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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-16
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1t was raining when the fair young
caller prepared to leave.
I'VE have only two umbrellas" said
the hostess, land / am sorry to say the
boys have been playing pranks with
them. That one hanging up is painted
on the cover in big letters: Kiss Me"
and the one standing in the corner is
painted: This Is Stolen Umbrella. ;
You can take your choice Of them"
Well" said the fair young caller.
without moments hesitation, Il don't
want people TO think I'm a thief
Chicago Tribune.
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&c wAlTE MAN.s BURDEN.


TBy courtesy OF McClure's Magazine
Copyright. 1852 by Rudyard Kipllng. All
lights reserved.l
Take up the White Mans burden
Send forth the best we breed
Go. bind your sons TO exile
To serve your captive's need;
To walt, In heavy harness,
on. nuttered folk and Wild
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child,
Take up the White Mans burden
In patience TO abide.
To veil the threat OF terror
And check the show OF pride;
BY open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit
And work anothers gain.
Take up the White Mans burden
The savage wars OF peace
FIJI full the mouth OF Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal ls nearest
(The end for others sought
Watch sloth and heather folly
Bring all your hope 10 naught
rake up the w ute MAN DuTieIl--
No iron rule OF kings,
But toll of serf and sweeper
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads we shall not tread,
Go, make them with your living
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Mans burden
And reap his old reward
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those we guard
The cry of hosts ye humor
(Ah, slowyD toward the light:
why brought we us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian nght?"
Take up the White Mans burden
We dare not stoop to less
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your WEAKNESS,
BY all we will or whisper.
BY all we leave or do,
The silent, sulen peoples
Shall weigh your God and you.
Take up the White Mans burden
Have done with childish days
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy ungrudged praise;
Comes now to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom.
The judgment of your peers.
-Rudyard Kipling.
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WORSHIP OF IDOLS.
Once 1t Prevailed Throughout the
Entire World.
fire Was AdOred In All Ages ana All
CIlmes-JuggleFy Used by Heather
Priests 20 DeIude the
People.
[sneelal WashIngton Letter.l

In that wonderful institution, the
National museum, where scientific
men have accumulated, in visible
form, all of the history, and learning,
and wisdom Of the world, there is no
branch which deserves more time, at
tention and study than the emblems of
religion and religious worship of all
places and all ages.
The worship OF idols once prevailed
throughout the entire world; and,
judging from the manner OF idols
which they created, the human intel
lect must have been very circumscribed,
the human brain scarcely capable of
thoughts in logical sequence. All man
ner of horrid figures every cue of them
fearful to behold, can ,; IN here; our
people, even our children, gazing upon
them with wonder and amazement that
such things should have been objects of
worship. 1t requires very little eXer-
ton Of the imagination for us to almost
see
THE heathen, In his blindness.
Bow down TO wood ana stone.
The idoatry of the children of Israel
has often caused lis to marvel, for they
were incliHed to idol worship even after
the miraculous delivery of their nation
from the Egyptian bondage, But we
must remember that they had'long been
deTHived of the true worship, and had
been reared in idolatrous surroundings.
Children usually follow the tendency
of their early education, and the chill
dren of Israel had known only idol wor-
ship from their birth,
But the Israeites, even in their will
derness wunderings, aspired to have
the best, even in idolatry, so they set
up a golden calf, and Moses became so
angry that he broke the tables of stone,
In this we discern that there was
great deal OF human nature in old
Moses, even if he was a patriarch, phi
losopher and military leader, as well
us lawgiver. He was able to lose his
temper. After all, we must not be too
hard on the poor Israelites, for we have
many people in this day and age of the
world who are worshiping the golden
calf, and the golden eagle.
In the National museum there are
utensils which show that fire has been
used in worship in all ages and in all
climes. We read in our Bibles that
the idolatrous priests prayed in vain
for fire, but the prophet of Jehovah,
after drenching the altar with water,
prayed for fire, and it came down from
Heaven and consumed the sacrifice and
the altar.
Here we have in the museum ample
evidences of the use of fire in the wor-
ship of Buddha and Brahma, while from
every section of southern Asia, eastern
Asia, and southern Europe we have rel
les showing that fire has been largely
used III pagan worship.
The idolatrous implements and uten-
sils which have been sent hither from
all parts of North and South America
show that fire was used as basis of re-
ligious performance. Cortez found the
Aztecs and Pizarro found the Peruvi-
ans (they being the most civilized and
cultivated races on the continent) with
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into North river, and here the tide was
running in their favor. for it set north.
ward ina mighty current, Before morn
ing they were beyond danger, and
within few days had arrived, some az
Washington's headquarters and others
at their homes. While their pursuers
were searching the stretches of East
river and the shores Of the Sound for
them, these Yankee rebels were march
ing triumphantly onward to enlist
again in the struggle for liberty.-La-
mar Beaumont, in Youths Companion,
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Told the TrutI,.

