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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

A Sheldon, England, tradition, now
nearly 300 years old, is verified from
Acknowledgement as to a duck
having been seen flying towards an ash
tree in that village, which it entered,
and from that moment mysteriously
disappeared. Sheldon is a small ham
let lying to the west of Blackwell, in
Derbyshire. The duck went into the
tree in the year 1901. The tree was al
ways known as the Duck Tree" and
overhung the road. Having become
partially decayed at the bottom, it was
resolved to cut it down. The lower
portion was thrown aside as being use
less, but lately it was resolved to cut
it up. Two boards taken from the CEN
ter gave unmistakable evidence of the
genuineness of the Sheldon tradition
about the lost duck. On one side of
each of these boards was the perfect
form of a full-sized duck. The body
measures eight inches across, and the
length, from tail to beak, is twenty-one
inches. There are holes in both boards
at the point where the ducks brains
would rest, as if these agencies rotted
the timber. This also occurs where the
lights and liver settled. The duck ap-
pears to have gone head foremost into
a hole, which was known to be in the
tree, and couldn't get out again.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
PREHISTORIC CULTURE,
Devices on Pebbles Indicate Mans Ear
Iy Attempts at Writing.

ly Attempts at Writing.
Did the prehistoric man write on
fiat pebbles? This question greatly
agitates a Frenchman who recently
explored remarkable tunnel-like cave
near the river Arise, in the department
of Ariege, says the New York World.
These pebbles formed a layer between
two other deposits upon the floor Of
the cave, the layer beneath them con-
tanning bone harpoons and needles, tes-
tifying TO the habitation of the cave
by the prehistoric reindeer hunters of
southern France, while in the topmost
deposit the presence of man was indi.
Gated by the discovery of polished
stone axes and other implements. The
pebbles were apparently taken from the
bed of the river Arise and painted with
red iron ore by jewellers in the cave
where they have now been found. The
first impulse is to regard the markings
as meaningless signs, but a classical
ton of them brings the conviction that
they indicate a distinct phase of pre-
historic culture. Many of the stones
are marked with bands of red, the num-
Der of bands ranging from one to eight,
but never exceeding the latter num-
Der. Many other stones have spots
painted on them, and the suggestion is
that the figure is represented by one
spot, two 9's, or IS, by two spots, and
so on, the system of notation being
based upon 9's. From some devices
found on other stones and closely re-
sembling letters of the Greek alphabet,
NJ. Ed Petite, the explorer, concludeS
that our prehistoric ancestors had
reached quite degree of culture. At
any rate, he is convinced that the
signs represent early attempts of man
to create a system of notation and ex-
press his thoughts in writing.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
SHIRT WAISTS or sArIN.
They Are for Women Who Fancy the
style In Cold Weather.

They Are for Women Who Fancy tho
style In Cold Weather.
For those who have the shirt waist
habit and cannot wait until summer
to indulge it, there is novelty that is
bound to catch the fancy. This is the
shirt waist, so-called, but unfairly, as
1t is very dressy, Of black satin, says
the st. Louis Republic. The prettiest
model In the black satin waist is
tucked across the bust and is gathered
rather full at the neck in front A
short two-point yoke at the back has
the bodice laid In six in-turning plaits
below 1t, that narrow toward the waist
line. The sleeve is cut in moderate leg
of-mutton style and is tucked across
the top, the tucks being the same width
as those of the front of the bodice and
on an even line with them. This is
very handsome bodice and though very
attractive In every detail there is little
chance that the black satin waist will
become disagreeably common. The
Persian silks Chat is, the India silks,
with the Persian pattern), which are
every bit as cool as the linen or cam
brio ones, are again to be fashionable.
These also are made on fitted Innings
OF thin lawn. The fronts are full, tied
sometimes in the form of bowknot
across the bust and again the ends are
caught up at the throat and then left
to fall in a graceful jabot fashion to
the waist. These waists are often made
of the figured silk handkerchief, and
oddly enough, are to be copied this
year in the bandanas, which will GER
tainly be striking enough in color to
suit even the most exaggerated tastes.
A dark blue Persian figured silk with
a stripe Of black as border makes up
attractively, while the red with the
bandana figure, although more snowy,
is smart looking and becoming. These
silks should wash and wear we'll. They
are never trimmed with lace or en-
broidery; indeed, very little trimming
is used on them, the design being so
elaborate as to render anything else un-
necessary.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

