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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-03-03
a QUEER CRAFT IN row.

Whs" B"stou Feared the Coming Of
spaularda.
1t has been stated that ane OF the
leading qualities exnIb1ted by cleo
trlca4 engineers during the war was
readiness OF resource. This is well IL
Illustrated. says the Boston Transcript,
In sto-y told by one of the .onieers
of the corps. There was good deal
OF uneasiness about that time around
Boston, as no one knew but that the
Spanish feet was sailing straight for
the city. and shells might be- flying in
twenty-fo hours One Saturday
morning orders came own to squad
OF engineers TO set up before ,ht a
compete Isolated plant tor. search
light work on one of the fortifica-
tiOns in the. sharbor.. The men in
charge Of getting the boiier down the
bay could get: no suitable Lighter any
where. so they simply plugged holes
in the boiler. rolled it off the pier.
hitched 1t to.a tug and tOwed It down
the harbor. kept afioat by the air in
side it. The men who had to take
down the engine and dynamo managed
10 get their machine lArded. Il ut ,here
they waited. with apparently no pros
pect of going further. On the whole
island there was only one truck strong
enough toScarry the machines from the
dock to the fort. and that was in
charge of ali -Irishman in the employ
OF the city Of Boston. who doggediy
maintained that he took moo. rs ex-
cept from the city officials. and the
authority of the United STATES govern
ment was nothing to him. 1t was al
ready late in the afternoon. and there
was no possibility OF reaching the Of
hce of the authorities in time to Sc
cure the permit. The men simply took
the driver to their barracks. got him
dead drunk and did their own driving.
And the search1ight shone down the
bAy that u .ght
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-03-03
POVERTY OF ENGLISH CLERGY

The UMjust and Excessive BurNrn q
Local Taxation.
Thanks to the many augmentatious
of livings which have been made by
the ecclesiastical commissioners and
modern "pious founders" the clergy
of the Church of England are never
Likely to fall back into the sha bly, and
hopeless poverty which afflicted so
many of them in the dark days OF In
difference of l5O or 200 years ago. says
the St. James Gazette. But. as the re-
cent deputation to the archbishop OF
Canterbury once more made clear.
there Is a real danger that those of
them who depend largely upon title
for their income may be reduced TO
level which. when We remember their
position and their duties. would be
highly disgraceful. The object Of the
depuiation was to call attention to the
upon the clergy by the unfair Incl
derce of local taxation. An elastic or
at least an undiminished income can
tear good deal. but when the reve-
nue. falls and the out-gOings remain at
the old level. or even increase. very
paintul state Of things is likely to en-
sue. That Is what has happened to the
clerical tithe-owners. The 1.-THE rent
charge has deprecated by about 2S
per ce-t, owing to the low price Of
wheat for years past. and every year
il be- ONES lower. Yet local rates. al
ways increasing. have to be paid just
the same. with the result that what
does not go to suhsidize the farmer
in Argentina or western America IS
taken TOR purposes Of local admins
tration. One clergyman told the arch
bishop that his outgoings for rates
alone. exclusive Of land tax and in
come tax amounted to q per cent Of
his o!acial income. while one incum-
bent OF his acquaintance was unable to
,eep q servant and another had to
ero,.n. HIS own pony. Another clergy
mar with q living worth nominally
fA"c ?. ce;ves actually 1850 Ont Of that
rs goes in rates on 1.-THE and after
,h.r c"teoirgs and his curate's sti-
:,err he heen Maid cr,v f275 is left
Tor + NJ 70 live upon There Is no re1-
snr tn "nrose thar these are extreme
r;ss- There arr hu-dreds Of similar
re. aN nver the country. and had 1t
q, e.->.-ed tAa. = fair proportion ut
scult ltvir gs are held ny men
..s >-,-n .rea~e Of their own
So = = Rave heard Tar
noyv x-xa, them
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~ SHE KEEPS YOUNG.
-. rev Hints TO the Fadss

