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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Pumnkin. tn Cornaelas.

Pumpkins are usually grown in the
cornfeld, under the supposition that
it is economical to grow them in that
manner, but the land does not respond
to two crops as favorably as to one.
The proper way to grow pumpkins is
to prepare piece of ground for them
and grow them as special crop apart
from corn. They can be better Guilt
waited and win produce greater weight
than when grown in the cornfield. As
a food in winter IN connection with
grain pumpkins are excellent, especial
IL for cattle.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Ar WILSON'S CREEK.
An Episode of the Dramatic Event
Recalled at a Recent COHfed-
erote Reunion.

While the storm of battle ragged fur
iously along the ridge west of the creek
and the confederate forces were press
ing the union line at its strongest point,
Totten's battery, supported by the de-
tachment of the Kansas regiment, con-
tinued to sweep the southern slope of
the hill with those deadly shrieking
shells which had early in the morning
startled the confederate camp. In the
meantime a confederate battery had
been advanced up north of the ford of
the creek, and was now firing at close
range into the union line. One of Ly-
ons' staff rode up to Totten's battery
and, pointing out the enemy's guns,
asked the Kansas captain if he could
not capture them. The detachment
which had been supporting Totten's
guns at once rushed down toward the
confederate line to execute the COM
mand. The two armies by this time had
got somewhat entangled, as the Louis
lana troops and SigePs men had done
early in the morning at the rear of
the confederate camp, and the Kansas
companies charging the battery APP
preached a regiment which they mis-
took for union soldiers. The federal
captain called to the colonel of the APP
preaching regiment and asked the Off
Ger what troops he commanded. The
officer replied, giving the number of his
regiment and using the then rather I'M
familiar letters sc. S. A to designate
the confederate army. But few of the
union soldiers understood what the
colonel meant, and the commander of
the Kansas troops, seeing his men were
thought to be cOnfederates, determined
to resort to a stratagem to escape the
peril of the situation. Asking the con-
federate colonel for permission to at
tach his men to the regiment, he was
assigned a position in the column and
the Kansas companies Immediately
about faced and moved forward toward
the union line. At the first opportu-
nifty the federal captain advanced his
men in front of the confederate col
umn and was rapidly pushing them for
ward toward the shelter of Lyon s guns,
when confederate major galloped up
and demanded an explanation of this
conduct. COncealment was no longer
possible. The Kansas officers knew that
in a moment his men would be targets
for southern shotguns and muskets.
Selling the confederate officer by the
sword belt, the union captain endorsed
the major in an instant, and, calling for
the assistance of comrade, the prison
er was dragged on toward the federal
line, the confederate soldiers being
warned not to fire. a fixed bayonet was
pointed at the side of the captive to
urge him onward, and also to execute
the threat of the federal commander if
the confederates should fire.
For few seconds the astonished con-
federates did not shoot, and the Kan
sas men, with their stupefied prisoner,
ran on toward the union forces. Then
some Of the confederate soldiers fired,
and several of the Kansas men fell.
The threatening bayonet pierced the
side of the confederate ma jor and the
wounded prisoner sank to the ground.
The union captain ran forward with his
men, taking with him the sword of the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
IDEAL BOX STALL.

front to back. An iron feed trough for
grain occupies one end of the manager,
indicated by dotted lines at g. The re-
mainder is taken up by the hay box at
h, the bottom of which is shown by the
dotted lines. A door in front allows
for cleaning out the feed box and opens
to closet. The box stalls are also pro-
vided with the iron rods for top fin
ish, so that person can easily see into
them without entering. The interior
exposed wood work is vanished, MAX
ing a neat and substantial finish
Farm and Home.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06

