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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

sis on the sham. Then, as he still
looked off at the blue hills, thought
full expression came into his conspicu-
Gus white eyes, and he added: But
s'pose, sab, that sham battle might be
better'n no battle at all. 1 will talk
with the men about it, sah."
The upshot of the matter was that
the private soon came to the chairman
and said
II reckon, sab, that we would like the
sham battle, sab, If the Kunnel don't
object, and the folks here wants us to-"
The chairman caught the reflection Of
a mysterious light in the others ex-
panse Of eye as he rolled it away along
the low tops of the Sleepy Hills. Pit
he thought nothing Of 1t, and hurried off
to consult old Mad Wolf, chief of the
Indians Mad Wolf had leading part
in the Minnesota massacre In 1862 and
was reputed still to have the scalps he
took then hidden away, some of them
covered with long fine hair-woman s
hair-or shorter, but still soft and silky
-children's hair-babies' hair. But he
had long since laid by the scalping-
knife, and drew without complaint the
neat but not gaudy rations dealt out by
a paternal government. He was sitting
on the ground, smoking a pale-face
cigarette, when approached by the
chairman, who duly set forth the sham
battle idea. He was careful to eluci-
date the sham point Of the proposed af-
fair, so as not to raise any hopes not
justified by the facts in the bosom OF
the ancient warrior But the Indian
seemed to understand only too clearly.
He snorted a cloud Of cigarette smoke
from his nostrls, grunted in a strong
negative tone, and said
mo want to play with Nlggers."
Then the chairman launched forth his
most persuasive eloquence, using all the
arguments which had awaited with
Private Yancy, and such others as he
conceived would appeal to more saw
age breast. He had at first proposed
that the Indians fight with bows and
arrows, to give the affair an early day
tone, but thinking that the idea of guns
might move the chief more easily, now
told him that they might use their re-
peating rifles, the citizens to furnish
them the same number of blank car
trldges that they did the negroes. The
chairman paused. The chief grunted
less negatively, and looked at the hori-
zon. The chairman clutched at his ap-
parent advantage.
big time! he exclaimed, throwing
his arms about as IL attempting to pic
ture writing on the air. zone hundred
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

Luminous Mushrooms.

A man travelling In Australia found a
large mushroom Weighing Ave pounds.
He took It to the house where he was
stopping, and hung It up to dry in the
sitting room, Entering after dark, he
was amazed to see beautiful soft light
emanating from the fungus. He called
In the natives to examine 1t, and Mt the
first glance they cried out in great fear
that 1t was spirit IL continued to
give out light for many nights, gradu-
ally decreasing until 1t was wholly dry.
DR.. Gardner, while walking through the
streets Of a Brazilian town. saw some
boys playing with a luminous object.
which he at first thought was large
FREELY; but he found on inspection III
was n brilliant mushroom (Agarlc)
which now bears his name, 1t gave out
brilliant light Of greenish hue, end
was called by the natives flor de COCO, )"
as 1t grew on a species of palm. The
young plants emit brilliant light, and
tho older ones phosphorescent Hum
boIdt describes some eXqulsltely beau-
tiful ones he saw In the mines, The
glow In rotten wood is caused by It's
containing the threads Of llght-glving
fungi.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

with electricity that It literally ema-
mates from all of their wearing apparel,
A number Of instances are recorded
where women have worn as inner wraps
what are known as Grape shawls, these
being made Of oriental silk heavily
wrought with embroidery and with long
thick fringe. After rapid walking, es-
pecially in the cold, If the wooden out
side garment Is suddenly dropped off,
the fringe of the silk instantly rises In
a horizontal line and stands out like
rays all around the body, One lady
has the power Of creating this condl-
ton at will simply by throwing a wool
en- wrap over the silk one and walking
smartly about the room for five min
utes. This electric popularity Is much
more observable in silk than In wool,
although In the latter material 1t is suf-
ficlently abundant to cause no little am
noyance In factories where the raw
staple Is worked up The electric an
noyance, however, Is almost always
colncident with the extreme cleanliness
Of the wool, If 1t Is slightly wet and
saturated with oil, there Is very little
trouble, and 1t may be so heavily weight
ed In this way that all inconvenience
disappears. In olden times, when wom-
en- spun their own yarn, 1t was often
found necessary to use very pure and
warm lard In order that the threads
might run more smoothly, otherwise
the fibers seemed to crinlSle and klnk,
and the thread would be rough and Of
inferior quality.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

