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The advocate., 1894-11-28

his place in the forming lines Of re-
Cruits."
81 saw him but once afterwards. He
lay in state with the choicest flowers
half burying the sword and sash Of a
captain on his cssket. He had looked
grimly upon the most magnificent spec
tacle war ever displayed on our con-
tinent-the advance of Pickett's splen-
did lines on Cemetary Ridge. He was
in the spray Of the highest tide of
rebellion which broke over the crest
and in its undertOw fell back, sweep
ing with it the pitiful debris of the
glorious charge. He was dead when
they found him. But he left me q
paper which l have ever regarded as
his last will and testament. He evi,
IDENTIFY felt premOnition Of death, and
perhaps, on the night before the final
battle, wrote this paper. Shall | read
it, Nettiep 1t is not long"
There was no response In words.
Perhaps the entranCed woman feared
to trust her voice. He proceeded:
"You will notice the style of writing.
Crisp, fOrcible, decisive. So must he
have ordered his company at Gettys.
burg. 1t is an index Of the man. He
never faltered, never evsded, never
failed. But you shall hear"
MY DEAR sCN:-I shall not be able TO speak
to you again by the living voice. feel that
shall not survive this battle. leave you,
therefore, this, as my last advice.
You will have Sll leave. l wish 1t were
more, but It will be enough for your day with
careful husbandry. I am more concerned for
your mental and moral development Re.
member that.
You must take care OF yourself God and
man can give you but supplementary aid.
Assume your share OF life, its duties, pre-
negatives and burdens. Resent the endeavor
to keep you therelrom % strenuously as you
will resist the temptation to take more than
your share.
Fear not to speak your mind. But be sure
before you speak that It is your mind.
Be not In haste to decide to marry, but
marry In haste when you have decided.
Your wife win be yourself, so l need give NO
further charge on this line.
Remain with no church, society or party
longer than your re pect and faith.
Remember, above all, that you are descended
from heroic stock, that the blood OF Hampden
flows in your veins; that one ancestor rode
and fought beside Cromwell at Naseby and
Dunbar; that your life sprang from sturdy
pioneers who hewed their way through for
ests, Ice and Indians You should have fire
and iron In your blood. Keep them we'll tenn
pered. Never forget, my dear orphan boy, that
you are the Heir Of the Humanltlss. Be brave,
be prudent, be honorable, be immortal. Fare
well! Your father, ALsERNON 8. CALVIN.
In the long and tender silence which
followed the reading, Nettie threw her
arms around CalVin's neck and whis-
pered:
81 know all now. You will be the
noblest man l have ever known"
"And you will help to make me 80,
DEAR" he responded in a tone as solemn
as benediction.
ITO be cOntinued)
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stood me in good stead since. But my
evil genius followed me, AS / sup
pose that my presence in the house
hold was due to the relationship / held
to the master of the house, l came tC
know as became a woman and after
his death that my continuance therein
depended upon my relation to the new
master. 1 was offered by him a posi-
tiOn as his mistress. An hour after.
ward / was one of the operatives in the
old Hope mill. Imet q monster there
and he has followed me to this cellar
with his vile prosecutions"
crest easy, Nettie, he can do nc
more injury. Shall l tell you what con.
clusion l have drawn from your storyP"
Nettie nodded. 81 believe that you
was perilously near surrender or sui
cide."
She was strangely moved. Angry
tears came, but her eyes flashed and
she hsrshly bresthed the word
Surrender"
eyes. That is, l consider that under
the circumstances you was nearly yield
ing the fight and falling in with the
rest"
"No neVerP she replied, shaking her
head, "you don'tknow me as yet, l see.
NeVerl 1 would have welcomed sui
eide at one time, though, but for the
pitiful coWardice of it. l could not
bear that the coroner in the other world
should instruct his jury of spirits to
give a verdict Of Scared at the fight
and ran to the rear But even that,
before 1 could think of yielding to
those Wretches. But I've been on the
rack long enough, and you may now
take your turn"
"Well," answered Calvin, 81 can't
tell you much about myself, and
don't like to tell you much about my
father who was the only parent 1 re-
member"
Nettie looked at him moment, and
then arose with a soft, sweet light in
her eyes and kissed him. "NeVer
mind, DEAR" she whispered, "tell me
all about him. Twill be a comfort to
think 1 have one father of whom l
may be proud"
"That you may be, indeed" Calvin
responded. "He was a nobleman. My
mother dying in my extreme youth, he
took as well as he was able her place.
I was the only child, and he made me
his playfellow, his bedfelloW, and later,
his constant and trusted companion
and confdsnt. 1 owe all am and
shall owe all may be to my father. l
mean, dear, except the aid you give
me, and that l am sure will be on the
same line. When l was about IA
years old the war broke out. You
was too young to know much of the
awful tumult of that time. The very
air shimmered with rumors, with It'd
ings. Events each ofsufficient import
ance to engage the attention of the ma
tion for year in ordinary times grew
in clusters every day. The fever of
patriotism as the disease of disloyalty,
no longer sporadic, became devour-
ing epidemic. Thoughts of peace, of
Christian charity, of home duties and
--,n.o III .A
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but his instinct told him that Nettle
desired a little confidential talk, and
confidential matters are not best dis
cussed when the conferees are twenty
feet apart, and a third person liable to
enter at any moment. 81 presume
that you will agree that Adam and
Eve we're married in even greater COM
mon ignorance than we enjoyed"
Enjoyed"
"Well, that may not be the word.
Shall we say 'possessedP' The posses
sion of ignorance is question for a
casuist."
"Don't think, Charlie, that l am un-
easy or fearful, but 1 should very much
'enjoy,' to use your word in a happier
sense, to hear you tell something Of
yourself. l love to recount the few
possessions l have. know that your
life is full of jewels, and I long to
count and to value them"
"And L have an equal desire to know
something of your history"
"Well, then, 1 will get my poor, little
story out of the way in short order. Of
my parentage l know scarcely any
thing. My mother, and possibly, my
father, came of a race of weavers, of
wooden, and later, cotton goods. You
know the average factory life, and
need not be told it's shameful secrets, |
would have my tongue torn from my
mouth before | would accuse my poor
dead mother. l know not who was my
father. Some rich official of the mill,
L believe. IhaVe learned to regard the
factory girl with more leniency than l
formerly entertained. 1 have felt the
hot breath of temptation to a life of
ease and plenty, and it comes with
irresistible power, L can we'll believe, to
some poor souls who, mad beneath
their burdens, their lives Cramped and
coffined in the pestilent air of the mill,
inhaling the corrupt thoughts and
words of the operators, and all are in
time more or less corrupted, or they
run away, or get bounced"
"What do you mean by thatP"
"What? Bounced? Certainly. If
a girl is too pure or too proud to take
part in their vile love feasts, where all
manner of unclean topics are discussed,
and all subjects are dissected by dull
and filthy scalpels, she is soon tsbooed
I believe you know what that means.
She is ignored. She becomes the butt
of inuendo and sly satire. AS she is
never addressed or named, she cannot
easily resent. Should she do so, ten to
one, she gets the worst of the contro-
Versy, and a row ensues, which is
settled by the foreman. There is but
one result. There are hundreds against
her and she goes down. Once dis
charged from one of the mills, and she
is blacklisted from all. Knowing all |
this, l can go so far as to realize that a
young woman, naturally pure hearted,
might become so Mortified at this COM
panionship day after day, that she
could fling herself into the arms Of q |
man who, whatever his faults, would |
not insult her, and whose care and re |
gard for her may, in some degree, rec
ompense her for the loss of reputation
in a society she could never have en-
tered at her best estate.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

