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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21
THE FIRST SEEDLESS ORANGE.



Notwithstanding parent tree of the
navel orange groves in America is still
fi0urishing in Inc lighthouses of the ag-
Gicultural department. Although thirty
years old, it is as vigorous as ever, and
there is not a month in the year when
one cannot pick from it at least a few
of the wonderful seedless oranges for
which it is famed. The little tree, not
i dozen feet high. is almost a Mecca
for Californians in the capital. 1t is
visited daily by scores of interested
t.urists, and more than one of them
has tax, off his hat in deferential
honor to the tree that has done so much
in adding to the wealth of the land of
sunshine and flowers. Although seed
less oranges have been planted in Flor
ida, yet for some unsettled reason they
have not prospered there. California
has never had a real competitor in pro-
ducing the delicious fruit. and there are
records of nearly ?, 600 car loads shipped
from the California groves in single
year.
A good many different stories have
been toId regarding he introduction Of
the navel orange tree into this coun-
try. Some Of them were fanciful to a
degree. Few, however. have been free
from serious errors. It is believed that
the first authentic statement is con
tanned in a manuscript that has just
been discovered among the papers of
he late Prof William Saunders, horti-
culturist Of the agricultural depart
ment, who introduced the orange into
the country. According to this inter-
esting document. it was a woman's
ready appreciation of a new fruit that
resulted in its being transplanted to
America. The lady whose name IN
fortunately has been forgotten. was
travelling through Brazil in 1869. At
Bahia she found seedless orange of
delicious flavor, such as was quite IN
known in the United States. She was a
friend of Horaca Capron, then the
American commissioner of agriculture,
and in a letter to him she wrote glow
ingly CT the fruit. Mr.. Capron showed
the letter to Mr.. Saunders. the hor-
ticulturist of the bureau. and the latter
enthusiastically went about getting a
few plants. He wrote, asking for some
sIpis Of the orange, ana in the course
of time back came a small box of
orange twigs. that unfortunately were
so dry as to be useless. Not discouraged
he wrote again, giving shipping direc-
lions. and in 1870 he received a box
containing twelve newly budded trees,
He planted them in the government hot
houses, and al but two thrived finely.
The fame of the seedless orange trees
spread RAPIDLY. Three years later Mrs.
L. c. Tfbbsts. who with her husband
had decided 10 join the fruit growlng
colony st riverside. Cal. secured two
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21
TO TELL A W0MAN'S AGE.

Every man seems to be born with
desire to know the age of ladies with
whom he comes in contact. Women
also appear to have an innate curiosity
concerning the number of Summers
which have passed over the heads of
their female friends. But there is moth
ing more difficult to discover than the
eaxct age of a woman who wishes to
keep the fact a secret.
Now, here is little scheme which
mathematician has just discovered to
find out the age of any person.
Having engaged that person in pleas
ant conversation, you proceed some,
thing after the following manner
speaking very innocently, of course:
There is a very simple problem in
arithmetic which very few people are
able to see through, yet it is as easy
as possible. 1 wonder if you can do
it ?'
This sets the woman on her dignity
and she wants to do it at once.
Think of a number corresponding to
the numerical order of the month in
which you were born. Oh, no, you need
not tell me-"
"To make the explanation clear, we
will assume that the figure is 2-stand-
ing for February-and that the age is
thirty.
Nov multiply that figure by q" you
continue, land add 3. Done that?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

