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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
pITH AND POINT.

Life should be just enough of
'sgrind'' to keep the edge tools OF the
brain sharp and bright. a. w. Bul-
1etin.
When a person wants to ask some
stationery in doing it--Washington
Qa.) Democrat.
When woman gets one worry on
her mind she is as unsettled as hen
that has lost sight of her chickens
until she finds something new to worry
about.-Atchison Globe.
Muggins-''Do you believe it Is I'M
lucky to have 13 at table?'' JugginS
(who had callers at dinner timel-
''Yes; if you've only made preparations
for two" -MetrOpolitan.
Simple Toys.@''Now, Bobby, if you
are not unreasonable you can choose
your own birthday present" ''Wen.
pa, / don't want much: I jes' want 3
soda fount'n, an a new wheel, an q
cash register. "-Detroit Free Press
''Tell Mr. Cuthbert I'm out 81 hat
already told him madam is in" ''Then
say when you came upstairs you found
me out" But, madame, he alreaty
say he has found you out, and Eat is w
he must see madame. -Pick-Me-Up-
ithological.-''Why so very late
George?" Easily 'splained, m dear.
TIL love of nature detained NINE. I
was lookin' for tn frs robin of sp-
spring" Are you sure it was robin,
George?" Course I'm sure Wasn't
it several swallows ?''-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
II one-armed lecturer was arguing
the pros and cons of certain subject.
and, having concluded his summing
up of one side of the case, went on with=
''And now, on the other hand" Where
upon boy in the front row interject-
ed: 'But you amt got no other hand"
-Richmond Dispatch.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
HOW CUBANS LIE.
Hard to Tell Whether They Prevari-
cate Through Ignorance
OR Malice.

It is often hard to tell whether a Gu
ban lies to you from ignorance or NAL
ice. On ordinary occasions, and about
matters that do not promise to affect
himself, he is fairly truthful, but he
seems to know no reason why he
shouldn't tell lie if he wants to. To
the average Cuban who has always lived
on his own island, lie is a thing to
tell whenever it will serve any useful
purpose-such as getting him out of
scrape, or securing an advantage, or
getting money out of somebody, or con-
ciliating some one, or creating a good
impression. Here the absence of a NOR
al sense becomes apparent. With the
Cuban lying is not a matter of right
but of policy, his short-sightedness pre-
venting him from perceiving that to-
days advantage may be tO-morrow's
loss. The statement, common among
Americans who have lived in Cuba, that
the Cubans are all liars is much nearer
the truth than most congratulations.
Though they usually tell the truth,
nearly all of them assimilate or equivo-
cate whenever they see the occasion.
Hence it is not always easy to tell what
a Cuban thinks or how he feels about
the future of the island. He sometimes
tells you what he thinks you want to
hear. Every man of property wants
Cuba to be under American control, but
he will not admit it before crowd, or
even to another Cuban, unless con-
vinced that he, too, is heartily in favor
of it. The trait appears likewise in ac-
counts Of the Cuban army. However, it
is only fair to say that the glowing de-
scriptions given by the Cubans of the
performances and the glorious victories
of that somewhat mythical force are
not intentional, deliberate cold-b1ooded
lies. Carried away by imaginations as
fertile as the soil of their island, they
actually believe their own monstrous
inventions. For, after all, the Cuban
loves better than all other things on
earth to strike an attitude, to pose, to
strut, and brag, and make himself out
great man and his gentle fellow is
landers great nation.
Thousands of Cubans really believe
that there was once band of men
worthy to be called Cuban army, and
that they fought battles. Others ad-
nit that there were merely little COM
panies of starving stragglers, who some
times fired their two cartridges apiece
from ambush at Spanish scouting par
ties and then scattered. But they all
think they did great execution. Get
some American or Englishman who was
with them to tell you his view of it. 1t
will be discouragingly different. Cuba
is infested with "after the war; SOL
diers, braggadocio mock heroes who
never got within earshot of lighting
Atlantic.
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BEGINNING OF BOOKS.
The Early Work of Gutenberg, Faust
SchOeffer and CExtOn In
Printing.

