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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

the Siberian peasant does not own
the land which he cultivates, and
therefore has no inducement to build
upon it, With very few exceptions
all of the land in Siberia belongs
to the crown. The village com
mune enjoys the usufruct of the
land, but they do not have
legal title and cannot dispose of it
nor reduce any part Of it to indlgidu-
al ownership. All that they have
power to do is to divide it up among
their members by periodical allot-
ments and TO give to each head Of a
family tenancy at will. Every time
there is an allotment the several
tracts Of arabic land held under the
crown by the commune may change
tenants, so that If an individual
should build house or barn upon
the tract of which he was the tempo
rary occupant, he might and proba-
bly, would be forced sooner or later to
abandon it, The result of this sys-
TEN Of land tenure and this organiza-
VII VI oOClCUJ IS w SCSICRdJC OuC
whole population in villages and to
leave all OF the intervening land I'M
settled.
Th9 villages are very shabby and
cherries. A West Siberian village
consists of two rows of implanted
one-story log houses with A-shaped
or pyramidal roofs, standing directly
on the street, without front yards or
front doors. Between every two
houses there is an inclosed side yard
around which stand sheds, granaries
and barns; and from this side yard or
court there is an entrance to the
house. There is in all the villages
more or less individual comfort and
prosperity, but the peasant does not
seem to take any pride in the exter
nal appearance Of his premises, and
pays but little attention to beautify-
ing them All that he does is to
obey orders, await the pleasure Of the
hig Ter authorities and thank God
that things are not worse.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

WASHINGTON is likely to become
the banner hop State Of the country.
In single county the hop crop for
this year will be upward Of 10000
bales. This (Yakima) county last
year had half as large a crop. Two
thousand six hundred acres are de-
voted to old plants, and 1900 acres
have been newly planted this year.
Picking affords employment to 10000
workers. There is something in the
climate and soil Of Washington which
makes the hops grow better than in
the East. The vines are pretty
enough to be grown merely for orna-
ment, were they without the merit
of usefulness, Our grandmothers
used to plant the vines to grow over
the porch, and the hops furnished
material for hop bags or for yeast,
but few of the farm houses of to-day
show this old-fashioned and homelikc
ornament They have gone from the
common garden, with the hollyhocks,
larkspur, marigold aud four-o- clocks
that the children used to love in
"grandma's garden"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

THERE are free homes for old
soldiers there is one for old printers,
there is one for old shipbuilders, not
to speak of the institutions for the
care Of those suffering from particular
disabilities; but thus far no one
seems to have felt that that ovial
and indefatigable parsonage, the
commercial traveller, would ever
know enough Of age and intlrmity to
need a comfortable retreat for him
self exclusively. But, somehow, it
has been discovered that the travel
ing man does grow DID, and perhaps
hard up, and 90 some kind hearted
and proyident folk have worked to
get him an asylum when his pushing
days are done. TO accomplish this
end there was organized the Com.
mercial Travellers Home Association
of America, and in Binghamton, N.
Y, this association has Just laid the
corner stone Of a beautiful and COM
Portable home, May all good attend
the fortunes of this. institution and
of the guild whose gumption and
energy are main springs of American
trade
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
HORSES ARE VERY CHEAP.
Experiences OF Railroad Officials in Their
Purchase,