Willie Littleboy-I wish l had been
George Washington.
Papa-Why, my son?
Willie-Why, papa, he couldn't tell
lie, and so when he was visiting and
was asked if he would like another
piece of cake, instead of saying NO"
just for the sake of being polite, he
told the truth and said "Yes."-Lon-
don Punch.
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1.-THE trouble with him." said the
young man who had been trying TO fit
tiugly describe an acquaintance, sis
that when he dipped into the sea OF
knowledge he thought he brought up
so much that the blamed thing went
drY."--Chicago Post.
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Mrs. Lion-Mind you that you don't
let your tail hang through the cage bars
to-day, Leo; this is Washington's birth
day, and you're very sure to get it
twisted.-Judge.
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pinnnned 10 nrnrrerntn.

81 know woman who pretends TO be
older than she really is"
"Impossible!"
"Fact. She is only 90, but she says
she is 1OS, and that she danced with
George Washingtou."-N. Y. journal.
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The resistance of glass jars that re-
fuse to open can be overcome by set
ting them top downward in an inch or
two of hot water.-Good Housekeeping.
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When man steals he does it for him
self; but when woman steals she does
it for some worthless man.-Chicago
Daily News.
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But few people are satisfied with
their fortune or dissatisfied with their
own wit.
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No fewer than 2,4O1 patents have been
taken out on processes for making
sugar and salt.
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A law granting $500 to every burgber
who is the father of ~ boys has been
introduced in the TransHaal volksraad.
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lying to the east of Porto Rico and be-
longing to 1t, is said to be covered by
virgin forests There are several sre-
cles of tree ferns on the island, always
occurring at some distance from the
coast, and on the northern slope, so far
as observed They rarely surpass TWEEN
ty feet in height.
Meadows have to be made, and for
THIS purpose a crab grass and fes-
tuca, or fescue grass. are used. The for
mer makes good, strong grass for the
meadow, and also makes an abundant,
excellent high green hay. The hay
could be imported into New York at
a less cost than the interior hay from
up in the State, and could be brought
into the market still fresh in the WIN
ter and early spring. The fescue is a
better grazing grass, and grows with
great rapidly and to great height
when it can support itself on shrubby
vegetation. Cattle Craze on it up to the
prisket, and in protected places along
the fences it is often seen from ten to
fifteen feet high.-Mark w. Harrington
in Science.
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declared, before the rife the machine
gun, and the quick firing feld-piece can
be brought to bear in close cooperation
on favorable ground. Preparation for
this decisive act of war must have be-
gun long before the field is reached or
the enemy sighted; and in such prepa-
ration every arm and department OF the
service must play its part The devel-
opment of fire is not question of tao
tlcs-i. e., of handling men in action
alone; but it is the chief end OF the
strategist, of the leader who sets the
army in notion and so directs its
marches as to concentrate superior
numbers at the point of contact.
Numbers, where skill and armament
are equal, must inevitably tell and it
Is the strategists business to provide
preponderance of guns and rifles on the
field of battle, and thus make the task
of the tactician-i. e., the employment
OF those weapons to the best effect
comparatively easy. Strategy, howeV-
er, is complicated and difficult art.
What one brain conceives many must
execute, and the most brilliant design
may be brought to ruin by failure on
the part of a single subordinate. lnac-
curate information, absence of informa-
ton, or information gratuitously given
to the enemy are perhaps the most
abundant sources of strategical disas
ter; and, conversely ample and pre-
else intelligence, early warning, and
close concealment are the most album
dant sources of success. But the coll
lection of information, as we'll as the
concealment of an army's movements,
falls into many hands. corporal of
horse may come into possession of facts
which may change the whole course of
campaign; 1t may depend on the SUI
baltern In command Of a cavalry picket
whether the enemy remains in ignor-
ance of some decisive march, or wheth-
ell he learns enough to escape disaster
and perhaps turn the tables, Cavalry is
par excellence the strategical arm; but
unless the regiments are thoroughly
we'll trained to reconnaissance and
screening duties, unless both officers
and men know what to report and how
to report it," unless the squadrons can
adapt their action to the country, the
strategist has little chance of effecting
a timely concentration of superior num-
bers,-Military Correspondence of the |
London Times.
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| in order to withdraw from it the prom
