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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31
LINCOLN AND MArRlMoNY.


NOT One OF Flowers,
Letters from Lincoln to his closest
friend, Joshua Fry Speed subsequent
to the latter's marriage, betray an anx-
ious and impatient desire to learn II
marriage is a pathway of flowers and
sunlight, and not OF darkness and pain
the two had mOrbIdly feared 1t to be,
John Gilmer Speed presents these hith-
erto unpublished letters bearing upon
"Lincoln's Hesitancy to Marry" In the
Ladies' Home Journal. In one Lincoln
says:
1T cannot be told how 1t now thrills
me With Joy to hear you say you are
far happier than you ever expected to
be- That much know Is enough.
know you too we'll to suppose your ex-
pectations were not, at least sometimes,
extrayagant, and If the reality exceeds
them all, say, enough, dear Lord. l
am not going beyond the truth when
tell you that the short space 1t took me
to read your last letter gave me more
pleasure than the sum total Of all l
have enjoyed since the fatal first of
January, 1871. Since then, 1t seems to
me, should have been entirely happy
but for the never-absent idea that there
is one referring to Miss Mary Todd
who is still unhappy, whom / have con-
tributed to make so. That still kills my
soul, cannot but reproach myself for
even wishing to be happy while she Is
otherwise She accompanied large
party in the railroad cars to Jackson
vile last Monday, and on her return
spoke so that heard Of 1t, of having en-
joyed the trip exceedingly. God be
praised for that One thing can tell
you which know you will be glad to
hear, and that is that have seen Mary
and scrutinized her feelings as we'll as
I could, and am fully convinced she Ia
far happier now than she has been for
the last fifteen months past"
Eight months after Speed had mar
ried Mr.. Lincoln wrote him:
But l want to ask a close question;
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31
Beautle, Of the material Life.

All the hymns, all the prayers, all the
scripture reading are as nothing I'M
less you make their beauty come into
your daily life, writes Ruth Ashmore
Take some of the care off the shoulders
of the busy mother; make life seem
more pleasant by your gracious thought
of that father who tolls all day long
Make it easier for a sister to dislike
the wrong and do the right; show a
brother the rosy side of the cross and
so make 1t lighter for him to carry.
And do all this, not with loud protes-
tations, but quietly and gently, letting
Gods name be whispered in your heart,
and being only the sister and daughter
without forcing the knowledge that you
are the Christian. Then, very soon
some one will realize that your beauti-
full life is lived for Christ's sake, and
then you will represent Him as all
women should, not by speaking from
the pulpit, not by giving commands,
but by living every day the life that He
would wish should be yours.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31


with her at nights as she was very
timid about being alone
was young and knew little OF the
city and its ways and 1t really seemed
good and homellke to get into Mrs,
Sparrow's cozy little fiat and be treated
as If | belonged there. thanked my
lucky stars that had seen and answer
ed her advertisement for quiet young
gentleman lodger" +,
She took very nattering interest in
me, and did not feel offended nor re-
sent her lnquisitiveness when she ques-
toned me concerning my family and
seemed DESTROYS Of knowing every point
of my personal history. 1t seemed to be
her way Of making conversation, and,
coming from country town as | did,
had seen q great many like her.
Finding | had not been in the city
long she began to warn me concerning
the pitfalls and snares that lay in wait
for young man there, apparently tax
ing the greatest concern in my welfare.
She said she thanked Providence a
thousand times day that her boy had
grown up in the midst Of temptations
to become model young man, OF whom
any mother might well be proud.
Without resorting to Mrs. Sparrow's
tactics Of questioning, l learned that
her son was in some kind Of business
that kept him on the road great deal,
and that he was seldom at home for
more than few hours at a time.
She told me so much concerning h4m
that was very DESTROYS Of meeting Au-
bry, as she fondly called him. l pic
tured him in my mind as bright and
brainy young fellow who had acquired
a most enviable knowledge of the world
and its ways without being contaminat-
ed during the acquisition.
After time Mrs. Sparrow explained
that her son was interested in the life
insurance business, being sort Of So
licitor, as she called it; that Is, he was
not regular agent, authorized to make
out policies, but he travelled about dis
covering "likely subjects" interested
them in life insurance, and then turned
them over to an agent Of some concern
in which they seemed to have the most
faith.
In this way, Mrs. Sparrow explained,
1t was not necessary for him to be
bound to any one concern, but he could
work for them all, taking commission
from the agent of any concern for whom
he obtained a Subject" BY working
in this manner he could make great
deal more money than he could in work
ing for one OK two concerns exclusively.
Had I been older, or had I known a
little more Of the life insurance bust
ness, might have asked Mrs. Sparrow
some questions about her sons connec-
ton with his professed business that
she would not have been able to answer
readily might have entertained some
doubts that did not enter my head as it
was.
Gradually motherly Mrs. Sparrow in
terested me in life insurance. She dis
covered that 1 carried none and then
she led me to understand that it was
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31
A Brown Leaf

