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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08
A PLACE tor Er.Mnror DAWN.

WASHINGTON, April 7.-According to
a well-defned rumor ex-Mayor Webster
Davis, of Kansas City, Mo-, is to be
second assistant secretary of the in
terror, The matter is said to have
been decided yesterday when Secretary
Bliss, of the interior department, gave
his consent to Mr.. Davis being given
the Mace.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08
Good Outlool, in Wcstern Konaas

There is more wheat and small
grains planted in western Kansas this
spring than for many years, and there
is scarcely an idle piece of land any
where. The crops this year will be
greatly diversified, so that if corn fails
some other crop may be success.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08

Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee county
district court, decided that a probate
court has no jurisdiction of a ward
after he becomes of age, and cannot
make final settlement between
guardian and ward after the ward
maintains his majority.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08
State University students and churches.


A Topeka dispatch to st. Louis pa
per said the populist party in Kansas
would wage a war against the Metho-
distand Presbyterian churches because,
it is alleged, the ministers of these or
CARNATIONS IRE advocates of the gold
standard. The people are urged not
to respond to the appeals being made
by the church boards for funds
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08
A Two-Thlrds Vote Decides 1t.

By the new schoolbook law, if at
any annual meeting two-thirds of the
electors of district vote in favor of
district ownership of books, the dis
trict must thereafter furnish books
free to pupils.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08
The Result of Insane JeaIousv.

At Kincaid recently George Miller
shot and perhaps fatally wounded Mrs.
Burkey and her two daughters, Eliie
and Jennie Kirby, because he had
been refused the company of one of
the girls. Miller was shot during a
fusillade with officers while resisting
arrest. He was but recently released
from an insane asylum.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08

]. L. Bristow, the new fourth assist
ant postmaster-general, did his first
newspaper work in Baldwin and
founded the Ledger at that place.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
ResuIt OF Municipal Elections.


Municipal elections were held in all
the drst and second-class cities of the
state on the 9th. In Leavenworth,
Emporia and perhaps Fort Scott the
fusionists were victorious, and at Kan
sas City, Atchison, Lawrence, Topeka
and Wichita the republicans won, In
Hiawatha, Manhattan, Newton, Edo
RADIO, Hutchinson, Independence, abb
lene, Eureka, Garnett, Belleville, King
man, Wellington, Burlington, Winfield
and Great Bend the republicans secured
complete or partial victories. At Ca
lena, Larned, 0lathe, Columbus and
Girard the fusionists secured partial
victories. In agreat number of smaller
towns the issues were local and poll
tics were obliterated from the contests.
State University Students and Churches.
A religious census of the Kansas
state university at Lawrence shows
that $50 of the students are members
OF some religious denomination. About
45 per cent of the men and rs per cent.
of the women belong to church. Alto
gether ~ denominations are repre-
sented. The Methodist Episcopal
leads, then follows the Congregational,
Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, Chris
tian, Catholic and Unitarian in point
OF membership, the adherents of the
other IS denominations being classed
as scattering,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08

salary.
A HURRICANE struck Peoria, ILL.,, on
the Sd and did considerable damage to
buildings The roof of Wards overall
factory was ripped off, taking along
two smokestaclls and a section of stone
wall. Over $50 girls were at work and
many of them tainted.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, issued an appeal for
aid on the 9TH for the refugees from
the flooded districts
Four desperate prisoners confined in
the Greer county Jail in oklahoma
made their escape the other night by
overpowering the guards
JAMES II. ALDRIon, for IS years cash
Ter and paymaster of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis railway, was
arrested on the 5th at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the charge of embezzling $780,
900 of the company's funds.
A SPECIAL from Toledo, o., said that
q gigantic farmers trust was being or
ganized in this country. Several
branches were secretly organized, and
the order is strictly oath-bound. 1t
originated at Lancaster, Pa, and was
incorporated under the laws of New
Jersey as the Agriculturists' National
Protective association. 1t is patterned
somewhat after the anthracite coal
combine.
THE steamer r. T. Cole, loaded with
merchandise, sank near GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, the other day. Three roust-
abouts We're drowned and one man was
reported missing. The boat was q
total loss.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
A View of the Sultan,

