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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Coburn vindfcates Kansas.

The pre-eminence of Kansas as an
agricultural state is indicated in
small pamphlet issued by Mr.. Coburn,
the secretary of the state department
of agriculture. Its intent is described
as being to refute the published state
ments that Kansas and Nebraska are
not a part of the corn belt, which in
cludes ''Iowa, Illinois and Missouri; +"
that crops are uncertain and the cen
trail parts of the two states are ''semi-
arid" The figures, taken from the
government reports, show that in the
last five years Kansas raised more
wheat than any other state, with Ne
braska fourth. The government esti-
mate for 1900 places Kansas first, with
a crop value estimated at $45, 1868, $50,
and Nebraska sixth. According to the
year book, Kansas ranks first as a
wheat state and Nebraska sixth; corn
and wheat states, Kansas first and Ne
braska fourth; corn states, Nebraska
third and Kansas fifth. A government
table giving the value of wheat and
corn raised in the Is leading states
for each inhabitant in 1900 placed Ne
braska first, with a per capita of $73.-
so, and Kansas second, with $66.51.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
The Fair Sex i'm PoIftica.

Where woman viii she will, and
if men wish to keep women out of the
pool of politics, says Ainslee's Maya
zine, they will do well to make haste
and give them all they ask along these
lines, for there is no other way to stay
their advance. Already the small edge
of the wedge has made its way far into
the oak of resistance. In Wyoming,
Colorado, Utah and Idaho women have
full suffrage, including a vote on petit
ton on the granting ofsaloon licenses.
In Delaware municipal suffrage exists
in several towns. In Kansas there is
full municipal suffrage. In Montana
women may vote on local issuance OF
bonds for public improvements. In
Pennsylvania women may vote on local
improvements By petitioning Cor OF
against them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
"oNLY A wAlF is DEAD"

While an autumn day was dying
waif stood at a gate,
Drench'd with rain and faint with hunger
All forlorn and desolate.
In her soft and trembling accents
She did entrance beg, in vain,
For thought seem'd ever burning
In her fevered childish brain.
Mother said that she was going
To home, far far away,
OF JOY and peace never ending,
And no sorrow night nor day.
And she said loving Saviour
Died, to wash away my sin,
Even torn. soiled and bleeding
He Will come to let me in"
but. ali me! He does rot hear me,
And my heart is aching so,
Please have pity. come and take me.
am sad, want to 60"
Then from far voice was calling.
A sweet voice forever BLESSED,
said: Come to me, my homeless child,
And l will give you rest"
Broken-hearted, bitter weeping.
For place to lay her head,
Need of earthly comfort over,
only waif,' twas said, lis dead"
Thus the tide is ever flowing
Onward to that happy shore,
Where the gates are always open,
BLESSED be God for evermore.
j. r. Watson, in Boston Budget.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Last Dollar Paid.

If there is any reward in the great
hereafter for honesty, q Jewell county
farmer and his wife ought to receive
it. Four years ago, while burning
their corn stubble, a whirlwind came
along and carried the flames to a
neighbours farm, destroying his barn
and several wheat and hay stacks.
The stubble owner and his wife have
worked hard four years in order to
pay the loss. During the time the
wife spent only So for clothing. The
last dollar of the loss was paid the
other day, and there was a neighbor-
hood observation-disclosures City Jour
nal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Bit of Japanese Folklore.