is wanting In the power Of vital resis-
lance and withers away, emitting the
poison Of death into the most delicate
part Of the system.
While all this Ia a familiar as the A
B G to the medical profession, little or
nothing has been done to popularize
this knowledge. Even some OF the less
advanced practitioners are either too
Ignorant or too lazy and Indifferent to
get at the true facts and the result is
that many are suffering and still more
dying from something that might be
cured.
Appendicitis usually occurs between
the ages OF 10 and 30 years. 1t is ex-
II Is much more frequent among males
ose ages. 1t is much more frequent
1t Is extremely rare agove or below
tremely rare above or below those ages.
than females, the proportion in all
countries being 20 per cent females to
80 per cent males.
The cause for this difference Is OF
very recent discovery and is not even
known generally among the medical
profession. Dr. Clado, a French sur
geon and investigator sought an ex-
PLANTATION Of the comparative immu-
nifty OF the female sex from the malady
and discovered that the appendix in
woman has an extra blood vessel that
does not exist in man. This discovery
was hailed with delight by the surgical
world. 1t was not only bit of new
knowledge of infinite value, but was an
additional proof of the theory that the
collapse of the appendix is always due
to its want of vital resistance. In man
1t has no blood supply except from
the minute veins Of the web that holds
it in place, and in woman it has an
other and more abundant SURGE of sup
ply.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
A GOOD SWALLOW,
Thlrty-SeVen Articles Recovered from
the Stomach of a MeIanchOlIac.

Thlrty-Seven Articles Recovered from.
the stomach of MelancholIac.
DR.. Fricker, head physician of the
Evangelical Hospital, in Odessa, de-
scribes in the German Medical Weekly
the case of woman, 80 years of age,
who comes of healthy family, but
about year and half ago the loss of
child caused temporary nervous dis
order. Three months ago, on the death
of second child, this was renewed
and developed into decided melanchOlia.
The patient declared her resolution to
commit suicide She began by drinking
petroleum and solution of carbolic
acid, but these did not kill her. Then
she swallowed needles, small buttons
and nails. These failing, she turned
her attention, in an asylum to which
she had been taken, to larger objects
hairpins, steel pins and long nails. This
being done in vain, she swallowed,
among other things, crochet needle,
pieces of glass, two teaspoons, fork
and piece of iron. On the surgeon
asking how she could swallow those
rather bulky objects, she answered
quite calmly: "Oh, it's quite easy with
the handle first. You WILL" she said,
find whole store of things in my
stomach In his operation DR.. Fricker
took out of his patients stomach key
about three inches long, a silver tea
spoon six inches long, a plated tea
spoon five and three-fourths inches
long, plated form eight inches long,
two nails, one two and one-half inches
and the other three and one-half inches,
two hairpins, twelve pieces of glass, an
iron hook about four inches in size, a
steel pin, nine needles, piece of gra-
phite, boot button, grape stone, two
little balls of tinfoil and a crochet
needle four and one-half inches long.
Altogether there were removed from
the stomach thirty-seven objects. The
operation was successful and the pa
tient was dismissed, cured.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

A British paper says: British trade
with Japan has had most encouraging
developments during 1896. Great BRIT
ain and her dependencies-Br In
dia, Hong Kong, Australia and Can
ada-now enjoy the greater share. In
this important trade reversal Of the
relative positions of Great Britain and
the United States has been developed
Americas share in Japan's foreign
trade for the first half of 1896 was
only one-seveAth, while that of Great
Britain amounted to nearly one-quar-
ter, and that of the British empire to
upwards of 46 per cent of the whole
Great Britain has a largely preponder-
ating share in the supply of steel rails
to japan"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
EDUCATIONAL.

Richard Olney has received from
President Eliot, of Harvard University,
an invitation to fill the chair of inter-
national law at that institution. The
ex-secretary has taken the offer under
consideration.
Lady Aberdeen, wife of the governor
general of Canada, has been invited by
President Harper, of the University or
Chicago, to deliver the address at the
spring convocation. She has accepted.
Lady Aberdeen is president of the
Woman's National Council, which has
branches all over Canada, and is act
lively interested in woman's work.
In a recent address at Cambridge,
Mass, President Charles w. Eliot,
speaking of the number of college stu
dents belonging to rich families, said
that even in Harvard, Yale and CO.
lumbia the number was so small as to
constitute them an insignificant minor
ity. In any college class, he said, there
would be ten times as many sons OF
poor men as of rich, but the great ma
iority came from families in moderate
circumstances, who made great sacri-
fees to educate the young men.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

The Chicago cigarette dealers and
their boy customers are so adroit that
there is great difficulty in enforcing the
cigarette law. The Womans Club sug-
gests persistent investigation and pros
ecution and asks the aid Of young, en-
thusiastic lawyers in bringing offend
ers to justice, The Chicago schoolboy's
environment is bad at best, but when
he may be stupefled and demoralized
by a new habit it is time to go to his
rescue.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
Increases in Population.