When and where the first attempt in
the art of printing were made cannot
be with certainty ascertained, because
the earliest work printed by Gutenberg
bore neither date nor name. The rea-
son for this was obvious. The earliest
printed books were made to resemble
writing and sold as such. This much is
certain-that movable wooden types
were first employed by him about the
year 143S.
In 1443 he returned to Mayence and
formed a great friendship with Jo-
names Fust, or Faust, who agreed to-
loan him 500 guilders at six per cent. for
five years; but four years passed before
the wealthy goldsmith would advance
the money, because Gutenberg would
not admit him into the secret of his
business. In 1449 the first money was
advanced and a printing office set up.
1t was necessary to have assistance
in the printing office, and one Peter
Schoeffer was engaged, 'he being me-
chanical.' Peter kept his eyes open
and soon found that wooden types were
too slow to make, and he discovered the
art Of cutting the letters in matrix so
that the letters might be cast singly-
Instead of telling Gutenberg, his en-
ployer, he went to the money lender
and persuaded him to advance more
money, so that Schoeffer might work
at his invention apart from Gutenberg
So pleased was Faust that he gave Peter
his daughter Christina in marriage.
William CaXton, secretary to the
duchess of Burgundy, had seen the
xylographic printing of Lawrence Cos
ter in HARLEM, and the printing by
movable blocks as invented by Guten-
berg He saw the great opportunities
printing would afford, and, with the
aid of Colard Mansion, set up printing
press at Bruges in 1471. The first book he
printed was the ''Recueil,'' or summary
''of the Histories of Troye," compiled
by a friend of his, Raoul lie FeVre, priest
| and chaplain to the duke of Burgundy.
It was printed and published at Brugess
and was soon followed by the printing
of Latin grafton delivered there by Dr.
Russell, bishop of Lincoln, at the cere-
mony of proclaiming the duke and
duchess of Burgundy. Another work
| from the pen of Raoul lie Fevre was
| translated into English, and printed by
Caxton, entitled 1.-The Game and Play
| of Chess" a treatise of moral and po-
| litical offices, and duties, and the grada-
ton of social ranks, founded on the
places and moves" respectively as
signed to different pieces on the chess
board.
The first book printed in English was
''The Dictes and Sayinges of Philoso-
pheres,'' a collection of anecdotes, wise
and witty sayings of ancient philoso-
pliers. It is stated in a notice at the end
of the volume to have been finished ION
the xviii day of the moneth of Novem-
bre, and the seventeenth yere of the
reign of Kyng Edwd the "" The title
bears the words, ''Emprynted by me,
| William Caxton, Westministere, the
yere of our Lord N, cccc, xvii
The first book to be printed with a
title page was issued in 1893 by Wynken
de Worde, the successor of Caxton--
John De Morgan, in Donahue's Maya
| zine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
A Mysterious Brain Gland.

Very recently it has been discovered
that there is connected with the brain
a small gland called the infundibula
gland, which apparently supplies =
chemical substance to the brain, there
to be diffused through the brain cav
tiles. 1t is thought that this substance
is indispensable TO the health of the
brain, and there is promise that the
study of this gland, in animals and man,
will enable physicians to understand
and treat certain diseases of the brain
which are now very DISQUALIFICATION
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
GIpsYING CorrAGERs.
This Writer Tells Something of the
Delights of Living Out of
Doors in the East.

