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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22
Hoods Pills cure Liver Ills s6 cents
A WISE HERO.
He Wanted the Magazine Rights Be~
fore He Did Any Charging
ON the Enemy.

mo-" declared the captain, 81 positively
decline to lead my company up that hill"
Sir" exclaimed the colonel, do you,
know that what you are saying is rank in
subordination"
"Call it insubordnaton or what you
will, the captain returned, but | refuse
to CO."
The colonel was furious. The company
that he had detached for the purpose of
stormng the hill and capturing the fort
on top of it was the only one that could
be spared, and unless his plans as ar
ranged were executed the whole cam
little army would in all probability be cut
off from the main body and wiped out Of
existence.
1t was a critical moment The captain
could be court.martialed and shot for his
refusal to obey orders, but what of il?
Every man was needed To courtmartial
and shoot the obstinate captain would not
be to take the hill and the fort, He was
the. only man who could do it with the force
at his command
What was to be done? The colonel
gnawed his mustache and thought hard At
last he decided to appeal to the captain in
stead of ordering him.
Think, man, think of the glory that
you will win il you do this thing" he urged.
az know all about that" the captain re-
piled.
"Wel, for heavens sake, don't you want
to be hero? Think of it! The entire ma
ton will applaud youl "
81 realize that, and am anxious to be-
come hero; but positively refuse to do
it until you drive all those correspondents
back and keep them off the field. pro-
pose, if / do this business, to retain the
sole magazine rights on it, I'm not going
20 do heroic thing and then let somebody
else get $500 a page for writing it up"
o SG the NIL was t aHen IN aPa x RS s5d wing
ming new laurels with his pen.-Cleveland
Leader.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

A good mans son inherits poverty.-Span-
ish Proverb.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

A play is never satisfactory if there is a
man or woman left over when the pairing OH
occurs in the last act.-Atchison Globe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

Some people are so skeptical that they
even doubt their own doubts.-Chicago
Daily News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

Cohensten-"I wonder wy volks say dot
peezness vos peezness?" Mrs. Cohenstein--
"Vell ain'd id?" Cohenstein-"No; peez-
ness vos pleasure. Puck.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22
schley's Report Made Public.

Washington, Dec. 10.-The navy de-
partment has made public a report
from Admiral Schley covering that
part of the operations and movements
of the flying squadron from its sailing
from Key West for Cienfuegos, up to
but not including the first lombard
rnant
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

When eyes snap, it must be the lashes
that crack.-Golden Days.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

Some lovers think that in order to be con-
slant they must be frequent.-Town Topics.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

When a man concludes he is too smart to
work he comes to the conclusion that has
made more thieves than any other thing on
earth.--Atchison Globe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

Nearly the whole of the business
part of the town of Triton, Ca, was
burned. An oil lamp in boarding.
house exploded. The Masonic hall
and ten stores were destroyed and a
hotel and large lumber mill were dam
aged.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-22

The great trouble in this world is too
many fools. Fools have always been nu-
merous, and there is no prospect whatever
that the supply will diminish.-Atchison
Globe.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A NEW PALMlsT TAKEN UP BY NEW
 YORK SOCIETY FOLK.

Women as Librarians = Freedom Among
 Burmese Women-says She Is shaky as
 to Cows - Mistakes of Modern Woman.
 The Girl In Business.
 Society's very latest fad and greatest drawing card at an afternoon reception IS palmist who reads the secrets of the head and heart through the palm of the left hand and tells the owner of the fair palm her white sins. And the palm ist whom society has taken up and ex- ploits as something really new is a young woman of noble birth, whose parents occupy high court position in Poland.
 She is Mile. Cleo Marie de Palkow- ska 23 years of age and she has already appeared in half dozen of the most ex- elusive homes of New York.
 Her reading of tho palm is altogether different from that of palmists who have fourished hitherto, and many fash ionable society women have hastened to bring her into their homes for their aft ernoon receptions and teas.
 A palmist and a fine collation. are two of the most powerful cards for full house at an afternoon reception, and both are rarely found together at the same entertainment. Mile. de Palkow- ska has created quite stir both by her hand reading and the fact that she comes of a noble Polish house. Her father is general in the Polish army, and her grandfather was marshal in the court of King Augustus of Poland. Mile. de Palkowska has been in this country but three months, but her entree to society was speedy on account of her remark able talent.
 Mile. dc Palkowska was introduced to New York society at reception given by Mrs. Richard Lounsbery at her
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TWENTY CENT DOLLARS.
United states Minting Coins For Foreign
 Countries.

