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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
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GfNS, ,I'a!:iSSuuHTS
A CHEAP WINDMILL.
How an Ingenious Nebraska Farmer
Constructed One at an Expense
eff just $3.50.

In the great arid west district sew
eral enterprising settlers have bought
or fixed up various kinds of windmills,
pumps, hydraulic rams, ETC., and made
the dry, parched desert blossom as the
rose. One of the most enterprising of
these industrious people is j. L. Brown,
of Buffalo county, Neb., whose ''go-
devil'' mill, illustrated herewith, was
made entirely by him of cast-off farm
material except $1.5o for gas pipe for
axle. A similar mill can be made of
new material for five or six dollars.
This mill has furnished water since
1894 for house, stock and ten-acre
fruit farm.
Mr.. Brown mill fans are made of cof-
fee boxes and are two and one-half feet
wide, the wheel being nine feet in di-
aneter. Holes are punched in the gas
pipe axle TO fasten the arms to. The
crank is of two by four pine fastened
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
what BIRDS Do for Man.

A French economic ornithologist
states it as his belief, resulting from his
investigations, that if the world were
to become birdless, man could not in
habit it after nine years time, in spite
of all the sprays and poisons that could
he manufactured for the destruction of
insects. He shows that birds eat hun
dreds of millions of insects daily, which
cannot be doubted when stomach ex-
aminations show that all the insect eat
ing birds are continually destroying
large numbers of insects, most of them
harmful to agriculture. Birds are
more the farmers friend than he real
ICES.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
A NEW ERA COMING.
The Introduction of Motor Power
Will Necessitate the Making
of Better Roads.

The propelling power of the future,
In rural districts as well as in the cities,
will be electricity and compressed air.
The horseless age is almost upon US.
Great factories are now preparing to
turn out motor vehicles by the thou
sands and hundreds of thousands, and
there is little doubt that only few years
will elapse before they will be in gen
eral use throughout the country. Not
only will motor and compressed air
vehicles be used for pleasure convey
ances, but they will be used for doing
the work of the farm and conveying
the products to the markets and ship
ping points.
The use of this kind of vehicles will
necessitate the making of better roads.
They will prove an inestimable boon to
the farmer. Their advent into general
use means a new era for him. They
will do away with much Of the
drudgery of farm life and add in nu-
merous ways to its pleasure and profit,
They will greatly lessen the cost of
transporting to market his products.
thus enabling him to realize more for
his labor, even at the same prices. The
care and expense of keeping work ami
mails will be a thing of the past. But
unless the people of the country bestir
themselves for better roads the cities
will enjoy these luxuries for genera
ton before they can be made practical
in the rural districts.-The States
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27

j lose the greatest chance of my life.
A party was to advance it, but they
they wouldn't let me up to see him.
Twenty-seven million dollars at stake
and we may lose it all for the want of
a paltry five hundred thousand. Are
you-you looking for an Investments
sure thing?"
perhaps. What have you got %
"Say!" he whispered, as he put a hand
~on my arm and his face lighted up with
sudden hope, perhaps luck has sent
you to me! Have 1 got sure thing
on hand? Why, sir, I've got the scheme
of the century! Been figuring on it for
the last ten years, and there is no pos
sible chance of failure. Why, sir, it
will turn the street upside down and
asConish the whole world. Profit, sir
profit? There won't be a cent less than
$4,OOO,O00 profit, and I'll guarantee you
100 per cent. on your money. Half a
million dollars for you, and the honor
sof being associated with a prince of
finance in addition. The chance won't
go begging, 1 assure you"
''But the scheme?" l asked.
''Sir!' he said as he drew himself up
with great dignity, my man will show
you out and we will consider the trans
action off,
but if 1 invest my money 1 should
know where it is going"
|'You are the first who has ever
asked for particulars. 1t has been suf-
ficient that l have named the profit.
You seem to doubt my financial integ-
rity and my acumen. 1 wish you good
day, sir!"
He waved his hand in dismissal as if
seated at his desk with millions be-
hind him, and for a moment 1 was
awed. 1 was wondering what to say to
restore myself when he turned and
said:
Every well, sir. Money is tight and
capital suspicious, and for once l will
condescend to go into particulars-for
Ahe first time in my career, remember.
Va is in confidence, sir-strictest conf
edence. My project, sir, is ship canal
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. have
been quietly working at it for the last
ten years-so quietly that even my sec
rotary has not got hint of it. They
were not far wrong when they dubbed
me Old Reynard'-not far wrong.
work in the dark, and double on my
track to throw 'em off the scent"
'But why canal when there are
railroad lines? % 1 asked.
"Why a canall" he replied with con.
tempt for my ignorance IF l hadn't
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
TREASURES DRAINED.
the Drainage where the Pub
lie Doesn't Want 1t.