A very interesting memorandum is
sued by the British board of trade
shows that, while the population of the
United Kingdom has increased S,000,-
600 in a quarter Of a century, France
has only increased 100000, and this
is a declining ratio, while Britain's is,
at any rate recently, in a rising ratio.
Germany has increased 100000, and
recently in rising ratio, while the
United States have grown by 31,OOO,-
900, all through in rising ratio Be-
tween 1916 and 1891 the urban popula-
ton of France changed its proportion
of the whole population from 24.4 to
37.4 per cent, and as to Germany the
figures are even more remarkable, for
her urban population grew from SO
to AZ per cent Of the whole, and in the
United States a similar tendency is
visible.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

Political wisdom, in varying degrees,
is to be looked for in the words adj
dressed by governors to the legisla-
lures of the several states. The recent
messages and addresses contained no
sounder sense than that of the COVER
nor OF South Carolina when he said:
South Carolina has not yet regained
her once proud position in this great
Republic. She can never regain it I'M
til her people, rising above all partisan
hatreds, unite in one heroic effort to
make our system of public instruction
inferior to none" The welfare and
honor of commonwealth are safer in
the hands of the schoolmaster, arm
ed with his primer" than of the SOL
der Gin full military array" The
Southern chief magistrate wisely
points the people of his state to the
victories of peace; and what more i'm
portant triumph is there than a vic
tory over illiteracy?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

A Vassar girl who wrote an essay on
kissing for her college society gave the
manuscript to a gentleman friend for
his inspection and advice. The young
man, who was somewhat pert, told her
that he could give her an abstract Of
the paper in one smack. To which
she replied that she did not care for a
syllabus, and the young man is still
trying to see il he can figure 1t out.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

How many persons can describe ,ac-
curately the arrangement of the forty
five stars that are to occupy the blue
field of the United States flag after the
4th of next July? The official orders
to the officers of the army and the
navy, and to custodians of federal
buildings throughout the republic, say
that there are to be six horizontal rows
of stars. In the first, third and fifth
rows there are to be eight stars; in the
second, fourth and sixth rows, seven
stars. The even number of stars in
the odd.number rows; the odd number
Of stars in the eyen-number rows.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
Spoke FIguratIveIy.

Kindly Old Lady - And you say,
poor man, that you have been we'll
brought up?' Casey de Kidder-"Da
no dream, ma'am. I've been brought
up fifty times in de last five years and
his nibs soaked me sore each time. =
Pittshnrg News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

That Kansas man who is suffering
from an internal growth of wheat
should call upon somebody to thrash
him. Or he might get his wife, who
has done most of the grading for sew
eral years, to cut him down.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

II Col. Bob Ingersoll doesn't believe
there is any such place let him try to
live three months in Colorado with a
sound-money badge on his buzzom.
Yes, even now.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

A foreign nation Is a kind Of con-
temporaneous posterity, it has been
wisely said. Foreign commentator OF
our willingness to arbitrate is fore
cast of the judgment of generations to
come.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
Not a Serious onense.

He (prettily)-They ought to send
you to states prison. You've stolen
my heart
She-Oh, they don't send people to
states prison for petty larceny.-Bay
City Chat
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

The esteemed Nashville American
announces that, in accord with its con-
slant habit of pursuing the shibbo-
leth Of onward and upward" 1t will
at once open department of ques-
tons and answers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

Hereafter no foreigner can legally
perform marriage ceremony In Mis-
souri,. We don't imagine this will in
terfere with anybody's business very
seriously.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
SEEDS ARE HARMLESS.
APPENDICITIS is NOT CAUSED
BY EATING THEM.
Appendix Ia ~ Useless supernuIty-Lik0
the wisdom Teeth and TOnsilS-Al'
ways Liable to Go wrOng-The Real
Cause.
REsnRl HERE

HERE is a popular
and false notion
that appendicitis is
caused by a grape
seed, an orange
seed or some other
foreign substance
getting into the
vermiform appen-
dix, says the New
York Journal. The
true cause is the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

The bred Scott decision fastened
our civil war. And now dreadful
Scott decision in Cuba has further
strained the relations between this
country and Cuba.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

The Governess-I know French and
German Mrs. Uptodate-That is
not sufficient. 1 want some one who
can teach my children Scotch Brook
Iyn Life.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
Science Too Swift.