Here is a first view of the sultan as
Mrs. Max Muller sees him. She de-
scribes it in her Letters From Constan-
tinople:"
1.-THE green enameled and richly
gilded barouche comes in sight, drawn
by two glorious black horses covered
with golden harness, driven by a man
in bright blue and gold livery, and OIL
each side the grooms in blue and gold
and every man in sight, naval, mill
tary, civil, master or servant, in the
all pervading but all becoming fez.
"In the carriage sits a small yet
stately man, in a simple cloth military
o%vercoat, with no order or decoration of
any sort, only his curved sword and a
fez like the rest. His large hooked nose
proclaims his Armenian mother. His
piercing eyes are raised to our window
as he passes, but his face is still and
immovable, and he salutes no one,
though his whole person has a swaying
motion, SO faint that it may only be
caused by the swaying movement of the
carriage. Opposite his imperial majesty
sits Osman Ghazi, the hero of Plevna,
almost his only intimate friend, whom
he trusts implicitly"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
Mother Goose,

The most popular children's book
ever written was Mother Goose's
Melodies. Mrs. Goose, or Mother
Goose, " as she was Familiarity called,
was the mother-in-law of Thomas Fleet,
a Boston printer, early in the last CEN
fury. When his first child was born,
his mother -in-law devoted all her at
tention to the baby, and, it is said,
greatly annoyed Fleet by her persistent
and not particularly musical chanting
of the old English ditties she had heard
in her childhood. The idea occurred to
Fleet of writing down these songs and
publishing them in book form. The
oldest extant copy bears the date of
1919. The price marked on the title
page was 1.-TWO coppers." This account
of the origin of "Mother Goose is dis
credited by some critics, who declare
that in 1897 Perrault published "Contes
de ma Mere POye," or "Stories of
Mother Goose" The name Mother
Goose" was familiar in French folk
lore, being used by writers of this lit
erature over a century before the time
of P%errault.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
CURRENT

Every time a ''scorcher'' is arrested and
fined II good deed is done for cycling
New York Tribune.
The locomotives which will run on the
proposed Alaskan railroad ought not to be
often troubled with hotboxes. -Pittsburg
Times.
It's tough luck that an American war
ship has to go int a foreign dock every
time she wants "a dry shampoo Washing
ton Post.
The Hartford Courant advises Klondik-
ers to take collins along. That would be
foolish. The bears make collins unneces-
Leader.
An Atlanta man has patented n device
for blowing away snow. That INVENTOR
has never been in q blowing match against
a northwestern blizzard.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
We regret to say the odious practice of
tipping is growing steadily in Boston, and
it is they who can least afford it that give
with an air of bravado the heaviest tips
Boston journal.
Chicago's prize bigamist acknowledges
he married five different women, and the
police are disposed to suspect that he is
holding back the returns FROM some of the
outlying precincts. New York journal.
Now that they have found a paint that
will make ships invisible at night under
the rays of the searchlight it devolves up
on the scientists to develop some kind OF
an X ray that will, pierce the paint.-San
Fanoisoo Bulletin.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
EmbaIminR Perfumes.

Myrrh, which was fabulously suppos-
ed to bo the tears of Myrrha, who was
turned mto a shrub, was a plant of
handsome appearance, with sprC ling,
fernlike foliage and large umbels of
white flowers. 1t vas found principally
in Arabia and Abyssinia. In early times
the perfume distilled from it was great.
ly in requisition for embalming.
Herodotus gives a detailed account OF
the ancient mode of embalming, which
is perhaps more instructive than pleas
ing. After the body had undergone
much preparation, which. to spare your
feelings, l will not describe, it was filled
with powdered myrrh, cassia and other
perfumes. 1t was then STEPPED in ma
iron, a strong solution of soda, for 20
days. After this il was wrapped in
bands of fine perfumed linen. smeared
with aromatic gums.
Not only people were thus embalmed,
but the crocodiles of Lake Moeris,
which, after their mummification, were
decorated with ornaments and Jewels
and laid in n of the subterranean
passages of the great labyrinth with
much pomp and display. The sacred
cat, ichneumon and other cherished ami
mails devoutly w~orshiped by the Egyp.
tlans were embalmed with scrupulous
and fanatical care. On days special to
the memory of the dead the mummies
were newly sprinkled with perfume, in
oense was offered before them and their
heads anointed with fresh oil-in the
same spirit as we lay new blooms upon
the graves of our dead. London Society.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09