wagon trains recoiling on themselves
added to the confusion, and anyone
coming on the rear of an army slowly
receding in a fight would have received
the impression that the retreat was a
rout and that all had been lost.
VERY rarely did appearances in the
rear give any correct impression of
what was going on in front. 1 remem-
Der that when our command crossed the
Tennessee river on the evening of the
first day at Shiloh we passed through 4
great mass of panic-stricken men, col
lected at the landing, and we had the
impression that all of Grants army had
been driven from the field and utterly
routed. Among these men was ser
geant who had officiated as drillmaster
of our company at home. He had often
explained to us the Importance of pre-
serving our lines in the face of an en-
envy. Here he was declaiming like a
schoolboy about the great disaster that
had overwhelmed a splendid army, and
he welcomed the felI-formed lines of the
fresh troops to reclaim the field. He
left the impression on my mind, and the
mind of others who recognized Him,
that the case was utterly hopeless.
1--WE were much surprised to learn
that night and the next morning that
the lines of Grants army had not been
broken, and that the men who were do
ing the fighting had no thought Of leav-
ing the field. In front there was no
disorder and nc Generalization, and, as
one of our boys put it, Grants men did
not know they had been whipped. The
fellows down at the river, however,
seemed to have great deal of informa-
ton on that point, and they had no hes
itation in giving all the information in
their possession. The first hopeful
view of the battle came from some old
friends who were in one of Gen. Grants
regiments. Coming across them dur
ing the second day, our boys badgered
them about being whipped, and they en-
tered at once emphatic denial, and, in
telling the story of their experience
the day before, made it very clear that
the men in line, those who had been do
ing the fighting, did not know what had
taken place in the rear. They had seen
Grant two or three times during the
day, and their division commander had
been with them all the time, and they
had no thought of even being scared
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06

horseback across it. This is one of the
most astonishing and wonderful
bridges in the world, and that trans
continental traveller who journeys from
the east to California is not wise who
fails to spend the one day that is nee
essary to visit this wonderful bridge
and the equally wonderful forest by
which it is surrounded.
To the Indians. of Arizona this for
est has been an inexhaustible mine.
For, from here, from time immemorial,
they have secured pieces of agate, jas
per and other petrified wood, of which
they have made some of the finest ar
row points, spear heads and stone
knives ever constructed. These abo-
riginal specimens have been found scat
tered all over the middle-western por.
ton of the United States, thus showing
that the Indians of this region made
quite Il trade of petrified wood ar
ticles.
The petrified forest region is really
divided into three distinct sections;
the first section, which we have visited,
and two others. About two miles to
the southeast of the first deposit is
the second This is about the same
size as the first, but there is much more
of the petrified wood in the same
amount of space. The whole region
is wild, barren, desolate, cut and
scanned. There are SO many wild gorges
in it that now and again it presents an
appearance as if it had been taken in
some gigantic hands and twisted out
of shape.
1t is a frightful desert region, and
novel as it was unpleasant. We had
come further than we had intended
and were not provided with a suffi-
cheney of water. The weather was in
tensely hot, and soon our little stock
of water was exhausted. The thought
of waiting until we got back home
was maddening, but l saw no other
course. Adam, however, knew a trick
far better than waiting. Riding along
until we came to the dry bed of a
stream, that seemed as if not a drop
of water had been in it for ten years,
he quietly took the saddle and bride
from his horse, and, tying rope around
its neck, turned it loose. With an in
stinct as unerring as that of the bird
in its flight, the horse went to a GER
tain spot in the wash and commenced
threw it out with almost as great ra-
pidity as dog paws the earth from a
squirrel hole, but in far greater guam
titles. 1 stood and watched him in
amazement, while Adam said: ''Oh, he's
smart, he is. Did you never see boss
dig for water? That boss has saved
my life many time. for he can find
| water if it's to be had, where you and
! me would lie down and die. Now see
him!"
With intent gaze the horse drew back,
| and steadfastly watched the hole he
j had made. In few minutes a half
bucket of water had collected at the
bottom of the hole, and, though the
water was neither cool nor fresh, it
was better than nothing. We quenched
our thirst, and in the cool of the even
ing returned to the ranch.
@. WHARTON JAMES.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06