Much of the tediOusneSS of highly civ
ilized life comes from its smoothness
and regularity. To-day is like yester-
day, and we think that we can predict
tomorrow. OF course we cannot really
do so. The chances are still there. But
we have covered them up so deeply with
the artificialities of life that we lose
sight of them. 1t seems as if everything
in our neat little world were arranged
and provided for, and reasonably GER
tain to come to pass. The best way of
escape from this fedium vitae is
through a recreation like angling, not
only because it is so evidently a mat
ter of luck, but also because it tempts
US out into wilder, freer life. 1t leads
almost inevitably to camping out,which
is a wholesome and sanitary impru-
dence.
1t is curious and pleasant to my ap-
prehension to observe how many peo-
pie in New England, which has been
called, at least in part, the Land of
Steady Habits, are sensible of the joy
of changing them-out of doors. They
turn out from their comfortable farm
houses and their snug suburban cot
tages to go a-gipsying for a fortnight
among the mountains or beside the sea.
You see their white tents cleaning
from the pine groves around the little
lakes and catch glimpses of their bath
ing clothes drying in the sun on the
wiry grass that fringes the sand dunes.
| Happy fugitives from the bondage of
routine! They have found out that a
long journey is not necessary to good
vacation. You may reach the Forest of
Arden in blackboard. The Fortunate
isles are within sailing distance in a
dory. And a voyage on the rived Pac-
tolus is open to anyone who can paddle
a canoe. \
The people who always live in houses,
and sleep on beds, and walk on pave
ments, and buy their food from butch
ers and bakers and grocers, are not the
most blessed inhabitants of this wide
and various earth. The circumstances
| of their existence are too mathemat-
ical and secure for perfect contentment.
They live at second or third-hand. They
are boarders in the world. Every thin g
is done for them by somebody else.
It is almost impossible for anything
very interesting to happen to them
They must get their excitement out OF
the newspapers, reading of the hair
breadth escapes and moving accidents
that befall people in real life. What
do these tame ducks really know of the
adventure of living? If the weather is
bad, they are snugly housed. If it is
cold, there is a furnace in the cellar. II
they are hungry, the shops are near al
hand. It is all as dull, fiat, stale anC
improbable as adding up column OF
figures. They might as well be brought
up in an incubator.-Dr. Henry Van
Dyke, in Century.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
AMERICAN WOMEN AT COURT.
Many of Them Wear Pure-White
Presentation FrOcks Made in
This Country.

When an American woman goes to
court her appearance is her vindication
of her British sisters charges of eX-
travagance in dress. She looks SO well
that onloOllers forget how much her
plumage cost and simply enjoy its
beauty and it's becomingness. Of course
this perfect harmony between apparel
and personality is the result of many
conferences, careful study on the part
of clever French artist and the eX-
change of many bank notes, but the de-
sired effect is obtained.
The British beauty with her magnifi-
cent shoulders, her graceful bearing
and her aristocratic features seldom
looks commonplace or bourgeoise, but
she often spends goodly sum on her
presentation frock and appears at a
great disadvantage beside her Ameri-
can sister. The American woman likes
to appear in white instead of in the
glazing tumble of colors affected by the
English women presented to her males
ty. Mrs. Goelet and Miss Goelet wore
white when they were presented last
year and this years debutantes have
usually appeared in colorless robes.
The duchess of Marlborough af-
fects white, relieved by faintest
touches of pink; Misses Whitehouse al
ways wear pure white and lovely Lady
Naylor-Eeland, whose husband died a
few days ago, as Jennie Chamberlain
was robed in white when she attended
her first drawing-room and never wore
a colored gown at subsequent presenta-
lions.
Several drawing-room dresses were
made in New York this season, so as to
be quite ready when the wearer should
arrive in England and go to court I'M
der the wing of Mrs. Choate.-N. z.
Ccmmerc :al Advertiser.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
saturn's Ninth Satellite.

Prof. Pickering, of the Harvard OBJ
servatory, has discovered a ninth sat
elite revolving around the planet Sat
urn. The eighth satellite was discov-
cred at the Harvard observatory by
Prof. Bond in 164S. The new satellite
was found with the aid of photography,
its image appearing among the stars on
four plates exposed in the Bruce pho
Geographic telescope at the Harvard sta
ton near Arequipa, Peru. It is exceed
ingly faint, being estimated at magni-
tude 1879. Its distance from the planet
is 31% times greater than that of the
outermost satellite of Saturn hitherto
known, or about 1887 900 miles. This
is more than 80 times the distance of
our moon from the earth. Besides its
nine moons Saturn has an enormous
number of small attendant bodies
crowded together and forming its ia
nous rings.-Youth's Companion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
DR.. Howe a Hero.