A Paris medical man of resources,
and alternatives had In hand q case OF
severe and extensive burning, caused
by boiling water, So deep was the In,
Jury that the healing process was great.
ly delayed. The patients family object;
ed to skin-graftlng, which seemed to bel
the only way to accelerate the processl
of recovery, and the doctor as an ex-,
pertinent, applied the internal menu
brane of the hens egg-the white film
with which everybody Is familiar The
injury must have progressed beyond
the suppurative stage, and shown signsI
Of healthy healing, A freshly laid eggi
Is broken and the membrane immedl-I
ately cut into narrow strips and laidl
carefully across the raw surface, then
antiseptio dressings are applied with
carbollc solutions, and the whole Is COW,
cred by tln-foil In n number Of cases,
this procedure has been emlnently sat-
isfaotory.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04
Work and Weather.

So marked is the influence Of the
weather on certain temperaments that
the employers of large numbers OF
men are beginning to take this into ac-
count in promising to I'll large orders.
In some establishments It Is said that
in very gloomy and what is called de-
pressing weather from ten to twenty
five per cent less work is done than ON
bright, clear days. A little investlga-
ton showed that accountants are much
more likely to make mistakes in bad
than In clear weather, and scientists
sometimes decline to pursue their In
vestigatlons when the atmospheric con-
ditions are uncongenlal. This being the
case, there is little wonder that foggy.
dreary, chilly days have frequently
been called Suicide weather"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04
orIrln Of shnvlnr tho ncnrd.

The practice of shaving probably or
iglnated at first from It's being found
that the beard afforded too good hold
to an enemy In battle. This is the
cause assigned for the origin Of shaving
among the Greeks, about the time Of
Alexander; and In most countries we
find that the practice Is first adopted
by military men, and that the men OF
pacific and learned pursuits retain their
boards much later. The Greeks con-
tinued to shave until the time Of JUS
tinian, In whose reign long boards be-
came again fashionable, and remained
In use until Constantlnople was taken
by the Turks. The Romans appear to
have derived the custom Of shaving
from the inhabitants Of Sicily, who
were Of Greek origin, for we find that
a number Of BARRIERS were sent from
hAere to Rome In the year 296 b. c.,
and the refinement Of shaving daily Is
gold to have been first introduced by
no less person than Sclplo Afrlcanus.
At the expiration Of the republic, boards
had become very rare, and historians
mention the alarm In which some OF
the emperors lived lest BARRIERS should
cut their Threats. For the sake Of con-
ceallng the scars on his face the En-
peror Hadrlan wore a beard, and this,
OF course, brought that appendage
again into use, but the custom did not
long survive him, although his two I'M
mediate successors wore boards In the
character OF philosophers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04
somcthInr NOW IN wlndmllln.

The old-tlme wlndmlll-that towering
skeleton OF ribs and fans with which we
are famlliar-has recently been i'm
proved in a fashion that promises much
better results-an increased rate Of
power and much greater ease Of man
agement. Instead Of the fans or arms
turning over and over, wheel-fashion,
the conditions are reversed, the axle be-
Ing perpendicular, and the fans turn
Ing from side to side. This arrange
ment has advantages, In that the ma
chlnery can be made stronger, and by
an ingeniously contrlved set OF levers
the fans open and close automatically.
This Is of great Importance, as a sud-
den gale Is liable to wreck an ordinary
windmill on short notice. With this
new device, 1t Is claimed that no mat
ter how rapidly the fans may revolve
they will catch the wind only at the
proper time, the other side opening to
give free passage to the air; thus the
higher the gale the higher the rate Of
speed and the more effective the ma
chlnery. 1t Is said that in windy coun-
tries enough power can be generated to
run small dynamo. The greatest
value of windmill Is In countries where
continual pumping Of water is neces-
sary for purposes Of irrigation. A wind
mill constructed on this new principle
costs no more than the old style, is In
finltely more effective less liable to get
out Of order, and has greater variety
Of uses than any heretofore made.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

