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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
A TIFF.

Sweet Marjorie and L fell out
That evening we remember we'll
But what on earth it was about
Nor Marjorie nor l can tell.
We've talked about it since. perpIexed.
And wondered how we had the heart;
For she was cross and 1 was Vexed,
And we agreed twas best to part.
She babe me take my gifts and go
The feather fan, the sapphire ring,
The sachet with the true love bow,
The songs loved to'hear her sing;
The jeweled crescent for her hair,
And Ruskins Ethics of the Dust
Then. thinking that did not care,
She added-to my great disgust
-''But may I hope you will be kind
And let me keep the cockatoo,
For when he's spiteful he'll remind
Me sometimes, Reginald, of you.
Incensed, I left the saucy mink,
And savagely the hall door slammed;
But on the top step, like sphinx,
Stuck fast, my coat tail tightly jammed
I stamped my foot in futile rage,
l may at once admit, swore
I know twas wrong, but I'll engage
A bishop would have cursed that door,
The thought flashed quickly through my
mind
Il felt forlorn as fish on hook
'E'If she is peeping through the blind
How idiotic must look.
"''N1ine is a most unlucky star,
Beyond the shadow of a doubt;
Would 1 had left the door ajar
Or let the servant show me out.
I strove in vain the cloth to tear,
But might have tugged till that day week;
1 could not leave my garment there
And, sparsely clad, my chambers seek.
For freedom, then, rang the bell;
The fatal door was opened wide,
And in my arms my sweetheart fell
Forgive my cruelty" she CRIED
And murmured, in my fond embrace
Regarding me with deep concern,
While L with rapture kissed her face
Il knew dear Reggie, you'd return.
Edmund Petley, in London Graphic.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18

and during the Cold Harbor campaign
she had headquarters at the white
house and later at the Eighteenth
Corps field hospital at Broadway Land
ing on the Appomattox. From there
she issued supplies, gave orders and
sent messengers. With the surrender
of the confederate army and the ces-
sation of hostilities she remained with
the regiment until it's disbandment,
and then returned to Washington.
In 1867, through the efforts of Mr..
Chandler, of New Hampshire, and in
recognition of her great services on
the field, she was appointed to place
in the currency division of the treas
ury department, and remained there
until 1895, when she returned to Con-
cord. a few years ago she presented
the Second New Hampshire regiment
handsome building at The Weirs, n.
H.. where the annual reunions are
now held. At the recent state en-
campment of the grand army in Con-
cord resolutions were passed by the
veterans expressing their deep regret
at her illness.
When, the Army Nurses association
was organized in Washington a few
years ago Miss Dame was elected pres
ident
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
We NEED GOOD ROADS.
The Quicker This idea Is Generally
Accepted the Better for Ma
tiOnaI Prosperity.