An effort is now being made to pre-
Ierve the birthplace of John Brown and
properly mark the spot where. as a
barefoot boy, he learned the trade of
his father, tanner. During this ses-
Tion of the Connecticut general assem-
bly, it will be attempted to have sufn-
cient amount Of money appropriated
to purchase the John Brown place and
convert it into historical landmark.
Dwight c. Kilbourne of Litchf1eld and
other members Of the Litchfield County
Historical society are working to this
end.
The place of John Browns birth is
within half mile of the highest point
Of ground in Connecticut, about five
miles west of the busy town of Torring-
ton. The old house is situated on a
high bluff, with no other house within
a mile Of it. The house is built, as
most of the houses were at that time
1787-with a great stone chimney in the
center of the building, which has its
foundation in the cellar. The timbers
used in the foundation, on which the
big stones are laid, are of oak, twelve
by fourteen inches square, and hewr
out by hand.
1t was in the western front room thai
John Brown first saw the light Of day
There are two windows in the room
one looking to the south and the other
to the west. The first thing that i'm
presses one on entering the room is the
fireplace, before which John Brown az
a boy sat and listened to the back
logs cracking in the blaze as the win
ter winds howled through the sturd!
oaks and stalwart chestnut trees in the
wods which surrounded two sides O.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21
SNAKES AND BEASTS OF INDIA.
! Ia 1899 They Killed More Than 27 900
Persons and 100 900 Cattle.

Persons and 100 900 Cattle.
The home department of the govern
ment CT India has one sphere of activ-
ity to which nothing analogous can
be found in this country-namely, the
destruction of wild beasts and poison
Gus snakes. During 1899 the number
of deaths among human beings attri-
buted to wild animals was 1856. For
tunately, however, the mum Der is be-
low the average of the last four years
and much lower than the number
(4,2S3) reported in 1897. In 1899 tigers
caused the death of 500, wolves Of
33S and leopards of 237 human beings,
while bears, elephants, hyenas, jacka s
and crocodiles were accountable for a
large proportion of the remainder,
says the London Times.
The tiger. is most destructive in Ben
gal, about half of the whole number
of victims Of this animal being re
ported from that province. Maneat-
ers have especially troubled certain
districts, and liberal rewards have
been offered for their destruction. In
the Bhamo district of Upper Burmah
a single man-eating tiger killed about
twenty persons. A special reward of
I 100 roupees was paid for it's destruc-
ton. More than half Of the deaths
while more than three-fourths of
those from wolves occurred in the
| northwestern provinces and Oudh.
/ Special measures were taken to hunt
down a particularly destructive pack
near Cawnpur. High rewards were
! offered and hunting parties organized,
but without much success.
I The loss of human life from snakes
reached the high total of 24621. a
! greater mortality than in any one of
the four preceding years. Nearly half
the deaths occurred in Bengal, while
( the northwestern provinces and Oudh
/ came next with nearly One-fOUrth of
! the total. In Bengal the relatively
! high mortality is attributed to floods
which drove the snakes to the high
lands on which village hOmesteads
ire built AS will be observed, snakes
are more destructive of human life
than are the wild animals, but the re
/ verse is true of the destruction OF
cattle In 1899 no fewer than 9,23S
cattle were destroyed by wild animals
! and 9.449 by snakes. Of the former
! 1886 fell victims to leopards, and
! 81, 321 to tigers. The leopard is even
more destructive to cattle than the
tiger in Bengal. This province is the
greatest sufferer from. the ravages Of
wild animals and snakes, its loss be.
| ing 30.539 cattle. Assam lost 1900
/ Madras IL, 592. Burmah 11,016, and the
central provinces 1859.
The number of wild animals de
stroyed was 1887, and the amount
paid for their destruction was 10Y ,47(
rupees. The number of snakes killed
was "a, 548, and the rewards paid fol
! this service amounted to 4,151 rupees
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

