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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-23
A PROBLEM IN aEEswAx.
Men of Science Puzzled by the Deposit a.
the Shore of the North Pacific.

Men of Science Puzzled by the Deposit %
the Shore of the North Pacific.
The beeswax found in large quantb
ties on Nehalem beach has from time
to time for years past attracted the at
tention of the curious and enlisted the
inquiry Of scientists. The generally 40.
cepted theory that in some prehistoric
era vessel, wax laden, went ashore at
that place is frequently disturbed by
some less probable surnaise for time.
and after exciting some speculation and
comment drops ont Of sight. The latest
of these comes from Mr.. Odlum, who.
in connection with the department OF
archaeology of British Columbia coll
lege, is collecting data from which he
proposes to show that the Indians of the
Pacific coast are descendants Of certain
Asiatic races He desires to know
whether the wax found at NahaIem 10
actual beeswax or mineral wax, hoping.
to forge a missing Link in his chain Of
evidence by means of information upon.
that point !
1t has been shown by careful scientific
analysis that the wax is of mineral ORR
gin, but 1t may be said in this conneo-
ton that the substance is to all appear
ance genuine beeswax; that this.appear-.
ance is corrobrated by the faint, sub.
tie odor Of beeswax. which fingers
around the storm beleaguered specimens
that have been from time to tima
brought up from the beach, and tf1at No
one from tasting 1t could tell that the
piece sampled was not identical with
that surreptitiously bitten from theyyels
low, thread marked bali which was a
part Of the furnishing of his mothers
workbasket in his boyhood. More than
this, the wing Of bee has been found
imbedded in the wax, furnishing ire
futable evidence of the true nature of the
substance.
The Pacific coast Indians may be de-
soendants of an ancient Asiatio race,
but it is not likely that any more con-
elusive proof Of this will ever be devel-
oped by the most painstaking research
than that which this little brown bees
wing furnishes of the fact that the Ne
halem beeswax is beeswax. How it came
there will probably never be known def
initely until the secrets of the unremem-
bered ages are rescued from the tomb
Of time and Incorporated in the written
history of the days that were, but now
are not. Practical people are not look
ing for an occurrence of this kind; hence
they are prepared to accept the evidence
of their senses in regard to the nature
OF this mysterious deposit in. the sands
of the seashore and to abandon attempts
that are more than likely to prove fu-
tile to discover how and when the bees
wax, Enthusiastically nodded and curious
ly stamped, voyaged thither and was
thrown upon the beach. Portland Ore
| gonian
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-23
Our Fair stirs Up Turkey.

Professor Ibrahim Haiku Bey, who
was the Turkish commissioner at the
Chicago exhibition, has come back SO
inoeulated with liberal ideas that his
recent lectures have created stir i'll
government circles. - Constantinople
Letter
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-23
To Clean Furniture.

Cherry and mahogany furniture can
be cleaned in the following way to look
almost like new: Dissolve small lump
of common washing soda in some very
hot water. Wash only a small portion
of the wood at time with bit of flan-
mel dipped in the soda water and dry it
immediately with another piece of fan.
mel, rubbing until it is highly polished
New York World.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-23

The only half cent probably which
was ever coined was piece now in pos
session of jesse Rogers of Newbury,
Mass 1t is an old Massachusetts, coin
presumably cast as an experiment..
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-23

Burrows second, Trix third; time
t:l41a.
Oae Unbelievable won, Last Chance
second, Gcrdius third; time, l AZ.
Five and one-half furlongs-Artist
won, Chemuck second, Title s. third !;
lime, l :08H.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-23

The Alabama Democratic state con-
vention nominated Col. w. O. Oates for
governor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
KANSAS CHURCHES.

