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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18
Fire AT TromD,s.

Sunday afternoon the cry of fire
and the changing OF the fire bell
brought our people out to find that
the rear of Y. H. Tromp's building
was on fire. The Rescue Hose Com
pany were soon at their posts and be-
fore a great while two streams of
water were playing upon the ire,
which, although had quite a start,
was soon distinguished. The rear
portion which was used as a residence
by Mr.. Tromp, was pretty badly in
jured, but the book store and news
stand which occupied the front por-
ton, was damaged but little by the
fire. The water pressure was quite
good and the fire laddieS proved that
they know all about how to handle
fire if they have the water. Several
of the boys among whom were, Karl
Smith, Billy Smith and Clyde Bick-
ford distinguished themselves for
auckland very effective action in
getting at the location OF the ire.
The boys all fought heroically and by
SO doing doubtless saved the entire
north side, for with the wind in the
south. No one can tell where the fire
would have stopped Mr.. Tromp's
loss is pretty well covered by Insurance
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18
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LOCAL MENTION :
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Fireman'S ball tomorrow night.

Fireman. ball tomorrow night.
Christmas one week from today.
: Figure with us when in need OF
stationery.
This is the coolest December we
have had for years.
a nice time is expected at the fire
mems ball tomorrow night.
n. B. Mccormick left this morning
for Chicago ona business trip.
Big line of horse blankets to select
from at Bridegroom & Marsh S.
Gerritt Boland, of Luctor, was doing
business in the county seat on Tues
day.
Mrs. j. NJ. Tadlock and son, Marion,
left this morning for Topeka on a
visit.
Try the Semi-Weekly HERALD and
the daily Kansas City World one year
only s..
DR.. Haggard is now prepared to test
the eyes and fit glasses with accuracy.
Hours l to 3 p. m.
Mrs. Frank Haines is reported to be
dangerously i'll. 1t is the hopes of
her many friends that she will soon
recover.
Now is a good time to pay up your
arrears on the HERALD and start out
the new year with the good graces of
the editor.
Excellent music and the best of ar
engagements are being secured for the
WOodman FOresters ball on New
Years eve Dec. 81.
If you have poultry to sell, don't
fail to see J. d. Couch, east side Of the
square in this city. He can beat
them all on prices.
Skating is good now and the young
folks along with the small boys and
girls are improving the opportunity
these evenings.
tuesday S capital announced that
President Roosevelt would appoint
Col. Metcalf pension agent to take the
place of Cyrus Leland.
Pay up and read the Kansas City
Daily World and the Semi Weekly
HERALD one year for only $500. The
World is the stockmen's official paper.
CARD Or THANks:-AIr. and Mrs
Jacob Nipps and family desire to ex-
press their sincere thanks to the
friends who SO kindly assisted them
during the illness death and burial of
Grandma Bird.
Don Carlos s. Son, formerly of this
city, but now located at Mangum, Ok,
had their law office destroyed by fire
on December I. Loss about $500
Their friends here will regret to here
OF their misfortune.
LAX Nipps. who has been at Belle
vile the past two months, doctoring
for cancer, came home the latter part
OF last week to present at the funeral
of his grandmother. Link thinks
that he is receiving much benefit from
the doctor at Belleville, and it is the
earnest desire of his many friends of
this city that he viii be cured.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18
De G. II, 1901
DEAR OLD ST. s'NICK. -

My and I have been shopping al
Phi l. psburg i. looking around for Chr stma4
Presents and down the street we look
g Bridegroom Marsh's window and
the lov1iest things you think of. We
and and nearly estaey
the beautiful China, Salad Di shes, Cake Plates,
Fruit Dishes, Cups and Saueers, Lamps, Smoking
Sets, Statuary, Silverware, and oh cant
think Of all the beautiful things did
said, everything useful
we'll ornamental.
Besides these things there We're the 1ov11-
est Cups and Saucers, Plates, Mugs, Toy Carpet
Sweepers and Sad Irons for chi 1dren, and
Pocket Knives and Skates for the boys and
men. Surely Santa Claus you get some thing
for everyone the fami 1y Bridegroom
MAJ sh s. They have the incest Glassware
saw, 4 piece from Ace to 81 so, Water and
Berry Sets from soc 50. IS They all
awful nj and then they have Sc and use
loaded with beautiful preeents-lots of
them worth 35c, 4oc and Soc other places.
So, Santa be and Bridegroom Marsh
before you buy papa's mamas' my present.
Your obedient LITTLE Girl.
NElI1E Goonc1RF
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18
Church Festival.