''Sheridan's kindness to men and ami
mails was proverbial. I've seen him time
and again stop teamster who was cru
ely beating a horse, and it would go
hard with him if he were caught re-
Peating the act. Animals he used to
say epigrammaticaly, are Hdispensa-
bic and dumb, two excellent qualities;
and it behooves US to take good care OF
them. They have to bear burden and
bear it silently, besides starving into
the bargain, and it is not right that the
additional punishment of cruel treat
ment should be inflicted upon them as
we'll On long marches the general
used frequently to dismount in order
to give his tired horse a rest, and so set
an example to his officers, which, as a
rule, they were not slow to follow
That, by the way, was another of Phil
Sheridan's traits-that of instrHcting
by example rather than by word OF
mouth. Although Sheridan was hui
name in his treatment of men and
beasts, he had the moral courage to
sacrifice either or both to accomplish
an object of paramount Importance in a
battle or campaign. This was another
of the rare soldierly qualities which he
possessed, and the lack Of which has
been the cause of failure of so many
otherwise competent officers. "-Chica-
go Tribune.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
FOR THE HORSE BARN.
How to Build a Box Stall That Is Ar
ranged for Comfort as Well
as Convenience.

A well arranged box stall for horses
is shown herewith. The upper portion
consists of iron rods extending from
the top of the side to railing two feet
above. The front is provided with
screen doors. The stall is by AZ
feet, and the manager is 21 inches from
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
The Ftnanetal euestton.

sSome folks do say that time is
money! remarked the village store
keeper, 'ebut I don't take much stock
In it,
'You don't, eh?" queried the loafer.
@No, DON'T replied the storekeeper,
sand I wish you'd spend a leetle more
money here and Ieetle less time. -
Chicago Evening News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
Love-.

It's as difficult to keep out of love
as it is to understand it. - Chicago
Daily News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06

Every boy and girl should learn tt
ride a horse gracefully and well.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29

Africa remains the happy hunting
ground for the ivory collector. African
ivory fetches higher price than any
other, being denser in texture, sus-
ceptible of a higher polish and not SO
liable to turn yellow when exposed to
the light as the Indian kind. In Africa
itself the quality is found to vary
greatly, the rule being that the warmer
the region the finer is the ivory found
there. The finest tusks, however, are
generally met with at some distance
from the equator. The finest pair OF
tusks ever brought to Europe came
from Uganda, and are valued at $94O.
Tusks of anything like these dimen-
sions are, however, very rare, and are
difficult to procure from the natives,
who value them highly, and use them
for door posts, especially in their
temples The tusks OF full-grown
"tusker" seldom measure over six
feet, and weigh from one to two hun
bred pounds. The tusk is usually
solid for about half its length, the
base being quite thin and therefore OF
little use for commercial purposes.
Only from the upper portion of the
tusk can billiard balls and the bulkier
articles be made.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29

It was in Milan that I became ac-
quainted with the Italian delcacy
known as little birds with polenta."
Polenta is musical name for Indian
meal, and l suspect that the little
birds" are the same as our English
sparrows, although they seem even
smaller. Compared to one Of these
Italian birds, an American quail is a
Thanksgiving turkey. When you or
der birds and polenta" you get five or
six of these tiny creatures spitted on
a stick and alternated with slices OF
bacon. The polenta is well seasoned
and the dish, as whole, is most sat
isfying. At first I tried carving the
birds, but my companion showed me
the Italian way. He took the bird be-
tween his fingers and ate 1t, bones and
all. When he finished there was moth
ing on the place except the sharp stick
on which the birds had been impaled
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS,

