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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-24
GENERAL NEWS

A FIRE destroyed Dice's livery stable,
the Farmers hotel, Tricks Touring
mill and residence at Portsmouth,
o. Loss, $4,000.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th
numbered 800, according to Brad
streets commercial report, against 235
for the corresponding week last year
JUDGE JOHN H. VIRGIN, go years old,
of Prentice, ILL.,, was found dead in the
toilet room of Missouri Pacific train
when it arrived at St Louis Heart
failure was thought to have caused
his death.
LIEUT. YOUNG, of the Hist reports
that it is practicable to raise the for
mer Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes,
sunk on June 6 near the entrance to
Santiago harbor during the engage
ment between Simpsons warships and
the Spanish land batteries.
SCARCITY of water in California Is
eurtailing the gold output
In Santa Fe freight wreck so miles
south of Ardmore, l. T., Conductor
Hatfield and Brakeman Crogin we're
killed.
The next annual meeting of the
Farmers National congress will! be
held at Fort Worth, Tex, December
Ola
GEN. WESLEY MERRITT, U. S. A., in
an interview at London. refers to the
Filipinos as children" and said that
it would be impossible TO establish
American government in the islands
and that they must have some form
similar to that of the British colonial
governments.
THE Alabama congressional delega-
ton met at Montgomery and decided
20 put forward Representative John
II. Bankhead for the democratic lead
ership of the next house of congress.
This means that the contest for the
preliminary vote for speaker to be
given by the democrats will be between
Bankhead and Mr.. Bailey, of Texas.
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AnDITIONAL DIspATOHEs.

A PASSENGER train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton railroad ran into
q freight train near Toledo, o., and
two trainmen and one passenger were
injured.
A QUARRYMAN named Ferguson, at
Portsmouth, o., started a fire in his
stove at home and accidentally put
can containing blasting powder in the
fire. There was terrific explosion
and the side of the house was blown
out. Ferguson was fatally injured,
two of his children killed and his wife
and another child were disfgured for
life and may not live.
In the football match between Har-
ward and Yale university teams at
New Haven, Conn, on the 10Th, Har-
ward won by a score of II too.
EIGHT persons were injured in a
wreck on the Big Four railroad near
Alton, Ill. A frightened COW jumped
under the passenger car, derailing it.
The car then struck bridge and was
demolished. Only one passenger was
injured fatally.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire was said to be
raging in the Ozark mountains, near
Macomb, Mo-, at midnight on the Goth.
Thirteen miles had been swept over
by the fire and miles of fences, orchards,
plan tations farms, etc, were said to
be in the path of the flames and it was
thought Macomb would be destroyed.
The business portion of Perry, Ia,
was reported burning early on the 2lst.
Several large brick blocks had been
destroyed and the fire department was
helpless to stop the flames. The loss
up to the time the dispatch was sent
was said to be about $500, 900.
JOHN w. PARSONS, of New York, was
elected general master workman of
the Knights of Labor at the meeting
at Chicago on the 10Th. ]. D. Schon-
faber, of Baltimore, Nd, was selected
to succeed Henry Bostock on the ex-
ecutive board. All the other general
officers were reelected.
A FREIGHT locomotive on the Chica-
go & Erie railroad exploded near
Lima, O., and killed the fireman and
probably fatally injured three other
trainmen. About 90 cars were wrecked.
GEN. DON CARLOS BUELL., one of the
most conspicuous figures in the federal
army early in the civil war, died at his
country place, Paradise, in Muhlenburg
county, KY, on the 10th, aged 8! years.
ARCHIE L. MILLER, civil engineer,
who had recently returned from
Nicaragua, died in Washington of yell
low fever. Great precautions were
taken by the marine hospital service
to prevent the spread Of the disease.
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DISASTER NEAR JERSEY CITY
A PennsyIvaDIA Train Runs into n Gang OF
wOrkmen During a Fog aud Eleven
Mon Ara RnIed.