IN a paper read by him before the
University Extension classes at Ok
ford, England, DR.. Billings made the
novel suggestion that race may be an
element in determining varieties,
well known to be great, in the death
rates of different civilized countries.
He asked what is the secret Of the
death rate in Austria being 30.6 per
thousand while that Of Sweden is
only 17.6, and mentions the low
death rate in tenement houses in
New York occupied by Jews. He says
that city is gathering place for all
nations and in it may be studied the
susceptibility to diseases of the diff
ferent races under much the same
conditions. The death rate Of the
Irish rises there to 2S, while it was
only Is at home. That Of the Ital-
ian falls from ESQ at home to -. 3
in New York City, that of English
men shows little change as a result
of crossing the Atlantic, while the
mortality of Germans falls consider
ably. 1t is found that certain dis
eases prey upon certain races with
particular virulence. The black man
suffers more than the white from con-
sumption and kindred ailments and
is altogether shorter-lived, while
on the other hand he Oftener escapes
malaria, yellow fever and cancer.
Among young Irish children there is
a low death rate, among adults high
one, due to a considerable extent to
the effect of tuberculosis pneumo
MIA and alcoholism, Cancer and dis
eases Of the digestive organs prey
especially upon the Germans, while
the Jews, who have low death rate
and escape consumption and pneumo
mia, are especially liable to diabetes,
misunderstanding, and diseases of the
nervous system. DR.. Billings showed
that a large region of hygenic science
consists of little more than a groul
of interesting problems, that the
most advanced researches have re
suited only in plausible surmis,s o.
tentative solutions thus far, and that
the explanations which satisfied al
earlier generation of writers on pub
lie health must be rejected or recon
: sideled by their successors.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