In Boston's early days a negress
named Maria Lee kept a sailors board
ing house near the water front. She
was a woman of gigantic size and pro-
digious strength and was of great as
sistance to the authorities in keeping
the peace. When all unusually trouble
some fellow was on the way to the
lookup, Black Maria, as Maria Lee was
called, would come to the assistance of
the policeman, and her services were III
such requisition for this purpose that
her name was associated with almost
every arrest made.
Black Maria often carried a prisoner
to the lookup on her shoulder, and
when the prison van was instituted for
the purpose Of carrying prisoners it nat.
urally enough was styled the Black
Maria. journal of Education.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
CURTE RI RAlSERS.

"Bimbo of Bombay" is the title of Ed
gar Smiths travesty on theosophy.
Edgar Davenport and Lionel Barrymore
have been engaged for the production of
Cumberland, 81"
The musical comedy which II. Grattan
Donnelly has written for the Hawthorne
sisters will he called "A Title For Three"
Robert Downing, the tragedian, will be
seen during the year in "Daria L~aroque,''
a new play based OF "A novel by Georges
OhEet.
Otis Skinner denies the report that he is
going into vaudeville. He will open his
regular season in st. Louis in "Prince
Fritz"
Walker Whiteside, the tragedian, will
probably include in his repertory an adap-
tation of Stanley Weyman's romance,
1.-The Mar In Black"
b. b. Valentine is the author of an
adaptation from the French called 1.-THE
GOLDSMITH Of Paris" which will nave "a
production in New York.
The coming season will be the last of
"Shore Acres" with its author, James A.
Herne, in the leading role. Mr.. Herne
will then produce his new play.
According to the st. Louis Post Dis.
fNN~'' WIZ toiAy AsOOO pcE-
formers travelling with theatrical COM
panies in the United States last season.
Charles Frohman has entered into an
agreement with AL Candy whereby they
will produce musical plays, light operas
and the like. The alliance is a good one.
M. w. Hanley will assume the manage
ment of Ii. A. Du Souchet, the clever
dramatist, and will soon present his latest
work, entitled MY Wife's Stephusband."
DR.. Monitor of Paris has treated several
singers by static electricity and claims
that the treatment produces very happy
effects on the intensity, pitch n timbre
of the voice.
A one act play, written by Ralph Adams
Cram, "a Boston architect, has been accept
ed by X. S. Willard. 1t is an episode of
Venetian life, dealing with the hopeless
love of a priest.
Diego de Vivo is now the Oldest living
impresario who has been active mainly in
this country. Max Maretzek was the dean
of the operate managers until his death,
"a few weeks ago.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
STATE LINES.

There is a prospect of a mining boom in
California this fall that will leave the
Klondike in the cold.-San Francisco Call.
1t will be noticed that very few Ohio
men are taking part in the rush to the
.goldfelds. 1t is an election year in that
state, and they have a Klondike at home.
San Francisco Call.
The Nebraska sugar beet fields are max
ing a fine impression upon visitors from
out of the state on tours of inspection.
Sugar beet culture is one of the growing
industries of agricultural Nebraska
Omaha Bee.
Missouri's $40. 600, 600 fruit crop fur
nishes a rosy object lesson to men with the
Klondike fever how fortunes may be
made without the unpleasantness of dig
ging under the ground or dying OIL top of
it.-Kansas City Times.
The purchase by New York of some 25,-
900 acres of land in the Adirondacks for
the preservation of the watershed at a
cost of $3.50, 900 reminds us how far ahead
of any other that state is in the adoption
of a wise forestry policy. -Providence
journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
"Ye she deUtu" he Kissed.

