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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21

them both teach that they may not
trihe with one so old and so wise
''Then rushing to the filthy old bag
that had been lying all this time on the
ground, he thrust an arm into it and
drew forth the most murderous-Iook-
ing knife l ever saw. 1t had a curved
blade about nine inches long, about
three inches ACROSS at the hilt and ia
pering to a fine point. Placing the
knife between his teeth and grasping
the Irvine in both hands the old boy,
showing marvellous agility for one of
his apparent age, went up the cord as
the boy had, and in less time than it
takes to tell it he, too, had disappeared
from view.
He had us all going by this time,
and we just sat there gaping up into
the air like a lot of precious idiots.
There was a seconds absolute silence,
and then an agonizing yell, so piercing
that it sunk into ones very bones. An
other second, which seemed like an
age, and then we saw a dark object
come HURTING down from the sky.
Down and down it came until it landed
only a few feet from US with a sicken-
ing sort of thud.
Looking to see what it was, we saw
the head of the boy who had climbed
the cord lying there, severed from the
body at about the middle of the neck.
A closer examination showed that the
face wore a horrible expression, while
the scarlet blood poured from the di-
vided arteries and the dark venous
blood from the veins. The twitching
of the newly-cut muscles and the wind
pipe, and the cleanly-severed joints of
two of the cervical vertebrae were
quite plain to the army surgeon and
to the rest of us, all of whom knew
little of anatomy from the field hos
pitfalls.
eve hadn't by any means got over
the shivery feeling we experienced at
seeing the head of the late urchin,
when down came an arm, cut off
through the shoulder joint and giving
all the anatomical relations in that
part quite plainly. A moment later
the other arm dropped at our feet
and an examination showed that it
had been cut off in exactly the same
way. The doctor said the old rascal
carved cleverly enough to have been
a surgeon at the Royal college.
''We were about ready for anything
after that, and so were not particular
ly surprised when a leg, severed at
the hip joint and exposing the head of
femur, the muscles twitching just as
you may have seen them twitch in
freshly-killed animal came along. The
other leg followed in due time, and
then came the trunk.
"a moment later, the old man was
seen coming down the string, and,
when he dropped to the ground from
the end of it, he was literally covered
with gore from head to foot. The
knife, still held between his teeth, was
fairly dripping with blood. His eyes
appeared wilder than ever, his fea-
lures drawn, and he paced back and
forth for few seconds like a chained
tiger.
"Then he collected the head, limbs
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A No-D1sCoUNr FAK1R.

and trunk and tossed them into the
old bag. While watching this action
we lost sight of the string and the
knife and never saw them again.
Singing the bag over his shoulder, he
walked away. We knew this was only
bluff, because he hadn't yet received
any backsheesh and we knew he never
would depart without that.
''He had moved off only few PAGES
when we saw that something was NOV
ing inside the bag. The old man
stopped, put on a surprised express
sion, put the bag down on the ground,
and in moment out crawled the boy
as sound in wind and limb as he had
ever been.
"The boy began te smile, and the old
man. smiling and salaaming, came to-
ward us for his money. This he got
in a very liberal amount, and off he
went, leaving US standing there, mys-
titled. confused, fabbergaste
''We looked about for traces pof the
recently-committed tragedy, but
where the ground had been red with
blood a moment before not trace of
it was left. There was not the slight
est bit of doubt that the boy had been
carved up and there was not the slight
est doubt that he had as miraculously
come to life again.
about the carving, the rest of US
might have been mistaken, but you
couldn't fool the doctor. He had been
cold-blooded enough to pick up the
different members of the body as they
had come tumbling down from the sky,
had examined them and was perfectly
positive that the Acknowledgement had
taken place and had been the work of
a skillful surgeon or student Of an
atomy. This was one of the few per-
formances that 1 ever saw of the real,
genuine Hindoo fakirs of the Indian
wilds.''
'But how do you account for it alp"
asked one of the British army officers
friends.
why, there is only one way to ac-
count for it,, was the reply. 1--WE were
simply mesmerized or hypnotized by
the old boy and placed in such mental
state that we imagined the whole per
Torrance really had been enacted"
But how about the army doctor.
who handled the dismembered parts ?''
asked some one else.
"oh, he was befuddled just like the
rest of US. He thought he handled
stray arms and legs and heads and
trunks, whereas he didn't do anything
of the kind
Maybe Englishmen in India can be-
come thus mentally twisted" said the
first inquirer, 'but I'm darned if he
lieve anybody else can. Either Won
saw a miracle performed or the whole
blessed lot of you were jagged. NY
Sun.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
AUTOMOBILE PATENTS.
merOus That Extra Examiners
Have to Be Employed.