Purchase.
Electric lines and bicycles have re-
duCed the average value of horses in
the United States from 20 to SO per
cent. In the Western range country
the loss is felt the worst, for the sur
pus has formerly been sold in the
e ist. Now the East is closed mar
ket to ordinary grades of horses, and
there is surplus everywhere. In
cases Of forced sale prices are some
times ridiculously low.
Recently number Of carloads of
range horses of good grade were re-
ceiyed by an Eastern road for ship
ment to an Eastern terminal. The
Eastern road advanced the charges
of the Western lines which had for
warded the horses, and added the
amount to it's charges for transporta-
tion. Arrived in the East there was
no market for the horses, and they
were finally sold for So a head The
Eastern road was raid the entire
purchase price, and was then COM
PEELED to charge $500 to profit and
loss for its experience in the horse
business. In the future it will adj
vance no more charges on horses.
The telling of this story brought
out recent experience Of railroad
official in Kansas City. He wanted a
good, small-sized riding horse for his
boy and found exactly what he want
ed in a Kansas City horse market.
He wanted to buy the horse immedi-
ately, but was nlormed that he must
buy it at auction, AS a special IA
vor, however, the auctioneer agreed
to put up the horse selected to be bid
on first, the railroad official being in
a hurry. AS it WIS led out the auc-
tioneer announced LOT No 49," and
the officials eyes sparkled as he noted
the sprlnging gait and graceful form
of his prospective purchase. He would
willingly have given 500 for the
horse without bid, but carelessly
called out Fifty dollars" as a start
err He was jubiant when it was
finally knocked down to him for $75.
He d cided to lead his prize home
Immediately, and so announced him
self to the barn manager
"What will you have done with the
others?" asked that functionary.
There were six horses in lot 16 and
the railroad official is thinking of
starting livery stable.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

The ability to grow pork properly
does not by any means depend en-
tlrely upon the ability to grow corn.
Corn is certainly the leading food
factor in successful pork-growing but
no kind of meat re ulres a more va
rled diet to grow it in fine form and
to grow it in continuity without en-
dangerlng the stamia of the pigs.
The section, therefore, which is best
adapted to the growing Of pork, other
thiA.s equal, is that section which
car grow corn readily and also other
food products in conjunction with it,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
STOCK AND FARM.

Kansas farmers are still buying good
many feeders at the Kansas City, Kan,
8tockyards.
Kansas has moro than million more
apples trees than California and about
the same number Of peach trees.
Jewell City Republican; Farmers of
South Browns creek, generally, are we'll
pleased with feeding wheat to hogs and
most of them think it better to feed it
ground than whole.
Atchison Globe: A man in Walnut
township has twenty-five acres in APP
pie orchard. He sold the crop for
enough money to buy the best 100
acres 10 the township, and still has left
$1,000.
Garden City Imprint: G.. H. Reeves
threshed 500 bushels of alfalfa seed, the
result of two seed crops from As acres.
He sold at So per bushel, making a
total of $1,000 in cash from As acres,
saying nothing about the value of the
hay. He also harvested sos bushels OF
cane seed from 35 acres, worth 30 cents
and the fodder So per ton on the farm.
Oberlin Opinion: Malon Walker will
erect an irrigation plant this fall out
on the high divide. A windmill and or.
binary lifting pump will supply the
water from $50 foot we'll. His reser-
voir or supply tank will be built practi-
cally on the top Of the ground of stone
and sod, something like 35x50 feet, in
side Dimensions and about six feet high.
p. @. Perkins, of Mishawaka, Ind,
the pioneer windmill manufactures, has
comfortable fortune, consi ierAble of
it being in a fine Sumner county farm
on which he is rearing standard b ell
trotters. The farm comprises $500
acres Of fine land. Mr.. Perkins is not
discouraged at the pr ssent condition of
tn horse market, but believes that in the
next few years there will be fare pro its
to the raisors of the class OF horses he is
handling. He visits Kansas onca
year.
Apple growers will try to get a bill
through the mex legislature prescribing
eleven pecks as the size of the standard
barrel, ard forty eight pounds as the
standard weight OF bushel. Fifty
pounds is the standard weight now
Senator Taylor of Edwarduville will have
charge of the bill.
Russell Journal: Nearly every day
a train load of cattle passes through here
for Kansas City. III, cattle buyers
seem to be doing big business in and
through the western part Of the state.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

A CANADIAN bullock, which is
considered to be the larg est ever
landed in Great Britain, was sold at
Glasgow, Scotland, in July, for the
handsome price of $l42. The animal
was a cross-bred short-horn, and came
from the province of Ontario 1t
stood seventeen hands high and
measured eight feet from the crown
OF the head to the tail, while its
gross weight was slightly over a ton.
The price is considered to be the
highest ever realized in that country
for a Canadian bullock Last year
the highest prices realized at elias
gov were $40 for a bullock and $130
for a bull.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
KANSAS RAILRoADINo.


