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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

An exchange rises to remark: "The
editor can always write more cheerfully
of the business interests of town
when his columns are literally filled
with the advertisements Of the busi-
ness houses. No editor can advocate
the doctrine of buying from home mer-
chants unless the home merchants
show they are interested in catering to
the home trade by advertising in the
columns Of the local newspaper. 1t is
depressing to the editor to find bust
ness men patronizing every advertising
fake that comes along, and at the same
time the names of those business men
are rarely, if ever, seen in the adver-
Using columns of the local newspaper.
All Of which is quite true.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Henry ]. Aldrich, formerly of Bloom
ingtOn, ILL.,, has achieved greatness as
q financier in Denver. Here it was
that he conducted the affairs of a loan
and investment company, guaranteeing
principal and interest to everybody in
the east who would send their cash.
But Henry is not there now, and no.
body knows whittier he has flown. His
creditors are almost countless, many of
whom are left poor ~ his flight and
the utter collapse of his company.
Next!
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

England is disposed to abate one
gross scandal in the public administra-
ton of that country by retiring the
Duke of Cambridge from the command
of the army. If there was in England
an officer known as dancer on the tight
rope to her Majesty, and this Office car
ried large salary, and the Queen had
a grandmother who was appointed to
that office in order that she might get
the salary, it would not be more ride
ulOus than for the Duke Of Cambridge
to be commander-in-chief. He is just
as fit to command an army as the
Queens grandmother would be to dance
on tight rope,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

the incline. A pilot stands in the bow
with a boat hook to shove the craft off
when 1t strikes the water, and another
is in the stern to guide the rudder. The
inventor is an engineer named Polly.
The boat and sliding apparatus, with
the crew on board, weigh about ten
tons. 1t has been tried successfully, and
has secured the commentator Of nu-
merous lve-saving societies.
The second continuance is an endless
rope in pulleys which is pulled on board
the shipwrecked craft by small line
that is shot out to it. The basket is
suspended by the upper part Of the
loop and the lower part steadies the car
riage as it is brought in.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

% After the old Liberty Bell had filled
a great place in the Worlds Exposition
and got back to Philadelphia, the au-
thoritles resolved that under no pre-
text would it ever be allowed to leave
the city again" But they are having
a warm discussion now whether it
would not be good thing to take it
to the Atlanta Exposition. And it
would. The old bell is an educator in
patriotism. The people need such edu-
cation. Let the old Liberty Bell ring
and echo on the journey to Atlanta. 1t
will do all parties good, and can do no
harm. Let all unite and make the
Atlanta Exposition a grand success.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
POLISH FOR TAN SHOES.
Ammonia ANA cnslIIe soar wm cl0aI

Ammonia and CASTLE Soap win Clean
Them Il
Now that tan-colored shoes are so
much worn, hint as to how they may
be preserved indefinitely may not be
amiss, writes Frances A. Hoadley in
the Ladies' Home Journal. A clever
little woman Of my acquaintance had
o handsome pair Of very light low-but-
toned shoes, that we're ruined as far
as appearances went. Her husband
was to bring her some dressing, but
he would not return unt1 night, and
she wanted to wear them after lunch.
She put her wits to work. wet soft
muslin rag with water into which a
few drops of household ammonia had
been poured, rubbed it with little
CASTLE soap, and applied it first to the
back OF the shoe. 1t worked admirably.
The entire shoe was thoroughly clean
in five minutes. She kept one hand
inside the shoe to hold it in shape, and
was careful not to wet the rag so much
as to soak through the leather to the
lining, and also to rinse it off well be-
fore drying While damp she smoothed
them into fine form, then stood them
away for half an hour to dry.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
Cost of Ocean Commerce.

Statisticians who are fond Of mathe-
NAUTICAL problems have figured that the
treasures sunk in the sea, especially
those Of gold and silver, are Of more
value than all Of the specie at present
in circulation. Gold and jewels have
been the prey Of the pirate, and these,
in stress of weather, and under unto
ward circumstances, have been con-
signed to the deep.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
Profit In Soda rountalns.