On December 81, comm encing at L
M, the ladies of the Methodist church
of the Phillipsburg circuit will give a
chicken-pie festival. Proceeds to go
for the church work. General adnis-
sion % cents; children Is cents. All
are invited to come and help in this
benevolent enterprise. Cone one
come all. By Order OF Committee.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18

n. 2. Forsberg a former friend of
the HkRALD, who lives near Logan,
was in town Saturday. Mr.. Forsberg
takes an active Interest in educational
matters. He has a plan which he
thinks i better than the consoIida-
tion of school districts, and that is to
put all the schools in the towns and
have a public boarding house. Par
ents coul then take their children to
school on Monday morning and return
them home Friday evening. Mr..
Forsberg thinks the school age should
be raised to seven years. His plans
may have some Objectionable features
but he argues quite eloquentlg in its
favor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18
Ten year farm loans made. Low
rate. Annual interest.
J. o. LOWE & SON.
A Coed Square Meal

is what you want when you are hun
CRY. Joe Lees Restaurant is the place
to get it. Also keep a complete stock
Of fine confectionery. cigars, tobac-
Goes, etc.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18
Railroad Time Cards-Rock Island,
PhiIE:psbuTg, Kansas.
I'm Effect September IS. 19Of.)
Gen trail Time.)

Central Time.)
EAST.
No. 10-Fast Mail 80. .............I2:55 a III
No. 1S-LOca1 Passenger. 80. TIPS M
Ma. Fast Freight ........... Has m
70. 5+-Loca1 Freight e. IS As III
WEST.
no. 5-Fasseuger ..... .-..............9.2 20 p NJ
No 17-Loca1 Passenger go. 900 p III
No. 97-Fast Freight...... -. ........12:30 p m
No. 5S-Loca1 Freight ......... -..7:45 p m
Local Passenger No. II stops at Phinipsburg.
Passengers are not carried on trains No. 90
and 81 without special permit from superinten-
dent.
All daily except Local Freig1ts-
which tr1IoI 311llys
Through tourist sleeper on No every Fri
day night for San Francisco.
Passengers are carried on all Local Freights.
Local Freight No. 81 leaves Ph111ipsburg for
Good1and at 200 a M.
For further information address Ransom
Stephens, Rock Island Agent, Phi1lipsburg,
Kansas-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18
NIPPS & SON,
Blacksmithinc.

All kinds Of Blacl1smithingc Horseshoeing n
Speciality II you have q difficult job, Nipps &
Son can do Il right All new work polished
with emery free OF charge.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18

Call on J. Q. Lowe& Son for a
long time farm loan. Low rate.
Annual interest.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18

The Kansas City Daily World and
the Semi Weekly AKRALp for $500.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-18
VOC. BISSELL,
Abstracts and Leans.

The only bsOutely reliable set ot Abstract
Books in the comfy E0"cy loaned on real
estate. No red tape. Office in basement of the
Phillips County Bank
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

be changed. War will disappear. The
frontier walls between the nations will
be thrown down. Life will be i'm
measurably easier because the neces-
stiles will be so cheap as to be within
the reach of everyone. with very little
labor. The thing of the earth will alb
solutely cease. Men will be no longer
chained as now, to one country, or city,
and to almost ceaseless drudgery, but
will be free of all the world, coming
and going almost at their own sweet
will, in New York to-day, and to-mor-
row en- route for China or Central At
RIGA, with scarce a moments anxiety
as to the provision for their physical
wants.
The man, whose daily thought is all
about the extraordinary designs. is not
a mere fantastic dreamer, spinning idle
fancies for his pleasure. He is Mar
celin Berthelot. a man of eminent
scientific reputation and achievement.
whose practical application of his own
discoveries would have made him rich
beyond the dreams of avarice, if he
had not preferred. in his own words to
leave money making to traders" and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