Inc work OF the Lea que of American
Wheelmen in behalf of good roads is re-
eeiVing recognition from some of the
most influential sources in the coun-
try. The Washington Times gives the
following editorial opinion:
The question of bodybuilding in this
country is receiving, as it should, in
creased attention from the public of
late. There is no topic on which dis
cussion is more profitable, and none
upon which it is more important that
public interest should be awakened.
The problem has been, in this coun-
try, an exceedingly difficult one, owing
to the immense extent of territory over
which highways have to extend and
the diversified nature of it. In no other
civilized country has a single modern
government had to wrestIe with the
problem of making good, solid roads
over thousands of miles of country,
some swampy, some mountain Gus, and
a III more or less untamed by the hand
of man. The Romans laid founda tons
of good roads all over Europe, and still
remain the champion road-builders of
the ages. But we had no Romans in
this country to lay founda tions for US,
nor had we barbarians whom we could
press into involuntary service to do the
stone-breaking, even if we had wanted
to emulate the works of Caesar.
Another thing which has complicat-
ed the matter of making turnpikes is
the rapid and phenomenally success
full development of the railroads. They
have cast their network of steel wires
all over the country and absorbed the
n ~, h,o4
they went it was not so very necessary
to have roads that would stand heavy
hauling or promote fast driving. In
Ken lucky, famous for her good roads,
travel by coach or horseback was COM
mon, and it was worth while for the
community to make it easy and swift.
Moreover, the CONFORMATION of the
country favored bodybuilding.
Of late years the bicycle associations
have urged an improvement in the
highways. A bicycle is less patient
animal than the horse, in some re-
spects. It will work untiringly as long
as it is hundred, but it has to be hui
mored. A good horse will endure
because he must-struggling out of a
boghole which has mired him to the
depth of a foot or two, or picking his
way over siding mountain path COW
cred with rolling stones. but nobody
can get a bicycle to do that. a horse
will stand the spur, whereas if a spur
was used on the tire of a bicycle it
would calmly lie down in the road. In
short, the wheel is an exacting crea-
ture to ride, and the bicycist very soon
discovered that for his own comfort,
if he intended to ride that wheel at his
own sweet will. he will have to bestir
himself and make the legislatures pro-
vide good roads for him to travel.
By whatever means the roads are
improved, it is well that it should be
done. The difference between a good
road and bad one may mean much to
the community. It may make or mar
the civiliza ton of the whole region to
be more or less accessible by turnpike.
The quicker this matter of public high
ways receives proper atten ton the bet
ter off the public will be.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
DfDIomat.

Sister-Bobby, you have been SO
hard on your shoes that they look old
and worn.
Bobby-sis, amt you going to be
married next month?
81 am talking about your shoes,
Bobby"
$50 am I. sis. If I don't wear out
these shoes there won't be any old
shoes to throw at the carriage. Chi
eago Evening News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
A Pnat o. nanrer.

The colonel of regiment occupies
the post of danger. According to the
record more colonies have been killed
in action, in proportion to their num-
Der, than officers of any other grade.
A general can keep under cover, more
or less, but the colonel's position is
with his regiment, and when it ad-
vances he is expected to 1ead.-Indi-
annapolis News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
UNLOADING OF CORN.
Extension Box Which Saves Lots of
Work and Adds to the Capac-
ity of the Wagon.

A useful device can be made and at
tached to the back end of a wagon box
so that shoveling out may be begun at
once upon reaching the crib. It will
also add several bushels capacity to the
wagon box. Make a sloping floor, a, a
few feet long with cross-pieces on the
lower side at and C. Let the floor be
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
KEEPS WHEELS CREASED.
An Automatic OiIer Which, Accord
ing to Its Inventor, Saves Labor
and Lubricants.

The labor of oiling wagon wheels
by the usual method is somewhat
arduous, and he who can perform the
task without soiling the hands and
clothes is an exception to the general
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
Then beware of the Cat.

Mrs. Youngfsh-O, Bob, what shall
I do? Baby is crying because won't
let him pull all the fur off my muffl
Mr. Youngish-Well, that's all
right. Give him the cat.-Stray Sto-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
Neirhhor1x Criticism.

Biggs-Your new neighbor is a man
of means, is he not?
Diggs-Oh, yes, he's undoubtedly
the meanest man ever Chicago
Evening News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
Extravagant LanEuage.

''Claribel uses such extravagant Ian
guage."
Doesn't she? It gives me a thou.
sand fits to hear her talki"-ndian
apois Journal
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27

catarrh for the
past eight years.
/ became SO bad
q year and a half
ago that I took
treatment from
t w o different
specialists on
G a t arr h. The
disch arge from
my head was
dreadful. Fin
allY nv gtom-
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27

