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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

stream less than one hundred feet in
width. Posts are set firmly in the
ground from four to ten feet back
from the margin of the stream, as
shown in the Illustration, from a
sketch by l.. d. SHOOK. Against
these posts is placed a strong piece
of timber Of some durable wood,
around which are firmly secured the
ends Of the wire intended for the
bridge support. A tlfty-foot bridge
requires eight No. or 3 gauge an
nealed fence wire placed from six to
TO eight inches apart, always remem-
bering that the shorter and narrower
the bridge the less weight in foot
boards it VIII be obliged to support,
consequently the more durable it
will prove. The wires should not be
drawn to tightly but should have a
curve of about ten inches in a fifty
foot bridge Make the floor of some
light, durable wood one inch thick
and four inches In width. Commence
laying at one end, fastening each end
Of the board to the outside wire with
a staple driven underneath. Place
the boards one inch apart
The posts should be about four feet
in height, over which are strung hand
wires firmly secured to anchor posts
as shown. Short guy wires are placed
every few feet and connected with
the outside foundation wires; these
not only add to the supporting
strength Of the structure, but pre-
vent the bridge swaying in heavy
gales If heavy stones are placed
near the posts for the cross timber to
rest against the structure will prove
more durable Rapidly-growing trees
planted near the posts may, in a few
years, be used to replace them.
Where the embankments are low,
raise the end timbersso that the foot
wires will be in no danger of injury
by aoodwood during freshets. If
short sections Of two-inch gas-pipe
be used for all the posts and for the
end crOsspieCe, and once in five years
the wires are painted where they are
wrapped around the end support the
bridge will prove good and serviceable
for fifty years. American Agricul-
turist
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

FURTHER disclosures about the
Bank Of Rome implicate the govern
ment stiA more deeply. In order so
keep up Italian bonds in European
markets the bank squandered $5,-
100000 which the government
agreed to make good, and in an I'M
successful attempt to fulfill this i'm
moral undertaking the bank was
authorized to issue millions of dupli-
cate notes, thus deceiving the public,
robbing its depostors and patrons
and corrupting the currency Of the
country. When a reigning house con-
descends to swindling its own sub
jects its days ought to be short, but
Italy has not apparently energy
or means enough even to rebel against
betrayal and pillage Of itself by its
own rulers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

SAMUEL N. CLIFFORD keeps a gro
Gerry store in Chicago, and, as all gro
GERS should, he possesses sand. Wheth-
er he puts any of that sand in his
sugar only he knows, and the pre-
sumption is that he does not, That
he puts 1t into his daily actions he
abundantly proved, for early the other
morning three robbers appeared in
his store. They considered them
salves bold, bad men and were armed
to the teeth with revolver, Ratchet
and club They thought to intimi-
date Grocer Clifford, who was alone,
to rifle his money drawer and run
away with his cash, But the grocer
would not have it that way. He de-
Tended both money drawer and cash
with so trusty pistol and so true an
aim that one Of the robbers is dead
and the other has a game leg as the
result of bullet inserted in it. All
of which goes to show that when it
comes to preventing robberies the
police are a good thing, but a revolv-
er and sand are better.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25
KANSAS CHURCHES.
1t is estimated that it will take fully
$4,000 to put the First Methodist church
Of Topeka in suitable repairs.

