away
warm ears would wipe
AS you'd draw your armchair to the fire and
light your corncob pipe,
Inter Ocean.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
Norwegian Traits.

Serious crime Is almost unknown.
The punishment for murder is decapl-
tatiOn at the block by the public ex-
ecutioner but during the two years l
lived in Norway there was but one
murder and no execution, for the
murderer was never Unidentified The
Christiania police seem to have little
to do except to warn people politely
not to violate the city ordnance, for
bdd ng people to stand and talk on
the pavement and to arrest IA drunk
ard occasionally
Railways are comparatively few In
Norway owing to the cost of cOnstruc-
ton in a mountainous country and
to the disinclination of the people to
speculative enterprise. The high
ways, however, are excellent, and one
may travel post almost anywhere in
a public carriole or post chaise The
post stations are seven miles apart,
and the travller changes horse and
carriage at each OF these stations In
certain remote country distr cts there
are no inns; and here the traveller
must lodge with the nearest farmer
orpriest These people are so hospit.
able that they occasionally refuse to
take any pay, and invite the traveller
to remain with them as long as he
will; but the fare is often primitive.
l have frequently found in summer
that a farmers larder contained moth
ing nut thick, sour milk and rye bread,
with sweet milk to drink.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
Raindeer Mead as Food.

A clergyman, the Reverend Mr.,
Wallis, who has lived several years
on the Porcupine river in the
British nOrtherly possessions, writes
entertainingly OF MS manner of life
in that frigid region.
''Many times" he says, IL have
subsisted almost exclusively on rein
deer meat 1t is very good, and l
may say it is about the only kind Of
meat you don't get red of. ! think
it is better, allIthings considered, than
beef, and that you can eat it longer
without its palling on you. 1t is a
venison more than anything else.
The Indians eat it almost exclusively
and they are very big and strong.
Some OF them are six feet high, and
the average is about five feet ten
inches. They are genuine Sorth
American indians, and not the AleutS,
Eskimos, or mixture of the two.
II keep an Indian hunter, and
supplies me with all the reindeer
meat l want. He also brings me
gouse, duck, BEAR and other game as
| need it. have learned to shoot
pretty well myself, as the white men
do in that region or anywhere con-
tiguous tc it. The ducks and gouse,
like the reindeer, are remarkably
good eating"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19

Machines for raising water may be
said to be as old as civilization itself,
and their invention extends 80 far
beyond written history that no one
can say when the art Of lirtlng and
distributing water began. Egypt,
the land Of unfathomable antiquity,
the Oldest civilization Of the Orient,
noted not only for her magniilCence
and power, but for engineering skill,
made practical use of such important
devices as the syphon and syringe,
the latter being remarkable inven-
tion, and the real parent Of the mod
ern pump
Whether or not syringes were ever
fitted with inlat or outlet valves,
thus making the slngle-action pump,
is not known, but bellows, consisting
of leather bag set In a frame and
worked by the feet--the operator
standing with one foot on each bag,
expelling the Enclosed air, the ex.
hausted bag being then lifted by n
string to refill it with air--implies
the use of valve opening inward,
and it Is difficult to conceive of a con-
tinuous operation without one.
A representative piece Of mechan-
ism occurs frequently on the sculp'
lures Of early Egypt 1t has the ap-
pearance of, and is generally believed
to be portable pump. The hydraulic
screw Is also attributed to this peo-
pie, but their main reliance seems al
ways to have been shadooi, seen
everywhere along the banks of the
Nile--an invention so simple, and SO
we'll adapted to their needs, that 1t
remains to-day substantially the same
as it has through all the centuries
since history began.
The same may be said regarding
the chain pump in China, an inven-
tion the origin of which antedates
the Christian era. This simple ma
chine is In such common use that
every agricultural laborer is in pos
session of one. Where irrigation is
conducted on a larger scale the chain
pump Is made proportionately larger
and moved By very simple tread.
wheel, and still larger ones are op
Grated by yoking a buffalo or other
animal to asuitable driving machine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
without wives ana Rabies.

