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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
HER LAST VALENTINE.
1t Helped n Disappointed Little
Woman to Die Easier
When II Came.

They knew she was dyirg-the faded
little woman in the faded little bed
room. She had clung to life as long
as she could, hoping for an answer to
that wistful prayer in her eyes. But
the struggle was almost over now; the
wistful eyes were growing dim.
"See! I've got something for We,
Liddy!" The little circle of spinste-
relatives and kindly neighbors parted,
and good Uncle Silas Peterson came
wheeling to the bedside, the snow Still
clinging to his rough overcoat, He car
ried letter in his hand-a coarse and
dirty envelope addressed in the crude.
sprawllng penmanship of man whom
neither life nor education has ripened
or refined.
"It's from Orson-Orson you know"
Uncle Sias added, bending over the
couch and addressing the dying woman
with the tender directness one uses to
children-and death.
"0rson?" A smile flashed over the
ashen face, and the woman lifted a
feeble hand for the letter, She kissed
it and tucked it under the thin shawl
that some loving hand had wrapped
over her shoulders.
"Shan't l open it for ye, Liddy?"
asked one of the women.
The dying eyes said mo -"
"She thinks it's valentine from her
husband" whispered one of the reigh,
bors. To-day is Valentine day, you
know. Last year I remember her tell
ing me how she wished Orson would
send her valentine-just some little
thing to show her that he loved her
the way he did when they were first
married"
"Most likely it's note sayin' he'll
stay over night and see the races ON the
ice tomorrow" was the guarded reply,
The dying woman folded her shawl
tightly round the precious letter, A
look of perfect peace lighted her face.
"He does love me" she whispered, "just
as he used toll"
Uncle, Silas turned away to wipe the
mist from his spectacles. There was a
little futtering sigh from the bed.
"Liddy" had gone home.
When they drew the old shawl from
her shoulders, there, tight pressed
against her heart by both thin blue
veined hands, was Orson's crumpled,
dirty letter, They were scarcely able
to take it away from her slender, cling
ing fingers.
"Shall we open it?" asked Miss PEN
niman. The women looked furtively
at one another, their curiosity strug.
Cling with their reverence,
NO." said Miss Daggett, at last.
TITS hers-sacred. No matter what it
says. She died thinkin' it was a val
entine. Let's burn it up, so nobody will
ever know"
The ashes of the unread letter fut-
tered white about the stove for few
minutes, and then whirled up the chin
ney, as gust of February wind roared
over the house. And the little, worm
out, heart-hungry woman lay smiling,
as death had found heT.--James Buck
ham, in Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
something InsIdeI Lets Bee WHAT II

something insideI Let's see what it
says.
40 wilt thou be my valentine
Forever and forever aye,
And wilt thou take this heart OF mine,
And give me thine to-dayT"
There was another verse but before
she had read It, the Widow Darby cried
out; Jared Kent that's your hand
writing and you need not try to deny
i'll"
I'm not trying to deny 1t. You'll
find my name signed in full 10 the next
verse on the other page" This was the
next verse:
"If yes my answer is to be-
My heart with Joy will MI,
II mo- yet shall be your friend
And shall love you still"
They had reached the outskirts Of the
town now. Jared brought the horse 90
a standstill, and said
rs 1t yes or no, Lucy?"
She looked at him with shining eyes,
and laughing face for moment. Then
she laid one of her mittened hands on
the sleeve of the great fur coat he wore,
and said:
81 think it is yes, Jared"
He turned his horses head toward
the town,
where are you going?" she asked
Back to the minister's. It's Valen-
tines day, you know, and if you are to
be my valentine, / want you to-day"
An hour later they stopped at Jane
Carr's gate, She came skurrying out
for her letter with her apron over her
head. 81 brought you letter, Jane,
and got valentine" said Lucy, hold
ing up the big, white envelope.
81 got one also" said Jared, as he put
an arm around his wife and kissed her
j. S. Harbour, in Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
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A CHEAP GREENHOUSE.
uOSg n Massachusetts Gardener DuiIt
Very Good Structure for Very
Little Money.

7 have seen from time to time instruc-
lions on building various styles Of
greenhouses. Now think have. Que
that some others would like. 1t is one
which made myself during my leisure
moments, both night and morning, |
present the drawings that others may
do as did The plan is l-lG-inch TO the
foot The rafters and uprights | had
made, but the rest of the work did
myself,
There are GOO panes of glass in the
roofand end; the size issH by6h inches.
These were plates of pictures or photo
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
A Lesson from Germnny.