boat and crew were at the mercy of the
waves, which broke hard on the rocks to
leeward. Every effort was made to repair
the damage to the machinery and get
under way again before the launch should
DE blown up on the rocks when tho
crew noticed large crowd of half-naked
natives; armed with bows and arrows
anu polos, concentrating on that part of
the shore where the wind was rapidiv
aS ,H the helpless craft. The launch
nau one one-pounder. six rifles and Il
Nlauser pistol as armament and as the
s sat, on shore showed every sign OF
nHIpee,d a., hostility: these arms were
p.ucSu IN readiness for action. But, when
o oTe niue steamer was within 1000 yards
o o,d me peach. her machinery was repaired,
a a sne turned and steamed gaily away
rpm me disappointed men on shore.
imsoinuch as Luzon will undoubtedly be
~ valuable as Il naval station and
t tnnt good harbors on the island add ma
rorl'.iiE TO its value III this respect tho
,,,c discovery and sounding OF Casig-
t timn sound and Gulf Is of particular in
nS our biggest vessels could enter
est difficulty. '''' '"s''-
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27
POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY.
STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT.
(By Arthur G.. Lewis 4,

W. arthur LeWiS.)
We would have no pity for the flowers,
that have faded had we never known
the fragrance of their bloom.
There is line drawn by law alone
which separates the woman who mar,
rics for money from the harlot who docs
not.
There exists no permanent condition
OF non-platonic love. The affection of
tomorrow will be greater than that OF
today. or less.
The weight of Il woman we have ceas-
ed to love may be measured bv n
heaviness of about sixty-four ounces to
the pound.
Empty expressions of endearment
may consistently be termed the fiction
OF affection.
The memories OF our mothers have
prevented more crimes and crcatei
more good, than the reverence of our
God.
"A man is no better than his friend -
and women afford an example beyond
comparison OF this expression.
Men are like eggs. and friends like
cooks. We never know how good Tor
bad, we are in their estima ton until
broke. "'''
Six women can keep secret. but q
half a dozen of them must be dead.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27
THE DAY WILL COME.

The day will come. and is not far;
When all shall be cast aside,
And You will know. as l now feel;
That Your lips. not your heart, have
lied.
And memories sweet OF what has been
VIII be stranger than what may be.
When the golden dawn of n tear torn
night
Breaks clear OH our love tossed sea.
Then you will know. as 1 now feel,
That pride cannot tear apart
love,
Or the faith of trusting heart.
When the welcome flood of repentant
tears
Soothes your fevercd eyes from main,
Ana love triumphant leads, at last;
You back to my arms again.
Arthur G. Lewis.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27

'Pc-ru-na Drug Mfg Co., Columbus, o. :
"Gentlemen-I have used Pe-ru-na and
can gladly recommend it as being all
you represent. 1 wish that every man
VINO is in need of good tonic could
know of 1t. would advise all such 10
take 1T now, and am sure it would never
Dc regretted" a. t. Wimberly.
Pe-ru-na is an internal remedy-a
scientific remedy for catarrh. 1t cures
catarrh wherever located. It's cures
last. Pe-ru-na gives strength by stop
ping waste. nv saving the mucus it en-
riches the Mood. BY cleansing the
mucous membranes it preserves the
vital forces.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27
colored Y. MI. C. A. mee,,ne

The colored Y. NJ. C. a. will hold
building rally meeting at the St. johns
a. NJ. L. Church this afternoon at 8
O'Clock. An address will be delivered
by Mr.. w. Edward Williams, Secretary
of the Baltimore Young Mems Christian
Association. Solos will be sung by Miss
Gertrude Foreman. n teacher of the
Virginia Collegiate Institute, OF Peters
burg. Mrs. Sstelle *. Keeling and VIM.
A. Noel. of Norfolk.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27

Illyoo2
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27
Round Trip to Richmond s..

Sunday. June 3. Special fast train vi,
n. Il W.. stops at Suffolk and Peters
burg. Leave Norfolk al M. Return.
Ing, leave Richmond p m.
my24, &c, 81 % 81 ,jul&9 S''
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27
SYSTEMIC CATARRR.
Thousands Suffer From 1t and Do
Eot Know It.