feW Hints to the lnd04
--yercone has. % do some disagree
u;e things in this world" said the
Il A-cheeAed woman of 40 to the
.craan CT Is. whose complexion looked
re bit Of faded gray crash. But
acre are always two ways Of doing
=. gIesaole things and the choice
=. Is with the person who has to do
en-" The fadec young woman
ked puzzled and the wrinkle
opened between her eyes. says
Il. New York Commercial Ad-
rtiser You aod illustrate
ae two ways of performing unpleas-
Z, auties." continued the pink-cheek-
E"tron. "Ic ; go to bed early it
:, because 1 want to keep young and
aalthy and good-looking. as long as
ossible. or because l am tired or be-
ause my book is dull or for some
,ther purely selfish reason. Ii 70.
Up if you thought any one needed
/, cur society or you ought to finish
, our embroidery or you ought to send
e,ters t: China. If you wanted to do
~ Oh "se things l wou dn't object,
but you don't. 1t is the staying up be-
cause you feel 1t your duty to do So
dat Is making you old before youi
time" The faded woman of :, sighed
nd the CHEEKY woman of 40 went on:
''You give big parties because you
think it your duty to entertain and
make your house pleasant for your
husbands friends. You always look
ike ghost at the feast and have a
.ervous headache for a week after
ward. You look forward with dread
10 big dinner. but you give one every
Two weeks. l give parties, too. but
aot fol conscience sake. l enjoy them.
never gave formal dinner in my
life and my only reason for not doing
20 Is that l done like them. OF course
cannot escape unpleasantnesses. but
take them as lightly as possible. 1t J
wasn't very enlivening to have to |
Nurse an old third cousin who called |
IN me one day and was taken down |
With the grip. But | waited On her |
lay and night because | wanted her to |
.et well and 20 home. Yon would have |
lone Inc same thing. even for q
Granger. hut not for any selfish. ma |
erial motiye-simply because you |
vould hail 1t as duty. When / stand |
or two hours to have a gown fitted i
do it Of my own free will In order /
o have the gown I would willingly ,
taEd two hours more No such vain :
outrage buoys you up. You dress be- /,
ause your means and position and
amiiy demand It. tell you there
8 great difference in how YOU take |!
hings. my dear. The PORT OF view
s everything. and the right one.
which Is the wrong one. suDnose. j
oes ones cnmnleyinr 40 much good"
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NEW ARTIFICIAL SILK.