1t is estimated that it will take fully
$4,000 to put the First Methodist church
OF Topeka in suitable repairs.
Topeka Capital: The Ladies' society
of the First Methodist church is discus
sing plans for the much needed improve
ment of the auditorium of the building.
1t is proposed to spend about 1900 in
painting and decorating this spring, and
the entire church will be overhauled and
renovated.
The annual business meeting of the
First Baptist church of Topeka was en-
thusiastic because all bills were paid and
several hundred dollars were set aside
for new house of worship. Among
other commendable things which were
done 5000 were added to the pastors
salary. A pastors assistant was also
determined upon.
From Emporia: Another attempt has
been made to burn the Methodist church
at Americus, twenty five miles north of
here. AS the people were assembling
for evening worship, the smell Of smoke
was discovered and an investigation re-
vealed the fact that coal oil and kind
ling had been freely used in the base
ment. 1t is supposed that a slow match
was applied which communicated with
the kindling sooner than had been cal
culated. This Is the second attempt to
burn this church while filled with wor-
shippers, few weeks ago similar at
tempt having been made while a revival
was being held. The inmates escaped
then as they did this time, by discovery
of smoke before the flames broke out.
The'people are thoroughly aroused and
should the perpetrators be discovered it
will fare i'll with them.
TIE Fort Scott Tribune says that the
sympathizers of the Jewish religion in
that city are taking definite steps toward
the establishment of a synagogue. In
terested in this movement are some Of
the most representative people Of Fort
Scott With this end in view they have
arranged for series oflectures to be de-
livered in the near future by Rabbi
Schullman, of Kansas City. This distin-
guished minister of the Jewish religion
has visited Fort Scott on a previous
occasion and he made decidedly favor
BILE impression on those who became ac-
quainted with him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

to an inquiry as to the best method
OF keeping peach trees from breaking
down. Peach trees usually break
down because OIL neglect In pruaing
and shaping the young tree. The
peach bears It's fruit on last years
shoots If the growth is neglected
the fruit bearing wood gradually gets
further and further out on the ends
of the limbs and the weight OF the
crop has tremendous leverage and
splits the limb of.
When we plant young peach tree,
of one years growth from the bud
(the only age at which they should be
rlanted, we cut the stem back to
about eighteen to twenty inches
from the ground. When growth be-
gins in spring, we rub of all the
shoots except three or four at the
top, which form the limbs for the
future head. These are again short
ened back IN the fall one third; and
when the shoovs are too thick in the
interior Of the head and interfere
with each other, they are trimmed
out Every fall the young growth of
the season Is shortened back one.
third, and care is taken to maintain
an even distribution Of young wood
all through the head of the tree.
The crop is thus distributed over the
tree and no damage is done. If the
tree is planted and allowed to take
the natural shape it assumed in the
nursery, the limbs will more readily
split off than when formed by head
ING back
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

A SOUTH DAKOTA cowboy named
De France, out Of work, rode into
Chadron, Neb., and in order to get
food held up and robbed a mail car
rier. He got just l cent. Judge
Dundy, at Omaha, sentenced the
poor fellow, on his plea Of guilty, to
Imprisonment for life. The same
Judge some time ago sentenced
Mosher, the Capitol National Bank
robber Of Lincoln, who had stolen
nearly 81, 900, 900, to the penitentiary
for five years. If the old adage be
true, ut is a sin to steal a pin; it is
a greater to steal a later" Mosher
should live to be as old as Methuselah
and serve that life sentence, If the
sentence Of both these men is strictly
according to law, and judge has no
discretion in extraordinary cases,
either Of premeditated and deliberate
crime or of offenses Of impulse as the
result Of restitution, then the law
should be speedily changed. Abuses
like these destroy all respect for law
and go far to explain, if not to excuse,
the claim that so-called legal justice
among men is a fraud.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

"THE army is no longer refuge
for drunken loafers, says the super
intendent of recruiting service. This
remark was made in allusion to the
great increase in the number of re-
cruits offered within the last few
months. But can it be true that the
army has hitherto been "a refuge for
drunken loafers?" Do the rules of
the service authorize recruiting off,
GERS to enroll such persons? Does the
remark apply to officers as well as
men? Further information on the
subject would be interesting,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

THE fate Of an empire has often
been decided by Indigestion. Ev-
erybody knows the famous remark
about the relation of the length of
Cleopatra's nose to the worlds des-
tiny. If Alexander had not drank
one bowl of wine too much he might
have prolonged his victories. And
now, by eating three hard-boiled eggs
at breakfast, Mr.. Gladstone has mar
rowly escaped illustrating the fact
that great issues hang on mighty
small threads. The, eggs prompted a
severe bilious attack, which almost
carried the good old patriarch into
the "land o. the leal" If they had,
they would have been infamous in
history.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25
Humping Pigs.