Almost all fruits and flowers have
their legend. One about the peach
comes from Japan and tells how a
poor, pious old couple were searching
for food by the roadside. The woman
found peach, which she would not
eat of. though starving, till she could
share it with her husband. He cut
it exactly in half, when an infant
leaped forth. 1t was one of the gods
who had. he said. accidentally fallen
out of the peach orchard of heaven
while playing. He told them to plant
the stone of the peach, and it brought
them happiness, friends and wealth.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09

marriage is known to have been a love
match, as Miss Mitchell had no for
tune whatever to offer as a dot. The
Rochefoucauld family is one of the old
est and proudest in France, and the
American duchess is an ornament to
the society of the Faubourg ST. Ger
main, to which she belongs.
In spite of her exalted social posi-
ton the young duchess has lost none
of the graciousness and ease of man.
ner which made her such favorite in
Washington society. This may be due
to the fact that her marriage is one
of the few international unions which
has proved perfectly happy. A Ger
man writer, his name cannot be re-
called just now, once said hauteur of
manner in a woman was the result of
unhappiness in her home life. Phil
osophers of a certain school may be
able to give convincing reasons for
the truth of this sweeping statement.
The ordinary mortal can only judge
from appearances, and if they count
for anything the Germans point GER
tainly is well taken. Domestic happi-
ness produces cheerfulness, and who
has ever seen a cheerful woman who
cared the snap of her finger for con-
ventional or traditional etiquette. Her
happiness would prevent her from
making a disagreeable show of her
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
AN AMERICAN DUCHESS.
senator AitcheII's Daughter Is an
Ornament to FaubOurg ST.
Germain Circles.

Among the numerous talented and
beautiful American girls to marry
noblemen within the last 20 years was
Miss Matte Mitchell, the daughter of
Senator Mitchell, or Oregon. Miss
Mitchell, now Duchess de la Roche
foucauld, was for several seasons the
most famous beauty of Washington.
She met Duke de la Rochefoucauld on
the Riviera one winter, and the mar
riage did not follow for several years,
though the two were engaged. This
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Arrested for wife Murder.

DR.. G. C. Calhoon was taken to Os-
wego from Mound Valley and lodged
in jail charged with the murder of
his wife, who died suddenly. Mrs.
Calhoon was dead and her body en-
balmed before the neighbors were
aware that she had been i'll. A broth
er of the dead woman arrived from
Wichita and ordered a post mortem,
which showed that Mrs. Calhoon met
a violent death. She was only IS
and had been married but a few
months. Her life was insured for
SIS, 900
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09

STARED HARD AL The CAN AS.
head of the house that had published
two of his books and rejected third.
Suddenly Stanford remembered why
he had sought her after office hours.
$50 your house has decided to re-
fuse "A Light in the Dark?'" he
queried.
Yes she replied with uncompro-
missing brevity.
''Why?'' he persisted. ''There is no
need to mince matters. You are the
head of the house; you must have a
reason and it may prove a valuable
side-light to me-
st am not literary critic.''
"Aye, but why did you refuse to put
out my work?"
mo money in it,
physiological problems may not.
be vastly interesting to the multitude,
but" he paused invitingly.
''Whatever is intrinsically good is a
sooner or later"
''Then you hold that my book is not
intrinsically good? I have been told
by eminent critics that it was a clever
piece of work.
Critics are literary men, not
physiognomists. You cannot make
correct demonstration from false
hypothesis" The unwillingness to
talk died from her eyes and she turned
to him with eager insistence
''You are a physiognomist and a
shrewd one. You understand the
meaning of every line in the human
face, but you have overlooked the I'M
derlying lines. You accept to the full
that saying of Emerson's: And the
man or woman who would have re-
manned sunny garden-fiower, with no
room for its roots and too much sun
shine for its head, by the falling of the
walls and the neglect of the gardener
is made the bantam of the Forest But
you have forgotten, as Emerson for
got, that be it ever so much bantam
there must still be some hint of the
sun-loving garden-fower at its heart.
Even while giving its branches in
stern protsctiop to the covering
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
started the Fire first.

At Larned the other night Schelrs
livery barn and its contents burned
with 25 horses. At the same time
the Santa Fe railroad safe was blown
to pieces with dynamite and the de-
pot badly wrecked. The robbers set
the livery stable on fire in order to
attract the crowd to another part of
town while they robbed the Santa Fe
depot safe. Many shots were ex-
changed between the robbers and the
citizeDs who rushed to the depot, but,
in the darkness and confusion, the
robbers escaped.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
One of Tvyain's Digs.