Late improvements In tho Methods Of
Manufacturing tho Article.
The United States Consul of Bremen
reports advance sheet or Consular re-
ports NO. 304) the following improve
ment in the methods Of producing i'm
itation silk: Artificial silk consists OF
prepared cotton and wood fiber, and
has been known to the trade under this
denomination for the last nine years.
1t possesses an extremely silky luster.
and can therefore be employed as an
imitation of silk. Count Chardonnet,
Frenchnian. the inventor Of this ma
tel hal. converted the cellulnse cotton
or purified wood fber) BY process
described in German letters patent OF
the year 1884 through nitrosuiphuric
acid. into nitroeellulSse. He then freed
the same from the acid and dissolved
IT ia mixture OF alcohol and ether
The solution ithaa eabCained coilDdium
lis pumped through glass pipes which
are provided withoextremely fine holes.
and these collod:up threads are passed
through warm water (acidulated) which
causes the alcohol and ether to evap-
threads remain. number of these
fine threads are brought together.
slightly twisted. and spoiled. This
extremely lustrous. but also easily in
fam matory = even explosive - tissue
vas put on the market at the time OF
the Paris exhibition in 1889 Owing to
its liability to catch fire it did not come
into parctical use. but after this diff
Guilty was overcome by removing the
nitro groups "a process called deni-
tratirgl the harmless fibre was en-
plcved N the textile industry. By
similar method artificial silk was pro-
dured by a certain chemist OF Augs-'
burg. Germany f.ehner-who ia
at present residing in Switzerland.
Lrst!v. however method has been
Invented by, Or Fremery and Civil
E,'g.nesr Urban. In which the use OF
the injurious nitro-cellulose is omit
ted. These two inventors dissolve cot
ton waste in copper oxide Of ammon,a
ard pump this solution through fine
tubes. The delicate threads are passed.
through diluted acid. which separates
the copper ard ammonia the result be-
ing an extre meiy nne. Iustrors nbre
which is employed "a An imitation
silk. This process. patenteh in Ger
many I'd. r. p. 1852, and " ~ other
civilized states is said to Ia, - To-
lowing great advantages owe. hose ~
Chardonnet and Lehmer: That the
manufacture as well as the product Is
in no way dangerous. That the pro-
duction is much simpler. AS con-
sequence. that imitation silk can be
manufactured by this process at con
siderably less cost.
Masking Ont . Caee.
Iawyer-sUpon what grounds do you
vish tn sue for divorce"
Clie-f-"Irconsp atihility of tempera-
r,ept' Pe writes poetry. and I like to
ant occasiouailv"
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~ "rEn--. evcr"l Trustworthy rers. ns il
this ST re- TO n!rn2ye b,i ip"ss d,
2. r own aud neurbr ro,;rtie~ 1t = m ,ini, ,
nee work and contuc'pt III hume. Stiiar
'gh: 500 s. year rrG eXrarsts--f.efinfiS
fan3 fiTtG mere less SaiAPy VoRthiN
'f-f"rcnces E.'c'Cs~> seii-y Gdress.'
ped erv' Up. "erhert Z. ucs Prest
ar u. IN cage.
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"Ioro. said the old man TO his son
viii give you to 60 away with.
.'saybe. you don't like my business.
you will find \ better one" Three
weeks later the young man landed IL
New York. A tn later. finding
but e II. his H. sssion. he deter.
mined to return home. 1t was best I,
let his father know beforehand, but
how? A letter would be too slow. so
OFF went John to the teiegra IN Office
4 quarter tone shiiling) a word to
London. sir" answered the po' tie clerk
to his inquiry. II want to tell my IA
ther I've spent all my money and I'm
sorry. and I'm coming home, and want
him to forgive me, and a lot OF other
things, and can only pay for six
words to tell him every h;-g' se,s
John. Cut it Short" replied the clnrk
John sat down ard though s:oo.
after, to his immense astn',:.ame,,
the old man received the foilowi-s
':ahlegram: 'Saui'ls. London: Fate
Nr Ter one"-Chica Journal.
.,.rtuw Escapi
Thankful Wn,ts written h, Mis-. \
K, Hart, of Grutuil. =. u. WAS tax
III with bad cold which settled on
m! lungs. cough set in and finally set
tied u" my lungs and then iurned int"
Four doctors gave me-
ny, saying | could live hut Il sh. TT
time. | gave m; self up to my Savior.
determined if | could not stay with
nv friends here on earth. would y
pare to NEE, NV friends above. Nj,
liis. nd was advised u get DR.. Kings
New New Discovery for Consumption
Coughs anI Colds. gaze it II TRIAL.
took III all eight bottles, 1t has cured
mr.. and thank God | am we'll and
healthy woman +" TRIAL bottles fee
~ POrtpr's Drug store. Regular prir.
SOC. and one dollar. Guaranteed
wee ,s-fn,,ft.'.t
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sdy to everyone"
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold ny all drug
.ists under n positive
Guarantee. first bottle
'enefits or money re-
unded. Book on dis
lses OF the heart and
erves free. Address,
.,2, MILES HEDICA
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I.awyer-sUpon villa. grounds do you
wish to sue for divorce"
c,ie-t-"Ipconpatih of tempera-
r,ept' pe writes poetry. and like to
eat occasionaf'v.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-13
THIRTEEN KILLED.
Awful Wreck on the Lehigh valley Rail
road.

Awful Wreck on the Lehigh valley Rail-
road.
New YORK, Jan. 9.-By head
end collision of the Lehigh Valley
railroad at West Dunellen, n. j., to-
day, thirteen persons were killed and
over twenty-five injured.
West Dunellen is three miles from
BoundbroOk and about thirty miles
from New York City. At the spot
where the disaster occurred there is
a sharp curve in the Lehigh Valley
tracks and a steep cutting, bat the
accident was due in che first place to
some terrible mistake in train orders
and in the second place to another
accident that occurred at Bound
brook earlier in the day. The scenes
which accompanied the collision,
the sufferings of the injured and the
panic that reigned among the 400
passengers werewelinigh indescrib-
able
The blood stained wreck of tangled
and twisted iron and wood that was
still on the railroad tracks to night
bore witness to the truth of the gen.
eral verdict of railroad men that
this was one of the worse collisions
in recent years.
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House.