DIR. Charles Howe, who had been at
Lenora taking care of smallpox pa
tlents, returned to his home in Atchi-
: son last week, the disease having been
~ eradicated. Norton county will pay
DIR. Howe $500 for his services. When
he arrived at Lenora, month ago, DIR.
Fuller and DIR. Brown, the two home
= doctors, were dying with black small
pox. Both died within three DAYS
: after the arrival of DIR. Howe, and he
was compelled to lay them out, haul
Them to the cemetery and fill up their
graves. The people were in a state of
panic and DIR. Howe was compelled to
sleep in the Office of one of the dead
= doctors and eat his meals under tree
where they were carried and left for
: MIN. Four other doctors visited Lee
nora before DIR. Howe arrived, but fed.
There were 25 cases, three of them
dying. For a time business was en-
tirely suspended in the town and no
mail was sent out until DIR. Howe ar
ranged for fumigating.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Lose Their Right to Vote.

According to an opinion rendered by
Attorney General GODDARD there is no
wey by which inmates of the state re-
formatory at Hutchinson can have
their rights of citizenship restored.
The point is one that means great
deal to the 600 prisoners at the re-
formatory as well as several hundred
graduates of that institution who
supposed their citizenship had been
fully restored.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Victim of the GrIdiron.

Warren S. Pope, well known in foot
ball circles, died in Kansas City, Mo-,
from paralysis, caused from injuries
e received several years ago while on the
: gridiron. From powerful man of 200
pounds he wasted away until he was
little more than a skeleton. Pope was
left tackle on the Kansas state uni
versity II in 1894 and 1895, when the
football team was among the strongest
in the west. He received his fatal in
jury while playing with the team in
1898
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Only a Waste of Postage.

Those Kansas patriots who are writ
ing to Gov Stanley applying for COM
!. missions in the event of another call
for volunteers might as well quit and
save postage. Under the new militia
law they could not get the jobs even if
" the governor were disposed to favor
them. Besides this, the chances are
that in the event of another call for
volunteers the governor will have no
= authority to issue commissions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Negroes Not Wanted at Caney.

A Coffeyville contractor who had the
contract for several buildings in Caney
sent three negroes to that place to work.
The negroes were forced to return to
Coffeyville. Caney has not had any
negro citizens for years and will permit
none to live there.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
His Intentions Were Good.

J. Richey, of Seneca, while in Kan
, sas City recently, used several checks
on merchants and afterwards learned
they were worthless. He went to Sen
eca and got the money to make them
good and was taking up the worthless
paper when officers arrested him.
After learning his intentions the pO-
. lice released him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
CofreyviIIe,s Big Flour Mills.

One milling company at Cofeyville
has just completed a new brick ware
house and two other mills there have
let contracts for warehouses; one to be
86X42 feet and the other 1O2x50 feet.
Besides these, the Phoenix Milling COM
pany awarded the contract for new
Is, OOO-bushel elevator, and the McGrew
Milling company will begin the eree-
ton at once of a 200, O00-bushel eleva-
tor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Beat the Railroad Company.

Two young men of bingham re-
d Gently wanted to go to Oklahoma.
They lacked the money to buy railroad
tickets and hunting up a man who was
going to ship a carload of household
goods they made deal with him and
packed themselves in piano box and
Were shipped in the car. A few days
later they wrote back that they got
through all right.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Martindale Gives Up avn.

Federal Judge Hook appointed Sena-
tor Battey, of Marion county, trustee
of the estate of William Martindale, of
Emporia, who recently turned over all
his property, valued at 5000, 900, to the
creditors of the defunct First national
Cross bank. Martindale's liability
to the bank is $780, 900. When the
banks affairs shall have been wound
up Martindale won't have dollar.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
For an Early Campaign.

The populist state committee has de-
cided to open the campaign for next
year early next month and money has
been raised to put speakers into the
field where they will be kept at work
until November, when the county cleo
tions will take place. The first speaker
to be sent out will be Congressman
Jerry Botkin, who was succeeded by
w 7 Rai1ev
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Mr.. GODDARD viii Take a Hand.

Attorney General GODDARD will take a
hand in the fight to suppress the joints
in Topeka. If the local city and coun-
ty authorities refuse to obey written
mandate from him to begin crusade
against the joints at once he will APP
point an assistant attorney general to
carry on the fight and will bring pro-
ceedings against the officials to GUST
them from office
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Wanted to Take a Hand.