Holton Recorder: The trustees Of the
Methodist church took up collection
to raise funds to paint the parsonage,
insure the church and to pay some de-
fciencies in the incidental expenses.
They asked for $125, and the subscrip.
ton amounted to over $40.
Rev. Edith Hill, the noted Emporia
evangelist, is drawing great crowds at
Pittsburg. Room after room has been
vacated in favor of larger ones on &C
count of the increasing size of her con-
gregations, till now she has the largest
in the city. There have been many con-
versions.
The annual convention Of the Kansas
State Sunday School association will be
held this year at Wichita, May 8, 8, 10.
Among other noted workers to be pres
emit are DIR. Vincent and DR.. Duncan, of
New York; Prof. Greenwood and DR..
Jesse Bowman Young, of st. LOUIS
Prof. Excel, OF Chicago, and DIR. Heis-
Ter, of Denver. Rates are one fare for
the round trip, and Wichita is getting
ready for a thousand delegates.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
Odds and Ends,

If you wish to paper ceiling or
wall that has been calcimined wash
it thoroughly with glue water.
IT is said that where the burning
thirst of patient cannot be assuaged
by cracked ice or water a teaspoonful
of glycorlne will afford prompt relief.
You CAN procure dental floss from
any tlrst.class drug store. Keep it
on hand. 1T is recommended by dem
lists for regular use after each meal.
Nothing will so effectually remove
any foreign substance from the teeth.
To PREVENT the juice from pies
running over, thrust little tunnels Of
white paper into the cuts on the top,
through which the steam may escape
and the juice boil up, and then run
back into the pan again when it stops
cooking.
IT is very vexing and annoying to
to have ones lips break out with cold
sores, but it is better to have them
out than in. A drop of warm NUT
ton suet applied to the sores at night
Just before retiring, will soon cause
them to disappear.
MosT cakes need a moderately hot
and some even a cool oven. A good
old test is to put piece of thick paper
into the oven, to shut up the door
and open it again after five minutes.
If the paper is of light brown color
the oven is moderately hot, and il.
yellow the oven is cool.
TIE best mutton is of fine grain,
a bright color, the fat firm and white.
1t is better for being full grown.
The meat Of the eve is not so bright,
while the grain is closer. The ram
mutton may be known by the redness
of the flesh and the sponginess of the
fat
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

BOSTON must be confounding in
phantom fashion a Mrs, Jane G. Aus
tin, announced In extended obituary
from the Hub as "the novelist" with
Jane G. Austen, truly the novelist,
who has been dead more years than
the Bostonian decedent lived. Mrs.
Austin, whose most famous work Is
declared by fresh eulogy TO be "A
Nameless Nobleman," has no rela-
tlonship genealogical, consanguine-
Gus, or literary with the Miss Austen
whose works made even Macaulay re-
greet that she should have died so
young. The author Of novels as free
from blot as hers might we'll be as
tonished at the species Of novel which
prevails to-day. The Botonian nov
elist wrote neither well enough nor i'll
enough to be known for praise or
blame beyond the shadow Of Bunker
Hill.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
STOCK AND FARM.

George Addison expects to receive
several thousand head of feeding cattle
at Eureka, Greenwood county, in few
days. The cattle will be kept during
the summer on pasture lands near Reece
and Hamilton.
Stockton News: DR.. J. B. Kendall, OF
Omaha, was here several days on bust
ness connected with Belmont Stock
Farm. He has disposed of the stock and
implements on the farm to Joseph
Dopita, who comes from Nebraska. Mr..
Dopita has also leased the entire farm
for period of five years. The contract
calls for extensive farming, and next
year not less than 1900 acres will be
under cultivation. This will necessitate
large amount of help, and it is posi-
BILE that number of families will in the
future locate on the place.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

inches long on the other, has a two.
inch circular hole cut out of it near
the middle Of the longer side so that
the edge of the opening is one and
one-fourth inches distant from that
side. The sheet is now bent and
soldered to form a tube, Fig. /, six
inches long, the larger end of which
will fit on lamp burner like an
ordinary lamp chimney Four Sits
are cut on the edge Of the now oval
shaped opening on the side of the
tube so that two clips Of tin may be
bent inward to hold u sheet of mica
inside OF the tube and against the
opening. This allows the light to
shine through. A second tube, one
and half inches long and nearly
three inches in diameter, is now
soldered at right angles to the first
tube, and around the mica opening,
A piece Of black cloth is put over
the short tube and held in place by
tin band. A one-inch hole is cut
from near the top of the cloth to
let the light shine through The
complete TESTER Fig. 3 is placed as
a chimney on lighted lamp, and is
always used in a dark room. The
egg to be tested should be held large
end up and placed against the hole in
the dark cloth, when the light will
shine through, more or less, accord
ing to the condition of the egg.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
KANSAS RAILROADS.