Mr.. Neill introduced the follow
ing resolution:
"Referring to the utterances of
President Mckinley in regard to the
care of the graves of 'he COnfeder-
ate dead, and whereas Senator
Marion Butler has offered an amend
ment to the general appropriation
bill looking to the pensioning of
Confederate soldiers aud the care of
the graves of the Confederate dead,
resolved that we condemn and re-
pudiate the action of Senator Butler !;
that it is the sense of the people of
the South and of Tennessee especi-
ally that it is sacred right to care
for our living soldiers and perpetu-
ate the memory of our dead.'
The following were among the
new bills introduced:
By Mr.. Hill-To make the keep
ing of "crap" halls felony.
BY Mr.. Griffin-To extend the
four mile law to incorporated towns
of less than 1000 inhabitants.
By Mr.. Stamps-To provide for a
sinking fund. The bill provides
that special levy of l mill on the
dollar or 10 cents on every 500 be
placed on taxable property for 1899
and succeeding years to be applied
as follows: SiX-tenths of the
amount to be applied to the cancel
ling of the floating indebtness of the
State and the remaining -tenths
to be applied to sinking fund fol
the purpose of gradually retiring the
bonded Indebtedness of the same.
Provided, that after the floating in
debtedness shall have been fully
paid, then the entire revenue so col
lected be devoted to the sinking
fund to be applied to the retirement
of the bonded Indebtedness of the
State.
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
the food more delicious and wholesome
aoyAl eAklNo POWDER CO., NEW YORK

vestige of the laws which are the out
growth of the immortal law penned by
jefferson; if we could obliterate every
written word that has been inspired bv
the idea that this is "a government of
the people, by the people and for the
people, we could not tear from the
heart of the human race the hope which
the American republic has planted
there. The impassioned appeal, Give
me liberty or give me DEATH still
echoes around the world. In the future,
as in the past, the desire to be free will
be stronger than the desire to enjoy a
mere physical existence. The conflict
between right and might will continue
here and everywhere until a day is
reached when the love of money will no
longer scar the national conscience and
hypocrisy no longer hide the hideous
features of avarice behind the mask of
philanthropy"
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House..

A bill was introduced by Mr.. Doz-
ier to exempt counties of 10000 and
less than 10000 from the provisions
of the Estes law.
Mr.. Greer introduced a bill pro-
yiding that the maximum annual
charge for the use of any telephone
shall be $25 per annum; Mr.. Greer
also introduced a bill to abolish cap
ital punishment in cases OF murder
in the first degree.
MIR. Webb of Jefferson and Mr..
Coston, introduced bill to repeal
the Jarvis law.
Mr.. Neil's resolution condemnlng
the resolution of senator Maroon
Butler to pension Confederate sol
diers and protect the graves OF the
Confederate dead created breeze
of oratory in the House. The reso-
luton was finally tabled.
Mr.. Kinney introduced a Dill 10
the House providing that one-hali
of all the fees collected by each coal
oil Inspector shall be covered into
the office Of Commissioner OF Agrl-
culture, each inspector to have one
half of the fees collected by him un-
til his salary reaches $3.50, but no
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-13
THE STATES
LAW W-MAKERS.
Hon. VIM. B. Bate Re-
elected Senator.
TREASURER CRAIG NOMINATED
For Re-electiOn-Miss Jennie Lauderdale
Bills anc Resolutions introduced.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 5.-The
long drawn out contest for the office
of State Librarian was ended this
afternoon by the nomination of M :ss
Jennie Lauderdale, of Dyey county,
she receiving fifty one votes to forty
six for Miss Epperson, of Montgom-
cry. Miss Pauline Jones, the in.
cumbent, withdrew just previous to
the last ballot. The caucus then ad-
journed until 2 o'clock Monday
afternoon, when the nomination of
candidates for Comptroller and
Treasurer will be made.
Governor elect McMillin and Mrs.
McMillin arrived this morning and
will remain until the Inauguration
not quite two weeks off.
In the Senate two bills were intro
duced authorizing the Supreme
Court to name a Librarian.
Speaker Byrnes appointed the
Rev. T. c. Ragsdale chaplain, and
announced his Committee on Rules,
of which he is eX-officio chairman,
as follows: Messrs. Fry, Finley,
Peck, Marshall, Bradley and Beck.
Bills were introduced in the House
fixing the liability of stockholders
in banks at twice their holdings,
limiting telephone charges to So per
month, requiring firms and corpora
tions to settle with EMPLOYEES every
fifteen days and requiring the Com
missioner of Agriculture to give
5000 bond.
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to build up an excl ange of 500 sub
scrlDers and, blythe way, we mean
t0 do it, our list now being over 300.
Now 500 subscribers can be served
for but - more expense than 250.
In other wor $, we can run system
of 5OO subscribe for $500 per month,
leaving a net earning or $3.50 per
month, or $500 per year, with which
to meet the expense incident to the
wear and tear of time.
People who live in the country
and half way realize the immense
benefits to them of telephone sys-
tenn, should reflect that the Citizens
has won great fight for them.
When some of them Indirectly in
jure The Citizens by accepting the
Dribing offers of the would be mo-
nopoly, they remind us of the hen
that sat brooding upon a nest of
snake eggs-hatching her own de-
struction; rather should they lend
their sympathy and support to their
natural friend and thereby assist it
in the realization of it's generous
aims.
From time to time rumor floats
the report that the Bell proposes to
buy our plant and give us liberal
rates.
The fact is that the present atti-
tude of the Bell Company and the
Citiz ems toward each other, is like
that of the Lion and the Fox in one
of Aesops fables. The Lion having
vainly striven to encompass the
death of the Fox fell upon the fol-
lowing device. He pretended to
have reformed his moral code and
issued manifesto proclaiming his
desire to take all the, animals-in-
cluding the FoX-undeV his kindly
protection, thereby Aaving them
the trouble of prot citing themselves.
Many answered the summons and
tiOcked to the lair of their former
enemy. The Fox, however, remain
ing out, the Lion sent a Jackall to
confer with him looking to a recon-
ciliation. The Fox told the Jackall
to offer his sincerest respects to the
Lion, and to say that more than
once he had been on the point of
coming to soc him, but he had in
truth observed that all the foot
prints at the mouth of his cave
pointed inwards, and not being able
to explain that fact satisfactorily
he had taken the liberty of remain
ing out.
Not until the millennium will the
Lion and the Citizens lie down to-
gether. In conclusion let me, in the
name of the citizens who form
the Citizens Telephone Company,
warmly express our appreciation 10
the editors of our county papers,
who have so kindly given us en-
couragemeDt in many material
ways. [ shall take the liberty how
ever of calling TO their notice that
the Citizens first walked the Bell
up to the fact that they needed a
standing advertisement.
OTEY J. PORTER.
Cross Bridges Jan. 1899
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WESLEY'S LAST LETTER.
Written Nineteen Days Before His
Death.