Thomas L. Pogue, chairman of the
Ohio Division L. A. ". Good Roads
committee, has the following terse re-
marks to make on Draining the roads
instead of the treasury
IF the modern politician could truly
enter into these. words: My country,
It's of thee I think instead of My
country, think of me- and the amount
it cost me to get the election, and the
amount it costs me to support the style
that is expected of me, holding this
great and honorable position as 1 now
do, 1T would change about the drain
age system of all the great states. In
stead of paying particular attention
to the draining of the state treasury,
there would be more attention paid TO
the drainage of the so-called state high
ways.
Spoke wiser than he knew, did the
man that coined the expression The
county has gone dry, for it is the only
way the county could go, for no great
things were ever moved about in mud,
and no county will ever get a first-class
business hustle until it has first
class roads, for these are the veins of
prosperity, and if there is any trouble
with the veins the body is not healthy.
When a man gets bilious he takes
something, perhaps thoroughwort, and
when a county gets bilious and things
don't move as they should, the best
thing for that county is to take good
large dose of thoroughwork, and drain
all the roads; then the second dose,
stone all the main roads; and the third
dose, stone all the roads.
''Some one says, what talk! That
would bankrupt county. Well, if the
timid party will take the trouble to in
vestigate he will find that every acre of
tillable land in the state, which is not
enhanced in value by its nearness to
some village or city, can bond itself to
twice its value for permanent roads.
and such an act, if it were necessary,
would be a good investment, and the
owner could, if all did the same thing
so that permanent roads were contin-
uous, pay the interest and retire the
bonds, and be worth more money in 40
years than he otherwise would have
been However, this is not necessary,
for permanent stone roads can be built
for much less than the value of the land
to-day, but if these roads were built,
land would climb the value ladder fast
er and go up higher than the most
sanguine good roads advocate would
dare to DrOpheSv''
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
jim WAS A JOKER
By M. QUAD. Copyright, 1858.

After the old farmer had brought me
a drink of water and given me the
right road to Adairsville he looked up
the road and began to chucl1le. 1 fol-
lowed his gaze and saw wayfarer who
was yet half a mile away. He was walk
ing in the middle of the road with a
bundle on stick over his shoulder. I
was wondering what there was to laugh
at when the farmer explained:
''Now, you'll see some of the tallest
kind O. fun. My son Jim is plantin'
pumpkin seeds in the field by the dead
tree, and he'll be sure to ketch on to
that Teller"
''And if he sees him-then what?" I
asked.
''Then Jim will jump for him and
scare him to death. I'll bet he goes
by here in such cloud of dust that
you can't tell the color of his hair, and
that he don't stop runnin' for seven
miles,"
''Is your son Jim jol1er?''
''The biggest kind of a jol1er!"
chuckled the father, as he rubbed his
hands in anticipation. Its joke O
his to jump the fence and pounce down
on Teller like that and run him out O.
the county. Lord! Lord! but won't
Jim give that teller a surprise party!
Keep yer eyes on him, stranger, for the
circus is about to open"
AS the man came within about 40 rods
of us, Flooding heavily along, dark
object leaped over the fence, and an I'M
earthly yell reached our ears. 1t was
Jim. He yelled again and again as he
made for the wayfarer, and the father
hung on to the fence and exclaimed:
'Jim will roll him over in the dust a
few times, and then start him flynn!
Lord! Lord! but how he will whizz by
here!"
But Jim didn't do any rolling. Down
went the bundle and up went the way
farer's fists, and we almost heard the
sound as his right hit the joker in the
nose and sent him head over heels.
Then a race followed, but it was Jim
who was in the lead of the stranger
who was close upon his heels. AS they
reached us Jim swerved and jumped
the fence and sought refuge in the Or
chard, and after hunting for him for
five minutes the wayfarer returned to
US and said to the father:
''Say, old man, that kid o yours is a
great joker, amt hep"
yves" stammered the father.
81 thought so. Som I. I'm allus on
hand for joke. L shall be back this
way in about week, and if his nose is
well by that time he might spring an
other on me-"
When the stranger had departed I
looked at the father and he looked at
me, and the silence had become some
what embarrassing when he turned
away with:
''Wall, stranger, all I kin say about
it is that Jim must be feelin' a heap
worse than either of us, and you jest
keep to the left at the top of the hill
and you'll bring up in town all right -
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
HOW TO BRACE WIRE FENCE POSTS.