course, a long process of chemical
transformation; from the mineral to
the grass, from the grass to the ami
NAL that eats the grass, and of which
we eat in turn; II Is a slow change from
stone or metal or vegetable in the bone
and blood tissue of the human being.
When in the laboratories, and after
ward in the factories, the same con-
crete result can be achieved cheaply.
that no one need ever hunger, no one
work hard for the necessities of life.
The possibility of this little chemical
food is an established fact; there re-
mains only to find material process to
cheaper the "synthesis" Science. Mr..
Berthelot secures, will certainly do for
foods what it has already done for
oils.
An obvious corollary of the artificial
production of food will be the elmina
ton of all needless bulk; a great deal
Of chemically sufficient nourishment
will be compressed into very small
doses" so that a soldier or explorer
may perhaps carry a days ration IN
his waistcoast pocket.
The economic changes that will be
brought about by this system are enor-
nous. Farming will entirely disap-
pear, as there will be no further need
of meats or cereals or vegetables. Cor
ners in wheat" will become a thing of
the past; all the immense international
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

Brig. Gen. Irwin Mcdowell and Brig.
Gen. G.. T. Beauregard, as the latter
had dropped the P. from his name.
Mention is also made that the Union
Bull Run was called First Manassas
by the Confederates. This double NAM
ing applies likewise to other battle
fields. The Confederate Olustee, Fla,
is call Ocean Pond by some Union writ
ers, and by some Confederates "Olustee
or Silver Lake" But this paragraph
is interrupted by a letter from Col. G.
N. Saussy who objects to the use of
Bull Run in my last letter, claiming
that it should be First Manassas. the
Confederate name. 1 will discuss this
point later on in this letter.
A bad "out" occurred in my last
letter which made me say Il did go,
when it should have been that 81 did
not co. on the field with Gen. Sher-
mans brigade, consequently l was not
in the bloody fight of that brigade
with Gen. Bartow's command.
l sometimes complain that printers on
daily papers persist in mixing Stuart
and Steuart with Stewart, but the same
errors occur in Gen. J. f. Johnston's
war book, where reference is made to
Gen. ]. F.. b. Stewart, intead of
Stuart. Many of the histories pub
lished are quite as careless in regard
to names. And now comes
Mrs. Abner c. Cassidy of ST. Louis, in
an interview for the New York World,
and claims to be the Founder" of the
Daughters of the Confederacy." My
impression is that Mrs. M. c. Goodlett
of Tennessee was awarded that honor
after a very close contest with Mrs. L.
H. Raines of Savannah. 1t is
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

scientist in the apartment in the quiet
courts Of the institute where, with
Madame Berthelot, he passes his fruit
full days among his books and instru
ments I asked for precise details. us
it true that you are going to revolution
ize all the ways of life, turn the world
upside down, and make of us new be-
ings. living under hitherto unheard of
conditions?" He laughed and said re-
fectively: why, yes, it is quite true
in the sense that l suppose you have
in mind Whether l myself will do it
or not ! cannot tell; when it may be
fairly started, l cannot tell. But
science will certainly do all that NJ.
Lemaitre has attributed to me and
more. II is in the natural line Of the
work I am engaged in; it is the certain,
inevitable end of that work. And l
do not think it will be long in
coming"
The explanation of NJ. Berthelot's
hopes, as / had it from his own lips,
is in the main lines very simple. The
form taken by any civilization, both
in family life and national divisions,
depends, he points out, upon two prin-
cipal factors-on means of feeding and
means of motion. A man works for a
certain wage and under certain condi-
lions because it is only so that he can
earn the daily bread for himself and
his family. The separate existence of
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

