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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24

nervously through it, man of middle
age and evidently Iaboring under
stress of great excitement:
"The woman who has just left you,"
he exclaimed, breathlessIy, "of what
was your conversation? Tell me, for
Gods sake, tell me what it was that
you spoke of"
The practiced eyes and keen intui-
ton of the minister told him all in a
moment. The sudden, unaccustomed
suspicion, the Mortified putting away,
the recurring, persistent agony of
doubt and uncertainty, the following
of the wife to the church study, the
irrepressible desire to know whether
or no she had admitted fault.
More than this, the minister di-
vined that the fate of two lives lay
within his handling, the ruin of two
souls, the man as we'll as the woman.
if he bungled or made mistakes. He
acted, upon the impulse of the mo.
ment, as he would not, perhaps, have
acted had he stopped to consider.
"The lady who went out last, you
mean?" he asked, easily, his keen.
kindly eyes noting every change of the
others countenance and expression.
"The young-looking woman with
brown hair and white veil? Why, she
was merely interested in a sad case OF
distress and trouble which has come
under her recent observation, and in
regard to which she was anxious to
secure my assistance. You have, per
haps, some special reason for asking?".
"You will never tell herr" the man
implored him, his eyes aglow with re-
lief, but his form trembling. "She il
my wife, and I love her to distraction.
This morning, in the cemetery where
her mother lies buried, found her
putting flowers on the grave of a man
an old lover, have heard lately, but
a man whom she once told me she
hated. Then I thought I understood
many things which had used to puzzle
me; it came to me like a flash, or
thought it did. I am jealous man by
nature, and I think I must have gone
mad. She told me once, when we had
heard you preach, that you looked like
kindly man, and one who could be
trusted. I thought-perhaps- had
come here to tell you of her shining.
I will go home and apologize to her for
my northumberland insane-dis-
trust"
"Do nothing of the Sort advised the
minister, laying friendly, counsel
ing hand upon the others shoulder.
"There is nothing harder for woman
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
THE HOME LIGHT.

see the dear home light ahead,
There where it used to glow
Before Ambition came and led
Me from 1t. long ago.
I see the light, the glorious light,
Upon the distant hill!
Thank heaven for the welcome sight,
Thank heaven They are there tonight,
To keep it burning still.
family see the fields that lie
Upon the distant slopes,
And, oh, my heart is beating high
With freshly kindled hopes!
see the light which tells me They
Are waiting for me still
The boy they lost is turning gray,
But here he filings his cares away
The light burns on the hill!
The light of homel oh shall fare
, Up, up, alone, some night,
Upon a star-lit way and there
Behold another light?
On that last night, oh, shall there be
A light upon the hill
Oh, shall there come thrill to me,
AS faring UP the slope 1 see
The home light burning still?
IS. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
A Profnne Interruption.

The late Father Petit was one of the
best-known priests in the Milwaukee
diocese. 1t may well be said that he
was fine representative of the
pioneer priests. With wide expert
ence and an appreciation of the hui
NOR of a situation, many interesting
stories are told of him. On one occa-
sion he was preaching in St. Raphaers
church, Madison, of which he was pas
tor. It was fine summer day and
the windows were open. In an adjoin-
ing vacant lot number of boys were
playing a game of baseball. Father
Petit's sermon was on Heaven and
the means of reaching there. He had
just come to the end of a passage,
'How, then, shall we reach Heaven?''
he asked, and paused in a solemn man
ner. Just then came floating through
the church window in high-keyed
voice: ''Slide like the devil, sIide!7' 1t
was one of the boy baseball players
coaching a base runner.-Current LIT
erature.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Not a Success.

Mrs. Jennie Al1ers, postmaster at
Elmdale, received a letter saying if
she did not place $3.50 in gold in her
lot in the cemetery her little boy
would be kidnapped, and that if she re-
veaIed the threat to anyone her house
would be destroyed. The sheriff was
notified of the matter. A purse was
filed with shot and placed in the lot
and he and his deputies placed them
selves on guard. They captured C. M.
Rose, a farmer. After he was captured
the feeling ran so high it became nee
essary to spirit him away.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Try to Keep from work.