Man is but an incomplete being
without a helpmeet; in fact, only
molety Of man, waiting to be per-
fected by the addition of better
half"
The royalty Of his nature remains
undeveloLed while he is single.
Only when he has wife to pro-
tect and cherish, and children to
train and discipline does he attain
his true status In the world,
Abdon, the Judge Of Israel, whose
forty sons and thirty grandsons filed
off before him, mounted on three
score and ten asscolts may be sup
posed to have felt wonderfully edited
and built up by the spectacle,
How the old mans heart must have
bounded with honest exultation
when he beheld such a cavalcade Of
his own raising.
Modern papas do not trot out their
offspr nR in the imposing Oriental
suYle; but when they see troops Of
them caEerlng about on hobby
horses, nursing doll babies, and in
other ways disporting themselves af-
ter the manner Of Christian urchins
OF the present ion, they are,
no doubt, Just as happy as was the
patriarchal Abdon, and much prouder
than IL they had eclipsed PraxiUeles
as statuaries or heated Cheops at py-
ramid building.
Home and family!-what dreary
obIecJless life is his who has not
these to care for, and what desert
of world this would be without the
wives and babies
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
SUPERIOR VITALITY OF INSECTS.
Eggs Often Uniniured Even After Sub
iected to Intense Cold.

Eggs OIbcu OnulluFeu EVEN AIIef SUD-
jected to Intense Cold.
The eggs of insects have greater
powers OF vital ty than any Others
A case was published Of an egg pro-
ducing an insect eighty years after it
must have teen laid and the scien-
fist respons BILE for this statement
thinks the power of vivification may
endure in these eggs for an indefinite
PERIOD Many eggs Of insects are eX-
posed to the air without any covering,
and many are sheltered too slightly
to be secure from the frost This,
however, they are able TO resist, re-
manning unfrozen, though exposed TO
the severest cold, or, still more sur
prising, are I'm injured by its intense
action, recovering their vitality even
after having been frozen into Jumps
of ice. On expos ng several silk
worm eggs for five hours to a freez-
ing mixture which made Fahrenhe rs
thermometer fall to SO degrees below
zero Spollanzi found that they we're
not frozen nor their fertility in The
slightest degree impaired. Others
were exposed to degree Of 36
degrees below zero without be-
ing injured. The quality Of the
eggs of snails is, perhaps, even
more marvellous. These eggs, if des-
sicated in a furnace unit they are
scarcely visible, will always regain
their original bulk when damped, and
the young will be brought forth as
though the eggs had never been in
any way interfered with. Ne ther
heat nor cold seems to have any in
furious effect upon their vitality for
they have been frozen into ice for
any length Of time and when the ice
is melted will be found to be wholly
uninjured. Baltimore American.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
sure Comfort.

He cannot be an unhappy man who
has the love and smile Of woman to
accompany him in every department
Of life. The world may look dark
and cheerless without, enem es may
gather in his path; but, when he re.
turns to the tlreside, and feels the
tender love of woman, he forgets his
cares and troubles, and is compare
lively happy man. He is but half
prepared for the journey Of life who
does not take with him that friend
who will forsake him in no emergency,
who will divide his SORROWS. increase
his joys, and throw sunshine amid
the darkest scenes.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
Under DianinIine.