HOW TO BRACE WIRE FENCE POSTS.
other posts only two feet. The draw
ing shows his plan admirably. The
brace post, A, is set into notch in the
upright. Although it rests on the big
fat stone, B, it is not necessary that
the latter should be notched, too. A
horizontal hole is bored near the lower
end of the brace post to admit a long
bolt, connecting with a swivel, c, whose
size is exaggerated in the drawing pur-
posely, to bring it out more distinctly.
An ordinary galvanized wire, d. con-
meets the swivel with the upright cor
ner post. The swivel is screw-threaded
at one end-that toward the upright
post. Turning it in one direction or the
other tightens or loosens the wire, and
sets the brace up more or less firmly
N Y Tribune
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
simpIe Cure for Garget.

[ have had quite number of cows in
nv dairy at different times which were
troubled with garget. I will not say
what causes it, but some cows are more
subject to it than others, and it is al
ways the best cows which are affected.
[ have no trouble now in stopping it. AS
soon as [ find a cow whose udder is
hard I dissolve one tablespoonful of
saItpeter in about two gills of hot wa
ter and mix it thoroughly with some
ground feed. If she will not eat it
drench her by using long-necked bot
tie. Two doses morning and evening
have always been sufficient. = Prairie
Farmer
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
WIRE FENCE POSTS.
How a Swivel May Be Used to Tighten
Things Up If the Brace Gets
a Trihe Slack.

John G. Sigler, of Baileysville, Kan,
has devised and tried with gratifying
success a method of bracing a wire
fence post. After years experience
he considers it a substantial and eco
nomical device. If properly put in, he
says, it will last for lifetime. Mr.
Sioler does not aim to take out patent
on this system, but contributes it for
the benefit of our readers.
1t may be remarked at the outset that
he puts his end, or corner, post down
three feet into the ground, but the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27

gone mighty change when man can
be found who hesitates to go in with
the prince of finances and make hun
dred per cent. profit on his money.
Afraid! Half a million-humph!
''But you may be over-enthusiastic, %
I protested.
I stood and watched him making his
way until the crowd swallowed him up
Then the janitor of the building be-
hind me touched my arm and said:
''Too bad, isn't it?''
''What-the old man?'
eyes, old Blank. He owned the street
once. This was one of his buildings,
and he gave me a place. I've seen the
time when he had $2O, 100000 in the
safe on the second floor. 1t kept one
elevator busy to carry up and down
the men who wanted to go into his
schemes
''And he was successfully
''For a time-like all the rest. He
was the man of the street for a few
years, and the men almost crawIed be-
fore him.
''And then?"
''He struck it wrong and went to the
wall, ana to-day no one knows him and
he could not borrow so cents of men
who made hundreds of thousands
through his sharpness"
''But he seems to be off in the head, -
[ said.
''Of course; it's that way with most
of 'em who go down. 1 believe brother
takes care of him financially, but al
most every day he roams up and down
the street and talks of his schemes and
believes he is still prince of finance
It's hard lines, sir, to come down from
king to pauper-from millions to
nothing"
Eyes, hard lines" whispered, as I
went down the steps and jost1ed with
the crowd and wondered how many
more of ''the street" had such fate in
store for them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
Copyright, 1928