United States Minting Coins For Foreign
 Countries.
 The government is now minting stl- yer dollars worth only 90 cents apiece They will be snly 85 per cent silver. the balance being copper and nickel but they will circulate at full value.
 Happily they are not intended for cir culation in this country. The work ie being done for the Dominican Republic and she dollars will be sent to Sante Domingo. The design for the coins was furnished by the Dominican treasury department and ill no respect, excepting shape, resembles the dollar of the Unit ed States.
 It has long been the custom of ths United States to make the money os several South American countries, and as an act of comity and good will the work is done at the actual cost of labor and material. The present order from santo Domingo also includes 800, 0OG half dollars, 375,00 quarter dollars and 750, 1000 dimes
 The mint bureau has just filled an order from Costa Rica for large quan. tity of gold coins. The government cf Costa Rica is so pleased with the coin- age that it has ordered through It's min. ister at Washington 40.Q00 Eore coins of gold. Estimates as to the cost uf pro- ducing them are now being prepared b; the director of the mint. Costa Rioa has recently adopted gold basis and hence the necessity for gold coins.
 The first work of this kind done by the United States was in 1876, when $l00, ,000 worth of minor coins were turned out for the government of yen- ezuela Chicago Times Herald.
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The Matter of Whiskers.

Jules Ferry's whiskers were often ak index to his state Of feeling. saw him on the day he escaped from tho com mune of Paris to Versailles He related his adventures at the Hotel des Reser- voirs to friends who gathered round him. The whiskers, which habitually stood well out, like those (his enemies said) of g garcon de cafe, were limp and lay fiat to the cheeks.
 The most leonine whiskers I ever saw were Skobeleff's. They were of inn mense length when he drew them out, as was his won't but when let alone seemed only half as long. I dare say they had their lank days. but not so far as I know. The term "whiskerando' (now well nigh obsolete) had more meaning than those who used it thought. London Truth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29
pEATHLY ALASKAN COLD.
nsw tho Mail Carriers Were Frozen =
 Deatk.

New the Mail Carriers Wore Frozen -
 Deatk.
 A letter received recently at Port Townshend, Wash, by the last steamer from Alaska gives full particulars of the terrible death of three men, Black. stone, Bottoher and Mollique, who were frozen while endeayoring to carry mail from Sunrise City across the glacier to Prince William sound.
 The letter was written by Charles Willoughby to his mother. Willoughby left Port Townshend IS months ago and has since been in the neighborhood of Sunrise City. He was a member of the searching party which found the bodies of the dead mail carriers He found Blackstone dead on the beach, lying in blankets and frozen to death with half the carcass of his dog, the unfortunate fellow having eaten part of bis faithful companion before he succumbed to the intense cold. His remains were inferred on the beach.
 The bodies of Bottcher and Mollique were found some distance away on the top of the glacier. where both had per- ished from the cold. Their remains were Co have been buried by the second party. which went out with directions sS to where the bodies could be found.
 The party left Sunrise City with the mail March '. The frozen bodies were found six weeks later.
 The letter further says that the pass winter was not as severe as was gener- ally supposed, the coldest weather being one night in February, when for four hours the mercury dropped to 19 de grees below zero.
 Of 46 horses taken to tho Cook inltE country last season for use in pack trains only four survived the winter. There Is good money in operating pack trains there, and last seasons trial demonstrated the fact that horses can not endure the climate. The owners will ship large number of mules north next season to take the places of tho horses, but as it is generally conceded that mules and negroes flourish best in warm countries the latter experiment is being watched with interest. --SaU Francisco Chronicle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29

nome, 12 East Thirty fifth street. There Mile. Marie told secrets not only of the persons whose hands she read, but of their families as well, and told them what they had to fear through heredity.
 An incident occurred at Mrs. Louns- bery's reception that was Mile. de Pal kowska's first Chit" !" as it were, in cre- ating the palmistry fad. While she read the palms of many women who were curious to know how she did it well known society woman approached and eaid: "Mademoiselle, look at my hand. Cheiro has told me there is suicide in it. Tell me if shall commit suicide. ''
 "Ah, madam" answered the Polish girl, studying her hand intently, "there has been suicide in your family some time long before you. There is trace of it still. I see suicidal tendencies in the lines, but the will can overcome them. "
 Others pressed forward to have their palms read, and each was told what she was best fitted for and what talents she possessed, musical or otherwise.
 Mile de Palkowska speaks in pret- ty broken English that lends charm to her palm reading. She is very serious with it, however, and says she has ad- vanced it to a science.
 Much against the wishes of her rela- lives at the Polish capital, Mile. de Pal kowska came to this country three months ago and went to live with her married sister at l32 West Twelfth street.
 Through some distant relatives in this country she was introduced into the exclusive society set of Flushing and appeared in a number of homes there. She first read palms at a reception given by Mrs Howells of Flushing. Her at traotive face and manners won her ready recognition.
 She was soon heard of in New York and taken up by the fashionable set.- New York Herald.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29

Women as Librarians Freedom Among Burmese Women-says She Is shaky as to Cows - Mistakes of Modern Woman. The Girl In Business.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29
whsre the World Lives.