The physician at the Kansas state
prison has to answer 40 to so 'sick
calls' from convicts every morning.
Investigation always develops that of
this number about four-ffths are false
pretenders who play sick to keep from
doing a days work. Those seriously
sick are taken to the hospital, the
mildly-affiicted are permitted to re-
main in their cells until convalescent
while the "shams'' are unceremonious-
~ marched to breakfast and then re-
quirel to donate their usual quota of
free labor to the imperial state of
Kansas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Mostly Young Men.

A visitor to the Kansas penitentiary
chapel exercises on Sunday morning
who is permitted to look into the
faces of nearly 1000 hardened Grim
inals who are marched into the prison
church to sing sacred songs and hear
the preached word, is forcibly and
sadly impressed at the sight of so
many youthful but crime-distorted
countenances. An overwhelming pro-
portion of the convicts are men be-
tween IS and 35 years of age.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
THE ELECTRIC EYE.
Reveals Presence of Electric waves
as an Ordinary Eye Reveals
Waves of Light.

The little device shown here in full
size is an eye, though it is evidently
not an ordinary eye; that is, it reveals
the presence of electric waves as an or
binary eye reveals the presence Of
light waves.
It is one of the GROWING achieve
ments in this age of electricity and is
the prime factor which enables Mr..
Afarconi to telegraph without wires
for a distance of 200 miles.
The technical name of the electric
eye is coherer, and in construction it
is quite simple. 1t consists of little
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Lightning Kills Live Stock.

In northwest Kansas farmers have
lost much stock by being struck by
lightning. The cattle drift up against
the wire fence, and when the light
ming strikes and follows along the
fence it usually kills a number. In a
recent thunderstorm John Guenther,
living six miles from Oberlin, lost IS
head of cattle by one stroke of light
ming. Other farmers in that vicinity
have lost from one to five or six head.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
MIND AND THE WEATHER.
Effect the Reading of a Book Has Up-
On the Physical Frame OF
Il Person.

Everyone knows that the magma
ton has great effect upon the body
and at times some ludicrous expert
ences are met with. During the pre-
vaiIing torrid spell a man and his
wife sat together on shady veran-
da reading. The man read an y fri
can story which dweIt upon the suf
fering entaiIed upon the inhabitants
of this land by the heat. Hot sands
and the blazing sun were often mem
toned and the scant costume of the
natives was given due mention.
The woman by a strange chance
was reading of an arctic expedition.
She had not picked out this itera-
ture purposely because of the con-
trast to present conditions it offered.
She had just come across it in the
bookcase at the summer resort and
opening it at random was soon
among the icebergs and almost lost
in snow.
isn't it warm?'' asked the expior-
er in Africa presently, tugging It his
collar.
'.Why, no. replied the lady from
an ice foe; sit seems to me very
pleasant-even cool"
: The man grunted disbelief and
then he took off his coat. Later he
retired to his own room and removed
his collar and necktie and painted
still for breath and finally flung
away his tale of the tropics and was
soon in the leafy Adirondacks with
1.-THE Aristocrats.'
And the feminine member of this
duo insists still that the day was
cool day and not at all oppressive.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
NIsINIINvINI
kansas Penitent,nrr pava.


The annual report of the Kansas
penitentiary for the fiscal year ended
July 1, 1901, makes fine showing for
amounted to $2O6, 5O4.31, and the to-
tai expenses to $165, 447.63, leaving the
earnings $41, O56.69 in excess of the
expenses. The earnings exceeded the
expenses every month in the year ex-
cept four.
The Irvine plant account is not in
cluded in the above estimate of earn
ings and expenses. So far it has been
operated independently of the other
penitentiary industries. The Irvine
plant has been installed two years.
The first year the prison officials I'M
dertook to sell Irvine exclusively to
farmers direct for cash, and they were
left with a large stock on hand. Dur
ing the present summer Warden jew
EFT sold Irvine to all who wanted it.
He brought down trust prices, and not
only sold out big stock, but made a
small profit for the state. The -fnan-
cial record of the Irvine plant shows
that the state expended $4,000 for
machinery for the plant This was by
separate appropriation. In addition
$15O,0O0 as revolving fund and $4,000
as contingent fund was appropriated
to keep the plant in operation. The
operating of the plant so far as shown
by the condition of the revolving fund
makes a profit of 81, 500 for the state.
This profit is small, but it is said to
be much better than the Minnesota
Irvine plant did the first two years.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Gooa Hospital Service.