A caterpillar can eat six hundred
times its weight of food in a month.
A well-known pr ofessor asserts that
the smallest intervals of sound can be
better distinguished with one ear than
with both.
A fossil dinosaur that must have
been 100 feet in. length has been found
near Laramie, Col. The remains were
found by Professor w. H. Reed in the
Jurassic strata near Laramie.
A scientist of note has discovered
that the smell of flowers is injurious
to the voice. He declares that several
operate singers of his acquaintance
owe the loss of their voices to their
passion for certain sweet smelling
flowers.
Liquefed gases, at atmospheric pres
sure, are found to have these boiling
points, in Centigrade degrees below
zero. Sulphur dioxide, 10; chlorine,
80; ammonia, 3S; dioxide, rs; nitrous
oxide, So; nitric oxide, 153; oxygen,
1873; carbon monoxide, 100; air, 1872;
hydrogen, 23S.
The influence of colored light in the
treatment of nervous diseases has been
studied by DIR. Raffegan. From ex-
periments on twenty patients, he has
found that few hours stay in violet
light has marked quoting effect, red
light, on the other hand, producing
decided oxcitation.
An Italian Ideal journal states,
according to the New York Medical
Journal, that while water will not
Quench the flame of burning petro-
leum in limited space, milk accom-
phshes the object by forming an emul-
sion with the oil, disturbing its cohe-
sion, and thus alternating the COM
bustible element.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29
LYNN'S FLOATING BRIDGE.
In Use for Nearly Century and Growing
Better All the Time.

The city of Lynn will have to ex-
planking the floating bridge on Glen
mere pond, announces the Boston
Transcript. A new set of three-inch
planks is required every third year on
the structure. Few people of the
hundreds who cross the bridge daily
have any idea of its great thickness,
which has been proved by recent
soundings to be as much as seventeen
feet in some places. Although so
much thicker and heavier than when
first built, it seems to have lost none
of it's fexibility, and always adapts
itself instantly to any changes in the
level of the water
Floating Bridge is one of the curl
osities of Lynn, and it is claimed to
be the only structure of its kind in
the world. In 1898 a bridge of some
what similar design was built across
Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester,
but it was constructed simply Of two
tiers of logs covered with planks, and
was never satisfactory. The Lynn
bridge, on the other hand, has been
in constant use for nearly century,
and is stronger now than ever, as the
wood does not rot under water, and
the pine logs which form the founda-
ton are as firm as on the day when
they were hewed and put together.
Captain Moses Brown was the
originator of the idea of thus bridging
Collins pond, as it was then called.
In March, 1902, charter was granted
to the Salem Turnpike and Chelsea
Bridge corporation, and the bridge
was completed in 1904, at a cost of
$50, 400. A diver has investigated the
foundations of the structure, and has
found that the original bridge was
made of five layers of pine, laid at
right angles to each other, the first
two layers of pine logs were on one
side, and the upper three of hewn
timber one foot square, the whole Sc
cured together by three-inch bowels,
and covered with planking 3 12 feet
thick.
The bridge is 81 feet long, % feet
wide, and the pond which it crosses is
about seventeen acres in area and
about sixtyfour feet above the sea
level. The bed of the pond appears
to be bed of quicksand, and it would
be very difficult to build aroad around
the pond without making a very long
detour, owing to the Doggy nature OF
the soil. The bridge is kept from
tipping over by being moored at the
ends, imbedded in long trenches dug
in the shores of the pond at the APP
proaches.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29
WHEELS AT THE PARIS FAIR.
Ample Preparations being Made to Show
ElcI pISG.


The wheel, according to the New
York Herald, will occupy an honored
place at the Paris exposition. No
where in the world are there more en-
thusiastic wheelmen than the members
of the famous Touring Club de France,
and they have not been SLOW to avail
themselves Of this opportunity to draw
the attention of the civilized world to
the modern wheel with ali its latest
improvements. A committee was ap-
pointed some time ago to see about
the construction Of building in which
the wheels could be exhibited, and
about the selection of a suitable site,
and now the news comes that an ad-
mirable site HIS been granted by the
authorities in charge of the exposition,
and that on it stately building will
be erected within a very short time.
The site is near the Eiffel tower, and
close to the entrance of the Champ de
Mars. Anyone who knows Paris will
see that no better site could have
been selected. All the visitors to the
exposition, whether they are interest
cd In bicycling or not, will be sure to
pass by this spot, and cannot help be-
! ing attracted by the artistic edifice that
Is to be reared in honor of the ubiquit-
GUS wheel The building has been de-
signed by M. Gustave Rives, and is
described by those who have seen his
plans as marvel of beauty. No pains
Will certainly be spared so far as orna-
mentation and other decorations are
concerned. Contracts for this and all
other necessary work will soon be
awarded, and it is expected that the
building will be completed at an early
date. American as we'll as foreign
wheelmen will doubtless spend many 9
pleasant hour in this building. Hard
ly week passes that some attempt is
not made to improve the bicycle in
one direction or another, and If VIZ
would find out about these so-called
improvements and learn how many o.
them are really worth anything We
must study them at our leisure II
this place. That thousands will do sc
Is certain.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29
General Adjutant Won Petrofp No,