By all odds the automobile section is
the busiest of all the divisions of the
patent office these days. Since all the
fashionable world has taken to auto
MODELLING and this sport is no longer
fad, the inventors of the country seem
to have turned their attention to
bringing out improvements in motors,
carriages and other parts. The NUM-
Der of applications received for pat
ents on devices for automobiles is so
great that it has been found necessary
to have five special examiners on this
work. Four separate divisions have
been organized to which are referred
patent papers according to the specific
kind of patent that is demanded. One
division handles electric motors, an
other steam motors, another gas and
acetylene motors, another looks out
for the compressed air motors. It is
very seldom that the rush of business
for a certain division is so great as to
cause an increase in the number of
special examiners or to bring about
the establishment of additional divi-
siens. One special examiner is or
dinarily able to take care of all april
The only record there is of greater
volume of work coming to one division
than now falls to the lot of the au-
tomobiIe bureau, occurred some years
ago at the time the bicycling craze was
at it's height. There was such del
uge of claims for patents on wheels,
chains, bearings, handles and on other
parts of bicycle, that ten special exc
aminers were detailed to help out the
chief of the division. These cases have
dwindled down since until now only
two men are required in the bicycle
division. The electrical division is
pushing the automobile section for
first honors in the matter of work.
There has been a marked increase in
the development of the electrical sci-
ence in the past five years, and this is
shown in the patent office to great
er degree than anywhere else.-Gold-
naVS
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CHARLES JONES' GREAT FEAT.

ancing half dozen men, but the work
of Charles Jones is marvellous.
This agile rider uses a track which
is built at an angle of 60 degrees and
which is open toward the stage. To
the uninitiated it seems impossible
that any bicyclist could balance his
wheel on this even for a few seconds.
Mr.. Jones' most remarkable feat con-
sists of removing the upper portions
of his clothing while cycling at full
speed without using the handle-bar.
All the power used for the regulating
of speed, the propulsion of his wheel
and the maintenance of the proper
equipoise on the difficult track is con-
centrated in his lower limbs.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
Armored War Automobiles.

The progress of military AUTOMOBILE
ism in Germany is indicated by the
fact that the minister of war has late
" ordered "a series of machines which
will carry two small Maxim guns, pro-
tected by nickel-steel plates. He has
also ordered a series of automobile
breaks which will be provided with
tables. These breaks will be used by
the general staff and the officers may
thus consult their maps or papers en-
route, spreading them upon the tables.
A series of light vehicles, or voitu-
rettes, is also to be constructed. to be
used on the firing grounds for ascer-
tanning the results of the cannon shot.
In Austria-Hungary the minister of
war is having a series of automobiles
constructed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21