"Many of the German highways
across the country are maintained in
this manner" says Cycling: "They are
shaded by fruit trees. Passers-by pick
up and eat any of the fruit found upon
the ground. but may not take any off
the trees. This rule is carried out by an
efficient patrol. When ripe, the fruit
is sod in one lot to the highest bidder,
and the proceeds are used 10 keep up
the roadway"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
USEFUL CLoD CRUSHER.
Every Farmer Should Make One Be-
fore Spring Work In the Field
Begins for the Year.

During the cold days of winter, when
little or nothing remunerGtive at all il
accomplishable out on thu land, often
times can the opportunity be improved
reconstruct many simple and practical
device with which to work when the
snow melts away. Especially is this
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
GREENHOUSE AND BOILING ROOM,

graphic negatives-largel glass would
be better. The glass in the belt or tie
upright is by ~ Inches The rafters
are three-fourths inch between the
glass and the uprights are one-fourth
inch between the glass This makes
everything come all right
There are two skylights on the east
and one on the west side. two slide win
dows in the belt on each side of the
house. From the bottom of the belt to
the ground is 3h feet. This can be
made from old boxes, with cleat or
strip over the crack of the edges.
The boiler room is two feet deep.
The bottoms or sides are cemented or
stones laid in cement. The top and
sides are lined with sheet iron and
painted to keep from rusting. The
chimney is of brick abou; seven feet
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
Porter SHE'S an Empre.,.

A curious lawsuit has been brought
against the German empress by por-
ter, The empress recently lost her in
sigma of the Royal Order of Victoria
and Albert, and to the porter who found
it she presented reward of 100 marks.
The laws of Prussia, however, provide
that one who restores a lost article TO
its owner may claim one-tenth of its
value; and the finder in this case con-
tends that the jewel was worth cousid-.
cradle more than ten times the amount
he received.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09

"Alasw the cynlc cried; "agaln
These contrasts strange pursue me.
The sentimental make me laugh, co
The comic make me gloomy"
Washington Star.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
Free Masons Among Lawyers.

A statistician states that there are
fewer free masons to be found among
lawyers than in any otherprofession.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09

with Jared Kent because her horse had
gamed himself that morning, and Jared
-'happened TO be going in" and had
asked the widow to ride with him.
Jared was what some of the people
{ the neighborhood called regular
horn old, bach" He had fouted and
wcorned womankind most of the 80
years of his life, and had openly set
forth his conviction that men were bet
ter Off without 'em than with 'em, par
ticularly when it come to marrying OF
EN-" He had held to this conviction
so long and had proclaimed it so boldly
an. SO constantly that all of the match
makers in the rural neighborhood in
which he lived had given him up
hopeless case beyond the pale of their
schemes for making a benedict of him.
The oasis., 1899-09-02
Whole No. BPS.

Young Don Rafael J. Ruiz, who is in the east, writes to friend In Her. mosillo (says Fl Heraldo) that he has bought the ties, rails and other ac- cessories for the track and roadbed for the HermosiIlo street railway, of which he is vice-president, and has received propositions for the cars from three extensive car construction fac- tories. He expects to make choice and close a contract very shortly. The ties, rails, etc.. will be shipped early in the present month, and the cars will follow as soon as constructed. MT. Ruiz anticipates that the Sonora capital will eDj,y an efficient street car service by the end of the present year.
The oasis., 1899-09-02
P. sANDOvAL Y CHA.
 CIRCULAR.
year

MORALES, Sonora, Aug. 15, 1899.
 The investment of foreign capital in Mexican business, especially the productions of the land, is the topic of the day
 The shortest way 10 facilitate this is to secure the legal starting of any enterprise, and saving it from future annoyance
 The State of Sonora, being one of the most important of Mexico, on &C., count of it's rich sources of production we are interested, to the utmost, in giving impulse to the investment of foreign capital in the enterprises to be developed in Sonora.
 According to this purpose we have secured the cooperation of one of the most competent and conspicuous law yers of Mexico, to establish, in Mo- gales, legal consulting bureau to as- sist the foreign capitalists.
 The lawyer is Mir. Aurelio Melga- rejo, ex-magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic, ex- consul general for the Republic in London, England, and afterward in Paris, France, ex consulting attorney for the Mexican embassies in Europe, and who at present holds a seat in the Mexican congress.
 
