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The herald., 1897-12-03
KANSAS QUAKES
Ratified the Dishes But Did No Serious
Damage

WICHITA, Kan, Dec. "A slight
earthquake shock startled the citizens
of Wichita at u :53 this morning
Telephone messages from Wellington
and Hunnewell, Kan, describe the
earthquake as quite violent in those
cities. 1t reached south into Oklahoma.
REPORTS FROM SEVERAL CITIES.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2.-Specials from
Pratt and several other points halfway
across the State and near the Oklahoma
boundary, to the Star, say slight earth
quake shocks We're felt at those places
last night. No damage appears to have
been done.
At Pratt n distinct shock was expert
enced at 1858. 1t was not severe but
strong enough to cause furniture to
rock and lamps and dishes to rattle
The disturbance lasted about three Sec
onds.
The shock at Kingman was felt at
am. The vibrations were from north
to south, lasting about ten seconds. No
damage was done SO far as known.
IN ARKANSAS.
ARKANSAS CITY, Ark, Dec. 2-At
1903 this morning an earthquake shock
of considerable energy was felt here.
Many people were alarmed and rushed
from their rooms. The shock lasted ten
seconds
The herald., 1897-12-03
A COLLIER BURNED
The Sailors Lost no Time in Seeking
Safety

HARRISVILLE, Mich, Dec. 2.-The
steamer Egyptian, bound from Cleve-
land to Milwaukee with cargo of coal,
burned to the waters edge in Lake
Huron last night off Sturgeon Point. The
fire was discovered by the Sturgeon Point
life saving crew about clock and they
started at once to the rescue, arriving
at the burning boat at II o'clock. On the
way to the steamer, the life saving crew
passed barge which had taken the
Egyptians crew off, but the life savers
continued on their way with the hope of
being able to save the burning hulk.
There were twelve vessels around the
Egyptian during the early part of the
fire but by the time the life savers reach
cd her they were all gone. Without help
OF any kind at hand the life savers were
compelled to leave the Egyptian floating
without doing anything, after rowing
about thirty-five miles. None of the life
savers suffered permanent injury from
The herald., 1897-12-03
OFF HIS HEAD
A Canada Preacher Arrested for
Shoplifting

TORONTO, Ont, Dec. 2.-The Rev.
VIM. Bates, rector OF the Anglican
church at Thorn Hill, near this city. was
arraigned in the police court on a charge
Of having "shoplifted" two dozen lead
pencils, four books hair brush and a
quantity of stationery from depart
ment store. The clergyman wore long
inverness cloak, and the shop police all
lege that he was caught secreting arti
cles which he had not bought under this
garment. He was arrested and taken
to the police headquarters and the miss
ing articles We're found secreted in sew
eral deep pockets of the cloak. When ar
raigned in court he secured a weeks
remand and was subsequently bailed
out by Bishop Sweetman. Mr.. Bates is
graduate Of Cambridge and one of the
most scholarly in the church His friends
state that he has been somewhat eccen-
'iic lor some years and if guilty he COM
nltted the act in fit Of mental abberra-
ton.
The herald., 1897-12-03

nessee was $4451.05. The work consist
ed of SS90.6 feet of grading and gravel-
ing, and $3.50 feet of curbing.
The grading, graveling and guttering
of First street from Clarence street to
Boyle avenue cost s2761.55, and the inn
provement of Rosemont avenue amounts
to $26S2.05. The Macy street improve
ment from Date street to Howard
amounted to S5796.25, and that portion of
the same street from Date street to Main
cost $90797. The assessment for the
of Johnson street between
Downey avenue and Altura street
amounts to $1366S4.
The herald., 1897-12-03
the cold. The Egyptian was owned by
Nelson 8. Whipple OF Detroit.
ALL THREE DYING
An Arkansas Girl Left without a
Lover