who will take him across tho Indian
Ocean, there never can be the same
KIM Of careful breeding for a special
purpose as in this country. That the
endurance of the Arabian horse is
great cannot be questioned; 1t has
been shown in the most practical
ways, not only in carrying the light
Bedouin for days over the desert, but
chargers from the Euphrates have
carried our soldiers to Candahar and
Cabul, to Pekin and Magdala."
But the Arabian horse has habitu-
ally to perform long journeys, and
mere habit will enable him to do
more than horse unaccustomed to
this kind Of work. But there can be
little doubt that after proper exercise
the feats OF endurance Of the Ara
bian would not be unaccomplished by
the English horse, Again, too, there
can also be no doubt as to the
sagaclty Of the Arabian horse, and it
Is a reproach to us and our civiliza-
tIon. The Arabian horse, after long
ages of companionship with his
master, may have become by nature
more tractable; but il the English
horse from his birth upward was as
well treated as is the Arabian horse,
the so-called vicious animals which
are met with in this country would
be few in number. 1.-THE Edinburgh
Review
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

PROF. SAUNDERS, in an address to
the Canadian fruit growers, stated
that the food value Of apples depends
in a measure on the condition Of ripe
ness of the fruit; also on the variety
of apples from which the supply is to
be furnished. European authorities
consider the money value of the fod-
der constituents in ordinary varieties
of apples and pears as somewhat
higher than those contained in an
equal weight of turnips, and those of
the apple pomace as about One-third
higher in feeding value than the
whole apple, which has served for its
production, and about equal in value
to sugar beets. Where apples are fed
to stock they should be given in mod
crate quantities, and should be liber-
ally supplemented with more nutri-
tious and more highly heterogeneous
food, such as bran, shorts or oil cake,
with fair proportion of hay.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

MANY a farmer who struggles with
weeds would find his labors reduced
IL he were careful to remove the
weeds from the roadside by his fields.
Weeds which go to seed by the road
give literally of their seeds to all the
fields about, and these are carried
long distances by the wind. The
farmer who has only grass growing
by the side Of his fields will have
fewer weeds, fewer insect pests, and
may add something to the amount Of
hay if only the little grain that can
be counted by the grazing Of a horse
or COW, Farmers cannot afford to
encourage weeds anywhere.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

A NEW YORK woman Of bad rcpu-
tation has been explaining how she
committed perjury in recent in
qulry. In the first place, she said,
she did not swear on the bible, and
in the next place, when the oath was
being administered, she just waved
her right hand in the air instead of
holding it straight up. Perhaps the
incident is of interest as tending to
show that conscience is never quite
uprooted unless in person Of educa-
ton or Of superior mental activity.
The woman in question is a perjurer,
and worse, for her whole life has been
vicious, Yet she has her scruples
about taking a false oath, as the
childish subterfuges show, A rather
better woman, but smarter or better
educated, might have calmly lied
her way through it-bible, straight
hand and all.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