In tie woods today a leaf fluttered
down,
1t was wrinkied and old and bent and
brown,
But it met the wind and began to play,
And l watched 1t until it whlrled away.
And could but wonder, when time and
grief
Should have made me old aud bent as
the leaf,
Would my heart be as young and full
OF glee
AS the brown leaf playing in front OF
me?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31

She (dreamily): "Meyerbeer always
brings such sweet recollectlons to me-"
He 0frOm CinclnnatD: II never feel any
effects from 1t, but II take Rhine wine
it goes to my head"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31
The CoIor-Bearer.

Whene'er this man was angry
lie patriotic grew;
His face got red, he then turned white,
And made the air look blue.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31
A NEW LEVIATHAN.
LARGEST SAILING VESSEL NOW
IN COMMISSION.
A Full Rugged Sailing Ship with Five
Masts-Tour Hundred and Twenty
six Feet Long and Fitty-twp Feet
Over Beam,

LITTLE more than
three years have
passed since the
proud German FIVE
master, Maria Rick
mers, started from
an English port on
its first voyage,
from which 1t never
returned. 1t dlsap-
peared W 1t h gu t
leaving a trace.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31
Joe Blsknlfo Murdered.

BANTER SPRINGS, Kan, Oct. 3.--Joe
Bigknife, noted Indian Of the Peoria
tribe, and chief of Indian police, was
murdered yesterday morning by A.
Waller, Peoria Indian. The police
were ordered 10 put some intruders off
The Quapaw reservation by the Indian
agent Waller was defending the
place, and when Bigknife forced an
entrance to the house, Waller shot
him down and drove off three other
no1iceman.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31

Know. then, myself; presume not God
to scan;
The proper study Of mankind is man.
Pope.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31
Postponed for FIve Daya.

fOStpuneu LOT hlNe OWybs
TOPEKA, Kan, Oct 23.---Judge J. b.
johnson, master in chancery OF the
Santa Fe, received information to-day
from Wheeler II. Peckham, solicitor of
the Union Trust company, at present
in New York city, that it would be
necessary to postpone the sale Of the
Santa Fe railroad system from De-
cember to December 10, as the
necessary arrangements will not be
completed before that date.
Closed by Lack OF Business.
WELLINGTON, Kan, Oct. 23.-The
First National Bank of this city closed
its doors at 10 o'clock this morning by
order Of the directors. The bank had
been doing business since 1883, with
capital stock of $4,000 A gradual
shrinkage, of business is responsible
Tor the suspension. The deposits
amount to about $51, 900.
Ball Furnished for Cashier COlean.
Fort SCOTT, Kan, Oct. 23.-Upon
receipt of telegram from Jackson
Vile, Ill, bank, the Citizens National
Bank Of this city went on the bond of
j. P. Colean, the defaulting cashier Of
the State Bank, and he was released.
The original bondsmen is L. Coclryle,
of Jerseyuille, Ill Colean, it is
thought, will Immediately be re-
arrested on another count for embez z
element. He is still unable to arise
from bed. HIS Jerseyville and jack
sonvi1e relatives are all here. The
bondsman is relative Of Mrs. Colean.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-31
GOOD MRS. SPARROW.

HE was a nice
motherly old lady,
and l took to her
Immediately. She
explained that her
son was away from
home a great deal
Of the time, and she
desired a gentle
man ledger, that
she might have
some one in the fiat
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
Real Human Magnets.