The Union Pacific is laying steel raill
between Morganville and Concordia on
its Junction City and Fort Kearney
branch.
Since the Northwestern road passed
into the hands of the Missouri Pacific it
has been decided to run the trains of
that line into the Union depot over the
Missouri Pacific tracks, and it will begin
as soon as the spur track connecting the
roads is completed in Kansas City, Kas.
The shops of the Northwestern COM
pany, located at Second and Garfield
avenue, in Kansas City, Kas., are to be
abandoned and the machinery taken to
the Cypress yards shops Of the Missou-
ri Pacific at once, where all repairs will
hereafter be made. The force Of work
men and machinists will be put in the
shops at the Cypress yards.
Judge Caldwell has appointed O. L.
Mcclellan, Of Topeka, receiver Of the
Leavenworth, Topeka & Southwestern.
The American Loan & Trust company,
of Boston, has filed bill TO foreclose
mortgage on the road, and pending the
foreclosure the care Of the property Is
entrusted to the receiver, who is author
lied to operate as far as earnings will
pay operating expenses.
The Santa Fe has rented thirty
freight and passenger engines from the
Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadel-
phia, for term of thirty months, and
the Missouri Pacific has rented twenty
seven freight engines for the same peri
3D. This costs the Santa Fe 1924, 051.H,
and the Missouri Pacific $262,053.84,
payable in monthly installments. The
average rent of baldwin locomotive is
about $3.50 a month.
At Newton one of two stationary boil
ers in the Santa Fe round house blew
up with terrific force. The cause of the
explosion is not known, but officials
claim that too high pressure was used.
The boiler was torn into bits. A largo
hole was made in the roof and hole
through the stone wall of the house was
made. Nearly every window pane in
the house, about a thousand, was bro
ken. One employee was within few
feet of the boiler when it burst, but he
was only slightly hurt. The loss to the
company is $1,000 at least.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
Slipshod Farming.

Slipshod farming doesn't pay.
Farmers should never leave tools in
the fields Nothing is mole annoy
ing than to need a machine and find
it out of order. Among this style of
farmers, their teams are usually in
keeping with their tools, half-fed
and stable poorly constructed, No
farmer can work successfully with
this state of things continually star
ing him in the face, and the bitches,
perpleXities, and hind-ances result
ing from worn. out tools and half.
fed teams will make him irritable
and in anything but happy frame
of mind. The farmer who neglects
necessary repairs before spring comes
will be behind all the season. Never in
the history of the world have farm
ers been required to be more wide
awake and progressive than now.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

A VERITABLE craze rage1 in En-
gland, last year, against the substan-
tial, heavy build of which English
men were formerly so proud. Edmund
Yates and Labouchere, both of whom
are quite shapeless and utterly guilt
less Of the lines Of beauty, have been
abusing the anti-fat people vehe-
mently in public and private, but the
anti fat crusade goes on with una
bated vigor According to Yates
and Labouchere, One-half the people
Of the upper circles have given up
trying to get thin. About two
thirds of them have succeeded. One
duke-whose name is not given, and
who is probably the Duke of Port
land-has taken seventeen inches off
his waist measure by living on beef
steak, dry toast, and prunes. He has
not varied from this diet in six
months, and he now has a beauti-
fully small waist. But he is not
beautiful. Like a number of other
fat people who have reduced them.
selves it is found that the skin,
which had been stretched by album
dant avoirdupois, refuses to contract
after the fat has been melted away,
and the dukes face is a mass of
wrinkles. So are the shoulders of a
famous duchess and the cheeks of
once beautiful countess, who was
once plump, and rosy, and pleasant
to look upon. Now she is slightly
stoop-shouldered, emaciated, and
poctical; but she does not please the
anti-fat reformers in any way. An
essayist, who has taken up this
weighty subject in the London Times,
attributes all the hubbub over it to
Du Maurler, OF Punch. All of his
men are built as though they stood
six feet four in height, with chest
measure of tifty-two inches, and a
waist measure of about eighteen
inches. 1t is the CHASTITY struggle of
the English race to live up to The
Du Maurier standard that is causing
all the trouble.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