The New York janitor Of flats has
not yet reached the tyrannical stan
dard of his French counterpart who,
it seems, claims the right to open
and read letters addressed to the va
rious tenants Of the building under
his charge. Yet more remarkable
than this is the fact that the act has
been virtually upheld by magistrate,
who, being appealed to by one of the
victims, positively decided that, as
the letters had been merely read and
not stolen, no oiIense at law had
been committed. More than ever
now can it be said that "the con-
cierge rules Paris,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

IT is intimated that the alleged
attempt to borrow 81, 100000 for tho
purpose Of taking out Of bond spirits
belonging to the whisky trust, and
the failure to do so, wasaruse where
by to milk the lambs in the stock
market Close on a million dollars is
said to have been made by a few men,
who deliberately avoided a saving Of
more than that to the trust, which
they might have done by taking the
spirits out of bond before the law
went into effect. If the truth be
told it was wicked thing to do, and
yet no more than might be expected
Of Il set of men who essay to grow
rich by the manufacture of the enemy
which men put into their mouths to
steal away their brains,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11
STOCK AND FARM.

The horse trade at the Kansas City,
Kan, stock yards is heavy this fall. So
far this month 2,869 horses have been
sold, against 1897 year ago. Most
of the purchases are for the south and
for Oklahoma and the Indian territory.
Judge Wellhouse, the big fruit grow
or of Kansas, in discussing the condition
of the orchards of the state, says, "the
season has been most unpropitious.
Trees seem to be at standstill. Limbs
are not growing Trees growing in corn
rows seem to be doing best. Season too
dry to color fruit Chemical action can
not go on without sufficient moisture"
One of the finest strings of heavy cat
tie in for some time was brought into
the Kansas City, Kan, stock yards,
by w. j. Todd, of Maple Hill, Kansas.
There we're 1853 highly finished Colo
RADIO steers averaging 1919 pounds.
They were sold by the Adams-Burn-
sides-Jordan company, at 1915, the
highest price of the day, and we're taken
by the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger COM
pany for the export trade. Mr.. Todd
has $50 more that will be marketed
within the next thirty days
Glen Elder Sentinel: AS an exampel
of what alfalfa can do in a season like
the one just closing we wish to call the
attention of our readers to the expert
ence of Judge Clark A. Smith on his
Granite Creek farm some five miles
northwest of Glen Elder. He had ten
acres in one field which he pastured
rather closely early in the spring. He
cut the first crop and secured about ton
per acre which he sold at Sc per ton.
The next crop was left for seed and was
cut by binder and bound iato sheaves,
and afterwards threshed, giving yield
OF 55 bushels or 81 bushels Of good
clean seed per acre. II our readers will
fgue this up they will find that the ten
acres has paid Judge Smith about $40
per acre this dry season. The land is
worth about $40 per acre.
Dighton Herald: We interviewed a
number of men on the street re-
garding how much wheat they would
sew this fall, with the following re-
suit: Nail Sheets, $50 acres; Alvin
Scott, go; J. J. Simon, $50; Milt
Bush, 400; Fred Morgan, 240; E. @.
Dutoit, 300; Chas. Black, $50; Lee
Shay, 100; Hildreth, 1875; Moss Fosdick
800; the Armentrout boys, 400; Sam
Ware, 800; VIM. Thon, 300; I. J. Bark
ley, $50; NJ. H. Burt, 300 and Joe Nor.
ris, $50 acres. There is an extreme II
have come to stay" accent in the above.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

A LARGE nursery firm in Missouri
made an offer last year Of trees
enough to plant an acre of land for
every boy and girl whose parents
would give them the land, In two
weeks time they had given away 49,
600 apple trees, That ought to bring
good returns to the nursery men in
that sort which comes with the con-
seriousness of a good action. That
gift of trees will result in great
love for pomology on the part Of the
young folks who became orchardists.
Leanings thus strengthened in youth
become affections in maturity, and
some Of these children may we'll be-
come the fruit growers Of the future
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

improved. When night and day
were first divided into periods Of
hours each the necessity of measur-
ing these divisions of time became
imperative. The first means en-
ployed was the dial, which by its
shadow on a horizontal plane marked
the passage of the hours by the prog
ress Of the sun. This however, was
not available at night or on cloudy
days, and thus the hour-glass
came into being. Another measure
ment of time was the device Of
King Alfred, whereby lighted can.
dies, which burned a certain time
told the hours. And then came the
clepsydra. This was n water jar con-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