At least a dozen serious cases are
constantly treated in the Kansas
prison hospital. Many of these cases
are incurable. The prison physician,
Dr. Grigsby, holds unique position,
in that his corps of hospital assist
ants are all convicts, but they are well
trained. The hospital pharmacist is
''Willie" Sells, one of the most noted
of the states convicts.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
a Dozen Are Daft.

In the Kansas penitentiary are at
least dozen conviets who are wholly
or partially insane, having become SO
since their incarceration. A sepa-
rate building is provided for these
cases and the prison physician gives
them the most careful attention. In
the rear of the ''crazy ward is an en-
closure into which the afflicted men
are turned every day for exercise.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Harris Not a Reorganizer.

In an interview at Leavenworth, w.
A. Harris, senior senator from Kan
sas, expressed loyalty to Mr.. Bryan
and scored the men who are trying
to reorganize the democratic party.
The senator said taxation should be
the leading democratic issue in 1904.
He favors a graduated income tax and
a revision of the tariff laws, with rec
iprocity features.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
He KNOWS Them All.

It is said of ''Tim'' Cotter, one of the
oldest in point of service of the guards
at the Kansas penitentiary, that he
knows the face of every man who has
Fdone time" at Lansing in recent
years. No matter if the culprit is in
side or outside the prison walls;
whether dressed in the regular prison
garb, in the stained and faded gar
ments of the teller, or in the habiIi.
ments of the gentleman of leisure, 81
his identity is incontrovertibIy es.
tablished when once Capt. Cotter's I'm.
erring eye gets a focus on him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Interest ON state Funds.

One of the most important features
of the new tax law which the state
tax revision commission is now pre-
pairing will be provision for the Sc
lection of repositories in which the
state funds shall be deposited. Under
the present system, the state treasurer
permits the funds to be kept in To-
peka banks, which pay no interest on
the money.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Improving the Potato Plant.

A method of improving the potato
is credited to NJ. AIichalet, as a re-
suit of experiments made in the de-
partment Vaucluse, France. He ad-
vises that the potato plant should
be stripped of its blossoms, and the
crop of tubers wiz be improved in
quantity and be richer in starch. The
flower is not at all necessary to the
well-being of the plant, which in the
process of blossoming consumes
starch and other vegetable sub
STANCES.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
I,,.uuuc frou Prosecution.

Mrs. Lang Murray, of Wichita,
whose troubles with her husband
created a sensation there recently,
has been forging the names of prom
inent railroad men to checks and col
lecting the money. For some mys-
ferrous reason she was not pros
ecuted.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24

~ All communications for this paper
must be accompanied by the name of the
but as an evidence of good faith on the
part OF the writer. Write only on one side
OF the paper. Be particularly careful in
giving names and dates, to have the let
tiers and figures plain and distinct.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Emporta GIRL sIfssihg.

Miss Lillian Brown disappeared
from Emporia. It was thought she
jumped into the Cottonwood river,
south of town. Miss Brown was
known as one of the prettiest girls
in the community.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Death rate surprtsingly Small.

There are nearly LOO convicts in
the Kansas penitentiary and the death
rate is no greater in proportion than
in Kansas town of ], 100 people. The
prison physician, DIR. Grigsby, holds
the record as conservator of the
health and lives of prisoners, having
lost fewer cases than any of his pred
ecessors at the prison.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
society woman Runs MIX Route.