Krupp's Bottom gun fires two shots
a minute. Each costs $1,000.
Two hundred and twenty-four gallons
of fresh water weigh a ton.
st. PauI's cathedral has a dome 112
feet in diameter ST Peters, Rome, is
1S9 feet across.
Scientists have discovered the remains
of two monster dinosaurs near Sturgis,
IS D. Early in the spring the work
tof excavation will be undertaken.
The Sioux Indians have twenty-three
churches, constituting the Dakota IN
dian Presbytery. These are in North
and South Dakota, Nebraska and Mon
tana.
The experiment of substituting TIA
liam for negro labor in Louisiana is
meeting with success. Part Of the crew
of nearly every steamboat plying at
New Orleans are italians.
In Sardinia there are tombs which
prove that PROFESSIONALLY it was inhab-
ited by great giants. Recently four new
tombs have been found which contain
skeletons over nine feet long.
The government has created some
large forest reserves in northern Ari-
iona and promulgated rules for their
regulation, with a view to prevent their
spoliation and to preserve them from
hre.
In the years 1898 and 1899 Germany
held second place in shipbuilding, but.
for various reasons, the shipbuilding
in 1900 has received such an impetus
in the United States that it has placed
Germany third
Florida is now thronged with visitors
from the northern and western states.
The leading hotels of the principal cities
and towns report full houses, and the
boarding house people are also reaping
a rich harvest.
Saturday is considered an unlucky
day for the British royal family. Will
lam III, Queen Anne. George I. George
II, George III. George ", the Duchess
of Kent, the Prince Consort and Prin-
cess Alice died on Saturdays
A bird never before seen at the Lon
don Zoo is the open-bill. and it owes its
name to the fact that the two halves
of its beak do not meet for some dis
tance from their bases. The open-biI
is tall, with long legs, presumably for
wading, and halls from Africa.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

Wichita, Kas.-Much pomp and sew
eral incidents attended the ceremony
Of installing Mary Big Buffalo chief
Of the Cheyenne Indians. who live on
a reservation south of here in Okla
homa Territory.
Not only is Mary the first woman
ever appointed to rule an Indian tribe,
but she is also gifted with power direct
from the Great Spirit, her tribesmen be-
lieve. Besides being chosen to attend
TO all business of the tribe, she viii
also act as chief medicine man, or wo-
man one should say, for the handful Of
Cheyennes, is a woman of much tact
and common sense. 1t was she Ewho
started the plan to have all of her peo-
pie go to Mexico to live and then when
she found that she was opposed in her
plans by the United States Indian
agents, who were sure to balk her
scheme, she called the Cheyennes to-
gether and told them she had received
call from the Great Spirit, and that
| he told her to remain in the United
States. So, instead of showing her
weakness to the tribe, she only
i strengthened her reputation.
| Her installation took place on the
reservation near Darlington. Few white
| people were permitted to witness it. 1t
was held at time when the officers
were least expecting, so that they could
not interfere were they so disposed.
For three days prior to the ceremony
Mary lay in a wooden wicklup and COM
muned with good splits, sending out
messages to her followers ever and
anon, in which she told them that the
tribe was to have many blessings
showered upon them during her reign
Meanwhile the thrifty official medi-
cine men commenced to nal &-eady fol
! taking her through the mystic rites
! They erected small tents around the
one in which the woman lay and they
too, had frequent alleged communica-
lions with unseen powers. Meanwhile
the tribesmen began to gather on the
dancing ground, which is located in {
large valley and surrounded on all sides
by high hills. The valley is covered
with green grass, even in the depth OF
winter and the warm sun beats down
making il a most pleasant spot to live
Here for nearly a week the whole
Cheyenne tribe lay in their tents anC
enjoyed life. Mary, the future queer
of the tribe, is quite rich, and she fur
nished the indoleht bucks with plenty
of rations which they devoured mutter
Ing blessings upon their leader.
Quite SUDDENLY one night, Big Snake
chief Of the medicine men, came fortl
from his tent. He had been feasting 70
three days and was very weak. H
called in a loud voice that all was il
readiness to declare the new chieftail
elected. He instructed the people t.
make ready for the ceremony.
The camp was soon astir. Squaws anC
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21
FOR WOMEN.
Some Practical Hints for Improving
Apps arance and Preserving
Health