Delphos Republicans Conductor Dear
born, of the accommodation, met with
painful accident at this station. He
went to uncolfple the coach when the
second slick caught his right hand and
badly mashed the index and second
finger.
The gross earnings OF the M, X. & IT,,
for the second week of October were
$322,8l0, being the largest for any
week in the history of the company,
Last years business was swelled by earn
ings from the fair at Chicago, which
further emphasizes the Importance OF
the present increase
A year ago last August tho old Kan.
sas City & Pacific depot at Parsons was
broken into and lot of goods stolen.
The railroad detective service and the
local police have been at work on the
case ever since and have Just secured
sufficient evidence to warrant the arrest
Of John Hinshaw, farmer living near,
for the crime.
William Bailey, Union Pacific seo-
ton hand, was caught between two
freight cars near the old sugar factory
in Leavenworth, and so badly injured
that he will lose one leg 1t was stated
that Bailey was wheeling cinders across
the track, and that the disconnected parts
OF train suddenly came together, catch.
ing him.
Rock Island cattle shipment is now
heavier than any time since the big rush
Of early summer From 1876 to 140 car
loads Of cattle are handled every day
and most Of the stock is from the Indian
Territory and southern Kansas In the
vicinity of Pratt and Liberal. There is
also heavy Colorado cattle business.
Nearly all the cattle shipments on the
Rock Island so through Topeka. The
road makes some fast time on some Of
its cattle trains. The run from Colorado
to Kansas City is made in twenty three
hours, and the run from Herington to
Kansas City, 152 miles, is made in 5
hours and 45 minutes. This is pretty
near passenger time. The road uses
only Montgomery cattle cars with air
breaks and other improvements.
The Santa Fe hose house, in its To
peka yards has been destroyed by fire.
When thedepartment arrived the 14x14
building was wrapped in flames and had
extended to a small barn and to the ends
Of piles Of lumber near by. The depart
ment soon got heavy stream of water
and checked the progress of the fire.
The firemen had to labor under the dis
advantages OF heavy clouds of dust
which fairly blinded them. The hose
reel, familiar to many during parades,
went up in smoke and 800 feet of hose
burned. The barn was valued at about
1925, the hose $500, and the reel at $3.50,
making the loss in all about $1,000
Chief Wilmarth considers it fortunate
that the fire was kept under control as
it was in the midst of lumoer and near
to one of the big buildings whittier
sparks were carried by the wind.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

THE latest figures relating to the
census of>l891, published by the La
Dor Bureau of the French Govern
ment, sustain the assertion so often
made that the population of France
is slowly decreasing, In 1881 the
population was 37,672,048 and the
gain from 1881 to 1886 was 546, S55,
but from 1876 to 1881 the gain was
766, 300 The gain from 1886 to 1891
was only l24, $50. At this rate of
decrease the report for the five years
ending in 1896 will show a stationary
and perhaps a decreasing population.
The most Of the increase has been in
Paris and Marseilles, thus showing a
drift from the rural districts to those
cities where the death rate is the
highest.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

THEY say that pleasures treadmill
is a bicycle; that whistling for half
an hour after meals is the best aid to
digestion; that man is very stingy
when he will not enjoy Joke at his
own expense; that If tact could be
sold, only such as are already pos
sessed of it would buy it; that man
always wants somebody to answer his
questions, but nobody to question
his answers; that the number of
languages and dialects spoken in the
world is 3,064, exclusive of baby talk
and the language Of our railway
porters; that people think it is tough
when they have to pay thirty-dVe or
forty cents a pound for steak, but it
is tougher when they pay only If
teen.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

ENGLISH shoe. workersare complain
ing bitterly Of the influx of Russian
Jews. 1t is claimed that there are
twenty thousand in the shoe trade in
London alone, They fiji the sweat
shops of Whitechapel and other
choice neighborhoods, and their COM
petition is so severely felt that the
British factory operative is deprived
OF work 1t was hoped that the
sweat shop was almost a thing of the
past, but the pauper immigration
has restored it in worse shape than
ever.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