a remarkable story comes from the
upper Yakima. Two years ago Peter
Stromstadt located on u piece of land
near what Is now known as Borax
Springs. his family consisted OF his
wife and two children. 4 few DAYS
after his settlement NJ. Stromstadt
discovered a spring close to the shack
he had erected the water OF which
was strongly impregnated with iron,
but not u%npalatable. Mrs. Stromstadt
dug out and deepened the spring, and
since July 1893, the family has used
the water for all domestic purposes,
On the night OF April 2 a heavy cleo
trical storm passed over the Cascades
accompanied by vivid displays of
lightning. The following morning
MT. Stromstadt, while kindling the
fire in the stove, found it almost i'm
possible to separate the stove litter
from her hand. Her husband, hear.
ing her scream, ran to her assistance,
when to her surprise, he found that he
too experienced great difficulty in de.
taching any article OF iron with which
his hands came in contact. Break.
FAST was finally prepared and the fam
lily sat down to the meal. The chill.
dren, two girls OF 5 and 7 years, drank
their milk from tin cups, and on rais.
ing the cups to their lips, found
themselves unable to detaoh the cups
from their mouths. Mr.. Stromstadt,
who is IN intelligent immigrant from
Sweden. wa nonplussed, and, while
unable to account for the wonderful
occurrences. still laughed at his wite's
excited declarations that tho family
was bowitched. MI. Stromstadt has
written a friend in town. He says
that tho smnll bed on which the chill.
dren sleep IL upon roller casters, and
that in tho morning the bed is inyari.
ably pointing north and south, the
bed being Il little to the east OF
north.
The case is one Of the most remark.
able on record a member OF the
Academy OF Sciences, to whom the
circumstances were related, statest TINT
the Stromstadt family has become
shturatcdwitlI iron, which was render.
el magnetic by tho passage OF cleo.
tricity from the clouds to the earth
during the storm on the night Of April
l, and they are real human magnets.
Tacoma News,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
AIasonIe GRIND omcers.

The Grand Lodge of +. & A. NJ
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year:
j. G. Hazlett, Grand Master; Enoch
Strother, Deputy Grand Master; ID.
w. Virgin, Senior Grand Warden:
Albert Lackey, Junior Grand War
den; Henry l.. Fish, Grand Treas.
urer; G. n. Noteware, Grand Secre.
tary.
The Grand Master made the follow.
ing appointments:
Trenmor Coffin, Grand Orator; T.
l.. Crockett, Grand Chaplain; ]. II.
Miller, Grand Marshal; S. II. Fraser,
Grand Standard Bearer; W. w.
Stephens, Grand Sword Bearer; Ru
fus II. Kinney, Grand Bible Bearer;
Geo. A. Marzen, Senior Grand Dea.
con; b. II. Reymers, Junior Grand
Deacon; Joseph Sparks and j. d.
Campbell, Stewards; Matthew Kyle,
Grand P%ursuiyant; j. II. Epworth
Grand Organist; ]. Rothenbucher,
Grand Tyler.
Winnemucca was selected rs the
place for holding the next annual
communication OF the Grand Lodge
on the second Tuesday OF June, 1896
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
-. all.,r-C onr..tlon.

MEA1ms, June 13.-The Silver
Convention mat at 1915 this morning
and opened with prayer by Rev. DR..
Brooks, after which the arrival Of
delegates from Arizona and Arkansas
was announced.
Chairman Turpie then said the
Committee on Resolutions was not
ready to report, and introduced Sen
ator Stewart from Nevada, who add.
dressed the convention.
At the conclusion OF his speech
Stewart was warmly congratulated.
There were loud cries for Congress.
man Allen OF Mississippi, but when it
was discovered that he was not pres.
ent. calls were made for H. d. Money
of Mississippi.
Money stated that he was silver
from head to foot and Democrat all
over. He said that the only thing
that stood in the way OF free silver
was the power OF the executive. He
believed il a Republican President
had been elected last election, the last
Senate and House of Representatives
would have passed a free silver law,
but it was prevented by the pressure
OF the administration.
Congressman Allen entered the
hall during the speech OF Money, and
when the latter concluded the forme,
was called to the front and amused
the convention with some funny sto
ries.
At the conclusion OF Aliens re
marks, a recess was taken until Oh
o'clock.
Immediately upon the reassemb
ling OF the convention at $50, Senate
j. X. Jonse of Arkansas, the Chair
man, presented the report of the Com
mittee on Resolutions.
The resolutions we're quite lengthy
They assert the recent depressio,
was due to Il conspiracy by which
silver was demonetized. Tho effec
OF the gold standard is to establish
one standard for the creditor and on,
for the debtor, and no just law es
taolishes one measure of sa.ue for th,
borrower and one for the lender
The restoration of silver as n none,
metal on an equality with gold, ant
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer and gold at the ratio of 16 to /, il
demanded. While internatiopa
agreement Is desirable the Unitet
States should not wait upon thi
agreement nor surrender its sovereign
night to regulate it's financial affair
in the interests OF its people.
Tho resolutions were unanimousl,
adopted.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
P.ri.h.d ON III. Desert.