Pigs will 'thump" in almost any
internal disease; hence we could not
decide from the statement received
what the ailment would be, and no
other material symptoms are given
us. We have often stated that when
ever a number of animals are sick on
place, and when deaths occur, that
it is desirable to have one or more of
the carcasses cut open soon after
death, and a careful memorandum
made Of the appearance fall internal
organs
This, in connection with short
description of the symptoms exhib-
tied by the animals during their
sickness, would be a valuable assist
ance in forming diagnosis of the
disease. AS it is now, we are sorry
not to be able to give any correct ad-
vice in this instance. Prairie Farmer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

BUTTER, now indispensable to the
meal, was in ancient times used as an
ointment. Herodotus, a Greek his
tOrian, is the first writer who men
tions butter, B.. q. 500, The Spar
tans used it as we do cold cream, and
Plutarch tells how a hostess was sick
ened at the sight of one Of her visit
ors, a Spartan, who was saturated in
butter. The Scythians introduced
butter to the Greeks, and the Ger
mans to the Romans. But the Ro-
mans, like the Spartans, anointed
their bodies with it.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

ONE Of the funniest stories about
Bernhardt is her assertion that as an
actress it was to the church and to
the church alone that she owed her
calling. Her youth was intoxicated
by the music and the pomp of the
liturgy, as by the solemn silence
which prevailed while the preacher
was in the pulpit, and at times she
felt as If she was TRANSPORTED and was
ascending direct to heaven.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

IT is high time that new concep-
tion of Uncle Sam should take the
place of the libelous caricature that
has had it's run for century or more.
Where is the artist who seeks fame?
Let him give us a picture of Uncle
Sam more literally endowed with
meat on his bones, with better fitting
clothes and a tri1e handsomer face,
if possible. Cut his hair, trim up his
whiskers and give him an eagle eye
two of 'em. Make his figure a sculp-
tors model of strength and beauty.
Place in his right hand the Declare
tion of Independence, the Constitu-
ton of the United States as it is, and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25
A Suspension Foot Rridge.

Foot bridges, in both mountainous
and nearly level regions, across streams
from ten to one hundred feet in
width, would often be great con-
venience and save going around to
cross on some public bridge. Since
wire has become so plentiful and
cheap there is no great difficulty in
having foot bridges across almost any
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25
Seed Corn.

The earlier seed corn is gathered
and hung up to dry the better, says
the Farmers Tribune. The differ
ence between good ana poor seed
may, and often does, make all the
difference between success and fail
ure in the production of paying
crops. A judicious selection of an
abundant supply of the best ears
grown is of first importance, but
scarcely less so is the necessity of so
handling it and storing it that it
will not be affected by the extremities
in temperature that are sure to oc-
cur before another seed time arrives.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

INSURANCE against blindness is, in
England, at least an actual fact. A
company there will insure persons be-
tween the ages Of sixteen and forty
five at the rate Of three shilllngs a
year, In the event Of losing their
sight, this sum entities them to a
sum Of two hundred and sixty dollars
year, payable in quarterly install
ments, for so long period as the
blindness continues.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

News Of the amicable settlement
of the Lehigh strike must be welcome
tidings everywhere. The strike has
involved all parties concerned in
losses which cannot be reimbursed.
The winter will be hard enough with
out a longer continuance Of unneces-
sary idleness enforced by the strike.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

"AFTER THE BALL" will no longer
afflict the ears of residents Of Man
kato, Kan. The city council has SC
decreed. What field Congress might
make for itself il, instead of wrang-
ling everlastingly over the tariff,
silver and other issues which refuse
to remain settled, it would resolve
itself into a regulator Of musical
nulsances, following the example of
the Mankota solons.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

LET a man wait fifteen minutes on
on a corner for a friend, and in five
minutes every window in the neigh
borhood has a woman behind it
watching that man "who acts so sus-
Dicious"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER
AND HOUSEWIFE.