 The indicated legal bureau will act under the following conditions:
 To study all particulars required by the Mexican laws so as to fix properly and to warrant beforehand, the ac- tion. exten ion and frmDess of the rights to be acquired by the foreign enterprises to be developed in Mexican territory.
 The assistance of this bureau will be FREE FROM ANY CHARGES OR FEES.
 The principal matters that may be dealt with, are, agricultural, mining, cattle, railroads, colonization, perfect ing titles of real estate, concessions of navigation. purchase of public and private lands, and in any other mat ters connected with these.
 The legal bureau is established in our building, but quite independently of us, and it's official name is THE So- NORA LEGAL CONSULTING BUREAU" This bureau is open to the public service from this date.
 For any business concerning this bureau please apply to the sole mana ging director MT. Aureio Melgarejo ID. L.l P. 0. Box 4S0, Nogales, Ariz.
 Yours Respectfully,
 P. SANDovAL & Co.
 Editorial comment upon the fore going appears on nage ten.
 All subscribers to HE OASIS fail
The oasis., 1899-09-02
SONORA SETTINGS.
coIIection of Happeninas in the State
 Over tue Line.

l Cuuudy utdNy sJOTm anu HIBi wind visited Guay mas, damaging many trees in the Plaza de Armas.
 For gents shoes, ladies' shoes ant babies shoes, go to La Casa Colorado Miguel Padres, proprietor, at La Go lorada.
 For fine Stetson hats, and hats o the "Lion brand" go to La Casa Colo rada. Miguel Padres, proprietor, La Colorado
 Monday 200 reconcentrados (peace ful Yaquis) left Torin and reached Medano Tuesday where they took sloOps for Guaymas, to be transported thence by rail to Ortiz and HermO sillo, where they are needed to work
 The Sonora Legal Consulting Bu reau is the only EFFICIENT profes. sional office assisting, FREE or CHARGES, the foreign investors iu Mexican enterprises. It's address is in the professional card column of 1 this paper.
 Telegraph communication between Guaymas aud Putam, in the Yaqu country, has been interrupted by the Indians, who cut down and burned uI the poles and carried away about 2 mile and 9 half of the wire. All com munication is by courier. slow and un certain.
 Word from Ortiz conveys the intel. ligence that two or three days ago about three miles west of that sta. tiOn. Captain Frank Leslie, well known all over Arizona. was held uI by Yaquis and robbed. They took all his arms, mount, etc., and turned him loose afoot.
 The travelling public who appreciate good fare will always find the best meal set at any railway eating house in Mexico, at the Depot Hotel at Carbo. For those having occasion to stay at the place well furnished, com furtabIe rooms are to be always se- cured. Trains both ways stop for meals.
 Saturday of ast week Don Caledonia Ortiz, vice goyernpr-ele of the state of Sonora. returnel from San Fran cscn, where he had been a couple of weeks on business. His inauguration as vice-goyernor, and assumption of executive power, in the absence of General Torres, goveruor-elect, oc- cured yesterday.
 Information from the Yaqui war is to the effect that hoStilities on the part of the Mexicans have been sus- pended until October cool weather. Sunstroke and suffering from heat prevail among the troops, and about one-half of the command m the field is unfit for service. Fully two thous- and Yaquis are reported under arms, about 900 armed with rifles, the others with bows and arrows.
 El Tratlco states that on Sunday last a party of twenty five vaqueros who had been gathering cattle near Teta. cumbiate, and were returning with about POO head, were surprised by a band of about 300 Yaquis. The va queros took to flight, except one man, the mayordomo of General Lorenzo Torres, who dismounted and opened a fierce fire upon the Indians, doubtless selling his life very dearly. The name of the brave fellow Bl Traico was un- able Do learn.
The oasis., 1899-09-02
Ia Weekly Newspaper
 Devoted to aii of thel Business IntereStS| SONORA AND II \ SOUTHERN l.
 ARIZONA |.
MORALES NOTES.
Interesting Items Gathered Aroand the
 Line Cities.

