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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
WHAT THEY REALLY SAY.
Husband and Wife at the Theater-
Who Appear to BE Engaged
in Conversation.

A man, and wife enter the theater. AS.
soon as they are seated and she digs around
for the hat pins and removes her hat they
look at each other smilingly and seem, to.
onlookers, to be carrying on an animated
conversation. Here's what they're really
saying:
Husband-Your hairs crushed and plas--
tered down in front like a dago BARRIERS.
Can't you give it swipe that'll-
Wife-Unreasonable thingi How can YOU
expect me to have my hair all fluffy and.
nice as soon as | take off heavy toreador-
hat that comes down over my
well, give it a couple of dabs, anyhow,
Looks now as if you'd been making high
dive off "a
''There-now does it suit your lordlord--
ship?"
''Oh, well, it isn't as dinky as it was.
What's become of Acknowledgements
that rat thing you got to put under your front.
hemp awhile ago? That made it stick up.
some, anyhow, and
'EThe dog ate it up, and it was too warm,
anyway. My, what a frightful haircut your
barber gave you to-day! Makes you look
like a Russian moujik! Don't you think
you'd better change your barber?" etc
Washington Post.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
FOR UNCLE sAM's MAIL.
Post Office Appropriation Bill Carries 3
Total of O,OOO-RaIrOads
VIII Get SS3,S7O,OOO.

Washington, March 31.-The post
office appropriation bill has been final
ly agreed upon by the house commit
tee on post offices and post roads. 1t
carries a total of about Sis. 200, 900.
The largest item is, as usual, that for
carrying the mails on railways, viz,
$50, $4,000, which is only a slight in
crease over the allowance of last year.
The rural delivery item is $1,75O,OOO
and that for pneumatic tube service
$725,oOO, the latter being an increase
of 100000 requested by the post Of
flee department. What is known as
the fast mail subsidy for fast mail
trains from New York and other
points to the south, and also on the
Santa Fe route, is retained as here
tOfOre
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Prof. John Graham Brooks de-
clared in a lecture delivered the other
day that the heresies of to-day are
economical rather than theological.
And the professor confessed that the
present established order of things in
society involved an immense amount
of waste. He instanced this in educa-
ton, which was too much a matter of
book training. Schools where manual
training went on side by side with the
more academic methods of education
revealed much less waste of individual
force than those devoted exclusively
to mind development.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Chlneae Criminal Law.

Hsii was guilty of hushing up for
money the murder of one of his sons.
Another son brought the case to
light, and it was held that the father
might benefit and be excused, while
the son, on the other hand, was SEN
fenced to 100 blows and three years
transportation for denouncing his
brothers murder, because in doing
so he had brought his father into
danger of the law. A father who
buried his son alive was let off be-
cause the boy abused him; and it is
quite permissible for a father to
strangle his daughter if she misbe-
haves.-Notes and Comments on
Chinese Criminal Law, by E. A1abas-
ter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
cornwalI,s Curious Custom.

Scrambling for nuts upon the sea-
shore is an annual event taken part in
by the children of Port Isaac, a fish
ing village on the northwest coast of
Cornwall. The little ones taking part
well deserve the little recognition of
their services in such way, lend
ing a hand as they do when the
local lifeboat has returned from riding
the stormy waters. To haul the boat
from the beach to it's station is heav-
Ter task than the crew can accom-
plish, but with couple of hundred
youngsters pulling at the ropes the
craft is soon safely housed. Once a
year the coxswain of the lifeboat has
large quantity of nuts given to him
to scatter among the children, a neg
lect upon one particular occasion to
carry out the custom bringing about
juvenile strike by way of refusing
to assist at further hauling up.
Speedily, however, the brave, rugged
fellows who risk their lives ''for
those on the sea- made up the diff
ference in dispute with the children,
and there is long likely to remain at
Port Isaac the annual nut scramb-
ling beside the sounding sea.-Golden
Penny.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
he WAS AGREEABLE.
Would Let the old Uncle shoot ss
He Found Him In such q
Position.