How to Construct Wire Suspension Foot
Bridge Selecting and Preserving Seed
Corn-To Cure "Thumps" in Plgs-Gen-
eral Farm Notes.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

The cat has nine lives, which
shows that nature had IA pretty fair
idea Of what the cat would have to
60 through.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

A MEAN man can get religion, but
he can't stay mean and keep 1t.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

WHAT delightful experience for
DIR. Depew and the Pope to find that
each knew all about the other
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

THERE'S a good deal of difference
between frankness, bluntness and
brutality.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

the Monroe doctrine. Then put
chip on his shoulder and let him
alone.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25
no Keep Trees from Brealklng.

Prof. W. F. Massey, Horticulturist
of the North Carolina Experiment
Station, gives the following in reply
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-25

NINETY-FINE per cent, Of vacant
public lands are In the arid region.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15

1t is a fearful srade-this teaching
school.
A horde of restless, growing boys and
sirls-no wonder every day slowly
brings down the strength and nervous
power OF the Woodworking school
teacher.
"lired as a school teacher" would ex-
press the utter lanquor aud collapsed
that so few escape before the long weeks
are over.
OF all the work open to girls and
women, school teaching seems to wear
hardest on brain and nerves. Each day
is not able to make up for the nervous
expenditure Of the day before, and SO
there comes the usual result Of nerves
hard worked but badly nourished; the
frequent sick headache. loss Of strength,
no color in lips or cheeks, low spirits,
nervousness, and distaste for work.
What is needed is at once plain to
every physicians eye. He says at a
glance: "Your nerves want more
food" Get some red corpuscles into
your thin blood-the red corpusc!es
mean QeAltu. rune CeheES CutupouHo
will cause fresh, ruddy blood to circn-
late through the veins. and will give an
impetus to the weakened digestion.
Thin people with depleted or impure
blood, who are easily attacked by lung
disease and chronic ailments, get
strength and an increase of solid,
healthy flesh from Paine's celery com.
pound. 1t gives vigor to weak mothera
and makes growing children robust and
hearty. Nervous women. not actually
sick, but never really well, who are a
burden to themselves as well as to
others, find just the help their system
Graves to restore them to sound health
and happy frame of mind.
Healthy color, animation, clear eyes
aud well.flled out-frame, the signs OF
health that never fail, come from the
reasonable use OF Paine's celery COM
pound. 1t is peculiarly adapted to cor
recting the depressing effect on the
system OF long hours OF hard, trying
work in the gchool room, behind the
store counter. in the Office, and WHEREBY
er there is q constant strain on the ner-
voua and physical system.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15
The Saw Cnrholln Club.

A general meeting of the newly or.
ranized Catholic CLUB was held last
evening in the basement OF the Ca
thedral. Tho members OF the orRaniza.
ton were present in large numbers and
it was decided to form u Joint stock
company. The petition TO the secre-
tary oil state for charter was largely
signed and largo amount OF stock ia
ken. It will not be possible to elect OIL
GERS until the receipt OF the charter. A
constitution and bylaws were present.
ed and were unanimously adopted.
Those originating the scheme are high
IL pleased with the interest shown by
the members and the success OF the
club is guaranteed. The quarters OF
the club will be in the building oppo-
site tho Cathedral, but the rooms are
not vet fitted up.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15

The immense establishment OF George
E. Stifel & Co., on Main street, presents
a brilliant spectacle during this, the
first, week OF the holiday trade. This
establishment, the "Wanamaker's" OF
W heeling, never looked so beautiful as
now with its bright and lovely display
OF goods adopted especially for the
buyer OF Christmas presents. Every
floor OF the big building is crowded
with merchandise Of almost every de-
scription, and the buyer who enters the
front door would need fat purse to
invest IN everything that catches the
eve. Main street looked brilliant last
night, every retail store being open, but
stifeps was the most brilliantly lighted
of the lot.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15
LOCAL sRsvIrIEs.
Matters Of Minor Moment IN and About
the City.