No woman is too old to be eager to
learn any thing that will improve her
appearance; and yet, for want of pro-
per teaching, what hollow necks,
STOPPING shoulders, fat waists and IN
graceful figures are seen daily. In
many cases these defects may be en-
tirely eradicated, in all cases greatly
Iessened and the figure and carriage
vastly improved by strict adherence
to a few simple rules of health, and
the regular vigorous use Of complete
set of physical exercises for six, or
even for three months. No woman is
too old-if she has the necessary
strength-to be greatly benefited by
the daily practice of the following set
of exercises, especially if she adheres
to the rules for general living. They
suit the fat and thin aike-reducing
the adipose tissue in one case, filing
hollows and rounding limbs in the
other.
The exercises should be regularly
practiced for five or ten minutes every
morning after the cold ablutions, and
for the same time before getting to
bed. Vary the order of exercises to
avoid fatigue.
Exercises for neck and arms
Standing erect with shoulders back,
chest out, waist in, and feet firmly
planted with heels together and toes
out.
l. Stretch the arms out in front,
palms touching. Swing them back
until the back of the hands touch be-
hind. The arms must be kept perfect
" straight. and the point at which
they touch behing as high as possible.
2. Raise the arms straight above
the head, swing them down as far
back as they will go; then, without
stopping, back to the same position
above the head.
3. Swing the arms around in cir
cle-one at time, then both togeth-
er.
4. Place the tips on the fingers on
the chest, then fling the arms out and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21
NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY.

A book has just been completed at
Los Angeles in which California visit
ors to the Buffalo exhibition next sum-
mer will register. 1t is ii e largest book
ever bound being % inches long, p
inches wide, and IS inches thick, is o.:
1000 pages and weighs 400 pounds
The site of the '.oId FORT where the
first settlers of Springfield, Mass, took
refuge from the Indians. has been
marked with a bronze tablet. The plate
is two feet wide and three feet high
bearing on either side the Pynchon
arms in relief of the original fort
w. ]. White, inspector of Canadian
Immigrant agencies, states that the
American settlers who went into the
Canadian Northwest last year tool
with them cash and effects valued at
So 900, 600. Between $4,000 and Is. 600 set
tiers from the United States crosse,
the border.
The German naval program, (which
according to the original announcement.
was not to be completed until 1916, IS
now. it seems, to be finished by 1906,
In that year Germany will have at least
forty ships twenty large cruisers. and
twenty-eight small cruisers.
The sum of S7,5OOOOO is to be expendc"
by the county council of London in i'm
proving the dwellings of the poorer
classes. There will be a rebuilding of
homes on a vast scale with an improve
ment of sanitary conditions. The king
is much interested in this project.
1t is estimated that Munich restau-
rants cheat the public annually out of
$2OQ coo by selling foam in place of beer.
The CT snce it would appear is not alone
confined to Munich: There are simila.
crimes, as beer drinkers might he dis
posed to consider them. in other big
cities.
There are wise cats as we'll as wise
people in Vermont. A man living al
Pomfret, in that state. possessed ono
of them, who called him out of bed the
other evening by its piteous wailings
and led him to portion of wood lot
where a feline companion had bean
caught in trap set for a skunk.
Chicago has the only municipal pawn
shop in the country. Paris and otnes
European cities have had them in op
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

A singular case of mental disorder
comes from Norristown, Pa. John
Supplies, living there. has lost his
sense Of retaining what he reads. He
can express his thoughts in writing,
and forms the letters correctly, but
he can't understand it after it is writ
ten, and neither can he read printed
matter. His power of speech has also
become affected. He writes out his
thoughts and then some one reads
what is written and talks to him The
doctors attribute the failure of his
receptive faculties to an injury of tci
brain
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

The North Dakota Federation has now
twenty clubs, with membership of 300
women, though organized but three
years ago. There never was library
collected more quickly than that super
intended by the Nineteenth Century
club of Devils Lake. 1t issued an ap-
peal for books to form public library.
asking each club in the general fedora
ton to send a book; the result was
1900 volumes.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