IL tell you what tits, men are good
enough fur's they 60, but there amt
one OF 'em but what needs takin'
down now an then" remarked Mrs.
Sprout, as she unrolled her knitting
work and prepared to spend the
afternoon with her sister III spose
likely they do" responded little Mrs.
Peters, who lived In constant awe OF
her stolid spouse; but 1t amt always
easy to know jest how to do IT, Mi
randy" "Humphl it's easy enough
IL YOU only set about it," said Mrs.
Sprout with grim smile. And then
she settled down to her story;
'1ve jest ben havin' season with
Josiah, He's ben tellln' me right
along that / looked kinder dragged,
an last off ! spoke up an says /, Its
enough & make most any woman
look dragged, Josiah, to be standin'
over the cookln' stove this hot
weather
Josiah, he looked all took aback,
an he SAYS, why MirandN what
makes you do sech mess o cookin'?
Jest take things easy; l can get
along with most anytrln'; you no
need TO cook up sech a v'rlety o. stuff
fer me. Now les start right out
with breakfast t'morrer. You jest
give me plain, wholesome meal; l
sha'nt be the fust T. complain.
"WeIl, he went over to his brother
Jim's, an he want horne the rest o.
that day / knew what he relished
an craved the most Of anythin' but
twas what give me the most work
an KEEP me all het up, an so ! jest
allowed that that was what I'd cut
short on, SEEM josiah callated 1t
didn't make no difference what he
eat
"Well, next mornln' come, an he
set down to the table as usu'L There
was nice piece o. pork an potatoes
an garden sass an doughnuts an
raised biscuits an good coffee. Twas
q real wholesome meal.
'Josiah he began to eat but he
didn't say much. l see him kinder
lookln' the table over once or twice,
an he seemed sorter disappointed.
Finally he lay down his knife an
fork, an looked over at me real be.
seechin', SOFT l couldn't scussly keep
my continuance.
What's the matter?' says L
Don't your food relish Josah?'
"'Ye.e-s, says he, but it's kind
of slim breakfast, Amt ii, Mi.
randy?'
What is't you mlss?' says l,
"'WeIl there don't seem to be nc
pie on the table, says he, lookln' fer
all the world like greet schoolboy.
III got up an fetched him q big
piece that I'd saved firm the day be-
fore, an set it in front OF MIN, an
you never see a man brighten up the
way he did But right in the mid
die Of 1t he looked up an ketched
my eye an he turned regular poppy
color
4" Il cal'late it's some work Z make
pies, he says real humble; an then /
knew he'd come to a realizin' sense.
THAT was all / wanted OF him."
concluded Mrs. Sprout twitching
energotically at a refractory knot
"rm willin' to do for him, but l jest
have TO take him down now an agin.
Men are all made Jest like that;
they're an awful unreasonable set, IL
women wasn't here to keep 'em
where they'd oqghtGr be"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19

by the difficulty in securing pyro-
meter, "a delicate instrumentfor reg
istering the fearful heat of the fur
mace. This instrument has been re-
ceived and everything Is ready for
the assembling Of the gun, There Is
naturally much interest among ord
nance experts over the result OF the
new system of putting great guns TO-
gether, for, II the proposed method
is a success, it will take the place Of
the old way, which required u good
deal Of shifting Of heavy weights and
the use Of shrinking pit, There is
also much interest in the trial OF the
nickel-steel gun, 1t is expected that
1t will prove stronger and Of longer
life than the simple steel gun. -
Washington Star.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
CRANKY GUESTS.
Experience of Hotel Clerks In Dealing with
Some of Them.

|
II cannot sleep in that room,"
said guest at the Hotel Denechaud,
the other evening, as he walked to
the desk in the Office and threw the
key upon it, according to New Or
leans Times.
" What is the matter with it?"
asked Mr. Justin Denechaud, who
was behind the desk at the time.
There Is nothing the matter with
it except that the bed is in the wrong
place" the guest replied. ''For
more than twenty years / have slept
in bed with the head toward the
north and it has become such a habit
with me that it would be actually
impossible for me to sleep in a bed
with the head in any other direc.
tion."
1T will be impossible for me to
give you a room containing a bed in
that position" said the clerk, as he
ran his eye over the list of rooms.
THE hotel is we'll filled tonight and
have only two vacant rooms, but
will have the bed turned for YOU"
and, calling the porter, Mr.. Dene-
chaud instructed him TO turn the bed
in the gentleman's room so that the
head would be to the north. The
guest followed the porter upstairs,
and as nothing further was heard of
him it is presumed that he retired
and slept the sleep Of the blessed,
There is no accounting for
tastes" said Mr.. Denechaud, turning
to the reporter, "and the funny ex-
periences we have in the hotel bust
ness would fill volume. You no.
tced that gentleman Just now who
demanded that his bed be changed
with the head toward the north. Be-
fore the night is over we may have
calls for beds with their heads turned
to every point Of the compass, and of
course we are obliged to accommo-
date every one. remember an in
stance like this several years ago. A
gentleman, slightly under the intlu-
ence Of liquor, came into the hotel
one night and producing a pocket
compass said that he wished a room
where the head of the bed should be
placed to the northeast We sent
two boys with the man and they
placed the bed as requested. The
joke about it was that the compass
was furnished with little stop,
which held the indicator in a certain
position, and it so happened that the
gentlemans bed, which had been
carefully placed directly northeast,
according to the compass was in
reality so placed that the head was
directly to the south. The gentle
man discovered his mistake the next
morning and l presume was cured of
the fad"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
Building a NickeI.steel Gun.