the City.
MArrSEEs ut both theatres to-day.
TnE GRAND this eveninS-"I.istle
Trixie."
0FEnA HOrsE .hi, eyening-"The
Witch Of Endor."
YEsrERpAy was like a, bright, crispy
day in early November
The Riverside iron works and Bloch
Bros. tobacco works pay of to-day.
THERE will be a social and concert at
St. Andrews p. Z. church, on South
Jacob street, on Monday evening.
A MEETING Of the council committee
on finance was to have been held last
evening, but no quorum appeared as
usual lately.
BoxIpAoE TINS, a plain drunk. was
arrested by Officer Desmond yesterday.
Bridget WEIGH. drunk aud disorderly,
was run in by Officer Daum.
GEORGE L DURsr's candy factory is
running day and night. and then has
difficulty in keeping up with the holt
day orders Tor his popular goods.
A WAGON loaded with baled hay broke
down yesterday afternoon in front OF
the st. Alphonsus church and delayed
street car traffic for short time.
OFFICER FITZGERALD last night arrest
ed Mrs. Kope, on the South Side. on
charge OF lunacy. and she was commit
tod to Jail by Squire Gillespy to await
an examination.
The Warwood tool company has by
the addition Of storage warehouses and
other repairs, made the old Baltimore q
Ohio car shops at Twenty-ninth street,
a model manufacturing establishment,
WASHINGTON Council Jr. o. U. A. NJ.
gave a social last night in the hall ovee
IIibbards plumbing establishment,
which was social and financial success,
being much enjoyed bya large audi
ence.
INSTEAD of being last night, as erro::
neousiy announced yesterday, the ball
to be given by Hack Drivers local
union No. 8 is to be in Gehring's hall:
at Fulton, next Tuesday night 1t will
DO sure to draw well.
IL the circuit court yesterday Judge
PAUL entered decree to the effect that
the furniture OF the Kelley Institute.
attached by the Young Mems Demo-
cratic club for rent, was the property
OF House & Hermann.
HOLLY. Jersey laurel and mistletoe
are already in market in larger quanti-
ties than usual. West Virginia pro-
duces all three OF these Christmas re-
quisites, and if somebody had enter.
prise enough to ship them she could
supply half the country.
AT the meeting OF tho Wheeling Wo.
mons Christian Temperance Union on
December IA unanimous vote OF
thanks was rendered DR.. Harriet B.
Jones for her very instructive lectures.
The lectures we're a financial succss, as
we'll as being very delightful and enter
tanning.
THURSDAY night at the North Wheel
ing hospital the death occurred OF Mr..
Paul Dietrich, a well known stone
mason Of the South Side. He had been
i'll for some time. He was a member OF
the Red Men and several German So
cieties. The funeral will take place on
Sunday afternoon from his late resi-
lence
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15

The spacious auditorium OF Simpson
NJ. E. church, Eof street, between
Eleventh and Twelfth streets, will be
opened and consecrated by special SER
vices Sunday night, December l6, 1894,
at 1880 o'clock. Rev. F. d. I. Buckley,
D. D., will preach the conservation ser
mon. Special songs and music.
A special feature OF the occasion will
be the unwilling and presentation OF a
beautiful cross to the church by DR..
Buckley. Everybody invited. Come
early for seat.
P. G. WALKER, Pastor.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15

Clerk Hook yesterday issued mar
rage license to John A. Grow. aged 20,
and Title L. Crum hacker, aged 20, both
OF Ohio county.
A deed was admitted TO record, made
June is. by Robert Steward aud wife
and Esther Steward to the board OF
county commissioners. in consideration
OF a road to be built through the land
and Of 81, perpetual right Of way
through tract OF ground on tho Peter's
run road. leading 10 bridge on that
rood
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15

Meister's band and orchestra gave
ball at Beethoven hall last night and it
was attended by n very large and select
crowd. Tho night was spent in most
pleasant manner and tho Meisters kept
up their reputation as being clever on
tertainers. Before the ball the band
made q short street parade and at
tracted much attention with the excel
lent music that is always made by this
organization.