Written Nineteen Days Before His
Death.
The original of John Wesley's last
letter, a priceless relic of Method
ism, which was addressed to Phil
adelphia Methodist minister, has
Just been deposited by DR.. E. w.
Cooper, of Camden, Del, with the
Garrett Biblical Institute, near Chi
cago. This letter, the full text of
which has never been published,
was written nineteen days before
the death of the founder of Method
ism to the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper, then
residing in Philadelphia, and whose
remains lie buried in old st. Georges
Church, on North Fourth street,
Philadelphia, which is the oldest
Methodist structure standing in
America. The letter in full is as fol-
lows:
Near London, Feb. IL, 1891. My Dear
Brother-ThOse that desire to write or
say anything to me have no time 10
lose, for time has shaken me by the
hand, and death is not far behind Yet
| have reason to be thankful for the
time that is passed. / feel none of the
VI Il VI iOui SNoiS
and six wears il was not until year
and half ago that my strength and my
sight failed me, and still l am able to
craw! a little, and to creep, though |
can not run. Probably had not been
enabled to do so much did not many OF
you assist me by your prayers. From
time to time l have given you an ac-
count of what has been done in Great
Britain and Ireland for the last hall
century. We want some OF you to give
ms a connected relation of what ouT
Lord has done in America from The
time that Richard Boardman left this
country TO serve you. See that you
never give place to one thought of sepa'
rating from your brethren in Europe
Lose no opportunity of declaring to all
men that the MethOdists arc one people
throughout the world, and that II Il
their full determination so to continue.
Though mountains rise and oceans roll
to sever us in vain,
To the care of our common Lord, com
init and an,
Your sffectiOnate friend and brother,
JOHN WESLEY.
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CHURCH EXONERATED.
Senate Resolution in Regard to Pub
lishing House Matter.
"NO Censure Should Rest Upon the Meth.
Odist Episcopal Church, south"
No Further Action to Be
Taken.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The Sen
ate Committee on Claims has re.
ported favorably the following reso-
luton generating the Southern
Methods Church:
"REsoLvED, That the report of the
committee made July 8, 1898, be approved
and that no censure should rest upon
the Methodist Episcopol Church, South
for the mis-statements and conceal
ments of the book agents in connection
with the passage of the bill for the pay
ment for the claim referred to in the
letter of the Bishops now under consid
Grafton.
"1hat the injury resulting therefrom
affected only the beneficiaries of the
fund, and not the United States, anC
the Senate should take no further ac
tion in the matter"
The resolution was framed and re-
ported as result of the letter of the
Bishops suggesting that the Senats
take some action.