throw light into the dark corners Of this
ingenious poet as matter Of course;
and then you rode out across the ridge
little way and admired Sioux Ghost
Dance.
The Fourth of July was approaching.
It was decided by the patriotic citizens
of Harney's that there must be cele-
bration. In casting about for attrac-
lions the chairman Of the duly APP
pointed committee hit upon the bright
idea Of sham battle in the Sleepy
Hills, just outside Of town. This chair
man was Mr.. Walden Hutchens. Then
another member asked why not have
the Indians from the Rolling Fork
Agency, which was near by, take one
side and the citizens the other? Then
another member had an inspiration.
Why not, he said, get some Of the troops
from Fort De Smet, also near at hand,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

to take the other side "Well do itw
exclaimed Chairman Hutchens, recog-
nizing that the evolution of the idea
could go no further. "It'll make Rome
howl, and lay over any other celebra-
ton in the territory" Chairman
Hutchens was an enterprising young
man of the Harvard class Of seventy
something, and knew a good idea when
he saw 1t.
It happened that the Hath Cavalry,
which was stationed at Fort De Smet,
was negro regiment. 1t seemed as
If they were the darkest-colored Afrl-
cans ever got together. They were big,
strong active fellows, and presumably
good soldiers, but their compilations
were undeniably dark.
Chairman Hutchens was extremely
friendly with Colonel Poinsette, COM
mandant at Fort De Smet, and no
sooner had he recovered from the first
flash of the brilliancy of the mock
battle idea than he hurried away to
consult this officer Colonel Poinsette
hesltated about allowing his men to
take part, but when the fact that they
would no doubt look upon it in the light
of lark Of the first magnitude. and
that they richly deserved a little play
spell, he relented, and said that If the
men desired to engage in it he would
give his consent. So the chairman went
in search of some Of the soldiers to
sound them on the subject. Fortu-
nately one Yancy, a sort Of leader Of
the men when they were off on fur
lough-in civil life he would certainly
have been a politician, and perhaps got
into the legislature-was found in town,
and the chairman approached him. To
his surprise, Private Yancy did not fall
in with the idea readily. He gazed
away at the Sleepy Hills, and said:
mo, sab, reckon us soldiers
wouldn't keer about having no sham
battle with them things" The private
put a marked emphasis on the word
sham, and by things he Of course meant
the proud-spirited red man.
But" went on the chairman, in an
insinuating tone, ut will be a regular
picnic for you fellows. The Colonel,
think, will leave the command in the
hands of the non-commissioned officers
and you can have more fun than bale
of monkeys. Well furnish each one of
you with one hundred blank cartridges
and you can bang away all the after
noon"
The private again gazed away at the
Sleepy Hills. Il dunno. sah," he said.
''Cs soldiers don't keer much bout so
chatting with IGjuns in sham battles"
There was still considerable empha-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04
A Hint to Small Boys.