/ c She ueOtt!" ne NlSSeu.
not ter go rummagin in no box o mine.
Dye hear"
"Ef thar amt nothin in it, what's
bekem O. Their money that were in
them inginearer's puckits?" asked the
girl.
WHO sed thar was enny!'
Il do. l seed it with my WI eyes es
l stud on ther cliff an seed yer drug i'm
up 'mongst Their stick weeds, an l seed
We tex Their wallut outin his puckit all
count Their money, an then we kivered
it up wit sand afore ever ye let on
tibet ye'd found i'm"
There was a startled, wicked CLEAN
in old Gilliad's eyes.
I'VE she devilr' he Kissed. "Ye lean
faced huzzy!"
He let the dead cat fall to the floor
and raised the bloody knife menacingly
at her. He glalsd from his deep set eyes,
with their grizzud lashes, like a maniac.
Laney crouched at his feet. Her IN
kempt hair glistened in the freight. A
moment he stood over her with the
dripping knife. His stiff white hair and
long beard bristled, his bumped shoul
ders were drawn back, and his horny
hand threatened her life.
Up in the mountains, deep in its re
cess of gray rocks, fringed around by
lichens and high grass that crinkled ant
dried in the wind, is an Indian spring
The water is deadly poison. An ole
story relates that a tribe there paused
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
AS TO LIES.

If you must lie, do it artistically.
A business lie may be a pretty thing to
look at, but unsafe to handle.
Can a mar be a good deacon in a church
and at the same time a good salesman?
Where does the ]ie ZONE in between bust
ness diplomacy and outright falsehood?
If you lie to a customer and the clerk
knows it, has the clerk a warrant for falsi-
tying to your
Is a business lie ever iu%stiiable? l
would like to hear from some of the ex-
perts. | know a lot of them.
A great deal may be said about the ad-
yantages of always telling the truth: Can
anything be said on the other side?
l know "a ~youngster who said: dad
licks me when l tell a lie. / want to grow
up so l will have a right to tell lies same
as HI does. "-Hardware.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
A Stupid Lady Bountiful.

II once showed an old lady much
given to good works of the Lady Boun-
tiful order how some proteges of hers
who were constantly on the verge of
starvation might be placed in possession
of a small but regular and sufficient in
come. My DEAR she said, Il don't
think it is a good plan. They would
get too independent. l like them to
come to me when they are in Difficult.
ties and ask for what they want. -
erich and Poor" by Mrs. B%osanquet.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
A Sure Cure.

Lady Visitor (at Office of eminent
physician)-I have called. doctor. to
ask if there is any cure for sleep walk
ing. I have had the habit for years, and
lately it has become worse.
DR.. Highprice-It can be cured. mad
am. Take this prescription, aud have
it filled at Colde, Steele G. Co. g.
"Colde, Steele & Co. IS? Why. that is
not a drug store. 1t is a hardware firm"
eyes. madam. The prescription calls
for a paper of tacks. Dose, two table,
~spoonfuls scattered about the floor be-
fore retiring. New York Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
THE WRITER'S.

Stephen Crane is said to like England
80 we'll that he thinks seriously of making
1t his home.
S~tevenson's CDR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
is being printed in a French translation
by the Paris Temps as the original work
Of a French author.
James Lane Allen, in speaking of the
American novelist of today, said recently,
Never before was the interest in Ameri-
can fiction so keen, so genuine n so
widespread.
Since Bret Harte-who has dropped his
first NAME, Francis-was United States
consul to Glasgow, from 1880 to 1885, he
has made his residence in Great Britain.
At present ne lives at "A Lancaster Gate,
west London.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
Yank and

During the days when Sherman's
army was operating in front of Atlanta
the lines at last got so close together
that the men of the opposing forces
could talk across the intervening space.
Hood had several times massed his army
and thrown it against one of Sherman's
wings, only to be sent back Keeling,
torn and bleeding. One morning q
Yankee sergeant called out:
"Say, Johnniel"
"Hello, Yanki"
Show many of you rebs leftF"
"Dunno, Yank. Bout nuther KILN.
I reckon. "-Chicago Times Herald
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
Women In West Africa.