(From the Washington Post)
"A New Orleans man named May told
me that his yearly profits from his soda
fountain were 100000. One Sanders, a
Detroiter, who owns an $4,000 fountain,
the finest displayed at the Worlds Fair,
does a rushing business, and his sales
run from $500 to $500 per day the year
round. In Buffalo Stoddard Brothers
employ thirty girls to handle ice cream
soda, and it takes 5000 glasses to ac-
commodate their trade. They sell it at
cents glass, and there is net profit
of just 100 per cent. In Boston, Thomp-
sons Spa, the greatest soda resort at
the Hub, easily clears for its owner $780,
900 a year. There are in the United
States 100000 fountains in operation,
and manufacturers are getting more Or
ders now than they ever got BEFORE"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
COnDensntiOn,

Plotting Mamma-Why doyou always
take your cousin Nellie with you? Her
beauty makes you and your sister look
plain.
Daughter know it, mamma, but
when we have Nellie along, we never
have any trouble finding a policeman
to take us across the street.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
A CHEERFUL GIVER.
NOVELIST HoWELLS DESCRIBES
REGULATIONS.
A Solitary Half-Dollar In His Pocket
Changed tho Whole Current OF His
Feellngs-Tho Manned Beggar-"GiVe
to Him That ABketh."

r. w. D. HOW
ellis has written for
the Century two
papers entitled
"Trlbulations Of O
Cheerful Giver,'
giving his expert
ences with the beg
ging fraternity.
The following is
taken from the
first paper, pub
lished in the cur
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
Old TImnn and NOW.

Here is just feather to show which
way the wind blows. Twenty-Five
years ago the practical application of
electricity was unknown. To-day un-
told millions were invested in electri-
cal machinery and steam is creeping
out of sight TO make way for harnessed
lightning. If our great-grandfathers
were to make an excursion of couple
ofweeks to their old homes they would
grow so dizzy they would scarcely be
able to find their way back to the
grave
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
The Trust After No.Tn.Rac.

Chicago Special, Reported here today that y
large sum of money had been offered for the
famous tobacco habit cure called No.To.Bac by
o syndicate who want to take IL off the market.
Inquiry at the general ofllces revealed the fact
that No-To-Bac was not for snle to the trust Mt
any price, No.To-Bac's success Is marvellous,
Almost every Druggist in America sells No-T%
BAG under guarantee to cure tobacco habit or
refund money
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Northerner-What was the coroner's verdict
In the lynching case7
Colonel Nipper - Death at the hands Of
parties to the jury unknown.
Northerner-Why, the lynchers were the best
known men in town.
Colonel Npper-I know, but the jurors had
never been introduced to them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Mr. Cynical Sheer and Tom spittlejag, two
society youths had a row in their clubroom.
The latter sad very severely
my dear friend allow me to tell you that
you are donkey.
"Well, responded Mr.. Sheer, twill you kind
ly tell me- am a donkey because l am your
friend, or am l your friend because am u
donkey2'
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

The officials that undertake to arrest
women bicycle riders who wear bloom
ers will have anything but happy
time Of it, and will have to retreat with
the jeers of the entire country at their
folly. They don't seem to know Amer
lean women.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
A Scotch Clock.