New York, Nov. 1s.-While a gang
of 90 track hands we're at work'upon
the Pennsylvania railways line over
the Hacltensack, near Jersey City yes
terday, they were run down by local
passenger train. Eleven of the work.
men were killed outright and six were
seriously injured. The train which
ran down the workmen was local
from Midtown to Jersey City. The
fog delayed the train and Engineer
John Van 0strand was endeavoring to
make up time. His train was rum
ming at high rate of speed,
he believing there was nothing to
obstruct quick run to Jersey City.
The first that he knew that his train
had run into the men was when the
train Jared. Then the cries of the
men were heard and he as soon as
possible brought his train to a stop.
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RUMoR ABOUT THE ALTON.
A Chicago Paper Says That the PIttSburg
d Gulf Syndicate Has an Option
on the line.

Chicago, Nov. 19.-The Post says: 1t
is stated on what appears to be per-
fectly reliable authority that the syn
dictate, supposed to be controlled by
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf rail-
way, which has secured an option on
the Chicago g. Alton railroad, has re-
ceived subscriptions to the cash
fund required to an amount three
times what is needed to make the pur-
chase. The syndicate will not buy the
property in the name of the Kansas
City, Pittsburg g. Gulf road. The pur-
chase will be an entirely independent
transaction, but it will take place
with the view of furnishing that road
with direct line from the gulf to
ChioapO
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DEWEY TO RAISE THEM.
The Aggressive American Admiral VIII
Soon he UAIng Three OF the Span
ish Vessels He Wrecked.

Washington, Nov 10,--The United
States navy will soon possess more
than a sprinkling of foreign built
warships Admiral Dewey has in
formed the navy department that he
has contracted with Hong Kong firm
Of wreckers to raise three of the Span
ish war vessels sunk in the battle of
Manila last May day. The cost of
raising the ships and putting them
in thorough repair will be $500, 900.
The vessels to be raised are gunboats
of large type, and in the opinion of
Chief Constructor Hichborn they will
be the very best kind Of craft for the
protection Of the United States inter-
ests among the Philippines along the
Asiatic coast. They are the sister
ships Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzon,
and the Don Juan dc Austria.
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Emporia, Kan, Nov. 19-It is said
here that Receiver Jobes has found a
shortage in the First national bank
of more than $4,000, which he traces
directly to Charles Cross, the dead
president. This report has stunned
the town almost as completely as did
the news of his suicide. The Cross in"
surance amounts to about $4,000 and
friends of the family say that Mrs
Cross will turn every cent of it over to
the receiver of the bank.
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DO NOT WANT NEGROES.
Topeka Colonization Scheme FrOwned
Upon by Native Cubana-MOre Rabid
Predict Race War

Havana, Nov. 19.-The news from
Topeka that John T. Veny, Baptist
clergyman is about to send to Santiago
30 negro families as nucleus for a
large negro colony, has caused an ex-
ceedingly bad impression among the
Cubans, who are anxious that only
white immigrants shall come to Cuba
The more rabid predict race war
should many negroes come from the
United States. A strange feature is
that the Cuban negroes are even more
bitter than the whites in denouncing
the movement.
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The Commerce. of Hawaii.

Washington, Nov. 19.-The state de-
partment has published report of
she British foreign Office in regard to
the commerce of Hawaii in 1897, from
which it appears that, of the total i'm
ports of the islands, the United States
contributed 1894 per cent; Great
Britain, Canada and the colonies to-
gether, lts5 per cent, the balance
being distributed about equally be-
tween Germany, China, Japan and
other countries.
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Grover Cleveland OF for Santiago.

New York, Nov. 10. On the yacht
Oneida, Capt. Robley D. Evans, Grover
Cleveland and their host +. G. Bene-
dict, are sailing to the south bound
for Newport News, Key West, San
tiago and Ponce on a two-months'
cruise. Capt. Evans will take the
party to the marine battlefield, where
Cervera's fleet was destroyed. Mr..
Cleveland has taken fishing tackle and
expects to catch big tarpon in Florida
waters
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RnIlroad Geta a Bic Canal.

Baltimore, Nd, Nov. l9.-The board
of public works decided to sell all the
interest of the state of Maryland in
the famous Chesapeake 6 Ohio canal
This interest has cost the state in one
way or another about $35, 900, 900. This
action is taken in order that the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad reorganizers
may have clear title to the property.
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mo- Chnnc. Cor a ConnIct.