| ised suvention. On the other hand,
| this year alone four new churches have
| been built, and before the close of the
year the foundation stones of six more
are to be laid, the cost to be nearly
2,500.0 900 florins.
Besides all this, next year ten more
churches are to be built or altered!
This year special loan has been con-
tracted, and guaranteed by both the
community and the Government, to this
purpose. The Social Democratic party
is holding one Indignation meeting after
the other to protest against Black
Vienna" While thousands Of school
children are suffering hunger, the cree
ton of model dwellings for paupers and
the subvention of the Society for Popu-
lar Education are obstinately refused,
whereas the anti-Senitic majority on
the Town Council is voting from the
rates millions of forins-paid in great
part by non-Catholics--for Catholic
churches. But Town Councillor Lucian
Drummer, Jewish Radical, appealed to
the Supreme Court of Administration
against these votes. and the Court has
disallowed them. The campaign against
the school teachers forms a special feat
ure in the anti-Semitic party's hatred
of education When that party first
arose. the underpaid and oVerworked
teachers were also among the malcon-
tents, and, indeed, belonged to the party.
But when it became more and more
evident that the anti-Semites were the
mere tools of the clergy and the reac-
tionary nobility, when their attacks on
the existing modern school system be-
came increasingly palpable, the teach
ers opposed them with determination
In return dismissal, punitive transfer
and all sorts of other vexations were
praised against the liberal minded
teachers. Against the best of them was
directed the violence of the obscuranist
party Fraulein Fickert, a woman of
refinement, whose character
and spirit have won her general estem,
was insuted in the most outrageous
manner in the open sitting of the Town
Council itself sus picion was cast upon
her and finally she was punished.
With the exception of two or three of
the leaders. the men of this party are
ignorant and uncultured
persons, filed moreover, with burn
ing hatred of knowledge and education.
The rudeness of the language used in
the Town Council and In the Provincial
Diet of Lower Austria passes all belief.
All the associations of teachers have
protested at Indignation meetings
against the suppression of freedom of
speech. But the anti-Semitic party
does not care a straw. And the reac-
tionary Government, although more
observant of the outward forms of de-
cency, is keeping pace with that party |
in expressing the modern school In
of this nearly all the cele- |
brated professors from Germany are |
their chairs at Austrian
while most of the profess
sors in Germany who have lately had |
important chairs offered them in Aus
ria have refused them. The next pun
shment it Is proposed to intiict on the |
LIBERAL minded Viennese teachers is to |
incorporate them with an electoral
lass, in which their votes will be
'wamped.-Vienna correspondence of |
The London Chronical
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ANTI SEMITISM IN VIENNA.
THE Signs of it's Approaching Collapse
are Increasing.

The Signs OF its Approaching collapse
are Increasing.
Vienna is still the stronghold Of anti
Semitism, and DR.. Carl Lueger, the
Burgomaster, it's most notorious expo
nent in Europe. For nearly three years
the administration of the Austrian cap
ital has now been in the hands Of the
anti-Semitic party, but the signs of it's
approaching collapse are increasing
Upon the head of DR.. Lueger, that
greatly overestimated man, the shad
ows of evening are already beginning to
descend. Only a year ago the interest
ing face and slender figure of "hand-
some Carl We're to be seen in hum
dred representations of every kind;
women displayed his picture in
brooches and medallions, every barrel
organ in the suburban courts and al
1eys and every band in the Prater Der
beer gardens, played the "Lueger
March amid frantic applause. To-day
Lueger's portrait is hardly anywhere
to be seen, the notes of the "Lueger
March have ceased to assail unwilling
ears, the barrel organs have taken out
the Lueger plate In office anti-Semit-
ism still is, but on the minds of the be-
fOOleQ nlllllDn IL llSHl IldS begun W
break. Lueger's lieutenants-Schnei-
der, Gregoric, Gessmann and Vergani
feel this change even more than their
leader himself Indeed the Christian
Social leaders, who on every opportun-
ity were hailed by the multitude, now
feel no longer even safe; their houses
have to be watched day and night by
the police. Now the peoples leaders
have to be protected from the people by
the police. To any critical observer it
has been clear that the antiSemitic
regime could not last long. 1t is
peculiarity of this singular movement
that it soon works itself out. Germany
first started it. But the movement
makes no progress there; in fact, it is
now less than it was ten years ago.
But from Germany anti-Semitiem,
nevertheless, made it's way from Rus
STA. her Polish provinces, and to Rou-
mania. There the ground had been
prepared, as even before that time So
eiety and Legislation had been az
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THE FLORA OF PORTO RICO.