= This young, fellow is engaged to pretty
Detroit girl, but they don't care to publish
the bans until after Lent. This disturbss
an irascible Old uncle of hers, who has
a daughter of his own, too much after his
own style to be favorite. He took it upon
himself to send for the young man the 9TH
er day.
Are you going to marry, that niece of
miner he asked, sternly, when they were
alone in the inner Office
Pardon me, sir, but 1 must decline TO.
answer. She has a father and mother,
and I'm on good terms with them. fail
to see that it is your affair
There's whole lot that you fail to see.
young man. I'm really the head of our
family, and I'll not shirk my duty. Her
parents are a couple of chumps. Are you,
or are you not engaged?"
You force me to say, sir, that it is none
of your internal business and that you are
Just what | heard you Were, sour, cross
grained old curmudgeon.'S
See, here, sonny, I'll not handy words
with the likes of you, but if you had been
going with my daughter as long as you have
my niece, | wouldn't do thing but put a.
revolver to your head, informing you that
If you didn't marry her I'd shoot"
And I'd beg of you to shoot. Detroit
Free Press
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
MAY REDUCE TAXATION.
Secretary Gage Reports a Surplus of ReVe-
nue. OF S53,OOO,O OO-EnOrmous Re-
ceIpts from Customs.

Washington, March 31.-Secretary
Gage Friday made a statement of the
receipts and expenditures of the gov
eminent. He stated that since July
1, 1899, there had accumulated a sur
plus of revenues over receipts of about
$53,OOO,OOO, and that by the end of
June of this year it probably would
amount to over $6O,0OO,OOO. This sur
plus is accounted for by large receipts
from customs, and by material re-
6uction in the expenditures on ac-
count of the war. The secretary is of
the opinion that the present rate of
taxation might safely be reduced to
some extent, and it was with view
to a possible recommendation to con-
gress by the president on the subject
that the secretary made his state
ment.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
SIXTY-ONE MILLIONS.
This Is the Amount Carried by the Navy
Appropriation BiII-New Warships
Provided For.

Washington, March 31.-The house
committee on naval affairs Friday APP
proved the naval appropriation bill
and directed it's report to the house.
1t provides for two battleships, three
armored cruisers and three protected
cruisers of the dimensions heretofore
given, and armor plate for the ships of
the Maine class now urgently in need
of armor is authorized at price not
exceeding $545 per ton. The effort was
renewed to secure the construction of
one or more of the new ships in gov
eminent yards, but the matter did not
reach a vote. The bill carries APP
proximately SCI, 100000.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Among all the proposals for fitting
celebration of the advent of the TWEEN
tieth century one of the most interest
ing comes from Cincinnati. In that city
lives Albert Frazer, who is of the opin-
ion that in no way can the beginning
of a new century be so fittingly cele-
brated as by a great national re-
1igious jubilee. In this opinion he has
the Endorsement of leading clergymen
representing influential Protestant de-
nominations. They all agree that the
commencement of new era of Chris
tan civilization may best be marked
by adopting Frazer's suggestion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

It is agreed that the biggest salary
ever paid was that of George Gould,
who received from his father $5,OOO,-
600 for ten years work. Great salaries
are usually paid to men for what we
call brain work. But let us get down
to the broad foundation of the laborer.
The man who receives the biggest
wages is A. j. Day, of Pittsburgh. He
rolls steel and iron. They have had
n row in Pittsburgh, and Days wages
have been cut to $4,000 year. He
used to make $40 day at the Oliver
mills, but the labor war set him back
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Members of the Order of the Mobiles
of the Mystic Shrine will be interested
in the trip of DR.. Walter NJ. Fleming,
imperial potentate of the order in
America. He sailed on Saturday for
Aleppo, Syria. DIR. Fleming goes as
the official representative of the order
on this continent at convocation to
be held this spring. During the con-
vocation DIR. Fleming, in recognition
of his work for the shrine on this side
the ocean, will be initiated into one of
the highest degrees of the order. 1t
is said his mission is of great impor-
lance to Mobiles of the United States
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Awful slauebter of Arabs.