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Dec. 2.-Partic-
ulars Of three-cornered duel which
took place at a church near Huntsville
last night were received here today. 1t
seems that Seth Lowe. VIII Phillips and
John Howard. farmers. were in love
with the same girl. Miss Irene Pruett.
Miss Pruett went to prayer meeting
with Phillips last night and there they
met the other young men. The girl went
into the building, while the men repaired
a short distance away to discuss the sit
uation. Howard and Lowe jumped on
Phillips, who got out his revolver and
shot Howard through the body, but be-
fore he could cock his pistol second
time Lowe pulled down on Phillips and
completely paralyzed him with bullet
through the small of the back. Phillips
shot Lowe from the ground. however,
wounding him dangerously in the left
shoulder. The fight created a panic In
the church. 1t is said all three men are
fatally injured.
The herald., 1897-12-03
LICENSES COLLECTED
Number and Amount Paid to the Col
lector for N November

The monthly report Of the license col
lector was filed in the city clerk office
yesterday, and will go to the council
During November there were issued
1406 licenses of the. par value of S14,090. so.
OF these 1915, valued at S13,69250, were
collected and the money paid in; 49,
worth S39S, were returned uncollected.
OF the latter number SO were reported
to be either errors, double assessments
or against those who had gone out of
business, and We're therefore Cancelled
For the purpose of making another
effort, 147, valued at S295, We're returned
to the collector.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Excessive Assessment

j. K. eager filed a petition to the city
council in the office of the city clerk
yesterday in which he claims that in the
last assessment he was charged in the
assessors books with three and two
thirds acres of land on the east side of
Central avenue. He claims that he
should have been assessed for only two
and one-haf acres, and asks the return
to him of the difference Of the taxes.
The matter will go to the finance COM
mlttee of the council.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Desperate Criminals

SAN JOSE, CAL, Dec. 2.--Jailer Black
believes the prisoners confined IN one
tank had planned to break for liberty
and that he has had q narrow escape.
In examining q packge Of food and var
ious little articles for Alonzo Dilly,
against whom there Is charge of burg
larry, the jailer found carefully concealed
an ounce of pulverized cayenne pepper.
He is confident that this was to have
been thrown into his face at a fitting
moment and rush made. He is now
investigating the matter.
The herald., 1897-12-03
To Vacate an Allev

Several property owners residing on
the Chavez tract have petitioned the
council to abandon and vacate an alley
between Haizlip and Newell streets.
They claim that the alley has been
plated for several years and has been
on the maps of that district but has never
been used.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Robbery Resisted

ST. LOUIS, Dec "A special to the
POST Dispatch from San Antonio, Tex,
says: Advices were received here this
morning of an attempt to hold up
Mexican Central passenger train near
Monterey, Mexico, by nine masked men.
The passengers made resistance and the
outlaws We're unsuccessful. They are
being pursued by soldiers and if cap
tured will be shot
The herald., 1897-12-03

Buderback tied their hands with ropes.
which he fastened to the rafters Obs
taining q corn knife from an adjoining
room, he commenced cutting his family.
infllcting some dreadful wounds. Before
he could complete his work, his son came
in. Buderback seized fnusket and dis
appeared. He has not yet been found.
The villagers threaten to lynch him.
The condition OF Mrs. Buderback and
the children is serious.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Disguised Burglars

WARSAW, Ind, Dec. alive rob-
bers entered Miles & Higbee Bank at
Milford early today. They bound and
gagged Night Watchman Milton Stiff
fler. DR.. Black, who passed on his way
home. was also seized and gagged. The
robbers then drilled a hole in the safe
and several charges of dynamite were
exploded, but only disfigured the safe
without opening it. In their rage, tho
robbers burned $1,000 Of valuable secur-
itieu and departed, leaving no clue.
The herald., 1897-12-03
A Non-Resident's Protest