figured it out, why-lf L hadn't worked
it out to the last detail-would l be
risking my all in tiny $27, 100000?
L have the length to a foot-the width
the depth-the figures on excavation.
There are railroad lines. but think of
10000 ships year sailing from New
York to San Francisco without break
ing cargo, and at the rate of 25 miles
an hour! The tolls will amount to
$4,000, 900 year, and we furnish water
for irrigation at profit of $20,000,0O0
more. Seventy millions income a year
on an outlay of only $17,OOO,oO0. Is it
any wonder they call me prince of
finance?'
''But how will you cross the Rocky
mountains?''
"Ha! ha! ha! You thought 1 had for
gotten them! You thought I had
dumped my seventeen millions into a
ditch to end at the first hill reached by
the engineers! You may have bought
a few hundred bushels of wheat on
spec, but it is evident that you have
never heard of me. To you the Rocky
mountains seem an unsurmountable
obstacle-to me they scarcely bar the
way. What is dynamite for except to
blow mountains aside? I have figured
on it. L know to a penny the cost of
blasting a path a hundred feet wide
through mountain 5000 feet high. If
you are timid, sir-if you doubt the
sagacity of the man who shortened the
river route from Cincinnati to New
Orleans by $50 miles and made clear
profit of $12, oOO, 900, then you had better
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
Education in Russia.

The power of the tsar system rests on
the ignorance of the people. Dissipate
ignorance, and the power of ministers
disappears like cigarette smoke The
immense recent annexations of Russia
obviously increase the demand for edu-
Gated administrators. There is. there
fore, sharp contradiction between the
policy of annexation and the policy of
educational repression. From Moscow
alone 2,160 students have been expelled.
The other universities, teaching insti-
tutions, and polytechnic schools have
suffered in the same way. Thirty thou
sand students at this moment are de-
barred in Russia from pursuing their
education. The effect of banishing
these students from their studies is to
MAIN Russian administration for many
years to come. Still, no one can deny
that the policy of publicly horsewhip-
ping the undergraduate population and
of divorcing thousands of law-abiding
students from their studies is in strict
accordance with the policy pursued by
the Russian government in destroying
the Finnish constitution, and the perse-
cution of the Jewish subjects of the
tsar. = Arnold White, in Harper's
Weekly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27

not go in with me. 1 want only bold
men, sir-men who can have millions at
stake and yet not lose an hours sleep"
81 was sorry to hear the elevator
man talk to you as he did, said, hop
ing TO draw the old man out in another
direction.
1.-THE elevator man? He will be dis
charged at once, sir-at once. My
rooms in that building cost me $1,000 a
year, and no employe must dare to talk
that way to as good a tenant as L am.
He must either be discharged or [ will
move across into my own building. I
can't understand the mans attitude.
Here you see bankers and brokers and
capitalists taking off their hats to me
as they pass, and yet an employe at $50
per month dares to forbid me the ele-
vator to reach my own offices! can't
make it out, sir
''You-yOu do not need money!"
''Only that trif1e, sir-that half mil
lion. 1 must have that for three new
canal locks which were left out of the
original estimate by accident. It's a
mere trif1e--a mere rifle. / have but
to raise my hand and any of these pc
destrians would fly to bring me certi-
| fed check. You must be moving, sir,
if you would go into my scheme"
Il am still a little timid.'
''Then let us call it off at once I
have never dealt with timid men, sir!
L want as partners men who viii sing
and whistle as the ticker tells them
they are down to their last dollar.
Timid over the investment of half a
million dollars! Ha! ha! hat Why,
sir, when 1 had $13, GOO. 900 locked up in
wheat deal and one hours slump
made me 100000 the poorer 1 raised
the salaries of all my clerks and took
an option on business block at So, $780,
600! 1 never enjoyed my dinner more
than on that day. And how was it, sir,
when found my Western Union going
down and my ready money locked up
in the ice business! I had to raise a
million and a half in two hours, with
the street against me. They said they
had old Reynard' in a hole, but /
laughed and smiled and raised the
ready and beat 'em. [ made S., 0O0, 600
on that deal, but never bought an ex-
ira cigar over it. Lose or win, it was
all the same. And you won't go into
my scheme?"
81 think not. I'm afraid of it,
every well, sir. was simply trying
to do you favor. / took you; for a man
of courage. Things must have under
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
a WALL STREET WRECK
BY CHARLES B. LEWIS