The Black Valley Railroad.--An IN
pressive illustra ton for the enforciDA
of this lesson may be had from tract
written for sailors by Rev. Stedmanl
w. Hanks nearly quarter of GEN.
fury ago. The inherent force of the
allegory contained is sufficient excuse
for again bringing it to public notice.
The road is advertised as the GREAT
CENTRAL FAST ROUTE from SIP
PINGTON to the BLACK Valley,
The assurance is given that accidents
by collision are entirely avoided, ass
NO UP TRAINS ARE RUN OVER THE
ROAD. Tickets over the same are sold
at all liquor shops. The route taken is:
by no means an attractive one. Those
who start out upon it have no idea Of
of taking a through passage. They
start at Sippington, pass through Med
icineville, and expect to get off at Tip
pleton. But this train seldom stops at
Tippleton. It rushes madly on to To-
persville, around Drunkard's curve
through Rowdyville, and makes a.
stop a Quarrelton. After this the sta
lions are passed very rapidly: Riot
vile, Beggartown, Woodland, Gamblers
Vile, Fightington, Brothelton, PitfalIy
Robbers Den and Prisonton. Here an
other stop is made, but the journey Is
soon resumed, and the train with ever
increasing speed whizzes on to Delir-
iumton, Demonland, Hornets Nest
Thicket, Screech Owl Forest, Horror
land, Serpent Land, Maniacville, Idiot
Flats and into Black Valley. Then q
long run is made through the Great
Desert, Cloud Land, Thunder Land.
Storm Land, intd Tornado Gorge, and
the train slows up at Flood Crossing
1t is from here only short run to the
city of Destruction. Surely the pros
pectus of the trip is enough to keep
any sane man from embarking there
on. The trouble is that few see to
what great ends little things lead. The
city of Destruction is within full view
if only the trouble is taken to look
It's wrecks may be plainly seen strewn
about its streets. It is the little drops
that make the mighty ocean, the little
wine glass that brings men to their
eternal ruin.
The other road is as easily taken 40
the Black Valley one, and all that il
worth while lies that way. One mo" Sc
cures the passage. 1t is the start, and
then the habit that is formed that ac-
complishes the work. And remember
that temperance is as much habit as
is drink, and as easily formed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson in Internetssnez Series fo1i
September -, 1e01-TeUper--
auce Sunday.
THE LESSON TEXT.

Proverbs 2S:2S-S5)
= Who hath woe? who hath sorroWI
who hath contentious? who hath oa3oHnss
who hath wounds without cause
hath redness Of eyes?
80 They that tarry long at the wines
they that go to seek mixed wine.
81. Look not thou upon the vine Wnsn
IL is red when 1t gfveth his color IN ths
cup, when it moVeth itself Alright
g. At the last it biteth like Serpent
and stingeth like an adder.
So. Thine eyes shall behold strange "oAN+
en-, and thine heart shall utter perVerssa
things. 49,. ,,a.n,
down in the midst Of the sea, or as mes
that Heth upon the top of a mast.
90 They have stricken me, shait tnoo-
say, and I was not sick; they have oeaten.
me, and I felt it not: when shall aWakess
I Will seek it yet again.
GOLDEN TEXT-Wine Is q EnOckers-
strong drink Is ragings and whose
ever il deceived thereby is not WISE.
Prov. 2OsI.
Warming Against Wine.-The verses
marked especially for the lesson form
one of the best known and one of the
most eloquent passages in the book OF
Proverbs. They set forth the tempta-
tons of wine and the ruin which
yielding is sure to bring.-Ferse 20
sets forth wildly the sufferinSs OF the
| intoxicated. The words 'two&" and
sorrow" are EXPLANATIONS in tbs He
brew. We might translate: "Who Keeps
saying: Obi and 'Alas!'?" The quar-:
relsomeness, the discomfort, the ESD6-
lily injury from trivial causes and tins
muddled vision are all familiar char
acteristics of the drunkard, especially
when he is actually under the influence
of hquor.-The process of drunken
ness is described In verse so. The maniS'
| far gone in vice who spends much time
in drinking and one OF whose favor
| tie pursuits is the invention or testing
of new ways to make liquor palatable.,
| Such wine as was known to the writer
of the Proverbs was so mild at the
strongest that it required much more
effort to get drunk than is needed with
| the use of modern distilled liquors
Yet even the comparatively innocent
wine of that age fully deserved the
severe words which follow. Wine is
attractive to the eye and the taste
". 81, but its beauty is like that OF
the poisonous serpent, whose sting is;
fatal. The rest of the passage de-
scribes the way in which the sting be-
comes manifest. The writer men
lions first the strange visions which
the drunkard sees; then foolish and
vicious speech; recklessness; 1nsen-
sibility, and persistence in the evil
course. He lies down in the midst OF
the sea or on the top of a swaylng
mast with equal disregard of danger
The last verse is exceedingly drSmat1c"
and represents the drunken man as
speaking in his half-a weakened stuPor.
The passage says nothing OF the re-
suits to others, but gives warming OF
the personal danger arising from in
diligence. This danger is common to
all who use liquor at all, Though or
course many seem to escape 1t.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
NOVELTY IN BICYCLES.
It Is interchangeable and Gam he
Used by Madame as Well as Her
Lesser Half.