IT. r. Hancock filed protest yester-
day against the grading, curbing and
sideWalking Of Z street, or Avenue Al.
The protestant is o nonresident, and
claims that he is the owner of one-half
the property along that street He SAYS
that there is no one living on that street.
and that the natural condition of it Is
almost as good as it would be after i'm.
DrOVement
The herald., 1897-12-03
Crazy Over Cuba

MILFORD, Del, Dec. 2.-Salvage
Buderbaci:, charcoal burner. attempt
ed to kill his family last night. He said
to his wife: Il have just learned to use
the kind Of sword the Cubans use. Now
want all of you to stand up"
The mother and children arose and
The herald., 1897-12-03
Labor Bureau Report

The monthly report of the superintend-
ent of the free labor bureau was filed
with the city clerk yesterday. 1t shows
that during November laborers were
ordered as follows: Male, 537; female. SO:
total, 579. Those sent out We're: Males
527; females, "a total sol.
The herald., 1897-12-03
COST OF STREET WORK
Amounts to Be Assessed for Various
improvements

The computation of the cost of inlproy-
ing a number of streets has been made
in the street superintendent office. and
the rate of assessment on them win he
announced in a few days. The Fifth
street Improvement, one Of the best Jobs
that has been done in the city in months
Will be paid for by q division of an as
sessment, the total of which will be S12,-
S3S15.
The cost of the Improvement Of
twelfth street from San Pedro to Ten
The herald., 1897-12-03
READY Fer THE VOTING
Ballots and Books for the Bond Elec-
ton Ready for Delivery

City Clerk Hance has almost COM
pleted his work of preparing for the
bond election next Tuesday. The bal
lots have been printed and the poll books
and registers have been completed. These
have been wrapped in packages so as to
be delivered at each precinct. There will
be but one precinct open in each ward.
1t is expected that the vote will be
not more than half that which was cast
at the last election.
The herald., 1897-12-03
Medicos Dine

The members of the Southern Califor-
mia Medical society enjoyed a semi-an-
nual banquet last evening at the Maison
Doree. The affair proved a very pleas
ant one. Some seventy-fve sat at the
table.
The herald., 1897-12-03

John w. Davis of the California Opti-
cal company, San Francisco, is in the
The herald., 1897-12-03

Arizona is remote from customs civ
iltzing sway. On that account, perhaps.
it is that our football season begins, not
ends, on Thanksgiving day. On that
date Arizona's first game was played at
Phoenix between the Prescott team and
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12

show portraits Of the Pilgrim
a..
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12

Philadelphia wnen II years old
and hired to a Mr.. Read, and
fell in love with Deborah; his
daughter; was never idle; read
and studied in every leisure mo-
ment; mastered French, Italian,
Spanish and Latin; became post
master of Philadelphia, then
postmaster general of all the COL
nies; established the Philadelphia
library, the Philosophical society
and the University Of, ,Pennsylva-
uia, and not long after he drew
tightening down from heaven with
a kite and a string and a key.
What a man he was! What a
boy!
BILL ARP.
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12
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and all BILIOUS COMPLAINTS are relieved by taking
WRIGAT'S INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS
Purely Vegetable; No or!ss., PRO, 2E', All Druggists.

WANTED!--An gen in
every town to sell the Post
Dispatch. The Post-Dispatch
contains from 8 to IA pages
daily and from 38 to so Sunday.
The Sunday Post-Dispatch is
the biggest and best Sunday
paper outside Of New York CITY.
Besides its $4,000 words of spec
ial telegraph it contains IL to
l6-page magazine section, This
is a big budget of bright in
teresting articles arranged in a
most artistic mannea. Write for
samples. Big money for agents.
Nearly a hundred per cent prof
it, Don't think your town Is too
small but write for particulars
and try il, Address at once
Post-Dispatch,
ST. Louis, Mo.
Circulation dept.
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12
"A LITTLE NEON EY