Almost No Virgin Forests-A sugges-
ton that Hay be Imported from the
Island
The wild plant life has suffered by the
prolonged and all pervading cultivation
the island has received. Each part of
the island not absolutely uncultivata-
Bile, even steep declivities, has been cul-
tivated again and again, and even now
slopes are carefully prepared for crops
which are sleeper than anything proba-
bly, thus used in the States. They are
so inclined that loosened stone will
roll down hundreds of feet and the cul-
tivator hoes at nearly the level of his
head
The wild plants have little chance ex-
cept on lands which for various rea-
sons may have been neglected. In such
places jungle and woods rapidly cover
up the traces of cultivation, and a few
years change a field into a forest. There
are many places that look like forests
that are in a high state of cultivation
for many of the crops of Porto Rico re-
quire shade when young and Wind
breaks when older. These crops may
be grown in natural forest from
which all unnecessary trees and brush
have been removed, or, more often, the
man who owns the place makes q
planted forest out of trees of certain
species suited to protect the plants.
Thus it happens that the island Is much
more generally forest covered than Its
highly cultivated condition would indi-
cate. Coffee is the crop most cultivated
in this way.
The palms are few in kinds and In in
dividuals. The commonest are the
cocoa and the cabbage palm The for
mer loves the salt air from the ocean,
but on this insular area it can be
found at the greatest distance from
the sea, here not more than twenty
miles or so. The palm trees furnish
thatch, standards, joists and siding for
the native huts of the country, and the
cabbage at the apex of the cabbage
palm is used for food though each cab
bage costs a palm tree.
There are, besides, some scores Of
of useful timber trees in the island, but
they do not often occur in trunks large
enough for the sawmill. The total
number of such trees on the island
must be considerable, but they are
scattered, not in continuous forests,
and are about as likely to be in villages
as in the country. Besides, the wood
is often too hard and the trunk too ir-
regular and unsymmetrical for con-
venient use in the mill. The virgin for
ests are very few, perhaps none strict
ly virgin. There are in the mountains
some areas that have the appearance Of
virgin forests but they do not have
many large trees, and possibly do not
date from many scores of years back.
The island Of Culebra, small island
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The GRAYS' CELEBRATION

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the participants were warmly applaud
ed. At the conclusion of the entertain
ment the company started for home
Forty-two veteran members attend
ed the celebration, among the number
the following were noticed:
Congressman N. D. Sperry General
Merwin, Lieutenant-G Dewel
Colonel Lee, Colonel Warren, Bridge
port, Captain Townshend, Lieutenant
Smith, Lieutenant Damn Alfred Grue-
ner Howard Webb, j. B. Cunningham,
John B. Phillips, j. r. Whittlesey Ed
ward Taylor, George Scranton, N. l.,
Gaylord, N. A. Simmons, Akron, o., A,
B. Gelett, Kentucky, Loren H. Stan
nard, Leonard Bostwick, Frank T. Lee,
Samuel Fl. Kirby, A. T. Minor, Frank
Harmon, Clarence Wilson, George N,
Beers, Clarence Clark, A. William
Sperry, DR.. Fred N. Sperry Lewis T.
Morton, George Butler, Charles d.
Isaacson, Colonel John N Lowe Woos-
ter P Ensign, j. Edward Somers, DR..
Hillhouse, James p. Earle, S. Fred
Strong, Harvey S. Monson, G. Edward
Osborn John Ruff, John L. Goodrich,
f. L. Dayton and James e. English.
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