The Car has issued q ukase bar
ring out the American tontine sys-
TEN of life insurance from all the
Russlas. There is a simple direct
ness about the Cars methods of rid
ding himself Of this nuisance that
must command admiration. 1t will
certainly awaken burning envy in the
minds of hundreds of American bust
ness men who would fain bar out
from their offices the tontine and all
other methods and the agents there
of, But unfortunately the American
citizen isn't car; he can't issue a
ukase; nobody would pay any atten-
ton to it If he did. And if he kicks
the exploiter Of tontine or other syS-
TENS Of life insurance down the stairs
he will be fined for assault by an I'M
sympathetic court.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

lola Register: At the Farmers insti.
tute, held last month, resolution was
adopted unanimously declaring II TO be
the sentiment OF that meeting that tho
county commissioners would be justified
in sending some ono to Lawrence to
learn how to handle Prof Shows chinch
bug infection, and to establish a dstrib-
uting depot at tho expense of tho coun-
ty. Already reports have reached this
Office that the chinch bugs are appearing
in great numbers, and it seems certain
that they will do great damage unless
active measures are taken TO destroy
them.
Since the Salina Office has been con-
solidated with the Topeka Office an in
ventory will show about 400 volumes of
records of all kinds containing all the
business OF the various land offices that
have been consolidated since the time of
the original Kickapoo Office. The pres
ent records include those Of the Kicla-
poo, Shawnee Nation, Fort Scott, Angus
ia, Independence, Concordla, Salina,
Junction City, part of Wichita and the
original Topeka Offices, The district in
cludes nearly the entire east half of the
state. There is practically no govern
ment land in the district, though from
Accomplishments and cancellations, es-
pecially in the western part, tracts be-
come subject to homestead entry. Some
Of the Usage Indian lands are yet for
sale and collections are being made on
them and also on the Usage lands and
Indian lands in Lyon, Morris and Wa
baunsee counties. The Indian reserve in
Jackson county by act Of congress in
1887 should now have been on the mar.
ket, as the Indians were given only four
years to make their allotments, but by
some oversight it is not yet ready to be
disposed Of. 1t embodies about $4,000
acres of fine land and is only about
twelve miles north of Topeka.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

THERE Is no weapon so effective in
political warfare as rldlcule, and
there is no man 81 susceptible to
rldicule as the professional joker.
Both these trulsms have received re-
demonstration in the defeat of John
Kendrick Bangs, humorist By trade
and politician for recreation, for the
Mayoralty Of the city Of Yonkers.
Mr.. Bangs ran on the Democratic
ticket in a Democratic stronghold.
No allegations of bad character in
ability, or uniltness for the duties Of
the Office were made against him, and
yet he, humorist, litterateur, bon
ylvant, and man-about-town, met de.
feat by about 200 plenteors ballots at
the hands Of plain, ordinary Repub-
lican politician of the name Of Peene.
1t was a most peculiar campaign. 1t
was not fought upon any of the es-
tabllshed lines usually governing the
conduct Of municipal contests. Nor
personalities nor politics entered into
it to any great degree. All Bangs
opposition did was to secure numer-
GUS copies Of the current number of
the publication in which he is wont
to print his humorous lucubrations,
mark the most dismal of them, and
send copy Of the magazine with an
explanatory note to each voter in the
bailiwiCk. And the wlelders of sui.
frage saw the joke. 1t was a better
joke than any of Bangs making. 1t
was joke even the dullest intellect
could comprehend in all its fullness
and beauty. And the honest, joke
loving electors Of Yonkers arose and
went to the polls aud showed under
Bangs the humorist in a way which
should prove an everlasting warning
to all other fabricators of mild quips
and innocuOus jests and diluted
satires. The humor of Yonkers
proved itself superior article to the
humor of Bangs. And the truisms
quoted were again Endorsed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
has come, and Germany has been
victorious in IT,