Paris, March 31:-An official an
nouncement has been issued of the
victory of the French troops over the
Arab army at Insalah, which assem-
bIed with the object of attacking the
French expedition which recently
occupied the oasis of Insalah, south
west of Algeria. The French learned
of the scheme and decided to storm
the enemy's position, which was sue
cessfully carried March 10 by a
column led by Lieut.. Col. Eu. The
town was first bombarded and then
stormed, the Arab warriors making
their last stand in the mosques. They
left 600 men killed and hundreds
wounded on the field
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Birds of Passage.

'fNo, I do not make friends as easily as
1 used to with my fellow-travelers," said
the man who was relating European ex-
periences ct is not because feel less So
ciably inclined, but because of the cold
setback 1 received at Gibraltar. In the ho--
tel office one morning l entered into CONVEX
sation with an Englishman and woman who
seemed to me to be the right sort. They did
not meet my friendly overtures with the.
usual Obj and an English stare. On the
contrary, they seemed anxious to become
acquainted with me, and soon we were chat
ting pleasantly. [ congratulated myself
upon my good fortune in falling in. with
such agreeable people, who were almost nice
enough to be Americans. We discussed Glib
expedition for the following day when one
of the hotel walters thrust his head in
the doorway and said: The missus wants
the both of yez. My new-found friends
were the maid and man servant of the duch-
ess of Cleveland, Lord Rosebery's mother"
Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Little Republics May Fight.

New York, March 31.-A dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from
Managua, Nicaragua, says: There is
no longer room for doubt that an
outbreak of hostilities may occur at
any moment between Nicaragua on
the one hand and Costo Rica and Sal
vador on the other. An offensive and
defensive alliance exists between the
latter governments, and Nicaragua by
attacking one republic would be
forced to fight both.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Exeeuted for MurderIne ais Opponent.

Glendive, Mont, March 31-Josepb
C. Hurst was executed in the Jail yard
here Friday for the murder of Sheriff
Dominick Cavanaugh, December %,
1898. He confessed the crime. Hurst
and Cavanaugh were respectively repub-
hcan and democratic candidates for
sheriff in 1898, the latter being elected
by a small plurality Shortly after
wards Cavanaugh was assassinated in
an alley, Hurst being appointed
sheriff by the county commissioners.
Hurst was convicted on circumstantial
evidence and q sensational fight for
his life was made.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Mr.. Dill, of New York, it is re-
ported, has been paid a fee of 81 ,OOO,-
600 for his services in making peace
between Andrew Carnegie and Henry
c. Prick and for drawing up the pa
pers under which the new steel COM
pany has been organized. AS the cap
ital of the new company is to be $780,
100000 it will be seen that Mr.. DilI's
fee is considerably less than one per
cent. of the total amount of money
involved, which is comparatively small
when compared with the fees paid at
torneys and brokers in smaller trans
actions
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
war Does Not Worry the Queen.

London, April IA story is 60
ing the rounds that the queen re-
marked that she was aware many
people imagined her anxiety about
the war in South Africa would cause
her death. 81 may de- added her
majesty. "but it will be from some
other cause. I do not mean to let
Mr.. Kruger kill me-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
MODERN JOAN OF ARC.
Thrilling Story from Luzon of How
Spanish Woman Led 700 Soldiers
in AN Attempt at Freedom