"Now, then, didn't 1 tell you! You
cant go up. We don't want you around
here If you keep on annoying me I'll
have to call policeman"
"But I've got to raise half million
dollars before three o'clock
GO Oni That story is too old! Come,
now, out with you'll
1t was in the entrance of grand, big
building in Wall street, and it was the
man in charge of the elevators who was
speaking to an old man who had fur
lively sneaIled in with the rush and
was about TO enter one of the cages.
There was a general litter as he bowed
his head and passed over the tiles to-
war the doors with shutting feet.
''Mind gone with his money" OBJ
served one of the crowd in careless
tones.
"He's nuisance and ought to be
abrown out" added a second.
left the elevator to follow the man.
He passed out and went up the street
II few yards and then stood in door
way and gazed across the street in a
vacant way. His raiment was not
cheap, but it was well worn, and he
was careless of dress. One could easily
guess that he was protege, living on
a stipend which demanded economy.
BY and by went up to him and said:
care you in a speculation which de-
mands half a million dollars to-day to
carry it through? ?"
Speculation? he queried in an alb
sent way as he turned to me. 'Why,
yes, yes. Yes, sir. l must have half a
million dollars before three o'clock or
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
PINE HILLS WAYS.

do you think asked the temper
ance lecturer of the mayor of Pine Hill,
as the two were introduced on n. P.
train-''do you think your town offers
a field for me?''
do you mean to ask if the boys
would turn out to hear your lecture ?''
Exactly"
''If you took the right course-yes.''
and the right course would be-?''
ITO promise to set up the drinks be-
fore and after"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
Insu1t to- the Bride.

'.Such an insult?" she exclaimed.
"What?'' he asked.
''Why, you know what long hair
Brown, who married Miss Smith to-
day, always has had?"
''Of course
well, just before he became ben
edict he had it cut short. Just think
of the natural inferenceii Chicago
Post.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
AndDO 1t without Delay.

Call your neighbors together and de
wise some way for making the roads
good in your vicinity.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27

The fruit and vegetable garden and
the orchard combined make an excel
lent home sanitarium.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-06
BASE BALL DOTS.

Sundays game ought to be u contest
of unusual merit. Mauch Chunk team,
which contains several local players,
will do its best to defeat the Atlantic
league club of Wilkesbarre, and the
professionals from the county scat are
anxious to trounce the amateurs. Under
tho circumstances some fine playing
may be looked for. The game begins at
3 p. m.
John Boner, of Drifton, went to Scran-
ton last week and after learning that
the players of the ball club were not
regularly paid he refused to sign with
the team. That his judgment was
good is shown by the announcement
made yesterday that the club has dis
banded. Bouer has rejoined Mauch
Chunk club.
As a result of the disbandment of
Scranton league team the game sched-
uled to be played here on the 10th inst.
cancelled.
Joe Ferry, of Ridge street, pitched for
Mahanoy City on the Fourth and won
his game against st. Nicholas club by a
score of 16 to 13.
Bernard McFadden, of town, is doing
some fine work on Atlantic City ball
team. He is developing into strong
and sure batter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-06
Headless Body In u Bag.

Three boys who were in swimming
found the headless body of a man tied
in bag in the Susquchanna river, OPP
posite Plymouth, Tuesday afternoon.
The lads were so scared at the sight
that they ran away. Coroner Mckee
was notified and he ripped open the bag.
He found the body that of finely
developed man, about 200 pounds in
weight, and whose height had been five
feet eight inches. The corpse had been
in the water about three days.
The head had been neatly severed
from the body, as though by Il surgeon.
The legs and arms were tied together
by strips of sheeting, Coroner Mckee
is of the opinion that q horrible murder
has been committed.