The London aquarium people have
got hold of clock "made by pious
Scotchman," The popularity of the
timepiece is that at midnight on Satur-
day it stops short, never to go again
until Monday morning. 1t probably
would be hard to find a more extreme
case of opposition to Sunday work.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Shovels sold for SO apiece in the
Oklahoma gold fields when the excite
ment was at its height, and 1t seems
that a few Of the luckier miners washed
out enough of the metal to pay for
their shovels.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
Don't Get Scared

If you should hear that in some place to
which you arc going malaria is prevalent.
To tho air poison which produces chills and
fever, bilious remittent and dumb ague there
Is a safe and thorough antedote and pre-
yentive, viz, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
The great unti.malarial specific is also a
remedy for billiousness constipation, dys-
pepsia, rheumatic and kidney trouble, ner.
Vousness and debility.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

device for carrying baskets IN when
shipwrecked men are pulled ashore IN
the launching apparatus an incline ID
built, as the accompanying illustrations
from ILLUSTRATION show, from inc
shore a good distance out into the water
The lifeboat is held in horizontal posi-
tion on a carriage which is let down 10
the water by means of a cable coileu
around a drum. If the water reaches
the boat In this horizontal position wheh
the end Of the incline is reached, the
boat simply floats off. If the tide Is out
the boat can be made to incline by
depressing the supports which hold II
in horizontal position, and the launch
is almost as easy as when there is no
necessity for this action.
The carriage for the boat slides down
two rails. The life savers take their
pl1ces in the craft before 1t starts down
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

The Rev. Joseph Cooke is undertake
Ing hazardous experiment. He is go
ing to the other side of the world and
Intends to leave America to run itself
for the next two years.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

II Spain were a snrewd financier she
would give the United States Cuba and
check off the Mora claim. Cuba Is
never again going to be profitable
property to Spain.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

1t appears that the American citizens
travelling in Armenia are not safe from
the bloodthlrsty Kurds, Our govern
ment should tell the Kurds to Cheese
It,"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Two fellows tried to interfere with
Postmaster Gentry, Of Alton, Ark, as
he was carrying the mail bag. Now
one of them is dying and the other is
shot through the mouth. The verdict
OF the coroner's jury will probably be
''Too much tampering with the mails"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
Tho Famous Waters and Baths of Eye
celsior Springs, Mo.

We are reached by the Wabash rail-
road from the Kansas City Union de-
pot directly to the Elms hotel. If your
liver is out of order, take the Wabash
and go to Excelsior Springs and brace
up.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

The success of the holiness" camp
meeting in progress at Wichita comes
very near to proving that there is moth
ing in the influence Of environment.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

p. T. Barnum has left his mark on
che page of American history. There
are seven or eight postofices In this
country called Jumbo.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Mrs. Fender-Why were you so long at the
front door last night, Archiel Why didn't you
sing out2 Archie Fender - That's just the
trouble. l couldn't strike the right key.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Paterfamilias-Wha on earth makes that
young man stay so long? Doesn't he know how
to say goodnight? Edyth-0f course he does
That's what makes him stay so long,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Miss Willard asserts that poverty
causes intemperance. 1t certainly
causes total abstinence in many cases,
which, according to some authorities,
Is one form of intemperance. But, no
ore will deny tse4 iptspperance causes
poVertyr
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Keep your weather eye out for cy-
clones. They are already in motion,
and like as not one may be headed
your way this very minute,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

The longest days of summer have
passed, and the nights for six months
will grow longer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

No, "Ignoramus, they are not prop
erly called leg-of-mutton sleeves now.
They are leg-of-beef sleeves.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
Chinese Woman's Foot.

The picture here reproduced is from
a photograph of Chinese lady. 1t
shows the effect of tight binding,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

The girl nowadays who wears her
heart in her sleeve" has plenty Of room
Tor 1t.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

She will never be new woman until
she ID satisfied with an old hat.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Chinch bugs are said to be dying or
starvation on the wheat crops Of Brooks
county, Kansas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

No picture is hung on the walls of the
Louvre in Paris until the artist shall
have been dead ten years.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

"HRnsOn's Magic Corn Snlve."
Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask your
druggist for it. Price Is cents.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Keep polished steel from rusting by wiping
with very little oil on a cloth.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Near the castle of Langholm, in Dunn
friesshire Scotland, is a place pointed
out where several reputed witches were
burnt during the last century.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

Probbs-So You were In the Iowa Cyclone. At
what point did the storm leave the town7 DobbS
1t didn't leave the town-took it along.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

The devil has always depended good deal on
the hypocrite.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11
SCIENTIFIC NEWS.
THE LATEST INVENTIONS AND
DISCOVERIES.
Progress in tho LIfe-saving Service of
France-The Wooden Railroad OF
Observation-Disclosures as to the Cause
and Eject of Grief.