n vested in tho great Lead and
Zinc mlN'ng region Of Missouri ana
Kansas ,Galcna, Empire Guy,
Jophn, Wcbd CItN UarLcv,IIro.is
very likely to make You a fortune.
lhat Is common experience in tmv
rch mlning section. New IMMORAL
strikes are beng made daIIy.
Good mineral lands are vet chpqp.
No other mines Of any character
ofer 80 sure road to wealth,
The Kansas City, Fort Scott and
memphis raiIroad is the ouIy h1c to
al OF these great mining camps
Tor map and time table folder, ad.
dress.
j. Il, LOCKWOOD,
Gent Paos'r Agt.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12
MERE SPARKS,
BILL ARP.

A man afraid that he will spoil
his originality by reading books
ought to be put under a glass
case so as to be preserved from
too much contact with the
world.
The professed christians who
squander their energies in idle
pursuits, and yet have no time
for religious duties, will meet
with a dreadful reckoning.
To treat your friend with kind
ness while he lives is vastly better
than to make a great ado over
him when he is dead.
Some people really seem to
think that it is possible for them
by the use of adroit contrivances
to deceive God.
To withhold appreciation from
one to whom it is due is to be
guilty of very serious form of
dishonesty.
A little of the courtesy that you
waste on the world might very
we'll be spent your own home.
A little thinking would add a
new charm te the flood of talk in
which most people indulge.
All the coarseness of a man or
woman's soul often comes out in
single unreflecting word.
A great many of the most CEN
surable acions of our lives are
the result of cowardice.
Voluntary ignorance is a sin
against God and ones own soul.
Work never becomes oppressive
until it becsmes hopeless.-Ex.
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12
Memphis Route.
Kansas City, Fl. Scott &
Memphis R. R,

The best line to Kansas City, the
West and Northwest, Palace
Sleeping Cars and Reclining Chair
Cars seats free on all through
trains. Entire equipment first
class. Close connections at Union
Depot, Kansas City. The only
line with through service from the
West to the South and Southeast,
Entire tram runs through from
Kansas City to Birmingham Ala,
and to New Orleans, Send for
map and timetable folder. Write
for Illustrated papers and pamph-
let's, with county map, descrlp,
tive OF Missouri, Kansas and Ark
ansas, mailed free. Address
j. K. LOCKWOOD,
J. j. Fletcher,
Traffic Manager,
Kansas City.
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12
TW ELVE REASONS.

The St. Louis Republic
gives a dozen good reasons
why newspaper readers should
read this paper. Here they are
l. The Republic Is the great
est newspaper published.
3 1t has a cable news service
over the entire civilized world.
which no other st. Louis paper
can secure.
3. Special correspondents in
all the large cities and capitals
of Europe.
4, News Bureau in New York
City and Washington, D. G.
s. Special correspondence in
7. Publishes daily the mark
ct reports of theworld.
s. Issues a magnificent color,
ed magazine cover with the
Sunday paper.
9. More rotelwdriters and ar
lists contribute TO the Republic
than any other paper.
10. Issues an unequaled four
page comic with each Sunday
paper free.
II. Publishes pages of inter
est and value to womankiud.
II. Its 10 cent Dress Pattern
Department is the most popular
featrre ever introduced dv a
every city and town inth e Yves.
tern Uuited States.
g. Member Of the Associated
Press, the greatest news gath
Serer in the world.
newspaper. Thousands patro.
,nize it.
The daily and Sunday st.
louis Republic is 6 dollars n
'year, 3 dollars for six months
and l,50 for three months. The
Twice Week Republic is 1
40 laa year-!O4 papers, two
each week.
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12
AMONG TllE OXAgsNS.