Theo Schact Is in from Duquesne. The | Laundry solicits your patron age.
 Mrs. J. H. Heald is visiting in Crit tenden.
 MT. T. J. Wylie is over from Wash ington Camp.
 Monday Mr. W. c. Budge returned from Phoenix.
 Furnished rooms to rent. Apply at THE OASIS office.
 Drink Lemps St. Louis beer. For sale across all bars This morning Mrs. J. J. Sullivan re- turned from Chicago.
 Doyou want imported Swiss cheese? at the Jimmie Fruit Go.
 Thursday MT. w. H. Dempsey ar rived from San Francisco.
 Wednesday Mir Andrew Neahr ca ne In from the Cananeas.
 Star < Laundry collects and delivers all washing. Give us trial.
 Yesterday Miss Maria Novion weat to HermOsllo, to visit friends.
 Star < Laundry. The only first class white laundry in Nogales. Monday MT. John w. Bgan re turned from his Arivaca ranch.
 Take your washing to the Star 4 Laundry. All work guaranteed. Thursday Mir. O. K. Franklin re- turned from Washington Camp.
 Dr. Doherty is erecting a new front Co his residence on Avery avenue.
 Doctor E. P. Borghetti of Hermo- slllo, has been at Nogales this week. Lemp's St. Louis beer-botsled or in the wood--for sale by A M. Conard' Sunday Mr. A. Bray, the Sonora mining operator, was up from Llano Conductor Chas Reddoch of the Sonora railway. IS up from Guaymas. RUBBER STAMPS made. Daters, stencils, Pads, inks, etc, at PELLE aRIN's. Sunday MT. H. Frost, the Tucson architect, was registered at the Mou- tezuma
 Billy Storck is laid up by severe cut on his left haud, caused by d broken glass
 Wednesday evening Mrs ReddoCG went to California accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Herbert Wood. This morning Mrs. Cordelia King of La Colorado, passed N Nlgiles, return ing home from visit in California. Sunday and Monday Mir. Steve Roemer, agent at Benson for Wells. Fargo & Co.,, was visitor at Nogales. Next week Mir. A. NJ. Conard is eo- ing to the northern part of the ter ritory to close out his interests there. For table use Lemp's St. Louis beer is the best. In quart or pint bottles. Delivered by A. Nj. Consrd. Leave orders. Monday morning MT. A. A. Lane passed Nogales, returning to Minas Prietas from visit at his old home In England
 MT. j. T. Brlckwood has commenced work upon the foundation of is new building on Morley avenue. He is lay ing solid cement piers for the fuunda- sion Of the arches in the front eieva tion.
The oasis., 1899-09-02


 treatment.
 Sunday the municipal election in Nogales, Sonora, passed quietly. The ticket headed by Mir. A. Ybarra was successful.
 This week MT. J. A. Straith, the as- sayer, was in from the Lulley & Straith camp in the Santa Rita mountains.
 Anyone desiring to purchase desira- ble residence lots in Noon's Addition to Nugales, are advised to call on Cap tain J. J. Noon.
 The train due at Nogales yesterday evening arrived this morning, twelve hours late, delayed by big washout near Ortiz station.
 Thursday Joe de Lusignan went to Cibuta, where he is engaged to put up two steam stamps for an American mining company.
 Monday evening Mr. K c. Hartman, sienographer for the district court, who had been in Nogales on business, returned to Tucson.
 Monday morning Mr. Thos. Grin dell. deputy United States marshal, was visitor at Ncgales. He returned to Tucson Tuesday night.
 Mir. Frank Kelly, formerly at the Pawn saloon in Tucson, arrived from the old pueblo aud is now engaged be- hind the bar at the Palace.
 Next week Mir. and Mrs. E. R Hngan and family are going out to the Huachuca mountains for camping excursion of couple Of weeks.
 Mr. Wm. G. Powers and wife are at the Moltezuma. Mir. Pnwers is stenngrapher from Tucson, engaged in the custom house investigation.
 Reverend l.. Reynnds Of Nogales, Is noted by the Phoenix papers as be- ing in the capital city this week. He is in attendance on camp meeting.
 Sunday Mir. Alej lndro Ortiz came down from Tucson to participate in the municipal election at N, gales, sonora, where he is qualified voter.
 Quickly cure constipation and re- huild and invignrate the entire sys- iem-never gripe ar nauseare--De Witt's Little Early Riscrs, l.. w. Mix & Ca.
 Newest styles, best qualities of goods, finest fits, cheapest prices in suits made to measure. Call on Fleischer Brothers and leave your order x
 Thursday evening Mrs. ThamnSon, her d dlughter, Miss Liliie, and Master Carlisle, went tn California, where the young lady will remain to attend school.
 Saturday evening MT. A. F. Kron, roadmaster of the first division nf the Sonora rail way, came up from Guay mas and remained at Nogales over Sunday.
 Monday evening Mrs. F II. Seymour came up from Torres, en route to Re- dnndo Beach. Her sun, Mir. Gordon Seymour, secretary o' the Torres & Prietas railway, accompanied her as far as Benson, returning to Torres Tuesday.
 Lat est news this week:
 tiue line If boy ties.
 100 dozen new collars and cuffs of the latest pat ferns
 silk suspenders If he latest styles
 Sston Clothing House, Flei>cher Bros, pruprietOrs.
The oasis., 1899-09-02