Here is novelty in the bicycle line
which will be greatly appreciated by
the man who objects to riding a wom-
ans wheel and yet does not feel rich
enough to purchase two separate
wheels for his wife and himself. A
little study of the illustration will
show the reader how the sections of
the frame are manipulated to bring
about the desired result. The seat and
hand1e-bars are removed in effecting
the change, when the front fork is
slipped out and the frame tilted over
the other side up. The crank hanger
is attached by means of strong
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
which SHAH Ii Ret

The approaching meeting of the
board of regents of the state agricul-
tural college at Manhattan promises
to be marked by as interesting a con-
test as ever occurred in the history of
the school. Two factions exist, both
in the board and among the friends
of the institution. One, led by Sec.
Rotary F. D. Coburn, desires to make
the college purely an agricultural
school. The success of the Wisconsin,
Iowa and Minnesota colleges are
pointed to as examples of what can
be done in building up the farm and
dairy lines. 1t is the argument of this
faction that the three state schools
should pursue different courses-that
the agricultural college should make
farming predominant, the state nor
nal should train teachers and the
state university educate in the pro-
LESSONS and arts. This, it is claimed,
is the intention of the states school
system and that there should be no
overlapping of one school upon the
function of the others. The other
faction, led by President Nichols, de-
sires to make the agricultural col
lege a strong general school, paying
especial attention to chemistry, phys
les, botany, zoology and mathemat-
les. 1t opposes special work in dairy
ing, stock feeding OF crop raising, at
least until after a general education
has been secured.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21

The prohibitionists are alarmed over
the suit commenced at Topeka to
knock out the inquisition law. If the
suit be sustained the attorney gen
eraI and the several county attorneys
of the state will be unable to sub
poena witnesses to testify about the
violation of the prOhibitory law, and
that, the prohibitionists say, would
result in practical notification of the
statute.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
WHEEL FOR MAN OR WOMAN.

clamp, and is easily set in either posi-
ton, the connection between the front
and rear sprockets being made with
out altering the length of the chain
for either position. The seat and
handle-bar being replaced at what is
now the top of the frame, the rider
is ready to take spin. It is, of course,
possible that man from any part of
the country may have brains enough
to design d machine as ingenious as
this one, but it happens that Lazarus
S. Kallajian, the inventor of this BIZ
cycle, is a resident of Boston, Mass
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
Automobiles for Undertakers.

The automobile is gradually being
adopted for business purposes of all
kinds, but it seems likely the under
takers will be among the last to take
up the horseless vehicle. So far as
known there is only one automobile
running in the country in the under
taking business, and that is wagon
used in Philadelphia. One prominent
funeral director says he expects to see
the motor wagons come into use by
the undertaken, and then he looks to
see the carriages in funeral process
sions all motor-driven, and, of course,
the hearse too. Within five years, this
man thinks, there will be seen going
along the streets funeral professions
in which every vehicle, including the
hearse, will be horseless.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
To Keep Money at Home.

The Pennsylvania & Kansas Powder
company has purchased 24O acres
three miles south of Pittsburg and
has commenced work on an immense
powder plant. Ten large buildings
will be erected for the manufacture
of all grades of mining and blasting
powder and other explosives. Three
hundred men will be employed and
200 houses will be built in which the
men will live. The state mine in
spector's report shows that last year
in the coal district of which Pitts
burg is the center there were 273, 900
kegs of powder used at cost of $780,
900. It is with view of keeping this
large amount of money in the coal
belt instead of sending it away that
the plant is to be erected, as well
as to supply whatever foreign demand
there may be.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
WHAT THE Law DECIDES.

A change in the color of mortgaged
horse after the mortgage is given is
held, in Turpin VS.. Cunningham IN. c.,
81 L. R. A. 500, not to defeat the right
OF the mortgage as against subse-
quent purchaser of the horse without
notice of the mortgage.
The right of street railway COM
pany to remove shade trees which are
an obstruction to the road which it is
authorized to build is upheld in Miller
VS.. Detroit, Y. & a. R. Co. (Mich.), 81
L. r. A. 955, without requiring COM
pensation to the abutting owner,
though notice to him is required, as
well as an opportunity to remove the
trees If he sees fit.
The liability of a land owner for
nuisance created by another person
is held in Rockport VS.. Rockport Gran
tie Co. (Mass.), 81 L. R. A. 779, to exist
in the case of derrick with guy rope
stretched-across highway so low as
to be dangerous to travellers, where
the land owner permitted it to remain
after he had knowledge of it, thought
was erected by licensee.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
Arrest of Mrs. Ha1derman.