HE society to aid
shipwrecked sailors
at Jul o & n e,
France, has recent
ly adopted two inn
proved llfe-saving
appliances for use
along the coasts.
One is an apparatus
for launching life
boats beyond the
surf line and the
other is a new line
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-11

=! 5:7s7!:7:: s. e;lis' LIMBS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-03
GNAT STREAMING.

The gnat straining Of our devotees
to law and order would be amusing
| if it were less expensive TO the tax
payers. Their mania seems to have
| broken out in a perfect spaSm of in
dignatiOn at the non-enfOrcement of a
law which we all know would be de-
feated by popular vote Of the peo-
pie of Kansas today. Wonderful stick
lers they are for the execution Of law,
because this one happens to serve their
purpose. Have these good friends
ever hear Of a bad law? Would they
enforce to the letter statute proven
in practice TO be bad, simply because
it was law: The people of Texas
would. by popular vote, repeal the
law allowing alien ownership Of land.
yet it is retained, as everybody knows,
by the improper use Of money where
the laws are made. Shall the majority
submit TO this indefinitely because Of
the crime of boodling in office? The
old Blue Laws of Connecticut. with
all their abSurditieS were none the
less absurd by being written in the
statute books. What would the peo-
pie of Kansas or any other state do
today if required to live up 10 such
Il code? 1t was under the forms, and
by the authority of law that the poor
Salem witches were burned only two
hundred years ago. Was the law q
righteous one, and If not was its exc
cution just? Under both secular and
ecclesiastical laws people have been
put To death for the crime q OF
"heresy" long since the night OF su-
perstition when the plea Of ignorance |
might have been some excuse for the |
crime. Nothing in the worlds his |
tory has wrought greater injustice |
than this blind adhesion 10 the form \
OF ridiculous and unjust laws. Statutes |
are but the creations OF men at best. |
subject to the frailties and inconsis- I
tencies of human device. They never
have. nor never Will be perfect. II +
is Ike man spending his mature life /
in defending some youthful indiScre-
ton. 10 be forever resolutinc about the
enforcement of a law which exper-
fence has shown cannot lee enforced.
The cheap talk about those who OPP
pose this statutory farce not being
good citizens is the mereSt rot Who
IS 10 say whether the majority OF any
stale are loyal 10 its government or
Cot: What select few are authorized
to st in judgment upon the conduct
or views OF half a million people: Who
would Ice first to shoulder his gun 10
-epel foreign invasion. or 10 suppress
rebellion: Was IL the clergy
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-03
TO GOVERNOR morrill,

AS Governor Morrill, seems soreiy
perplexed over the question of salts
factory police commission for Wichita
the Eagle suggests that there is a very
simple way for him to determine what
the sentiment of this people is, and
who will satisfy the majority best as
a board of police commissioners. Let
the governor suggest that if the peo-
pie of Wichita will hold an informal
election, without expense to the state
or city, for the selection of board of
police commissioners that lie will APP
Eagle will guarantee a perfectly fair
election with the polls open to every
is any wholesomeness in the Republi
can idea of home rule, or in the prin-
ciple for which Kansas fought in her
territorial days when her people de-
clared that Kansas was for Kansans
ana not Tor missouri anu Georgia. let
him consent to the suggestion. The
Eagle will farther guarantee that there
shall be no party politics in the con-
test, but that the election shall be con-
Quoted with the utmost propriety and
good order, and that every woman of
awful age shall be as secure and free |
from moleStation at the polls as she |
would be in her own home. The min |
sterS, or the law and order league, may |
select half of the judges and clerks of |
Zach precinct. The Eagle further will |
Igree that the people of Wichita will
lbide the result of such election in all |
,ood faith.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-03
THAT BEAUTIFUL BLUFF.