nations, the maintenance of frontier
lines, depends upon the limitation Of
the means of transport and of mo-
ton. The day when food is almost
as cheap as air will see the emancipa-
tion of the individual and OF the fam
lily. The day when there are other
ways of penetrating into a country than
that afforded by roads and rails will
see the definite abolition of frontier
lines; the defense of territory by ar
mics will become impossible when an
enemy may make entry into it from a
thousand points at once. That, every
one will have guessed. is to be ac-
complished by the perfection of aerial
navigation, in which M. Berthelot is
a firm believer, on principle. We shall
have to return to that point inciden-
tally later on; but the question of the
food supply is the really startling
novelty of NJ. Berthelot's visions of
our future state.
All his scientific triumphs have been
based on his one main principle of the
"synthesis." that is the reconciliation
of the elements discovered in bodies
existing naturally. Analysis shows,
for example, that a given natural oil
consists of certain elements present in
certain proportions. The problem he
has set himself-not by any means so
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

commerce in grains will cease utterly
with all the hands it employed and all
the ships that were made for il. Land
viii become literally dirt" cheap; in
the main it will be deserted, the whole
class of agricultural workers of every
degree having no further employment
Some part of the land may be still pre-
served for pleasure purposes, but the
vast bulk will most likely be left to
return to the state of nature. Who
knows but that wild beasts may begin
again to roam over the prairies and
lurk in the dense forests as in the days
before our present civilization? Men
will live in cities for the most part:
but in cities very different from those
of our days. Space will be infinitely
cheaper, since no agricultural demand
will exist to send the price of territory
up. No such thing as a slum will be
found in the world, 1t will be just as
cheap to have homes set amid spacious
avenues and broad, green places. That
fact alone will tend to eradicate dis
ease. When the frontiers are abolished
by the perfection of the dirigible
balloon and by the fact that people
will be able to voyage air-free to any
country, and to live almost food-free
anywhere, there will be no more need
of armies or navies. Consequently tax
alton will be reduced to a minimum in
the universal peace; it will be the be-
ginning of the long dreamed of broth
erhood of man. in happy conditions,
when life will be infinitely easier and
a great many of our bitterest passions.
national and social. will be quietly laid
away. Such will be the change that
those who live to see it will look back
upon our present benighted condition
with much the same pity that we feel
for our ancestor, the man of the stone
age. -aa%<
When that day comes, If it does come,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

easy as IL may appear to unscientifc
minds--is to reconstruct that oil by the
fusion of the elements of which ii is.
in its natural state. composed. In the
case of oil he has done it-so effect
lively. as we have seen, that the cost
of fabrication of the artificial product
is very much less than the cost of col
lection and transport from the springs.
Now he is working toward a similar
"synthesis" in the case of the elements
of human nourishment. Already ne
assures me. the most essential part of
the problem has been solved. Science
could. from this moment keep "A hui
man being alive and In fun enjoyment
of health without having recourse 20 n
single natural article OF food-to meat,
eggs. vegetables. cereals or fruits. The
nourishing or purely hygienic constit-
uents of these things have been repro
duced by chemical processes from the
mineral, gaseous or liquid elements"
Of which all things are made. To put
the matter tersely, a dinner or "A long
series of sufficient dinners can be made
In test tube. But, though NJ. Ber-
thelot has In this achieved an aston
ishn theoretical triumph. the question
Of the cost deprivos his results Of im-
mediate practical value. The dinner IN
the test tube would figure out az a
price calculated Co make "a millionaire
finger his bank book uneaslly The
practical triumph. and the world roV-
olutlon. VIII date from tho day, sure
ga come tM bertholnt Haysl when the
process of chemical HyntheHiF has been
reduced 90 the minimum 81 price II
ia "a question ~ nndlnR methods ~ eN-
traction and ryntheHiH The raw ma
terinl De- absolutely without cost, ready
20 hand ln che stones ana coil ~ ihe
earth. in every object mat can ho de
composed into a. chemical siemcnts
LFrfy meal Wa eat represents, ~
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