James J. Hill, the IA nous railroad
magnate, when recently asked of
his start in business, replied: Forty
years ago l came over the Canadian
frontier, a boy without money or
friends, and-weI, l Just started"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

of the young plants. Those were the
first that were sent out by the depart.
ment. Mrs. Tibbets planted them neal
the back door of her home at Riverside
The crop os sixteed seedIess oranges
was the first raised in North America
People who had been growing the ole
sorts of oranges Travelled hundreds o.
miles to Riverside to see them. Few
thought that the trees were other thar
freaks, and it was commonly supposed
that they would revert to the common
type of seeded oranges. But with tn,
succeeding year it was proved that the
navels were type in themselves. The
agricultural department had distributed
all its orange trees save the one paren'
plant that still remains, but the trees.
thus distributed had been lost sight of
Accordingly there was an enormous de-
man9 for buds from the two Tibbets
trees. It is tabled that the sale of buds
from the two trees in one year broughl
81, 500. In a short time, however, the
seedlings thus secured were also in buc
and it was soon possible to get plants
for starting groves. Since that time the
growth of the navel orange industry
has steadily increased until it has
reached its present great proportions
where oragnes are shipped east by the
train load, and are even sent to Eng
land.
Prof Saunders named the plant th
Bahia navel. on account of its success
at Riverside, where it was first grown
it came to be known for a while as tbs
Riverside navel. Rival California towns
however, would not suffer the industry
to be christened as an advertisement
for Riverside Accordingly they called
it the Washington navel orange, an6
by common consent it is still known
by that name
All trace of the other plants intro
duced in the original shipment from
Bahai has been lost, but the paren
tree surviving in the dollhouse here a
Washington is as vigorous as ever. L
promises to be a Mecca for fruitgrow-
ers for many years to come.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

For the first time in the history of
Atlanta every printing office in it, in
Guiding book, job and newspaper offices.
is a union shop.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

George +. Parker. president of tbs
Springfield Traction company aGd
ersswLile Republican candidate for
mayor of ST. Louis, wants to see
Springfield reach the $4,000 mark. AS
proof of his fidelity to the town, he
voluntarily raised the wages of the
motormen and conductors two and
half cents an hour to be effective
April l. This is said to be the first
instance of the pay of street railway
employees being raised without any
request from them.
Ex-Governor Francis is without a
doubt" in the opinion of the st. JOS
eph News, ''the most popular Demo-
crat in the state of Missouri, and there
are those who believe that when the
time comes to select a successor in
the United States senate to George
Graham Vest, the legislature will be
wise enough to honor the st. Louis
gentleman who filed the executive
chair so creditably from 1889 to 1898"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

SheSo he loved and lost?
He-Not he merely didn't get her.
She had no moneys Smart Set.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

There are now located IN the South.
686 cotton mills. There are seventeen
in Texas, seven in Kentucky and four
in Arkansas
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

King Edward has just conferred th'
Royal Red Cross upon Nine. de Ferri-
eres, superintendent of the French hos
pital at Johannesburg. This decoration
was instituted in 1883 as a recognition
of services rendered by women in con
nection with the nursing Of the sic@
and wounded Of the army and navy
Among the first upon whom it was be
slowed was Miss Nightingale. Counties!
Roberts is also entitled to wear it.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

The new star recently discovered IL
the heavens is several millions mile:
away. SO managers of electric Iighi
companies can sleep on. secure from
competition.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

A man seeking to recover lost prop
erty by going to law is like sheep
seeking shelter under a bramble bush.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

Miss Mary Goards, an attractive
young woman of 20, has recently served
as court interpreter before several New
York magistrates who have had cases
of foreigners tried before them. Miss
Goards is a Russian by birth, but has
been in this country most of her life.
She speaks Lithuanian. Italian, Rus
sian, English and several other Ian
guages, although she has never had
anything more than an elementary pub
lie school education.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

Well, multiply that by so, and add your
own age. From the total subtract 365.
and to that result add rs Now what
figure have you gOt?'
1890" replies the person addressed.
isn't that cOrrect?"
"Exactr' you exclaim. you are one
of the very few persons who have
managed it,
And you turn away to hide your smile
of satisfaction at having discovered
that your victim was born in February.
and that she is 80 years of age. You
have arrived at this result by separat-
ing the figures $50 in 2 february and
80 And you can do this with every
bodys age. Try it on your sweetheart
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

Chicago has the only municipal pawn
shop in the country. Paris and otnes
European cities have had them in op
Grafton for many years.
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