The force at the Washington ord
nance shops has nearly completed the
assembling Of the first nickelsteel
gun for the navy, and the result is
awaited with interest. The ordnance
officers have been engaged some time
in the construction furnace Tor
heating the tube of this gun which
is of s-inch caliber. The furnace
will apply the heat to the gun in a
horizontal instead of in a prependic-
ular position. The jacket the piece
Of metal which fits over the base of
the tube and gives it greater strength,
will be forced over the tube while
the latter is kept beyond the expand
ing influences OF the heat by the
constant application Of stream of
water. the delay in assembling the
gun, the forgings Of which have been
ready for some time, has been caused
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
Now Citizens of France.

During 1892 1857 aliens were nat
turalized in France and ii is of some
interest that 270 Of these were Ger
mans. A thousand persons from
Alsace-Lorraine acquired French ma
tionallty during the year. and Y54
Italians. 726 Belgians,. and SO Rus
slams. Seven thousand eighty-eight
children Of alien parents, born on
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
PRESERVATlvE EFFECT OF La
BOZ.
Overworl Never Kills, but Worry Stays Its
Thousands.

Overwork Never Kills, but Worry Stays Its
Thousands.
1t Is well-known that the late Sir
Andrew Clark had a contempt for
the view that hard work hurts a
man, says the London News. From
the latest Of the series OF articles re-
producing In the Lancet Instructions
given by him in clinical medicine at
the London hospital, we make the
following interesting quotation, re-
vlvlng In his own words u bit Of
autobiography with the substance
Of which our readers are already ia
mil!ar;
Labor is the life Of life. And
especially is it the life of life to the
delicate. And when any organ Is
sick, 1t is then truer than in health
that even in sickness and delicacy it
Is better for the organ to do what
work Of its own 1t can, provided 1t
can do 1t without injury, And / can
say to you from a considerable ex-
perience Of tuberculous pulmonary
disease, / can say with perfect con-
lidence that those who have done
the beSU have usually been those
who have occupied themselves the
most. l never knew my own par
ents.
"They both died Of phthisls. At
the age Of u myself went to Ma
deira to die OF phthlsls, But / did
not die, and on coming back ] had
the good luck to get into this great
hospital, and in those days they
were not very pleased to have the
Scotchmen coming to London to oc-
occupy such appointments. The
members of the staff had heard that
l had tubercle and they wagered 100
to that / would only have the APP
pointment six months at most The
reason given for that was that did
not eat and worked too hard,
~ got the appointment Thirty.
eight or thirty-nine years have gone
since that time, and II is all the
other doctors that are gone. Only l
am left here on the stalI-an old gen
tleman--not dead yet
There was one little mistake here,
as the editor Of the Lancet points
out. Sir Andrew Clark had for the
moment forgotten that DR.. w. J..
Little was still alive
Labor is life" said Sir Andrew
Clark IN the lecture above quoted,
''but worry is killing. 1t is bad
management that kills people, Ma
lure will let no man 0verwork him
self unless he plays her false-takes
stimulents at irregular times, smokes
too much or takes opium. If he Is
regular and obeys the laws Of health
and walks in the way Of physiological
righteousness, nature will never al
low him or any other person to work
too much.
al have never yet seen o case OF
breaking down from mere overwork
alone, but | admit that it Is neces-
sary above all things to cultivate
tranquility Of mind. Try to helr
your patients to exercise their wills
in regard to this-for will counts fol
something in securing tranquility
to accept things as they are AID not
to bother about yesterday which is