"a conflict of arms" he said, sis terri
BILE thing"
"Of course" she replied, blushing prettilys
"and so ineXcusable, too. / hold that the
disposition q man makes Of his arms is none
of a girls business"
After that, of course, there was no chance
for confict.-Chicago Post.
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Havana, Nov. 91.-Gen. Blanco has
received from Paris cable authorizing
him to draw on Paris for $4,000, 900 in
gold, to be applied to the payment of
the Spanish troops in Cuba. This
amount is in addition to the proceeds
of the draft for e425, 900 by the Madrid
government on London which was
sold here last week.
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Many YIctIma cd DIphtherIa.

Wichita, Kan, Nov 19.-Nearly 90
families have left Wichita to remain
until the epidemic is over. UP to yes
terday there have been 90 deaths and
about so cases The doctors think
they have the disease checked per-
manently.
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Rrxnn.a Leave Extended.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov 19.-COl Will
liam j. Bryan's health does not mend
as rapidly as he has expected and, on
recommendation of his physician, he
was granted an additional ten days
leave of absence, which permits him to
remain in Lincoln until December 4.
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Chicago, Nov. 9l.-Ariel Meimrath,
formerly a wholesale fruit-dealer in
Kansas City, has fled petition for
voluntary bankruptcy. scheduling liza
bilities of S1l2, 600. He has no avail
able assets.
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Necessary to Draw Lots.

Leavenworth, Kan, Nov 91.-It now
seems likely that the tie vote between
Dawes and Fitzwilliams, the repub-
lican and democratic candidates for
the legislature, will have to be decided
by drawing lots, as provided for by the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-24

'T didn't see the widow at the funeral."
mo; her gown fitted SO badly that she.
couldn't restrain her grief enough to be-
present. ANSWERS.
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Social Distinctions.

Young Doctor find it hard to draw the
line between hay fever and influenza,
Old Doctor-It is hard, my boy, but social
distinctions have to be made; there's no help
for it.-Detroit journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-24

Most cities have such slow means Of travel
H. requires an hour to reach Sixty.second!
street.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
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Winter set in with Rheumatism. Set out,
with St. Jacobs Oil and cure.

Some men snatch victory from defeat, but
more snatch defeat from victory.-C Chicago
Daily News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-24

In the head, with its ringing noises In the
cars, buzzing, swapping sounds, severehead-
aches and disagreeable discharges, is per-
manently cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla. Do
not daily with local applications. Take
Hoods sarsaparilla and make a thorough
and complete cure by eradicating from the
blood all scrofulous laints and giving health
and vigor TO the whole system.
Hoods SarsapariIIai
Is Americas Greatest Medicine. Ct; six for O..
Hood's pIIIs cure all Liver Ills. rs cents.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-24

Forget it? Toothache won't let you.
Don't forget St. Jacobs Oil will cure.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-30

One day little puppy had just re-
ceived bath and his mother told him
not tn go out until he was quite dry,
but the little dog, who never did a
thing his mother told him, thought it
wouldn't do him any harm to go ont
for walk, and while his mother was
sleeping he went out very quietly, so
she wouldn't wake up. When once
ont of the house he raced and jumped
and barked aud chased the pretty
butterflies until he was so tired out
he didn't know what to do. At last
he came to muddy pool of water and
he walked right through it, and so OF
course he got all dirty.
The little puppy began to feel so
tired that he lay down to rest, and fell
asleep. He slept for long time, and
when he awoke it was very dark, and
the moon was shining ON him through
the trees. He started up in a fright
aud began to whine, but no one an
swered him, so lie stopped and lay
down again, but he could not sleep
and he didn't know where he was.
The disobedient puppy began to
think of his home in the barn and
wished he had never left it. When
daylight began to dawn he thought he
heard noise in the bushes close by
and when lie looked he saw two
shining eyes fixed upon him.
He did not stay there minute
longer, but started to run away as fast
as ever his legs would carry him.
| Then he heard whatever it was com
ing right behind him, and he tried to
run faster and faster, but he could
not run fast enough, and pretty soon
he shut his eyes and gave himself up
for lost. He dropped down on the
ground, and right on top of him came
two big paws, and then he heard his
name. He opened his eyes, and there,
looking into his face, was his own
motherl 1t was she who had been
watching him from the bushes and
chased him when he ran.
With joyous bark and one leap he
was on his feet, asking forgiveness.
His mother took him home and read
him very serious lecture on disobe
dience, and then washed all the mud
and dirt off him and put him to bed
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-30
cHIlDREM's COLUMN.
The Bedtime Folks.