Of every 1000 inhabitants of the globe 558 live in Asia, 242 in Europe, Ill in Africa, 82 in America, 5 in Ooeana and the polar regions and only 3 in Australia. Asia contains more than one- half of the total population of the earth and Europe nearly one-fourth. - London Tit-Bits
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29
Times Changes.

In 183G Goethe wrote to friend that 1t seemed almost inconceivable that now that the Gothard wagon road had been opened it was possible to go from Frankfort to Milan in a single week. It is now done in day.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29
An Advanced Stage.

Smith-A physician told me that salt water is a cure for lunacy.
 Jones-Well, know it is cure for freshness, and that is usually the first stage of lunacy.-Chioago News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29
Oldest Sailing Craft.

The oldest sailing craft in the world Is the so called Gokstad ship, viking vessel which was discovered in sepul- chral mound on the shores of Chris tiania ford It is 1000 years old.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29
What to Say.

A member of the house went to Speaker Reed one day and said that he had been selected by his delegation to deliver eulogy on deceased member. II did not know the member very well," remarked the congressman, land so I thought would ask you what should say"
 "Well," said Mir. Reed, with his in- imitable drawl, "say anything except the truth. Washington Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-29

Imitation states, made of compressed wood pulp, are used for roofing in Christiania. They are made waterproof by secret process.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-30
NO. a..
INCREASE OF TAXES.
How the Policy Of Expansion WORKS
I'm Some of the European
Countries.

The French cabinet Is celebrating q
scheme Of progressive income taxation.
1t is designed to raise 175, 900 900 francs
q year, and it will apply especially t.
the wealthier classes who manifest
their means in living and pleasure ex-
penditure. The rental value of the hab-
itation will be used primarily to cal
culate the income of the occupant. and
this calculated income is increa sed So
much by each servant employed. car
riage owned or employed and other evil
dences of income, such as yachts, dogs.
motorcycles and the like. Additions to
taxable income from these eyidenccs
OF wealth vary occording to place.
Thus, the employment of female serv-
ant adds 500 francs to the taxable in
come of person in Paris, 700 francs
In the larger cities outside of Paris,
and SO on down to 400 francs for the
country villages.
The enormous demands upon the ex-
chequer incident to the maintenance of
the military and naval might OF the ma
ton necessitate radical measures Of
public revenue. and wealth must ac-
cordingly be placed under special con-
tribution. Great Britain imperial pol
Icy has forced upon the wealth of tha.
nation the most radical system of grad
uated income and probate taxes exist
ing anywhere outside of Switzerland
and New Zealand, and it Is only qucs-
tion of brief time at the present ra to
OF imperial progress and navy and
army expansion when the burden must
be increased per capita or per unit Of
wealth. France is now to follow sult,
and all over Europe wealth will he
made more and more to contribute To
the support of the luxury of colonial
and military expansion-not so much
because of the justice of this course
but because of the poverty of til.
masses and their inflammatory state
Of mind.
There is no large nation in the world
to-day where wealth is relatively so
lightly taxed as in the United States.
Blu. with the entrance of the nation
into the arena of the world-gra bling
and military powers all this must
change. Wealth will be made to foot
the BILL Nothing can be more certain.
unless we are to suppose that the Md
die and lower classes of people in the
United States possess less Of the spirit
and strength of resistance to the en-
croachments of privilege and power
than the crushed and broken masses
OF Europe.-Springfield Mass Repub-
lican.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-30