1t would be great gain to the rising
and the unrisen generations If we could
lead the small boy to believe that there
are better ways than day-long detona-
lions in which to celebrate the Fourth
Of July, and that beautiful and attract
i've things are as eligible for purposes
Of celebration as things that annoy and
disgust the nelghbors and that brighten
adults to flight. 1t is true that the re-
finement of the American small boy is a
tedious and thankless process; but at
the same time 1t would be good for him,
and an inestimable blessing to his SEN
Tors, If 1t were gently but firmly ex-
planned to him that his methods Of cele-
bration are obsolete and barbarous.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

blank cartridges! Heap noise! Shoot all
day! Make believe you kill soldiers!
Make soldiers heap run! Whoop!'
The Indian remained unmoved, but
he gazed off at the hazy, far-away hcr-
lion, and seemed lost in thought. The
blue smoke of his cigarette curled away
and it went out between his fingers.
Then he grunted-affirmatlv
rose to his feet gracefully, and as If it
cost not the slightest exertion. He
drew himself up to his full height, and
said, scarcely parting his lips:
"All right. We sham fight Niggers.
Send up cartridges"
The elated chairman rushed back to
Harney's and reported his success At
a public meeting that evening to con-
slider further the celebration project a
special vote of thanks was given him
for his good work.
Long before the sun peeped over the
Sleepy Hills on the morning Of the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

'GhI OHfI oAlD I1O 1CIlILNO'
yelled to Chief Mad Wolf, in a tone
which made even that hardened savage
think that it was best to obey. Around "a
loose blouse he wore the belt Of blank
cartridges, with the wooden scalping
knife stuck In 1t.
Get off, said Hutchens. The chief
slid to the ground, too astonlshed too
demonstrate. The chairman strobe for
yard and pulled open the blouse. I'm
der It was another belt, bursting with
ball cartridges, big, thick, bottle-necked
Winchesters; and at the side was an
old Hudson Bay company scalping
knife, with deer horn handle, the long
blade newly ground and polished. Every
Indian was similarly provided The
great sham battle Of the Sleepy Hills
was declared off.
The most that either the Indians or
the negroes would ever admit was that
they took along the ball cartridges
SO as to have them lin case anything
should happen" But nobody doubted
that IL they had got out in the hills
something would have happened.-Hay-
den Carruthers in Harper's Weekly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

came first across the level plain cost
Ang nothing to build), and then it
brought the settlers and dumped them
down here and there, occasionally a
trainful at place, which was town,
with other trainfuls peppered about on
the prairie judiciously between the
towns, which were the farmers These
settlers, received by the carload, and
warranted to be prime eastern lots, i'm
mediately established the same grade
of civilization they had enjoyed in the
East; and the result was that the line
between civilization and barbarism was
as sharply marked as the edge Of one
of the white June clouds against the
deep blue of the sky. You attended
your Browning Club. and helped to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

It is rather odd that the Fourth Of
July should have become such day Of
terror, as it undoubtedly is, to the adult
inhabitants Of American cities. Indeed,
the medieval description OF the day Of
wrath" is very fairly applicable. 1t is
the day when the world seems to be dis
solved in pitchy smoke. The coming Of
the national holiday is the signal for
those that are upon the housetops for
protection or refuge from the early
heat, to fee into the mountains.-Ha
per's Weekly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

eone-shaped expansion thlmble. rho
thimble has overlapping side portionsi
connected with each other near the
apex OF the cone by q rlvet which FORMS
pivot, permitting the base end OF the
thimble to readily expand or contract
on moving the disk inward or outward
by turning the screw rod The devicel
may thus be readily fixed In position I'M
the pipe opening, and Is removed with
out trouble when a pipe is to be placed
In the opening.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

brush or where desired, without wnste.
1t has been patented 1t has a conlcalI
bottom and unprecedented top, with AMI
apex opening closed by valve with in
wardly extending stems connected to 81
head carrying a sleeve with an L-shapedI
slot, engaged by pin on the end OF al
plunger. The plunger Is held normally
In the position shown by oolled spring.
and has on Its outer end thumb-piece,l
by pressing on which the valve Isl
opened to pass the powder out of thel
receptacle, the plunger returning tol
normal position on the removal Of the
pressure, and at the same time seatingl
the valve. The valve Is removably con-
nected with the plunger to permit OF
conveniently placing the powder in the
receptacle.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04
THE WORLD MOVES ON.
INVENTION AND DISCOVERY
MARK MILE POSTS.
Tho Electric Properties of Wool-Somo-
thing New In Wlndmllls-A Toilet
Powder Receptacle Chimney for Pipe
Opening Cover.
M=al GMnsr