General Adjutant Won Petroff now
postmaster general of Russia. intro
duced novel letter boxes throughout
the Russian cities, and ordered the
more frequent collection of letters
from the boxes. The new boxes stand
on corners Of streets, SO that the public
can reach them from sidewalks; the
letter carrier who collects the mai
opens them from the street side with.
out even dismounting from his wheel
All the collecting carriers have beer
provided with tricycles having large
receptacle for the mail matter In from
of them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29
WHERE FLAGS ARE MADE.
Large Mandatory at the New Ynra
Navy Yard.

Navy Yard.
In the equipment building OF the
New York navy yard there is a large
mandatory, where most of the flags
Of our navy are made. A large vessel
carries forty American flags, and a
smaller vessel almost as many. This
does not include the fleet and interna-
tional signal flags, and the flags of 9th
er countries. There are three rooms
in the equipment building that are Civ
en- up to flag making. One of these is
very large, and the others at either
end are much smaller. There are sew
ing machines, scissors, pincushions
and flatirons scattered around, so that
the place does not look unlike a pa
triotic dressmaker's establishment.
The flags are all made by women,
though few men help to cut out the
stars and do the finishing. The wind
and weather destroy flags so fast, and
new vessels are put into commission
so rapidly, that it is necessary to en-
ploy a number of people even in time
of peace. The working hours, during
the late war, were extended from
o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in
the evening In one week eighteen
| hundred flags were made at the flag
department, and this was when the
rush of work was about over. The
women cut all the square flags and the
devices for them. The men cut the
stars ard bias pennants. and put on
the finishing touches and the heading
| through which the rope runs. They
also put in the rope and stencil the
flag with the size and nationality.
There is pattern for every flag. and
the patterns are put away in paper
bags when not in use. There are for
ty-four flags in a set of general sig
nails used in the navy. These are in
three sizes, while the regular flag is
made in nine sizes. The largest flag
measures thirty-six feet long, while
the smallest is only thirty inches.
remnants are made up to seventy feet
long. There are nineteen interna-
tional signal flags and forty-three for
eign flags, which are made at the navy
yard Scientific American.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29
Senator Caffery's constitutional ar

Senator Caffery's constitutional ar
gument was listened to at one time by
six senators. One of these was Mr..
Spooner of Wisconsin. Senator CAT
ferry read an extract in the course of
his remarks, which attracted Mr..
Spooners attention. Perhaps 1t Lad q
familiar sound. At any rate he began to
manifest some curiosity. From what
Is the senator reading" he asked Mr..
Gallery. The Louisiana senator turned
around with surprised, not to say an
injured, air. 81 am reading" he said.
with crushing emphasis. from the con-
stitution OF the United States"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29
Tbe STAMPS of the Cuban republic,

The stamps of the Cuban republic,
printed a year or so ago as means
of raising funds for the insurgents,
have been sold in large quantities,
though they have never been recog-
nized as postage stamps If letter
ranked with one of these labels was
sent to the United States it was treat
ed by the postal authorities as wholly
unpaid and the postage collected upon
delivery. Having no recognized gov
eminent the Cubans could not Issue
postage stamps and expect them to
he honored In other countries.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-06-29

Since Joseph Choate's appointment
as ambassador to England one Of his
wittiest sayings is being retold. 1t was
made over a private dinner table at
which he and Mrs. Choste were guests.
Someone inquired of him who he would
like to be If he could not be himself.
He paused a few seconds, as if think
ing over the list of world celebrities,
and then his eye rested upon his wife.
IT." he answered, Il could not be my
self, I should like to be Mrs. Choate's
second husband"