A MILLER of Parker's Prairie,
MINI, who started his new mill re-
Gently, placed a splendid advertise
ment OF his flour in the hands of the
ladies Of the town, He gave each a
sample of the flour to see who could
make the best bread. The fact that
he was ready to supply them with
flour and Of good quality could have
been impressed more strongly upon
them 10 no other way. They will not
forget him. A miller of a city Of
$4,000 inhabitants adopted a similar
method of introducing his flour. He
advertised for the names and adj
dresses Of ladies who would make five
pounds of his -four into bread for dis
trbution among the p1or upln u GER
tain day, the maker of the best bread
to be given a barrel Of flour for her
trouble. Nearly 1000 responded,
and the prize winner also gave the
barrel she won to the poor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

THE German servant girl in Chi
cago who has married an American
lied Chinese may not regret her act,
as the Celestial is usually said to
make kind husband, Girls of her
class usua ly make marriages of this
sort to secure an easy life, and as
they are not sensitive, they manage
to escape the moral suffering that
falls to the lot of better-bred women
who make a msalliance. Probably the
worst victims of ill-assorted mar
riages in the United States are the
girls Of good family who have mar
riel Iniians, In nearly every case
such girls have endured misery and
shame, and have finally appealed to
the divorce courts for feedom.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest.
Coburn's Report.


Secretary Coburn, OF the Kansas do.
partmont Of agriculture, has made a
great hit with his timely array Of facts
ane figures touching upon the problem
of wheat feeding, about which 80 much
is now being sand and written in all
parts OF the country,
The wheat feeding articles are con-
tanned in the September Quarterly and
have been commented upon and COM
mended by all the prominent agricultural
authorities. The agricultural head OF
Cornell university, New York, the presi-
dent Of the Massachusetts agricultural
college and the president of the Oklaho-
ma agricultural college have written to
ask for sufficient numbers to supply
their classes. President Henry u. Al
word, Of the latter institution, has writ
ten for permission to reprint and is
negotiating with the state printer for
publishing 5000 to 5000 copies for dis
tribution among Oklahoma farmers, to
whom, he says, SIT would save thousands
upon thousands of dollars" Professor
ID. ID. Porter, dean OF the Missouri agri.
cultural college, writes; "The symposium
on feeding wheat has taken the wind
out of my sails as have been working
upon the same subIec but yours is SO
much better than anything L can hope
for, shall make use of your work"
Professor W. A. Henry, Of the Wiscon.
sin agricultural college, says: "This
report is one Of unusual value and a
great credit all around 1t is most
complete summary OF the wheat feeding
question extant and most timely pro.
duction." Professor Voorhees,, director
of the New Jersey station, saws: "Ivery
much appreciate this publication" Pro
lessor Hays, vice chairman of the Min
nesota experiment station, has written
for dozen additional copies, saying;
1--WE are indeed interested in this report
and appreciate very much the enterprise
exhibited in its compilation and publica-
ton" and President Fairchild, of the
Kansas agricultural college, describes it
as "a wealth OF opinion and experience
most admirably compiled; the state
board has conferred upon the farmers of
Kansas an immense benefit by its pub
licatlon."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

THE unexpected weakness which
the Chinese nation has developed in
its contests with Japan is very sug-
gestive. For a number Of years it
has been reported that Ii Kung
Chang has been trying to adopt Euro
pean methods in army drilling, so as
to place the empire in better posi-
tion should war occur But against
Japan it was not supposed that China
would prove so complete a failure in
fighting as it has. The fact is that
the much-vaunted civil service syS-
tenn of China is largely responsible
for the degeneracy OF its people. Sue
cessive generations have been drilled
not to think but to learn just so
much as will entitle them to pass the
required examinations. The result
is that the whole nation seems to be
cut on one pattern, and each genera
tion shows diminishing size. There
is, in addition, great amount of
corruption in Chinese service, as
there inevitably is in all despotisms.
This was also protected by the civil
service system, which regards the
offices as belonging Of right to those
who have earned them by passing the
sham examinations which are re-
Quired.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