Seattle, Wash, April 1.-Switzer-
land hills, in the Philippine province
of Tayabas, have given to the orient
a veritable Joan of Arc. Castilian
blood flows in her veins. Particulars
of the little heroine's attempt at the
liberation of 700 starving Spanish sol
diers hemmed in in mountain fast
nesses and held by the rebel Gen.
Malvar, were received via the United
States transport Garonne, which
reached this port from Manila last
night.
Led by a woman, native of Gal
lega, Spain, and with sticks for weap-
ons, the prisoners charged their keep
ers, captured their guns and We're
about to regain their freedom when
Overwhelming numbers of their tor
mentors caused them to give up and
return to despair and starvation.
This amazon, who put herself in COM
mand when the courage of brave men
around her had failed, was Sonora
Pedro Gamundi, wife of the second
lieutenant, who fought by her side.
Angered and tormented beyond fur
Their endurance, she planned and led
the charge herself. With every mus
Gle of her small, nervous frame
strained in passion, her eyes blazing
defiance, and her long, auburn hair
streaming to the wind, she led the
dash at the threats of the guards,
and in her shriIl voice urged her fell
low-countrymen to strike sharply and
quickly for their liberty.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
UItimatum to the Fusion Wing.

Omaha, Neb., April 1.-The exec
ut:ve committee of the anti-fusion
populist party has issued an appeal
to the people protesting against the
validity of the call for the Sioux
Falls national convention and notify
ing all popu1ists that only those who
recognize the Cincinnati convention
will be countenanced in party coun-
ellis during the campaign.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
He Wanta Woman CIerks.

Washington, April William R.
Merriam, superintendent of census,
has thrown a lyddite shell into con-
gress. He has written a letter to
each senator and representative adj
vising them that after June 1 next
1900 women employees viii be needed
by Superintendent Hunt, of the pop
ulatiOn division, to operate tabulating
machines
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Less Liquor to the Islands.

Washington, April There has
been large decrease in the value of
wines, malt and .spirituous liquors ex-
ported from the United States into
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines
since they came into the possession
of this government. During 1898 and
1899 the amount was just half what if
was in 1890, when $2,854,436 was the
value of the imports of this kind into
these islands.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Cleveland Approves the Treaty.

Princeton, n. J., March 31.-Ex-
President Grover Cleveland Friday re-
Taxed his customary reserve as to the
discussion of public affairs and in the
course of an interview expressed him
self in approval of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty for the naturalization of the
Nicaraguan canal. Mr.. Cleveland
added that he hoped the treaty would
be ratified
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Voting Machines in Iowa.

Des Moines, Ia, April 1.-The
house passed the bill authorizing the
use of voting machines at elections.
Any city or county may use machines
upon two-thirds vote of the city or
county board of supervisors. Counties
may secure machines for experimental
purposes, and elections so held shall
be considered legal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Mount Vernon, Ill, April 1.-The
Salem Baptist church at Benton is di-
vided over the London confession of
faith, adopted so years ago. The
church is of the regular Baptist de-
nomination, popularity known as
hard she'll" The court has ordered
that the factions use the building
alternately until the case can be tried.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
There Nav Re RIood.bed.

Indianapolis, Ind. April 1t is
lieved by prominent republicans thai
Kentucky democrats are here waiting
a favorable opportunity to take
Charles P. Finley, ex-secretay of
state of Kentucky, and carry him to
Kentucky. The republicans say any
such effort will be resisted and that
if the two factions meet there will
undoubtedly be bloodshed in this city
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
For a Reserve Volunteer Army.

Washington, April 2-Representa-
tive Hay, of Virginia, one of the
prominent members of the military
committee of the house, has prepared
With great care bill to create out
of the militia of the several states
a reserve volunteer army for use IN
time of war to supplement the reg
uiar service. The bill makes all citi.
zens between the ages of 10 and As
liable to military service in the volun-
teer arnV
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

The death of ex-Congressman John
A. Bingham, of Ohio, leaves former
Gov. George S. Boutwell, the last of
the managers who conducted the
prosecution of President Johnson in
the impeachment proceedings. The
other members were Thaddeus Ste
Vens and Benjamin T. Butler.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Wise Cat

These are the three reflections of
Theophile Gautier's cat when she
first saw a parrot:
''This is certainly a green chicken
was the first thought. Succeeding it,
came the conclusion:
Chickens, even if green, are good
to eat.''
Then she sprang upon the perch,
and the parrot shouted at her in
French.
.sAh,'' thought pussy. cit can't be a
chicken, after ALI It must be q
gentleman youths Companion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