Brother Marsh Murdoch announces mat
he has been offered $4,000 to move the
Eagle to Galveston. This is a beautiful
bluff on Aarsh's part. He wouldn't
leave Kansas under any circumstances.
The Eagle is paying good money 1t is
one of the handSomest and brightest IA
perS in the west and il is Kansas through
and through. \ red-headed Kansan in
Texas would be hopeless misfit. He
couldn't run a paper down there six
months without getting up a Murdoch
Rebellion that would shake this entire
end of the continent to its foundations
Topeka Capital.
The ''bluff'' is more silly than beau
tiful. No one connected with the
Eagle has announced anything of the
sort. There is not, so far as we know,
the least foundation for any such talk.
There was q time when a newspaper
and real estate syndicate was formed,
consisting Of Galveston and other gen.
tlemen, who offered the editor of the
Eagle just eleven times $4,000 to
identify himself in such a movement.
That was years ago. Under the re-
gime Of the goldbugs money does seem
to have acquired quite an Importance
and desirability, so much SO that thou
sands upon thousands OF good Kan
sas men have been ruined for the want
of it Still money is not all there is
TO life, especially if the life has al
ready been amost spent Money nor
the want Of it will ever drive Us from
the state in which we have lived al
most forty years. However, men have
been driver. from Kansas and the in
dicationS are that more will be- 1t
has come TO that pass that men can
ben found everywhere now declaring
that the Lewelling administration had |
It's redeeming features. Why? Let |
Brother Hudson answer. In the mean |
time count on finding Wichita, the /
Eagle and its editor al the old stand. |
'eady for 4 row or loye-feast, as &C.
'asion may offer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-03
THE BUSINESS TRUTH.

The Journal has thought all the time
that George Martin was playing fast ana
loose with the truth when he was protest
houses in thai town. Now comes great
howl from the town in the suouroS OF
Kansas City becaus the chief down .-Sls
made the joints close on sunday WA VIA
Is the reason men refuse 10 tell tne tIu. .
about the whiskey business when ~.
word can be relied upon in everytnihs
else--l-awrence Prohibit:on) journal
One might as well lie as TO be CHROME
kicker and a crank-it is much more an
teresting to tell a cheerful lie than IL Is
to exhibit a never-ending ache Inere
VIII be beer and whiskey drunk as ions
as the world stands and TO settle a row
and please some people II Is highly proper
to concede that prohibition is success
There are degrees of success anyway.
The great crops make us feel as thous"
we would ike TO write a FEW boom ar
Giles, but If the attention OF eVeryooo! IL
10 be taken up with jaw as 10 Whether
the rum power is properly suppressed or
not a lively effort in favor or materlai
or moral advancement IS Impossible. we
have of late been taking new view OF
this controversy. which shows that there
is but little in il. When one considers
the scarcity of drunken men on the street,
or the number of chronic drunkards aous-
ing their families. II strikes US the noise
about this business IS hardly justinao!e-
One can walk Main street, Kansas CITY,
Missouri. where open saloons abound. ana
one drunken man cannot be seen IN hours
We have seen but one drunken man In
Kansas City, Kansas. in months. and that
man is drunk every day. Let us con-
cede that prohibition is a success. quit
the roar, and all go TO work for business
We repeat that the liquor business Is in
pretty good shape in Kansas City, Kan
sas; so are all our people, morally speak
ing; so are all our moral agencies: what
we want is to make il more comfortable
for people TO do business In the city wesf
Of the state line. The operations OF the
police department for July, from bust
ness standpoint. show well. Our present
behavior is as good as it could be- Let
US now do business.-Kansas City Pro-
Gazette.