All subscribers to HE OASIS fail ing to receive their paper regularly are requested to notify the publca- ticn office. so the error nay be rec tiaed
Arizona republican., 1899-05-23
HOW NOVELS ARE JUDGED
\ Reader for Publisher Gives an
 Outline Of inc Pr S.

Since the first of the year I have
 averaged about eighteen novels q day-, ~
 said quiet looking gentleman to a re-
 porter The quiet locking gentleman holds the position Of reader in ore of
 the largest book publishing houses i'll I America, and te was referring 10 the works of fiction CDcn which he passed
 scEterce daily.
 'Cf course I dcn't pretend to read | tbat mary novels he continued, for | tae availability of near.y three-fourths 0f all the manuscripts We receive can 1 be determined in the first few pages. If the start is hopelessly bad it would be folly to waste time on the balance. Whca I strike anything that is the least promising 1 run through it rap Idly. and if my first impression is con fl med lay it aside for careful reread- irg. Should my opinion still remalE favorable I prepare a brief written re- port and turn 1t over to another read CT, who subsequently passes 1t Cn to third. The matter of acceptance or rejection is then determined by the rWo heads Of the firm. having before them all three Cf the reports.
 Tt sometimes happers that 1 en-
 
 purposes, yet we'll adapted to the needs 0f some other house. For instance, we do nCt handle any light, sensational novels of the Duchess brand, but now and then something rather clever in that line is submitted. and in such eases T usually take pains to suggest the name cf another house to the au- thor. Other readers do the same thing for us. and in that way we are ire uuently Cf considerable mutual service
 Just at present there seems to be quite 3. drift among writers toward the religious problem novel, and we re- ceive a great many manuscripts of that character. 1 noticed the same thing after the success of Robert Elsmere' and Ire Story of an African Farm, but t died down, and it is Cn.y lately that 1t has experienced a revival. That reminds me, by the way, thas readers always Icok for what they call first and second crops after the appearance of q successful book. l can explain the thing best by an illustration. When Rider Haggard's s fSle' made such a nit some years ago, all the pig pub- fishing houses were Immediately del uged with tales of adventure intrCduc- ing the supernatural clement. Then there was a hull, followed. five or six mCnths later. by another downpOur Of the same kind Of stories The expla- ra5on is exceedingly simple The first To; of manuscript was cid stuff tha5 the writers had already On hard or rad possibly marked over a little to suit the reigring fad. The second out pUt represented the stories that were conceived and written after the furoTe created by Haggard's books, and were obviously the result of suggestions. It hapPero so every time, and when any new work scores with the public we pr ep21e cur minds for the dual after nsth- New Orleans Tines-De1lo- ! cTat.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-23
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Candling eggs is a profession
 The turkey must have plenty of range.
 Whatever else you do, don't over crowd.
 Dirty eggs should never be sent to market.
 salted eggs are not fresh eggs and cannot be.
 The Plymouth Rock holds it's own in popular favor.
 White turkeys are gentIer and more docile than the bronze.
 In charring corn for poultry the old CT and dryer the corn the better.
 The hen and her product amounts to $200,00o, GOO a year in this country.
 The guinea, in consequence of it's rowing habits, is . great bug destroyer Ii is claimed that q flock of 20 will keep in pretty good control the insects on q 100-acre farm.
 Soak scabby legs in warm water for five minutes, then break the scales with T stiff brush and apply an oint- ment made of lard, ten parts; sulphur. three parts, and crystallized carbolic acid, one part-lYestern Plowman.