The daily papers recently recorded
the arrest, at Versailles, Mo-, of Mrs.
John A. Halderman, for many years a
resident of Leavenworth. Halderman
was state senator and then minister
to Siam under President Harrison.
Mr.. and Mrs Halderman were di-
against Mrs. Halderman is that dur
ing an encounter with her business
partner, Mr.. Straus, she bit off his ear
Mrs. HaIderman alleges that Straus
had slandered her two daughters.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
Spent for stnte Charities.

The expenses of the various state
charitable institutions for August for
salaries, maintenance and construc-
ton work were as follows: Deaf and
dumb asylum, Olathe, $1,577.44; imbe-
Gle asylum, Winfield, 5000 II; in
sane asylum, Topeka, $15,999.18; in
sane asylum, Osawatomie, $11,217.9O;
school for the blind, Kansas City,
1875; industrial school for boys, Tope-
ka, $3,O44.36; industrial school for
girls, BeIoit, $1,93s.94; soldiers or
phans' home, Atchison, $2,733.O6.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
GREAT CYCLING FEAT.
Jones, an EngIishman, Rides
on a Track Built at an Angle
of 60 Degrees.

The star feature at the Pavilion in
London this season is the extraordin-
airy cycling performance of Charles
Jones. There are men who do some
daring acts on their wheels on the
stage nowadays on wire stretched at
dizzy height. Among the trick per-
formers is one-legged man who can
ride better and more gracefully than
some of the most expert bicyclists,
another who makes turn while ball
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
Kansans in once at Manila.


The civil commission in the Philip
for the government of the city of Ma
Mia. Several men formerly of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment were
chosen for various charter offices.
John W. Hauserrmann, who is named
as city attorney for Manila, is from
Leavenworth, Kan, and is a son-in-
law of the late Col. Thomas Moon
light, a well-known democratic politi-
clan. Hauserrmann quit law prac-
tice in Leavenworth to become second
lieutenant of C company, Twentieth
Kansas. He remained in Manila as
judge advocate of one of the courts
appointed under military authority.
For chief of the fire department Capt.
Frederick r. Dodge is named. Dodge
was formerly in the regular army. He
enlisted at Leavenworth. His expe-
rience gave him the rank of sergeant
major in the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment. He became second lieutenant
and later was adjutant of one of the
volunteer regiments recruited in the
Philippines just previous to the mus
ter-Out of the Kansas regiment. Viii
liam H. Bishop was once probate
judge in the county i'll Kansas OF
which Salina is the county seat. He
went with the Twentieth Kansas as
captain of NJ. company, and was made
major when Funston was promoted
out of the regiment. He remained as
major in one of the volunteer regi-
ments. He was afterwards police
judge of Manila. About 20 former
members of the Kansas regiment hold
minor positions connected with the
municipal government.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
The Most Intelligent Bird.

The yakamik, a species of crane, is
said to be one of the most intelligent
birds known. The bird is used by the
natives of Venezuela, South America,
in the place of shepherd dogs, for
guarding and herding their fiocks of
sheep. 1t is said that, however far the
yakamik may wander with the focks,
it never fails to find its way home at
night, driving before it all the crea-
lures intrusted to it's care.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
clarke out for state Audiror.

Capt. Adna G. Clarke. of Lawrence,
is candidate for the republican nou-
ination for state auditor Capt.
Clarke served through the Philippine
campaign with the Twentieth Kansas
and was severely wounded in battle.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-21
Augusta Mans Misfortune.

S. G. Hindman, who resides at Au-
gusta, had the misfortune to become
totally deaf. The change came sud
denly while talking to a friend. The
deafness is caused by ruptured blood
vessel, the contents of which found
its way into the ear drum and can
never be removed by medical skill.