always hatet to go to bed fore other folkses
go,
because they take the light away or turn the
wick down low.
they say won't go right asleep with lights
a-blazin' high,
An laugh an call me 'fraidy-cat, because l
tease and cry.
Why, dark is just the awfllest time OF any
time of day!
'Tis then the goblins, gnomes an ghosts
come out to scare an play.
The ghosts come slidin' down the hall an
creak the nursery door,
An goblins play ut hide-and-seek upon the
big black floor.
Our Tabbyskins comes sneakin In, with eyes
like chunks OF fire;
The witchs cats camp on our fence a-prac-
ticin' their choir,
The brownies on our attic floor keep dancin'
pit-a-pat,
No, don't tell met isn't mice, nor faint
no great big rat.
know about the bedtime sprites-I'm sure
you must agree
I've read too many fairy books to lot them
things fool me.
An so just lie wide awake an cover up my
head.
An wisht was better boy. till neither
comes to bed.
Caroline wetherell.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-30
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

If cheerfuIness knocks for admis-
sion, we should open our hearts wide
to receive 1t, for 1t never comes inop-
|portunely.
A thoughtful observer remarks that
there are two classes of persons whom
1t is hard to convince against their
will-women and men.
Temperance and labor are the two
best physicians of men; labor sharp
ems the appetite, and temperance pre-
vents him from indulging in excess.
Learning is either good or bad ac-
cording to him that has tan excel
lent weapon, if well used; otherwise,
like sharp razor in the hands of a
child.
Life is no idle dream, but solemn
reality based on and encompassed by
eternity. Find out your work, and
stand to it; the night cometh when no
man can work.
All brave men are brave in initiative,
but the courage which enables them
to succeed where others dare not even
attempt is never so potent as when it
leads to entire self-forgetfulness.
Not tunremembertd is the hour when
first friends met. Friends, but friends
on earth, and therefore dear; sought
oft, and sought almost as oft in vain,
yet always sought, 30 native to the
heart, 80 much desired and coveted by
ALL
Those who despise fame seldom de-
serve it. We are apt to undervalue
the purchase we cannot reach, to con-
ceal our poverty the better. 1t is a
spark which kindles upon the best
fuel, and burns brightest in the brav-
est breast.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-30
"oYP." THE WRITER. AND HER
WORK.

Very few people are aware. when
reading the works of "Gyp," one OF
the most recent of which. "Bijou," has
just been translated into English, that
the author is the great-grandniece OF
Victor de Riqueti Marquis de Mira
baeu. 1t is a fact, however, that the
Comtesse de Martel de Janville, whose
family name is Marie Antoinette de
Mirabeau, is descended in direct line
from the man who figured so promin-
emily in the French revolution.
"Gyp," too, is a revolutionary. and
of so pronounced a type that 1t has
been said that she detests everybody
and everything; such is the vigor with
which she rldicules people in her nov
els-now so numerous that all count
of them has been lost. Her work has
been done too hastily to be first-rate.
There is one character which "Gyp"
has created, however, which is stroke
Of genius, namely, the chief character
of the novel Petit Bob" Bob Is the
depraved child of rich and degenerate
parents. not the enfant terrible uncon-
scious Of his faults, but the conscious
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-30