Rev. H. G. Fonker, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Larned, went
to Topeka to enlist in the regular army
as chaplain. When informed that the
officers had no authority to recruit
chaplains, he said he wanted to go as a
private; that if he couldn't pray for the
boys he could shoot rebels. He said he
was anxious to have a hand in wind
ing up the Philippine war.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Sweeping Quarantine Order.

The Kansas live stock sanitary board
will promulgate an order placing a
quarantine on cattle from Illinois, In
diana, Ohio, Michigan and Iowa. Re
cent tests made at Chicago and Elgin
showed a large per cent. of Illinois cat
tie afflicted with tuberculosis, especial
Iy dairy cattle. This is the class of
. cattle shipped to Kansas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Reinstated DR.. Kirkwood.

At a recent meeting of the board of
trustees of the Emporia college, DIR.
KirkwOod, whose removal several
weeks ago caused so much commotion
among Kansas Presbyterians, was re-
instated to the chair of mental and po-
litical philosophy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Valuable Lots Jumped"

A strip of land so by $50 feet on the
main street of Coffeyville was Jumped"
by two citizens who claimed it had
never been taken up before. They be-
gan the erection of buildings at once.
The town has taken steps to make
them give up the land, holding it be-
longs to the municipality. 1t is very
valuable
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Handsome Gift to Lame University

widow at Fort Scott, decided 16O-acre
farm and q business block in Fort Scott
to Lane university, the United Brethren
college at Lecompton. Mrs. Mutchler
will receive a professorship in the COL
lege to bear her name.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
For a semi-Centennial Celebration.

Newton paper favors the holding
in that city of a grand celebration of
the semi-centennial of the organiza-
ton of Kansas in 1908. A Lawrence
paper, however, says Lawrence is the
only place where such a celebration
should be held. Here the work of
making Kansas started, here it was
carried on amid all kinds of difficulties
long before Newton was on the scene
of action.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06

w. Y. Morgan, editor of the Hutch
inson News, has assumed the Office of
state printer, succeeding J. S. Parks,
of Beloit. Mr.. Morgan gave bond of
$50, 600, signed by the following gentle
men, who qualified in the sum of $780,
900: Maj. Calvin Hood and w. F. Ew-
ing, of Emporia; Morton A1baugh, Of
Kingman; w. A. Morgan, of Cotton
wood Falls; E. L. Meyer and ]. C. o.
Morse, of Hutchinson. Mr.. Morgan is
the youngest man who ever held the
office of state printer in Kansas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
MUSIC in the Air.

Second7Flat Lady-My husband told
me to tell you that your piano disturbs
him all day long.
Third-Flat Lady-Well, tell him I
can't sleep at night for his organ.
Organ? Why, we have no organ''
eyes. your husbands nasal organ.
Tell him to try a clothespin when he
shores. Chicago Evening News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Populists VIII Have the Patronage.

Republican politicians were aroused
over the fact that Census Director Mer-
riam informed Senator Baker that he
would designate Congressman Ridgley,
populist, as the dispenser of the census
patronage in the Third district. Mr..
Merriam explains that the district isrep-
resented by populist and the populist
party is therefore entitled to the pat
rOnage.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
In Trade Terms.

The little dressmaker who was walk
ing across a field, on encountering a
bull said she guessed she'd better cut
bias to avoid gore.-Harper's Bazar.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Organize Against Cattle Thieves.

At least so head of cattle have been
stolen from ranches in Kingman coun-
ty recently. In order to protect them
selves a large number of cattlemen
organized the Anti-Horse and Cattle
Thief association in Kingman. A stand
ing reward of $3.50 was offered for the
conviction of any cattle or horse thief.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Father and Two Sons Drowned.

AS John Lenherr, aged So, and his
two sons, Isadore and Felix, aged seven
and five, tried to cross Rock creek on
his farm six miles west of Louisville,
the creek being swollen from re-
cent rains, the team, wagon and all
were washed down stream and all
drowned. One horse was saved.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Is Made Insane by Drugs.

DIR. E. NJ. Garrison, of Toronto. was
declared insane and taken to the Osa-
watomie asylum. He is a morphine
and cocaine fend and often used so to
rs grains day. He is maniac when
deprived of the drugs.