Mrs. Annie T. E. Siiliman, a society
woman from Washington, D. c., is run
ming a dairy and milk route at Vine
land, N. j. Both Mrs. Silliman and
her husband are wealthy and the en-
terprise is Mrs. Silliman's fad Her
husband is in business in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Silliman rises at four o'clock in
the morning, superintends the work of
the farm hands in feeding the stock
and milking the COWS, and then, fire.
quently before daylight, starts on her
milk route, almost always alone. She
finishes the route at about $3.50
a. m. Mrs. Silliman says she got tired
of society and wanted to live a rural
life. So she induced her husband to
buy fine farm and started in to make
it pay.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Rurg1ar Aaopts New seheme.

Some one, supposed to have con-
templated burglary, sprayed chloro-
form into a parlor window at the
home of N. P. Lovall, a grocer of Fort
Scott, evidently desiring to put Miss
Ella Lovall, a young schoolteacher, to
sleep. She was playing on the piano
at the time, and did not perceive the
effect until she finally reused from a
short stupor and staggered out of the
room. The house was found to be al
most filled with the Supplying vapor,
and the tracks of a man were found
at the parlor window.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
AN ENDLESS STAIRWAY.
Safer and More Convenient Than
Elevator Service.

The moving stairways in the large
department stores have ceased to be
a wonder to the shoppers and have
proved themselves a great convenience
and necessity, being always ready to
carry passengers without the necessity
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Reared Ia ORPHAN ChfIdren.

s. E. G. Holt, patriarch of Lyon
county, who came to Kansas in 1854,
has the record of adopting and rear
ing no less than 10 orphan children
Twelve of the 10 have gone out into
the world. One is chief surgeon OF the
Santa Fe west of Albuquerque.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Rev. james Heard From.

Rev. T. H. James, the Methodist
preacher of Oakley, who promised to
endow colleges and hospitals when he
received his fortune from England
two years ago, has taken common,
everyday homestead out in western
Kansas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
PhiTIips Remains in Kansas.

DR.. NJ. E. Phillips viii decline the
presidency of the New Orleans uni
versity, recently rendered him. He
was reelected chancellor of the Kan
sas Wesleyan university at Salina and
accepted.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
prencher lad sa1oon CIosed.

On the evidence furnished by the
Methodist minister of Cuba the prin-
cipal saloonl1eeper of the place was
arrested and all his goods seized. One
other hid out and had his goods
moved to the country.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
The Governor and Woman sun


Gov. Stanley says he believes equal
suffrage is a good thing for the state,
and declares that if he had his way
about it women should be allowed to
vote at all elections. He said thai
women voters did not neglect their
domestic duties, and as rule did not
dabble in politics except on election
day. They always voted as their cor
sciences dictated, he said, and could
not be influenced by promises of Of
flee, and no woman was ever known
to sell her vote for cash.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Search Lighting for Frogs.

s.Search-lighting' for frogs is the
latest industry in Kansas. A big cleo
trio light is flashed upon the TeEes.
and before the croakers recover her
sight they are scooped up IN nets
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Laree Crowd Greeted FairbanI1s.

Senator Fairbanks, Of Indiana, was
greeted by the largest crowd of the
week at the state soldiers reunion
at Hutchinson. He paid high tribute
to soldiers and devoted considerable
time to a discussion of problems that
have arisen since the war with Spain.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Fine stock for CoIIege.

The Kansas state agricultural col
lege has purchased representative os
three pure bred polled breeds of cat
t1e-Galloway, Aberdeen-Angus and.
Durham.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
A Fortune on the side.

Ed NJ. Wheeler, farmer near indie
pendence, marketed $1,000 worth of
strawberries this season. He is es-
timating his crop Of apples at 1000
bushels.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
The Dignity of AericuIture.

Speaking of the dignity of agricu1-
ture, says the Kansas City Star, Z
Butler county farmer sold wagon
load of alfalfa seed, a. few days ago.
for $500.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
A Surplus for July.