"oh, dear, dear me-" said damsel
young,
"How depressed this makes me feel;
They've gone and invented flying ma
chimes,
End haven't yet learned to Wheel"
Cleveland Leader.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

In al address to the paper manufac'
turers Dom Charles Dana told them
they should make a better paper. Look
a. home, Dom Charles.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

New York and Pennsylvania newspa'
pers are still profoundly shocked over
the fact that an Idaho Populist legis-
lator was brlbed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

The effect of a mules kick does NOT
depend upon the soundness of his
brain.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

When we are young we are told how
fast time flies, but when we get old
we find it flies lots faster than we ever
expected it would.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
Certainly.
street.

Prisoner-If your honor will allow
me little time I think 1 can prove
my innocence. Magistrate-All right;
take thirty Observation-Disclosures North
American.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

The still-house worm destroys moro
corn than all the cut worms put to-
gether.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

When suicide leaves the message,
II die hungry" he has not died in
vain. He leaves other people food for
reflection.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

WHEN bilious or cositve, eaJ CascaEot,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed 300, ESQ.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
spoer'S Unfermented Grape Juice I'm


rHas a wide reputation for its efficacy In the sick
room. The juice is rich, tastes like eating tho
ripe grape fresh from the vine; used by churcheA
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

1t is hard for some church people to
learn that shouting will not pay debts.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
PLAY ON THE ROOF.
NEW SCHOOL WITH ALL THE
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS.
TO Keep Children or tho stroet-Mugs
Wire Cage That VIII Protect tho
People who Are Five Stories Below
The Largest in the Country.

AYOR STRONG
surprised som e
persons in this
town, when he
said, in his second
message to the
board OF aldermen,
that the new school
on Henry street,
between oliver and
Catherine, would
be the largest
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

War in Europe seems one OF the UNI
expected things that are going to hap
pen in spite OF business and diplomacy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

The girl Chat can't sing and will sing
ought to be choked off
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

That wealthy Baltimore widow was
q veritable wheel of fortune to her BIZ
cycle teacher, who married her.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

1t is only men collectively that Ire
the Lille of man.-Goetha
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01

When Answering Advertisements. Please
Mention This Paper.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1897-06-26

for the murder of a negro; it was a
contribution to right sentiment and
good morals in the whole State.
4th.-In the negroes protection
against murderers and lynchers,
while it is painful to contemplate,
on the one hand, the outrages per-
petrated upon the negroes in the
South. it is gratifying to recall, on
the other hand, the fact that many
of the Southern whites are begin
ming to do something in the direc-
ton of putting an end to the lynch
ing of negroes. And the time is
not far distant when the Christian
people of the South, believing
lynching negroes to be as great q
crime as prize fighting, will by the
same vigorous measures put an end
as quickly1to the FORMER as they
did to the latter.
l have now indicated what, in my
option, the negroes and the whites
must do In order to bring about
the solution of the race problem.
Does the reader ask me when this
problem viii be solved, l answer:
just as soon as the two races reach
the point where, on the one hand,
the negroes will regard and treat
the whites as their friends; will
take a lively interest in the white
mans best welfare; will disinte-
CRATE politically and ally themselves
with whatever party or faction will
do the most for them; and where,
on the other hand, the white man
will cease to think that the negro
was designed to be his servant;
will treat the negro as a neighbor;
will respect and concede to him his
every right; will take greater in
terest in his education, in his moral
elevation, in his legal rights and in
his protection against lynchers and
murderers. When will they reach
that point? Not until they get
enough of the spirit of Christ into
their hearts to enable them to fulfil
the golden rule: Therefore, all
things whatsoever We would that
men should do to you, do We even
so to them"
(Ihe end.I
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1897-06-26
CHIPS.

The attempt to make the utterly
unfit McCord Governor of Arizona
and the determination to fill three
high Federal offices in Louisiana
with three disreputable doors of
Hanna's dirty work show that at
the White House no less than at
the Capitol there is no thought for
''the forgotten man. "-Neto York
World.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1897-06-26
CRERDS.

CREEDs are artificial, religion
natural. Religion is from God 3,
creeds from man. Hence religion
is mysterious, while creeds are not
although there are exceptions to
this rule, some creeds being quite
mysterious. Religion has life,
while creed, with its external form
and shape of religion, is dead. Re-
igion, being alive, will grow to
greater beauty and loftier heights;
creeds, being artificial, can never
grow.-Rev U. S. MiL6urn, Uni
UersaIist. Cincinnati, Ohio.