give himself up wholly to unlocking the
mysteries of nature.
One fine day he fell on the secret of
smokeless powder. That days work
in the Paris laboratory annulled half
the literature of practical warfare. by
changing the most important Condi-
lions under which battles are fought.
Another day M. Berthelot found out
the way, 10 reproduce artihcially and
very cheaply the oil for Illuminating
purposes which formerly had to be coll
lected and transported at great cost
from the natural springs In America
and in Russia. There were millions in
this flnd-though NJ. Bertholot did not
gain cent from II. True to his prin-
ciple, he published his discovery. and
other men have built palaces out OF
the work of his brain. Many other
money-saving devices on similar lines
have resulted from his researches. and
n has been calculated that VI he had
kept patents for his wonderful chemi-
cal processes, he would long ago have
been one OF the richest men ii the
world. So eminent has been his posi-
ton In the world Of affairs that In n
critical juncture OF n few years ago.
he though not a professed politician.
was called from his laboratory to serve
France as Minister Of Foreign Affairs
when BY the way. his uncOmpromis-
ihE sense or right very nearly plunged
the country into. war with England.
Bearing these facts in mind one H.
forced 90 admit that M berthelOt is
smphnueally b man 90 be- taken Heri-
oufly ln any serious statement De may
make however Wild ~ may seem 20 the
uninitafed
shortly after ths famous French
writer jules L~msttre. made = brilliant
speech az fhf Academic NFnuraiHe
faiiinH attention 49, ~. ferfhrlofn eur
pTising plans, called ~ the great
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
HISTORIANS ARE CARELESS ABOUT
SPELLING OF NAMES.

Who Suggested the Winnie Davis
MemOriaIf-Are There Two Wild
Ows of Presidents who Are Ac-
corded Right to Send Letters Free
of POstagef-A Fact That Justifies
Negative Auswer-Mrs. Jefferson
Davis IIlness-SOme Graduates OF
the Virginia Military Institute.
Gen. Miles Position Respecting
the Canteen Criticised-Reputa
lions Which Some Generals En-
jOyed-SOme of the WRITERS Err
rOrs Pointed Out in Kindly
spirit-Other Matters of Special
Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, July ~
I see that the This Date in History
July 81" ready plate matter for last
Sunday, refers to General Irving Nc
Dowell" and General P. G. T. Beau
rard" as commanding the contending
armies at Bull Run. This should be
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28
M. BERTHEL0T'S MILLENNIUM.
CHEMICALLY MADE FOOD AND
AERIAL NAVIGATION.

In His Laboratory He Has Already
Succeeded in Producing Food by
Chemical Combination of EIe-
ments, in Test Tubes; Soon as
This Can he Done I'm Bulk, Food
Can he Obtained So Nearly with
out Cost That Labor Will he Re
duced to Minimum, Farming
viii Become Lost Art, and LRnd
Revert to Its Primal Conditions.
RatiOns VIII Also BE GrentIy Com
pressed, One Can Take "A Weeks
supply in Ones Pocket.
Copyright. 1901 by stephen Austin.)
Paris, July Within the tranquil
precincts of the venerable Institute de
France on the Paris Quays there lives
and works an old man who is planning
the greatest revolution the world has
ever seen. If he succeeds in doing what
he believes he can do, the whole social
and political system of the world will
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28

Prof. Nichols OF Dartmouth Col
lego. lately tested at the Yerkes OBJ
setvatory his newly-invented radiome-
ter for determining the heat of the
stars. lie found that the heat from
Arcturus, the bright first magnitude
star now overhead about s p. m, IS
about equal to that from n candle at
distance OF six miles. with no air to
absorb it's rays. The heat from Vega
nnd from the planet Saturn was found
o. he about one-half as much as from
Arct;rus, while that from Jupiter -
twice as mech. Prof. Nichols device
is. perhaps, the most sensitive ever
invented.