Hon. A. t. Wimberly, Collector of the
Port of New Orleans, La, and member
of tho National Republican Committee,
in writing Of Pe-ru-na, says:
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27

Just the sort of Ncgligee Shirts Won
like ut
RUDOLPH & WALLACE.
myo2 1888 Main st.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27

ach became affected, and eight months
ago had to quit work. lost in
weight from 16o pounds to 40. WINS
completely discouraged. I procured n
bottle OF Pe-ru-na and had not taken
half the bottle, when, to my joy and
surprise, I began feeling better. My
head began to get better; the discharge
began to dry up. / kept on, and have
now taken two bottles. I have resumed
my work, have good appetite, and have
not felt better in ten years. am now
30, and thank Pe-ru-na for the way I
feel to-day"
For free book address DR.. Hartman,
Columbus, Obi
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-27

A constant drain of mucus from the
system is known as systemic catarrh
This may occur from any organ OF the
body. Systemic eatarrh is moro com,
mon in spring and summer than in the
winter.
DR.. Rachel A. Magaw, CT West Jeffer.
son Street, Springfield, Ohio: "Your
Pe-ru-na is worth it's weight in gold.
I feel like now woman. 1 can't praise
1t enough. I spont great deal OF
money on doctors, but nothing ever did
me any good until I sent to you and
tried your Pe-ru-na. now feel we'll of
the catarrh."
Ralph w. Chulip, OF La Porte, Ind.
says the following as regards Pe-ru-na
for catarrh: 81 had been troubled with
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-04

luxuriant, the women beautiful. and
the nights, full of perfume and mysti-
cal light, stir the most practical mind
to love of meditation and dreaming.
The influence of this dreamy, lazy life
Is very insidious. 1t is not necessary
to work, as the island furnishes food
without the labor of tillage.
81 know a number of Americans and
French who have gone there for visit,
and have become so enraptured with
the languorous existence that, like the
visitors to lotus land, they lie down and
forget friends, home, ambition, and
everything. remember how used to
feel the influence steal upon me. Many
a time l wished earnestly to cast my
lot with those languorous people.
can look back now and see myself as
Law one night against cOcoanut tree IN
a sort of ecstasy of meditation. Over
head was a sky bright with a million
stars. Sounds came to me in strange
fashion, blending into a murmur. A
short distance away a group of natives,
girls and men, were shouting the rhyth-
mic chant of the upuupa dance. l
thought of myself on this little Isle,
with ocean on every side and New Or
leans so many miles distant. Nothing
seemed real to me but that spot IN
which one could hear indistinctly the
chant of the singers and the sobbing OF
the waves; mysterious charm possess
ed me.''-Mexican Herald.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-04
What to Talk About.

"The subjects of entertaining conver-
sation are, of course, multiplied by in
creased knowledge of books, of the
world of men and women, music, art
and travel" writes Mrs. Burton Kings
land, In the Ladies' Home Journal.
"One should be familiar with the cur
rent news Of the day and the topics oc-
cupying public attention, with the
names and authors of the new books,
and be able to say something worth
hearing about what one has read and
heard. Many get no further in speak
Ing of a book than that it Is dull or in
teresting. Others give in few words
what seems to be its central idea, its
characteristics, the time and scene of
Its action, quoting perhaps some senti-
ment that has impressed, or witticism
that has pleased. True culture carries
with 1t an atmosphere Of breadth-the
world and not the village. A woman,
lacking it, was said to betray by her
conversation a mind of narrow COM
pass, bounded on the north by her SER
wants, on the east by her children, on
the south by her ailments, and on the
west by her clothes! The mind grows
shallow when occupied perpetually
with trivialities. A course Of solid
reading is a good tonic. When ignor-
ant of our ignorance we do not know
when we betray ourselves"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-04
Lamps for Basdad.