Mr.. James Wallace who arrived in
Austin from Silver Peak last Mon.
day informed the Reveille that on
Tuesday last the remains OF q man and
his horse were found on tho Wads-
worth road, having persisted from the
want OF water. The remains OF the
dead man were brought to Downey
vile where an inquest was held by the
Coroner OF Esmeralda County At
the inquest it vas brought out that
the wife OF the section boss at Luning
had refused the deceased water for
himself and horse, telling deceased
that he would find water at u spring
on the road. 1t is certain that the
spring was not found and par.
ties who have travelled the road, say
it is impossible for a traveller to find
it. Mr.. Wallace had forgotten the
name OF the deceased, but says that
he was well dressed, had s240 in gold
and SlS in silver in his pocket, n gold
watch and chain, and q diamond ring
on one OF his fingers, there was also a
fifty dollar slug attached to the watch
chain. The deceased was buried in
Downeyville last Wednesday. In the
cart in which deceased travelled, was
plenty OF provisions and as there was
no signs OF foul play it was convincing
to the coroner's jury that deceased
and his horse persisted for want o.
water.
The section boss, whose wife re
fused tho traveller water, has beer
asked for his resignation, to take plac,
on the Doth inst.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
Nothing tn Report.

The San Francisco Argonaut says:
a young reporter was sent out re-.
Gently by the city cnitor Of one OF the
San Francisco papers to report n
meeting. About midnight tho young
reporter returned with n sad counte.
nance. Tho city editor asked him to
get the report up Immediately, rs IL
was nearly time to go to press.
There will not be any report on that
meeting.' was the answer "Why
notH' queried the city editor. 4Trhere
was not any meeting,- replied the
poung reporter; "it broke up IN Il big
row, and the Chairman WINS chuckcd
under the table,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
rh,Micr,ph.ns.

a man from Tcxas sat in tho Hole
Brunswick yesterday and told tire,
ia-told them deliberately. He VA
NOT an Ochiltree. either. One o
them may be worth reading. Sale
he:
sYou'ye got your new-fangled mic
rophono at work. 1 see, but I just want
to tell you folks up here that We have
a natural n down in Texas that
beats il all hollow. I reckon he's
about IL years old now. He'sgot two
ears-one big and one little. With
the big ear he can hear the rumblings
OF astorm 100 miles away. He beats
the Weather Bureau predicting rain.
He hears every year the song of Mir
lam after Moses and his friends
crossed the Dead Sea. He has heard
tne booming Of the gums at the battle
OF Waterloo, and even repeats word
for word the orders OF Napoleon on
that occasion. No sound that ever
the air to vibrating is lost IN
him. IL he happens to get in the line
OF excitation. With his little ear he
can hear the faintest sounds ON earth.
Hecan hear a fly walking on q window
pane, or flying through the air. He can
hear u flea hop, OF a spider weaving
her web. Ona dark night he can
hear a fish swimming. l have known
him to hear night coming on and set
lie down. He never heard the moon
Use, but there IT good reasons, l am
old, for that. l am here to get Bar
to give him a place in his freak
how FIX.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
Drowned in the rruokee.

Hon. j. P. Foulks, of Verdi, was
drowned in tho Truckee river at Re-
no Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Foulks
and Mr.. George W. Brewers, OF Oak
land, had gone up the river in u row
boat during the afternoon to look into
a scheme for utilizing the.water power
below the dam for milling and cleo.
trical purposes. They went some dis.
lance up the river to an island where
they spent some time and the started
to return, Mr.. Foulks rowing the
boat. As they left the shore the boat
was caught by the current and drifted
rapidly toward the. dam, and. despite
the efforts Of both men, the boat was
carried broadside over the dam.
Mr.. Brewer being a goad swimmer
made n desperate struggle for his life
and succeeded in reaching q small
island in the river. He did not see
MIR. Foulks or the boat after it went
over the dam. Mr.. Brewer was taken
from the island late in the afternoon
and though badly bruised is not seri.
ously injured.
1t is supposed that Mr.. Foulks was
knocked senseless when the boat
went over the dam. His body drifted
several miles down the river and was
found about 8 o'clock Tuesday night.
The deceased was a prominent citizen
OF Washoe county and one OF the most
enterprising men in the State of Ne.
vada. His death lisa grievous loss to
his family, Washoe county and the
State -
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
Tho Monkey Up a Tree.