my life insured! Good evening. Abel
l thought maybe you wouldn't mind IL
| dropped in to settle up my account.
Io-morrow's New Year, and couldn't
sleep wink tonight, up to my ears in
debt"
Abel Tappan beamed at her over the
counter. He hunted up chair for her
and put ii near the stove.
/ guess 'twouldn't be more than up
TO your elbows, Mis- Wyncoop." he
laughed, jovially. Not deep enough
TO keep you awake. But knew you'd
be in tonight, just as wells 1 knew I
should eat my supper. / told Becky.
| says; Mis- Wyncoop1l be in to pay
her bin tonight, you see if she Amt,
Becky, says set down here by the
fire, do-and here you are! Well. all
is, wish there were more like you in
the world! Those shiftless McKies,
now-that little scamp of a Jot's been
in trying to get trusted again, but I've
struck! guess it's about time, too"
He got down his big book from the
high corner desk and spread it open on
the counter. turning the pages labori-
ously. Abel Tappan was his own book
Keeper and had his own peculiar fla sh-
ion Of keeping" the great, leather
covered book-a fashion that would
have first puzzled, then foored the dap
Fer, precise graduate of a commercial
college. But it sufficed for Abel Tap
pan very well.
"Forty-two, forty-three, forty-four,
forty-fve - Wyncoop; that's your
page" he said. "And I declare if Page
46 amt the McKie page, right across
from yours. I'd forgot that. Twenty
nine-twenty-nine dollars and eighty
three cents. There you are, Mis- Wyn-
coop. You better reckon ii up yourself
and make sure it's all right. We're all
as liable to mistakes as the sparks that
fly upward"
He tilted up and down on his toes.
mildly ineredulous of any possible er-
ror in his reckoning, while Drusilla
Wyncoop went over the columns from
the top downward. Her lips chippered
audibly over the task.
"Yes; that's just right, Abel, and I'm
only thankful it isn't any more. Lord
OF liberty who'd believe nutmegs an
pepper n salt would cost most s30!"
Her eyes rested on Page 46, still lying
open on the counter. Her own page, op-
posite, looked almost empty in compari-
son.
From top to bottom and from side to
side, Page 46 was full of minute, un-
steady words, traced with cramped
painstaking and flanked by relentless
column of figures.
What pageful!" she exclaimed
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-30

"Daddy'll fetch you a drink right off, .
he faltered
But she thrust away the glass he
brought her.
1T don't taste good-take it away,
daddy. I'm SO thirsty in my throat!"
.'Yes, yes; daddy'll go get some nice
fresh water, right out of the well. You
wait, Becky"
Becky lifted up her small, tangly
head and gazed up at him reproach-
fully.
Take it away, daddy" she cried
Put lemon init don't taste good. |
want a squeeze O. lemon in, an sugar.
I'm so thirsty"
Abel Tappan's grizzled head bowed it.
self beside the child's.
'Yes, yes; daddy'll fetch a lemon
right away and make it taste good, ="
he mumbled in an agony of grief,
against her cheek. "Daddy'll see to it
ii nice"
Back in the store again, he could
find no lemons, though he searched and
researched with dogged insistence.
Where could they be? There had been
plenty of them, over there on the sec
ond, right-hand shelf in row.
He moved boxes and cans. he cleared
whole shelves with a sweep of his arm.
Becky's little wall sounded on, unceas-
ing, in his ears. Ii must find them! lie
could not go back to Becky without
them. The yellow labels on some of
the bottles Knocked him and led him on
TO unavailing hopes. The dim lights
twinkled their eyes and jeered at him.
A merry party going past outside
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-30

were together. She used TO get 'cm all
mixed up at school. Same colored hair,
with the same kinks in il, and their eyes
just alike, and even their little dimp'es
matching! The little McKie girl was
fat and well then, like your Becky"
The lemons blinked their yellow eyes
reproachfully. Mr.. Tappan strode be-
hind the counter and swept them. with
a succession of clatters into the money
drawer, out of sight. He was mentally
reviewing the items of Page 46. He
knew them by heart. How many. many
of them were little unpretending lux
uries that little, peevish. sick child
might crave! How few of them-her-
rings now and then, and salt Goldfish
or oatmeal--were necessaries! II had
nettled him over and over again TO
think of it, but now, somehow, it
touched him against his will.
Yes, o, yes. he knew they used TO say
the little McKie girl-Love, Dove, what
was her name looked like Becky.
His Becky! His little round roly poly,
happy Becky!
After Mrs. Wyncoop's departure Abel
Tappan took the big brown ledger back
to the corner desk still open. Doggedly
he turned the pages and went to work.
With quick steps the little New Year
was hurrying to meet the Old Year.
His light footsteps made no crealling
over the snow. Eleven-quarter past
-half-past-how close they were, al
most touching hands!
A little voice reused Abel Tappan .oy
and by-Becky's-bu he had never
heard Becky's voice from such dis
tance before. He seized the lamp and
hurried upstairs, where he and his little
beloved. motherless Becky and Old
Nance lived.
The child was tossing on her bed, fret
ting plaintively. Her little face. in the
lamps feeble glimmer, looked unduly
flushed and thin.
"My back aches so." she whimpered.
Becky's back ached so! Becky's lit
tie straight-no, OF Lord have mercy,
it was crooked! 1t bowed out pitifully
against the little white sheets. Becky's
face was sharp with pain.
Abel Tappan shuddered from head to
foot. The lamp shook in his hand un-
safely. Through the blur on his glasses
the little tossing head on the pillow
seemed strangely far away from him
Was it his little, plump, rollicking, dan
cling Becky-his straight Becky he had
been so proud of always?
"I'm so thirsty in my throat"
moaned the little crooked Becky on the
bed.
He bent down unsteadily and kissed
her. His heart broke in the kiss.