THE Jones County calf case In Iowa
bids fair to have a parallel In Mis-
souri,, John Carroll and Thomas
Hancock, Of Mercer County in that
State, are at law over one Berkshire
hog, valued at 81, The case has al
ready been through three courts at
an expense of $500, but the litigants
are only getting their second wind.
They arc now girding up their loins
for the final struggle in the Supreme
Court. by the time the case Is de-
clded, two or three generations Of
lawyers will have made good thing
Of it, and the descendants Of Carroll
and Hancock will probably be In the
poorhouse. AS for the hog, he has
been killed and eaten long ago.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
SECURE SLIDING GATE.

swung on hinges. This arrangement
is shown in the illustration from a
sketch in the American Agrlcultur.
ist 1t is best to make little roller
with a three-fourth inch bolt, over
which to run the gate. That part Of
the gate which slides on rollers.
should be made Of double thickness
of inch stuff. The gate should shut
in between two posts set far enough
apart to admit the end of the gate;
readily This prevents the wind
from moving the gate, which is as
solid as any part of the fence Make
the rail OF the gate, which runs on
the roller, one foot longer than the
Others; aud nail to the two posts last,
mentioned, cross-pieCe, so that
when the gate is shut the latch end
will hang clear of the ground on this,
supporting piece,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

KAISER WILHELM was determined
to have peace this year, Tut it will
strike the critical observer that he is
paying long price for it. The new
commercial treaty with Russia gives
the latter country immense trade adj
vantages, for which she offers but
meager returns. Germany fought
one Of the most sanguinary and ex-
hausting wars of the century-that
of 1S7O-71-to gain advantages in
trade similar to those which Russia
is now securing without firing a shot
or losing a man. The Kaiser will
find himself severely criticised, a
year or two hence, for caying so
heavily for peace-unless in the
meantime the great European war
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
l lantIng scabby Potatoes.

1t is not best to plant scabby po-
tatoes il other seed can be had. But
where the only seed obtainable is
more or less scabbN it may be fitted
for planting by immcrsing the seed in
a weak solution of corrosive subli-
mate. This has been tried in the
Connecticut experiment station, and
potatoes free from scab were grown
from seed badly affected. One ounce
of corrosive sublimate is dissolved in
one quart of hot water. This is then
miGed with fifteen gallons Of cold
water, and the cut seed is immersed
in the solution an hour or more. The
solution is very poisonous, and po-
tatoes thus treated should not be
placed where any stock could get
them, nor should they be handled by
those who have fresh sores on their
hands
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

AMONG the passengers landed in
Philadelphia the other day from a
Belgian steamship was French
peasant woman with thirteen chill
dren. She told the immigration Off
cials that twelve Others had died in
France. When the woman applied
for tickets to the West it was discoy-
cred that as the result of a miscount
she had only enough money to pay
the fare of twelve children. A mes
sage was sent to the husband In a
Western State, and the money with
which to procure the additional ticket
was soon at hand. Then this brave
woman, the mother of twenty. I've
children, with thirteen of them I'M
der her wing, set out to meet her
plucky husband and begin life anew
in the "Great Republic"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

AN unexpected danger turks in the
trolley wire, if the binding of Il
young man in Brooklyn really re-
suited from an electric flash when a
car was Passing. If a current Of
electricity strong enough to innct
such injury can be projected a con-
siderable distance through the air, it
is important that the public should
know it, The danger from lightning
at various distances from the point of
impact is we'll known. 1t is re-
markable, however, if the current Of
a trolley wire is capable of such dan
gerous projection.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

INSTEAD of the time-honored "dear-
ly beloved" or brethren" In which
the pulpit has always addressed the
congregation, the famous Canon Eody
has introduced an innovation in one
OF the slightest" Of English churches.
He speaks to his hearers with the
simple word gentlemen" The
change Is exciting discussion and free
comment
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

head of the fork. When the thing
is completed the WIDEST portion Of
the board will be uppermost to catch
the load of brush which the fork IS
carrying. A light cleat screwed
across the slot in the board will keep
the fork in place. Still another good
thing is broad, low platform, say
one drawn upon stone boat to catch
the brush. Bushes cut in full leaf are
more likely to die and also handle
better with a fork and in load, be-
sides burning more read lY.