Carrying Goals to Newcastle" is an
out-of-date proverb. A Chicago Trib-
une correspondent says that an enter
prising New Yorker is shipping lamps
to Bagdad, the home Of Aladdin.
He has made lamp that seems to
have captured the whole Orient, and
princes and potentates are clamoring
for his goods. Missionaries were re-
sponsible for the introduction of the
lamps. They informed the benighted
that the Americans had good light to
SELL
Many of the buyers are exalted per-
sonages. The lamps go to the Emperor
Of Slams palace at Bangkok, to the Sui
tan of Morocco's palace at Morocco,
and to number Of califs at Damascus
and viziers at Bagdad.
These lamps burn kerosene oil, but
they have no chimneys. BY "a mechani-
cal device air is forced into the fame,
which gives clear white light equal to
twenty candle-power.
In place Of chimneys the lamps have
globes. The pictures on the globes are
gaudy and elaborate compositions, and
it is suggested that they are largely ac-
countable for the popularity Of the
lamps.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-04
Some Great Bridges,

The Brooklyn bridge is the most nota-
BILE engineering feat Of the century.
Nothing in the world approaches it.
The greatest cantilever bridge is over
the Forth at Queensferry, Scotland.
The finest metal arch bridge Is the
Washington, over the Harlem, at 181st
street, New York. The longest metal
span Is the bridge of Otiz l., at Oporto
Portugal, being 556 feet. Two city
streets cross it at different levels. Next
comes the Garabit yiaduct over the
Truyere, in France, with span of 542
feet. 1t is $40 feet above water. The
Pia Maria bridge, over the Douro,
spans 525 feet. The st. Louis bridge
has three spans of $50 feet. England
has scores of splendid bridges, among
them the Tower bridge, London; the
Clifton suspension bridge, the bridge
across the Tay (Scotland), that over
the Wye, the stone arch at Chester
with a span Of 200 feet-twenty feet
less than our masterwork of engineer
ing; Cabin John bridge, three miles
above Washington; the bridge over the
Boyne, over the Thames, at Windsor,
and over the Trent at tNewark.-Kansas
City Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-04
GOVERNMENT JEWELS.
Costly Gems Sent to Officials by For
eign Rulers.

Costly Gems Sent to Officials by For.
eizn Rulers.
At Washington, in the bond vault of
the treasury, is a great store of dia-
monds and other precious stones that
belong to nobody. Most of them have
been in the custody of the officials for
about sixty years, but some Of the gems
have been there much longer and their
history rests mainly on hazy tradition,
says the Omaha Bee
There is a bottle four or five inches
long filed with diamonds, there are va
rious other loose stones, and there are
many set in gold ornaments. The value
of the whole lot Is very variously esti-
mated, the computations ranging from
$4,000 to 100000.
Most Of these gems were sent as a
present to President Van Buren by the
imaum Of Muscat in 1889: This Asian
potentate conceived that he had re-
ceiyed some service from this country
and this was his way of acknowledging
his obligation. President Van Buren
could not accept them, for there Is
clause in the constitution forbidding
any persons connected with the govern
ment accepting any present or decora-
ton from any foreign power or ruler.
But the oriental's present could not
be returned; he would look upon that
as an insult, so at last the jewels were
turned over to the treasury to keep till
something was done about them, and
nothing ever has been done.
In similar ways has the entire collec-
ton accumulated; kings and princes
are frequently not as familiar with the
constitution of the United States as
they should be, and government officers
Of various grades have sent here gifts
they have received and found it incon-
venient to return and impossible to
keep.
In the bond vault they must remain
till Congress takes action" on their
situation.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-04
Too Accommodating.

A guileless rustic who wished to be-
come attached to one of our railways
emerged from the examination room
and Informed the expectant relatives
that he had failed to pass the sight test
'Why, you can't havew exclaimed
the father, who was Mortified at the
thought. You're no more color blind
than l am"
Happen not, but they won't have
me-" answered the rustic bitterly. "It
all comes O tryin' to be polite an oblig-
in, as you said was to be-
"But l can't see how being polite
could make any difference" quavered
The father.
''It did, though" said the rustic. 'sThe
old chap held something up an says:
''This is green, isn't it? Come, now,
isn't it greenY quite pleading like, and,
though could see it wor red couldn't
find it in my art to tell him he wor
wrong for fear he might take offense.
So simply said, 1T Is, yer. honor an
they bundled me out. No more polite
ness for me. 1t don't pay."-Chat-
tanooga News.