The work of making war maps Of
Fishers Island, GARDENERS Bay, and
Long Island Sound which has been
voluntarily undertaken by the First
Naval Battalion, will do more than
repay the State of New York for the
maintenance Of that body. The in
formation which will be collected will
be of inestimable value to the Ma
tional Government in case of war,
and in case OF riotous outbreaks in
The localities covered will be ex-
tremely useful to the State. 1t
should be borne in mind that the
officers in charge of the work were
trained at Annapolis and have had
experiences in the navy, so that they
will bring professional skill to the
direction of the task.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

could aford + 0
carry them, and
even their watch.
es for accuracy and
neatness compar-
ed very unfavora-
bly, with the cheap
watches Of to-day,
Before the mod
,ern W a tch W a S
born many cent
.urles were devot-
ed to experiment,
and before the first
watch was made
there were S till
other cent uric S
during which the
clock, the mother
Of the watch, was
hnino uro6unl "
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

Jars being nlled al
sunrise each day,
marked off the
hours with tolera-
HE regularity. This
was improved upon
about l40 years be-
fore Christ by the
addition Of a tooth
ed wheel and index
driven by the water
which flowed from
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11
Poultry Raising Mortgages.

A Maine woman tells how she
lifted a $500 mortgage from her
home by gardening and poultry rails
ing. She had common chickens, and
sold eggs and market poultry. She
had five 500 notes to meet, pay
ing off one note each year with
interest. At the end of five years
she had her home cleared and money
in the bank. Besides she had made
various Improvements during this
time. schooled and clothed her chill
dren, paid taxes and insurance, etc.
She said she made up her mind to
succeed, and she did, although her
friends advised her at the start to
"let her home go for what she could
get for it," as she would never be
abe to pay off that big mortgage. "
This is but ore of many instance
where fowls have proved themselves
mortgage lifters. OF course this
woman had the advantage of a gar
den; besides, she did sewing and
other work. But it goes to show
that poultry culture, rightly under
stood and followed, is great help in
replenishing ones purse in time OF
need. What this woman did can be
done by anybody who has the will.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

MEXICO is about to pass laws IA
voring the establishment of a greater
merchant marine. The proposed
changes, II carried out, will create
the most liberal shipping laws in the
world, with reductions or exemptions
from duties for all material, and a
liberal bounty system.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

THE islet of Massowa, in the Red
Sea, where Italy is sending its an
archists, is one of the hottest places
in the world, ana escape from 1t in
that sterile region would be very diff
tlcult. The plan of sending the
anarchists somewhere to practice
their cult upon each other is meet
ing with favor
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

A GENTLEMAN prominent in several
New York City clubs, says that many
of them are breaking away from the
custom Of treating to alcoholic
drinks. In the famous Harvard Club,
composed of graduates of Harvard
College, there is u standing agree
ment that no member shall treat an
other member.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

tanning several gallons Of water which
ran out from a small graduated orr
flee in the bottom Of the jar at such
rate that the quantity of water in
the jar would be lowered to a certain
marked point each hour, and the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11
TEMPER of Horses.

The supply of horses in India is es-
sentially by importation, and though
the Arab of Maid may know if he
have promising colt that a market
is to be found for him among dealers
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

UNTIL kings become subjects peace
cannot reign.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

THERE'S always strength in a will
ing hand,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

INTUITION is inspirations feminine
gender.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

THE visionary's capital is in TO-
morrOw's bank.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11
BIRTH OF THE WATCH
MEANS BY WHICH
TIME WAS RECkONED.
How Hours ana Minutes Were Measured
Before the First Clock, the Mother of
the Watch, Was Made Early EXperl-
ments and characterization.
Sun Dial Was First.

Everyone now may own watch,
1t was different couple Of hundred
years ago when only kings and nobles
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

THEIR word is the only thing some
folks can't keep.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11

SHORT lessons have longest MEM
Ories