The receipts of the state grain in
spector's Office in July were $4,000 and
the expenses $3,23s, leaving a profit
OF $1,022 for the state.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
receipts of soldiers, Home Cantee,

Reports from the soldiers home
canteen in Leavenworth county show
that the sale of beer amounted to
more than $4,000 last year. The re-
ceipts average about $50 a day. The
veterans are furnished pint beer
glasses.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
Confederate of Miss Morrison.

Warden Jewett has shown marked
consideration for Jessie Morrison,
now serving a five-year sentence Ev-
cry visitor to the state prison is eager
to see her, her notoriety making her
the especial mark of the curious pub
lie. She is permitted to remain in her
room and it is very seldom that a Wis
itor to the woman's department.
catches a glimpse of the slayer of Mrs.
Clara Castle. She has not yet been re-
quired to attend chapel exercises on
Sunday, as her presence would cause
the 1000 convicts to forget discipline
in their efforts to scrutinize the IA
nous prisoner from Eldorado,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
The Transferred Burden
By Ethel NJ. COlsOn.

XXX Xxx Xxx X X n
Copyright. 1901, by Authors syndicate)
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24
They Better watch Out.

A firm of distillers of Covington,
KY, has a scheme for the evasion of
the Kansas prohibitory law, which
viii probably got it into trouble with
the state authorities. The firm has an
endless chain coupon system, which it
is attempting-to inaugurate in Kan
sas. The distributing agent of the
firm is sending book of four cou-
pons to postmasters in the smaller
Kansas towns. These postmasters
are asked to sell the coupons at 25
cents each and when the persons to
whom the coupons are sold return
the coupons and a dollar each, the
postmaster is presented with a gallon
jug of whisky.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-24

Scientific study of Hypnotism.
Hypnotism is scientifically studied
n some of the French medicalcolIe ges.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1901-01-05
Rome wiadomosci
telegraficzne.

- Amerykanski ambassador W
Berliuie, Andrew D. White, zostal
obrany czlonkiem berlinskiei aka.
demii umiejetnosci.
- Rad bawarski zaciqga a pro.
centowa pozyczke W wysokosci 100
milion6w marek.
- Ludnosc Bawaryi wynosi o.
10000 dusz, o 3Sl. 900 wiecej, ni2
pred 10 laty.
= Niemieccy lekarze zamierzaja
wniesc do rzadu petycya zapro.
wadzenie palenia zwiok.
- Pruski minister fnansow DIR.
Miguel mial sie wyrazic. re ma
wiosne zrezygnuje urzedu,
Z Wladywostoku urzedowo
potwierdzaja wiadomose, re wybu'
CHA tam dzuma. z 10 osob, kt6re
zachorowaiy, Is umario.
- Pogioska o zabiciu hr. Wal
dsrsee powstala W Berlinie jeszcze
pred tygodniem; W dniu Nowego
Roku zas hr. Waldersee odbyf
przeglad wojsk angielskich W Pc
kinie.
z Armenii donosza nowych
rozruchach z powodu sciagania
zwiekszonych podatk6w.
= Hiszpanski admiral Ceryera,
bawiacy W Puerto Real, W Hiszpa-
nil, zachorowal niebezpiecznie.
- Do Newport News. Va, przy-
byl amerykanski transportowiec
Sedgwick Cienfuegos ma Kubie
pod z6ltq Aasa i must pozostac
przez czas niejaki " kwarantanie.
= W Madison, Fla, przemoca
uprowadzono wiezienia lyhczo-
wano dw6ch Negr6w, Jirna benson
jego brata przyrodniego, oskarzo.
nych o zamordowanie farmera
Reddfnga.
- W Thompson Point, N. j., W
fabryce Repauno Chemical Go, W
skutek straszliwej eksplozyi dyna-
mitu trzech robotnikow zostalo "a
bitych.
= Ze Springfield, Ill.,, donosze,
re 100 g6rnik6w innych robotni-
k6w frmy Clear Lake Cooperative
Coal Co. wczoraj zastrajkowafo.
- w Buffalo, N. Y. spalify sic 6
pietroye kamienice Hollandai Ho-
warda, W ktorych miescily sic rome
skiady male fabryki. Szkods
zrzadzona wynosi $4,000.