LMoST any one
who has the habit
lof observation has
noticed that wooden
garments will some
times crackle and
appear to be at
tracted by the
warmth Of the hand
This varies greatly
in different temper
amcnts; some peo-
pie being 50 charged
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

Gus De Smith--Old GrImms LEFT hts
wife pretty well off when he died, didn't
he?
Hostetter McGinnls-Better Off. I'm
fact.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

negro as savage
aping the ways Of the white man, and
despises him for having allowed him
self to be enslaved. Each may, more or
less secretly, look up to the white man,
but each openly looks down upon the
other as something far beneath him.
Fortunately for the peace OF races
our Indian and our negro have come
into contact but little; and the Indian
the negro has touched has been almost
exclusively the more peaceably inclined
Southern variety; and even this was
chiefly, too, while the negro was in
state of bondage, unendowed with free
dom and firearms. The Indian has al
ways had both. The fact that, for these
physical reasons, there has never been
any trouble between the two races is
sufficient excuse for the general public
ignorance of their very candid opinions
of each other. Certainly the citizens of
Harney's, Territory Of Dakota, being
most Of them new come from the North
ern East, where there We're neither In
dams nor negroes, could not have been
expected to know of the ingenious SEN
timents which each entertained toward
the other.
1t was as long ago as the summer of
1880. Harneys had been settled the fall
before, on the completion Of the rail-
road. 1t was settled in a manner SINH
lar to that adopted by boy who goes
out in the middle Of the carpet and
builds a cardboard town, and peoples
it with paper citizens. All of the wheat
growing parts Of the territory were
colonized in this way, artificially as it
WERE That is, instead of pioneers and
frontiersmen penetrating slowly in
wagons and with mule-trains and build
ing their homes in the wilderness, maxi
ing the division between established
civilization and unalloyed barbarism a
broad and underlined belt, the railroad
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

He Condly)-My love has no end.
She (quickly)-Hasnt It? Well, you
want to make limit mighty quick.
Let 1t end with me and go no further.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04

Etiens-Is it correct to precede the
father of your fiancee down stairs?
Gulzzlens-Tery often you have to-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04
A Toilet Powder receptacle.

The illustration shows holder for
tooth powder, etc, arranged to readily,
deliver a certain quantity upon q tooth,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-04
AT SLEEPY HOLLOW.

T MAY BE ABB
ruptly but truth
fully stated that
there is little love
lost between the
negro and the In
dian.
The negro looks
upon the Indian as
a savage incapable
of civilization. The
Indian regards the
negro as a savage
Arizona republican., 1895-06-29
INVESTMENTS.

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 No risk. Easy terms.
 CLARK CHURCHILL, Office Commercial Hotel Block.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-09
CHAMP CLARK ON JERRY SNIP
= SON.

From a recent speech in the House
of Representatives: Mr.. Speaker
When I came into this house 1 had the
newspaper idea about Jerry Simpson.
Finally he got up here and made a
speech on the silver question. I lis
tened to the speech, an I want to say
now, because somebody has got to
state it to the American people, as
Simpson and 1 are going out together
Qaughter), that during the whole OF
that long, able, profound, debate on
the silver question there was not a
man in this house on either side who
delivered a speech that was pitched on
q higher plane of political economy
and human philosophy and stuck to
it to the end better than Mr.. Simpson.
They said that IAN open confess sion is
good for the soul" And I want to
maket that statement now. From that
day to this, instead of having the news,
prper idea of Jerry Simpson, that he is
a cantankerous demagogue, 1 have
regarded him as philosopher, as q
STATESMAN, as one of the friends of
human freedom.