Many times when walking on Lem
barene island have l seer a lady stand
in the street and let her husband, who
had taken shelter inside the house,
know what she thought of him i'll a
way that reminded me of some London
slum scenes When the husband loses
his temper, as he surely does sooner or
later, being a man, he whacks his wife
OR wives. Travels In West Africa"
by Mary I'll. Kingsley.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
Sisterly Admiration,

A raw Scotch lad Joined the volun-
teers, and on the first parade day his
sister came with his mother to see the
regiment.
On the march past Jock was out OF
step.
"Look, mither," said his sister,
they're a DOT O. step but DOR Jock"
Glasgow Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
The Nightmare Kind.

YES" he said, "when l married
her, she was q perfect dreaml However,
a long course of chatting DISH
They sighed alphabetically, for they
knew what a chatting dish could lnake
of a dream when it gets its fine work
in.-New York Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
Revolving Torture.

"Think how they used to torture men
in the old days Of the inquisition."
"Horriblel"
"Yes. They even put cracker crumbs
in beds and made people sleep therel"
Chicago Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-09
Against 1t.

Every good citizen" said the good
DR.. Sokem with emphasis, must be
against the saloon"
Yes" responded Daily Biers, yes,
most of ''em go against it IL time or
another. Detroit News.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-03-17
A. RAUSCHENPLAT,

**x Segdn La Petit Repn6Hque de Paris,
ell gobierno de Espaha ha solictado que vi
glle mucho la Junta carlista de la Capital de
Francia. Suponese que esta hacienda compras
de armas que ademas Sc han hecho contratas
de la misma fndole en- Belgica.
= Eeta taFae 4 la essef Ell 8,
puerto de esta Capital ell vapor frances xVille
de Marseille,o procedente de Haiti Puerto
Plata y en- viaje para Europa San Thomas.
*** Segun Balance de GAIA practicable en-
la Tesorerfa de la Junta de Obras del Puerto
de esta ciudad, existen en- la referida GAIA
$11.58o, 80 ctvs. moneda corriente provincial.
* La question es grave, pero no tanto
como parece. Puede que tenga pelos la suspen
sion de los derechos constitucionales, pero asf
y todo nj los carlistas, nj los repubicanos, nj
los laborantes, dejaran de comprender ests gran
verdad: que en- baratillo La Luna, San Fran
cisco esquina Cruz, Sc da por dos 10 que vale
seis, sin que por este resucite Galileo. El
baratillo es fenomenal.
x** Ell domingo IA del corriente, 3u5 i'm
ponentes depositaron en- la Gaia de Ahorros de
Mayagiez, la cantidad de 81 sO8 SO MIC. .
Xxx Por ell Gobierno General Sc han apro-
bado los presupuettos ordnarios municipales
de Juncos, Hormigueros, Maunabo, Maricao,
Lola, Anasco, Penuelas Ponce Caguas CO.
rrespondientes al a1o economico de 1897 90
los adicionales de Vega-alta Naguabo
para 1896 4 81.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-03-17
Sobre eI presupuestO de Puerto Rico
Dice Ez Dto, de Madrid, en- su ndmero
del "a de Feb1ero ultimo:

Dice Ez Dso, de Madrid, en- su namero
del "a de Feblero ultimo:
Ella Correspondence de Espal0, en- un
suelto oicioso que publico su ndmero de
anoche, hace grandes elogios del actual minis
tro de Ultramar, Sr. Castellano, con motive del
superdbit, de l.o81.993, que arroja la hqulda-
cion del ultimo presupuesto de Puerto Rico.
Pretende ell citado colega hacer Greer
que ell referido supey6btt, Sc debe exclusive
mente la acertada gestion buenas disposi
clones del sefor Castellano; concepto equivo-
cado como vamos demostrar.
Nadie ignora que ell exceso en- question
viene observandose hace bastante tempo; es
decir, antes de que ocupara Ell Poder la actual
situacion coneervadora, y en- su consecuencia,
Ell senor Castellano desempefara la cartera de
Ultramar, que la causa de aquel es la dero-
gacion del convenio con los Estados Unidos;
en- virtud del cual los artfculos de primera ne
cesidad yde mayor consume en- la isla pagaban
derechos muy m6dicos, que Sc cambiaron por
los de un arancel prohibitiyo que encarece de
un modo considerable los artfculos citados.
De aquf que la renta de Aduanas expert
mento un aumento extraordinario, que es la
base del consabido superdbit.