ANOTHER use for leather has been
discovered; the making Of artificial
whalebone. The leather Is soaked
for two or three days in sulphate Of
potassium, and then stretched on a
frame slowly dried, and exposed to a
high temperature, Afterward be-
ing subjected to heavy pressure, it
becomes hard and elastic.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

From Wichita: II. r. Hazard, for
merly president Of bank in Kansas
City and now president and owner Of tho
Sedgwick City bank in Harvey county,
was arraigned in Justices court on a
charge OF forgery and bound over for
appearance November s. He was ar
rested in Plymouth, N. H., about three
weeks ago. Several attempts have been
made since to get him out of custody on
habeas CORPUS,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

THE women do not pay the slight
est attention to what their husbands
think about house cleaning. The
only way to bring about reform is for
the husbands to induce the young
and unmarried men to suggest that
maybe the system Of hundred years
ago, having been improved in every
thing else, might be improved in
house cleaning.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

WHEN the high-whceled bicycles
were intro uced into Morocco, the
Sultan of that country used them as
a means Of furnishing his wives. The
offending women were compelled to
ride them, and when they fell off, the
Sultan exclaimed, "Bismillah!" and
laughed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

DEuoRNED cattle can be packed
closer and will 20 to market with
less injury to hide and flesh than
those with horns 1t is also cheaper
and easier to raise them, and the
more restless any animal is the less
fat it lays on.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

CoL. BREcKINRIDeE in an inter!
view bitterly complained that the
newspapers did not tell the truth
about him. They would have been
barred from the mails If they had
dnnn ca
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
"A Mercantile Priest.

A Polish Roman Catholic clergy
man at Passaic, N. j., has gone into
the general merchandise business,
and has the name of his church and
the sign of the cross over his store.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

THE foreign invention which is to
take the place Of both leather and
rubber would be alarming il so many
other great inventions had not failed
to materalize.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
Tensile Strengrb.

The tensile strength of wrought iron
rods varies as the square of the diam
eter. A inch rod will support 7, 900
pounds and a Pinch rod $4,000
Dounds
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
Too Valuable fer Farming.

Some long leaseh Id property in
Cheapside, London, sold the other
day at a price equal to $3.50 per SUI
pertcial foot
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

IF two men have conversation to-
day. they cannot agree tomorrow on
what they said, A man should give
a receipt for his conversation.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
SIBERIAN PEASANT LIFE.
Striking PeouiiarItles of that Vast Terri-
tory of the Gar.

tory OF the Gar.
One Of the Tost striking peculiari-
ties OF West Siberian landscape is
the absence OF fences and farm
houses. The cultivated land of the
peasants is regularly laid out into
fields; but the fields are not inclosed.
The absence Of fences is due to the
practice Of inclosing the cattle in the
common pasture which surrounds ev-
cry village, and the absence of farm
houses Is explained by the fact that
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

JUDGE ORR, Of St, Paul, has ruled
that huggng a girl is dlsorderly con-
duct Such ignorance is painful.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15
Phillipsburg Herald
PaILLIPsBURG,

SOME one says that liquor strength
ems the voice. This is mistake; it
only makes the breath strong.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

Russell Journal: Nearly every day
a train load of cattle passes through here
for Kansas City. III, cattle buyers
reem to be doing big business in and
through the western part Of the state.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

Fred Bilimok and Harry Lindsey,
Thile hunting, fonnd an underground
passage in the side of bluff north of
Atchison lending to worry large cavern.
The top and side of tho cavern were
covered with stalactites. The cave vii!
be fully explored.
Haskell institute at Lawrence has
more than its full proportion of Indian
students this year. Nine new cnes ar
rived from Darlington, Ok, and Supt.
Peairs came in with eight more from the
territory.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-15

Jewell City Republican; Farmers of
South Browns creek, generally, are we'll
pleased with feeding wheat to hogs and
most of them think it better to feed it
ground than whole.