Il sec the monkey up a tree. He
sees me and gets behind the trunk
OF the tree, ! start to go around him,
and he keeps going around as l do,
keeping the trunk OF the tree between
him and me. 1 reach the place |
started from, with the monkey still
opposit on the tree. Now, | have
been around the tree. Have / also
been around the monkey" a Boston
woman is quoted rs saying: Il tried
1t on my husband, / had him for the
monkey, and 1 took a whisk broom
and went around him brushing his
clothes. He kept turning around
inst as l did, and when l had been
clear around had only brushed one
side OF him and one leg Of his panta.
looms. Now, all the professors Of
Harvard University couldn't convince
me that / had been around that man
and neither had the man been around
the monkey in the tree. Buffalo
Express,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
Wells Will Celebrate,

The ladies of Wells come to the
front to day with II Fourth OF July
adj. There will be literary exercises
at 10 o'clock and IA barbecue at 10.
AT two O'Clock there will be chill.
dren's games with fine prizes for the
winners.
The whole arrangements for the
celebration are in the hands OF the In.
dies supported by the entire popula.
ton OF the town, which is a sure guar
anteo that it will be n grand sue,
cess. Don't forget Wells when max.
ing arrangements for u place to cello.
bratc the Fourth. See the nd.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT,

The action OF the German Bimetal-
lie union, as told as The News Berlin
cable this morning, should put u
quietus on the talk Of accomplishing
anything for silver through the medi.
um OF an international conference
within a reasonable time. The reso.
lutions adopted by the union place
Germany tagging along behind Eng
land. While it is true that bimetal-
lie sentiment in England is increas-
ing, it will probably be years before it
is sufficient to cause Great Britain to
abandon the gold standard policy
under which it is bleeding all it's
deLY5
The chain of the great banking
houses OF Europe is securely fastened
about the necks OF European nations
and the direction of their efforts now
Is to fasten it on the United States
President Cleveland has recently
turned the care of,the so-called gold
reserve over to the Rothschild-M Nor.
gan syndicate, which is practically
fulfilling for the United States the
same duty that the Bank OF England
does for Great Britain. The United
States government proceeded without
the sanction OF law in it's handling o.
the coinage of silver dollars, and it i
now proceeding without sanction d
law in going out Of the banking bus
iness.' The offices which the syndi,
cate is ~dischnrging in caring for the
gold reserve are much the same as il
ths issue of currency had been turned
over to it with the accompanying dut,
of providing for redemption.
1t is time Tor the people Of The
United State. to put the screws on
When we have reihstated free coin
age the countries OF Europe will bt
forced to follow or lose the trade Of
four-fifths Of thu population OF the
earth. Let us have an end OF interna.
tional agreement talk till we have
lever to work with.-Denver News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-16
Notice to Creditors.

Estate OF friedrich King, deceased
Notice 10 hereby given by tho under.
signed, Administrators OF tho Estate
OF friedrich King deceased, TO Tho
creditors OF, and 10 all persona Inv.
ing Claims against tho enid deceased.
TO exhibit them with tho necessary
vouchers, within four months alto,
tho fret publication VI this notice, 10
tho undersigned administrative NJ
rho residence OF William Henry in
Star Valley 10 tho County Of Elko.
tho sSme being her place for Tho
transaction Of the business OF said os.
tate.
ALICE V. HING,
ADMINISTRATIVE OF tho estate OF Frod-
rick King, deceased.
Dated at Elko, New, March 20, 1895.
March 22.4w WI
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Heney,s BOND.

The Journals Carson correspondent
under date Of the 18th says:
"Atabout IL a. NJ. Heney appeared
before u. s. Commissioners Edwards
in company with his attorney, Wood.
burn, U. s. Marshal Humphrey, De.
tective Grant and others. Commls-
sioner Edwards wanted to put Heney
under s25, 900 bonds, same as Johnny
Jones, to appear before the Grand
Jury. Woodburn strenuously objec.
ted ON the ground that Heney had
voluntarily surrendered and come
home to face the music. U S. Dis
trict Attorney Jones being absent
on legal business at Saltwater,
Churchill county, on motion OF WCv;.
boun the matter was deferred until
10 A. n. Saturday next, Hcncy mean
while being remanded to the custody
Of the u. S. Marshal, where he will
remain under the eagle eye OF his
mother n.law until further notice."