In England Hampton Court Palace
has long enjoyed the reputation of
being haunted by the ghost of one or
the other of the numerous wives of
King Henry VIII. Indeed, the
official records of the corporation of
the city of London show that the
lord mayor and aldermen ordered
during the reign of King James III
twelve thousand masses to be said
for the repose of the soul of Queen
Jane Seymour. with the object of
''laying" her ghost, which was wont,
according to popular belief, to wander
about the corridor near the room
where Queen Anne Boleyn caught her
sitting on the kings knee. Fifteen
years ago the inhabitants of the palace,
which is now used as residence for
the widows of distinguished officers
of the army and navy, as we'll as of
members of the Queens household,
were alarmed almost out of their wits
by the sound of the whirring of q
spinning-wheel at night, and in de-
ference to their urgent entreaties the
government Office of works instituted
an investigation, which resulted in the
discovery of brickedup and until
then unsuspected chamber containing
an ancient spinning-wheel showing
marks of recent use. Reference to
the old records of the palace showed
this room to have formed one of the
private apartments of Queen jane
New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-30
The Ant as n Farmer.

The little ants have an industry all
their own in the care and breeding of
insects called aphides which serve
them as cows. Although the aphides
do not give milk, they supply the ants
with sweet liquid which is nutritious
and pleasant to the taste.
The aphides live on the stems of
plants, and the busy little workers
that cultivate them build tunnels over
these stems, leaving small opening
Mt either end, just large enough for
one of their number to pass in and
out. The aphides are we'll fed and
cared for by tae ants, and they repay
this attention by generous supply OF
the honey-like fluid each day. The
ants manage to keep their cows from
generation to generation, carefully
protecting them through the winter
from cold and storms by velvety
blanket of dry moss, and over this an
other covering of pastelike substance
In the spring, when the young are
Matching, the ants seek food in the
field, and not until the young aphides
crawl out from under the moss
blankets do the ants begin the work
of carrying away the winter cover
ings. With the return of summer
these little ants and farmers work
faithfully that their ''cattle" may
thrive for the harvest days. New
York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-30
Thomas Cariyle's Recipe for Shirts

Iuohhs Chriyie's htcipe fOr Snirts.
Here is an extract from letter OF
Thomas Carlyle, in which he asks his
sister to make some shirts and sends
the measurements. How many women
could make a shirt after them?
"My dear Jenny. In the
meanwhile I want you to make me
some flannel things, too-three flannel
shirts especially; you can get the
flannel from Alick, il he have any
that he can we'll recommend. You
can readily have them made before
the other shirts 60 off. 1 have taken
the measure today, and now send you
the dimensions, together with a
measuring strap which bought some
weeks ago lat one penny for the pur.
pose!
"You are to be careful to scour ths
flannel first, after which process the
dimensions are these: Width (when
the shirt is laid ON its back % 1-2
inches, extent from wrist button to
wrist button 81 inches, length in the
back 35 inches, length in the front
25 1-2 inches. Do you understand all
that? dare say you will make it out,
and this measuring band will enable
you to be exact enough. Attn ntic
Monthly.
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action--cowardly, he thought--of the
commanders. He could keen still no

action--cowardly, he thought-of the
commanders. He could keep still no
longer. Seeing no prospect Of q gen.
eral action, he boldly, and in defiance
of every order issued, quilted his sta
tion and selected Spanish ship of
equal force to try the issues with.
Fer half an hour it was an open ques-
tion whether Hawke had done n wisely
brave deed or simply mad one, but
at the end Of that half hour, in which
some brilliant fighting was done, the
Spanish ship was prisoner, and the
captains wisdom as well rs bravery
was clearly demonstrated.
When official and public opinion
had had time to decide on the merits
and demerits of the principal actors
in the engagement, u flag promotion
took place, in which the name of Cap
tain Hawke was passed over. The
slight was followed by verdict from
the naval authorities dismissing him
from the service for his disobedient
bravery.
But the matter was not yet settled.
His majesty, King George, had some
thing to say. He inquired why the
officer had been dismissed, and was
frankly informed that IL was because
Captain Hawke had disobeyed orders
by quitting the line to fight the Span
ish ship Poder.
"What?" cried the indignant mon
arch. Disgrace man for fighting
too much? He shall be my admiral. y
This was the royal verdict, and it is
said that some years later, in 1859,
when Hawke gained n signal victory
over the French feet, the king was
so overjoyed that his Judgment in the
choice of an admiral had been vindi.
Gated, that he pulled the wig from his
head and kicked it about the palace OF
Kensington for very gladness that he
had given England 80 great an ad-
miral.-Youth's Companion.