gone forever; not to bother about
tomorrow, which Is not theirs, but
to take the present day and make
the best of it, Those alTectionate
women who will continually peer
into what lies beyond never have any
present life at all-they are always
gri2zllng oyer the past or prying in
to the future, and this blessed to.
day. which is all that we are sure of,
they never. have"
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broGher artists advised me to show 1t
at the Academy, and as three months
had passed ana mad never heard a
word from my silent patron, 7
thought there could be no harm in
doing SO.
lit was hung on the line aud, as
you doubtless remember, attracted
very considerable attention. In those
days 1T was the custom to put a fancy
background to portraits, and l had
chosen from among my sketches u
wild craggy ravine, sombre aud pre-
cipitous, which seemed to harmonic
with that striking figure. 1t was a
memento Of my last summers trip to
Scotland, From all sides congratu-
lations poured in, and from that day
to this l have never ceased to climb
the slippery ladder Of fame.
CATER the academy had been
opened few days. city solicitor
called upon me.
81 believe, he said, you are the
painter of picture No. ass, at the
Academy?'
II acknowledged l was.
May ask, went on my visitor,
looking curiously round my studio,
may ask, he repeated, who was
the original of that portrait, and how
long it has been painted?'
"tHis name, unfortunately, l do
not know, AS for the date'-and
o ened my dairy. Yes, here it is
August 3lst.
" Are you quite sure?' said the
solicitor eagerly stretching out his
hand for the book.
II showed him the entry, and he
seemed almost stupeaed.
"'Did he suggest that background"
"Only by his striking personality.
l had a sketch CT it in my PORTFOLIO
and picked it out when the idea was
suggested that / ought to send it to
the Academy.
THANK you, he said. Il am ex-
tremely obliged" And before 1 had
time to ask any questions he had
vanished.
About three mornings afterwards
| came across the following para
graph in the Morning News:
THE SCOTTISH MYSTERY.
"A most extraordinary trial Is Now attact-
ing attention in Scotland, 1t appears that
Last summer II certain Mr.. Gilchrst was
travelling in Aberdeen with his wife and
friend. One morning Mr.. Gilchrist left the
hotel on mountain expedition. from which
he never returned.
The suspicious of his friends were
aroused by the marriage of Mrs. Gilchrlst
few weeks after the disaster with certain
Mr.. Freeman, who had been their travelling
companion. They could however, find no
traces OF foul play,
I'm this years Academy there appeared a
portrait OF the deceased. Subsequent in
vestgation showed it had been painted three
or four months after his death. The artist,
however, could throw no fresh light upon
the mystery, OF which the most eXtraordi-
nary feature was that the background
which he selected by chance-was a sketch
of the very district in which Mr.. Glchrist
had disappeared
His relatives determined to sift the mat
ter, and searching the exact spot in the
picture, they have found the body, with a
rusty dagger imbedded in his side,
The weapon was at once identified as the
property of Mr.. Freeman, who is now on
trial for the murder of Mr.. Gilcmist
1.-THE prisoner confessed his guilt
and wassentenced to death London
Short Stories.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19

French SOIL we're counted in az OF
French nationality without choice
or option Of the parents by virtue Of
the new legislation promoted to check
the foreign element In France aud to
work up an increase ofthe population
which the native element fails to
maintain. Altogether France ac-
Qulred In one way and another %, 500
new cltIzeti9dnElng the year 1893.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19

DISTRESSING vomiting may be re-
lieved by applying to the stomach
hot single or wooden pad brought
from the oven.