TIM LAND OF BIC RED APPLES, is
an attractive and interesting book
handsomely illustrated with views
of South Missouri scenery, mclud,
ing the famous Oldcn fruit farm Of
5000 acres IN Howell Co, 1t per.
talns 70 fruit raising in that great
fruit belt Of America, the southern
slope of the OzOrks, and will prove
of great value, not only to trmt.
growers, but 10 every farmer and
home'secker looking for q farm
and q home,
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12

One Of the most amusing things
in the world is the opinion some
of our Northern brethren have of
us. They appear to think that
each person in Arkansas have
a private grave yard of his own.
That ignorance is our chef
production and that nothing
amuses the average Arkansian
more than flooding the streets
with the blood Of his fellow man;
when the truth is, thore is not a
more peaceable country on earth
than ours and genuine chivalry
by any country is
something our people pride
themselves in.-Des Arc Guidon.
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12
'Snap shOts in south
NEISSOUHHn

Is a magnificent book of slZty or
more photo>engraved views OF
varied scenery IN South Missouri,
From these views an arcgrate
knowledge can be obtained as TO
the productions and general
topography of that hlghIy'fayored
section that now attracting the
attention of home>se. kers and in
vestors the country over.
Address J. E. LOCK WOOD,
G. P. A. Memphis Route,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Talks Like Father.
Bill Arp Tell, :Ao s'7ss f'v !li'si W'F:s
-h.i, EnoSins.

feet knowledge OF many calllngs
renders a man happier than per-
fcction in any one and oompara-
tive ignorance OF all the rest.
Great scientists, discoverers and
inventors seem to be necessary
for the worlds progress and the
good of mankind, but their work
is generally at the expenses of
their health and happiness. Sir
Isaac Newton in his last days ex-
claimed with a sigh. 81 have
made a slave of myself" d" His
great mind was always on a strain
in one direction. 1t is said of
him that he had a hole cut in the
lower part of the door for his
favorite cat to enter and exit,
and when she had pair of kit
tens he had two smaller holes
cut for them. The mind is like
the body. 1t must have a varie-
ty of food. 1t is like the muscles
of the arms or legs. If only one
set are used the other becomes
weak and will gradually perish
away.
was talking not long ago to
a learned judge, a man of fine ju-
dicial mind and literary attain
ments, butwho acknowledged his
very limited knowledge of nature
and natures laws. 81 hardly
know one tree from another" "
said he, excepting, of course,
the chestnut, hickory nut and
walnut. Yes of course, / know
the pine and the oak. Indeed l
have never had any occasion to
know more for | was raised in
town and books have absorbed
me-"
COTTON GROWING On TREES.
| was ruminating about this
because our little girls mother is
teaching her. to draw and to paint,
and | asked her to draw me a
chestnut tree, an oak tree and a
maple tree. She is working on
them now and has to 60 out and
look at them and examine the
bark on the trunk, and the shape
of the limbs and the leaves.
wonder how many boys and girls
can draw a hickory leaf without
looking at one. | should like to
see their specimens. Thousands
of boys, especially country boys
know all the common trees of
their neighborhood, but it requires
close and careful observation to
describe them and point out the
difference. Now there are ten
different kinds of oaks in this
country, but few town raised peo-
pie can name half of them. Then
there are different kinds of hick-
ories and pines and ash and elm
trees, besides the blackberry box
elder, popular beech locust and
cottonwood. Eugene Le Hardy
was very learned and scientific
Frenchman, but thought that
American cotton grew on the
cottonwood trees and that we
gathered it by using ladders. 1t
is said that O Mr.. jackson, Of
Atlanta, is trying to introduce
the ladder kind now and has got
the tress up to fourteen feet high.
The study of tho trees and
shrubs Of this southern country
is a delightful and instructive
recreation for young people, and
| wish they would pay moro at
tention to it. Ofcourse this study
requires somo knowledge Of bota-
ny, but this is easily acquired.
This kind of knowledge is more
useful and more comforting than
a college smattering of calculus
comic sections and Rhetoric and
logic. | do not believe there are
ten men in BartoW county who
1..s -. 4
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12