There is to be separation between
the young women and the young men
of Ohio Wesleyan university, where
the experiment of co-education has
not met with the success that it's
champions had anticipated. The an
mex idea seems the alternative now in
view. The two sexes will be educated
as they are at Harvard.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

While Judge Kenneth NJ. Jackson,
of Alaska, is still under 80 years of
age, he has received as much as $780,
900 as an attorneys fee, and cleared
up several million dollars on mining
properties. He landed in Alaska not
many years ago with $3.50 as his en-
tire fortune.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Some establishment has been
aroused in the Bluegrass state at the
discovery that Senator Joe Blackburn,
a Kentucxian of Kentuckians, has
not for 10 months past tasted liquor;
moreover, he declares that he will
never take another drink.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
The south Polar Expedition.

wellington, n. H., April 2.-The eX-
ploring steamer Southern Cross, bear
ing Mr.. C. E. Borchgrevink and the
survivors of the South Polar expedi-
ton, arrived at Campbelltown, near
Bluff harbor, yesterday. Mr.. Borch-
grevink reports that the magnetic pole
has been located
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Washington, April 1.-Ex-United
States Senator Charles H. Gibson, of
Maryland, died Saturday morning
from heart disease at the residence
of his brother, Lieut. Gibson, of the
navy, in this city, where he had re-
sided since his retirement from the
senate in 1898.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Rev. A. B. Church, pastor of the Uni
versalist church at Akron, o., urges
the doing away with collins, and says
the dead should be inferred with only
a shroud wrapped around them. He
would also do away with hearses.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Paper for New Bank Notes.

Washington, April loving to
the enactment of the new financial
law, Secretary Gage has sent to the
house request for an appropriation
for 1907 500 sheets of distinctive paper
for national bank currency to cost
$41. 1926.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
CEN Pans Prisoner.

Manila, April The Chinese Gen.
Pana, who has been terrorizing and
devastating the province of Panay,
has surrendered at Legaspi to Brig.
Gen. Kobbe, who is bringing him to
Manila
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Cleveland 3 ReceptIve Candidate.

New York, April 2.-The latest ut
terances of eX-President Cleveland are
construed by democrats of this city to
mean that he is receptive candidate
for the presidency. His views on ma
tional topics, made public Saturday,
caused much comment.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

Minneapolis, Mimi, April L.
Thomas CAVITY, ex-judge of the SUI
preme court, is in the Philippines app
pointing agents TO ship hemp to the
state binding Irvine plant at the Still
water penitentiary next year.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
WEBSTER DAVIS OUT.
Resigns - Assistant Secretary of Interior
and Win Lecture In Behalf of the


Washington, April 2.-Webster
Davis will to-day tender his resigna-
nation to the president as assistant
secretary of the interior. He decided
to take this course as the result of
his visit to South Africa. He feels
that so long as he holds a govern
ment position he would not be justi-
fed in giving free expression to his
sentiments. He has received invita-
tions from the National Geographic
and other societies to address the
public on the result of his observa-
tions in Cape Colony, the South At
rican republic and the Orange Free
State, and has decided to deliver
public address touching the entire
scope of the present war.
Washington, April 2.-For the first
time since 1861 the Baltimore con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church and the NJ. E. church south
will meet simultaneously in annual
conference in Washington during the
coming week. The Methodist denomI-
nation in the United States divided in
1S44 on the question of slavery, but
the Baltimore conference remained
undivided until shortly after the out
break of the civil war. Since 1861
there have been two Baltimore confer
ences., The sessions of the two organ
izations will begin Wednesday.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
CURRENT COMMENT.

Last year the death rate in the City
of Mexico was nearly A per 1000, or
about the same as that of Bombay.
1t is expected that the opening of
new drainage system, which is to take
place soon, will cut down the death
rate one-half.