cotlng. what KIND Tor maulS or
wedges or canes? DR.. Oliver
Holmes must have studied all
these questions when he wrote
the Zone Hoss Shay"
$50 the deacon inquired of the
village folk
Where he could find the strongest
oak,
That couldn't be split nor bent
nor broke;
That was for spokes and floor and
sills,
He sent for lancewood to make
the thills,
The crossbars were ash from
straightest trees;
The panels were white wood that
cuts like cheese,
And the hubs of logs from the
settlers elm"
But perhaps Dr.. Holmes got it
all from some old honest wagon
maker, for they know. I'll bet
that Mr.. Bradley, of our town,
can answer every question. The
boys ought to find out that black
locust and chestnut and Usage
orange make the best posts, and
black gum the best hubs, and
persimmon the best wedges or
gluts, and sassafras the best
bows, and white oak the best
baskets. In England it is claim
ed that the yew tree post will
last longer than an iron one.
The boys ought to know that the
barks of all trees are non-con-
ductors Of heat and cold, and
keep them cool in summer and
warm in winter, and the green
leaves are lungs that inhale the
carbon from the air and not only
make wood for the tree, but puri-
fly the atmosphere that we brathe,
and hence every habitation ought
to have some trees about it. The
boys ought to know that those
beautiful islands In the sea are of
coral formation and kept growing
until they grew above the water,
and then some cocoanuts came
floating along and lodged there
and sprouted and grew and the
leaves of the trees fell down and
rotted and made a soil for more
cocoanuts, and in course Of time
the island became a paradise.
That is the testimony of the
rocks, The boys should watch
the gossamer ball that floats away
in the air from the sweet little
dandalion plant. So light and
so feathery that it would takea a
thousand Of them to weigh an
ounce, and yet the seed are there
for more plants and they are
wrapped, as it were, in a blanket
to protect them from the winters
cold So it is with the seed of
the Scotch thistle that is blown
about by II breath Of air like it
was nothing, but it has the germ,
the embryo Of life in it, and will
find a lodging place somewhere
and sleep until spring, and then
make no mistake, it will not come
up a dandalion, but will surely
make q thistle, In the horticul-
tural gardens at London are rasp-
berry plants that came from seed
found in a mans stomach who
had been buried 100 years.
BEN FRANKLIN's GENIUS.
Study nature as you 60 along,
boys, and it will make you wiser
and better and happier mon.
Find out why it is q dead bird
weighs more than a live 0ne, and |
by what force or power a buzzard !
can sail round and round in the !
above you and never bat u wing
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12

$4,000. 90 year Is being mace VI JoinlA
Goodwin, Troy MY. at work for us, ReacaL
you may not make as much, but we can
teach you qui Nly how o csrn nom 80 TO
$40 day at the start, and nor as you 60
on. Both sexes, all ages. In any part q
SAmerica, you cGn commence At home, Civ
fling all your time,or spare moments only to
the work All is new. Great pay " RI fur
every worker. We start yoG, furnishing
everything. EASILY, SPEEDILY learned
PARTICULARS FREE. Address at once
SfINSUN g. co., PORILANO. bAlHE
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12
letter, Salt-Rheum and .,

The intense itching and smar;I
dent to these diseases, isinstantISI
by applying Chamberlain \
Skin Ointment. Many very N
have been permanently cureS \ \
is equally efficient for itcbinoII
a favorite remedy for Sors ,
chapped hands, chilblains, n,
and chronic sore eyes. S5cts,
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12

DR.. Cady's Condition Porl,
just what a horse needs vbs'i
condition. Tonic, blood puTs
vermifuge. They are moi h
medicine and the best in use h h
horse in prime condition. i
cents per package.
Sharp County record., 1897-11-12

w ANTED SEVERAL ,
- W Full MEN OR II
TO travel for responsible s,.
house in the State Of a. i
''"'''y H'I'' payable
weekly aud expenses,
permanent. Rnierenco
self-addresSed slammed
The National, StarBulld,n,
50,