They tell a good many stories of
Mark Twain's doings while in Lon
don, but this is one of the best. One
day he went to consult well-known
West End dentist, noted for keeping
patients waiting a long time, and for
Indifference to the age of the maya
zines and papers left on the waiting
room table to beguile their tedium.
Mr.. Clemens was kept waiting for a
solid hour and when his turn came
his patience had given out. But he
contented himself, as he entered the
consulting room, with the caustic re-
mark: Il see, by your papers, that
there is prospect of war with the
Transvaall "-Golden Days.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Confidence tn Rev. Rice.

The Baptist church of Blue Rapids
unanimously adopted a resolution of
confidence in Rev. F. J. Rice, pastor
of the church and also of the church
at MarysviIle. The pastor was ex-
PEELED by a vote of the Marysville
charge because, it is claimed, he
omitted to pray for President Me-
Kinley on the Sunday following the
presidents death.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
End of 11-Year Lawsuit.

The jury in the case of I. D. and H.
W. Burdick VS.. the Carbonate In
vestment company, involving the
Carbonate, Kan, brought in a YER
dict for $4,000 damages for Burdiclzs.
The case has been in the courts for
IL years, this being the fourth YER
dict in favor of Burdicks.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
visited Accredited Schools.

The members of the state board of
education have just completed tour
of the accredited schools and colleges
of the state. There are just Is of
such schools in Kansas, and their
graduates are entitled to teach with
out taking an examination.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Young Boy for Perjury.

Charles Belts, the 13-year-old boy
tried and acquitted at Winfield last
summer for the murder of Farmer
Wiltberger, was arrested again last
week at Winterset, Ia, for perjury
committed at his trial.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Judge Thomson Dehes Gov. Stanley.

William Thomson, judge of the
Thirty-ifth judicial district, will con-
test the new biennial election law. He
will refuse to surrender the office to
R. c. Heiger, Gov. StanIey's appointee,
in January, which will compel Heiger
to institute quo warranto proceedings
in the supreme court.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Place for Frank McGrath.

Frank McGrath, of Beloit, one of
the organizers of the Farmers Al
lance and manager of John F. Will
let's campaign for governor in 1890,
is to get good place under Senator
Burton. He will be chief deputy I'M
der United States Marshal Crum, with
headquarters at Topeka.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
State Teachers Association.

The programme of the Kansas
Teachers association at Topeka De-
cember 25-27 includes an address of
welcome by Gov. Stanley. Col. T.
W. Parker, of the University of Chi
cago, will conduct a ground table"
on the course of study" DR.. Win
ship, of Boston, and DR.. Tomlins, of
New York, will lecture. Some of the
best educators in Kansas also have
places on the programme.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
BreaI<e On seHooI<ev,s FIabit.

The Abilene board of education is
taking strict measures with the bad
boys in town. All who viii not at
tend school are arrested. The meas
ure is breaking up the +AsoksyA
habit.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
FisI. to Be a Teacher.

Rev. D. NJ Fisk, the Topeka Congre.
gational preacher who is ION the
rack because of advanced thought"
sermons, will be given professorship
in Washburn college.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
NAPoLRoN's TEA SET.
After Changing Hands Many Times
1t Has Finally Found It's Way
to America.

which one would expect to find any
souvenirs of Napoleon, yet a notable
relic of this kind has just been found
there.
1t is tea set, fashioned of the IA
nous Sevres ware, which was manu-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
VIII Be Opened in December.

The new Baptist theological SEM
mary to be established at the Fow-
Ter mansion in Kansas City, Kan,
will be opened about December IS.
The building cost $4,000. Agents Cor
the seminary are now canvassing Ne
braska and Colorado with encour-
aging results.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Violated the Law.

State superintendent Nelson haa
found that some of the county super
intendents have been violating ths
state law by employing persons a.
teachers who failed to pass the exam.
ination.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Prizes Coz Kansas Wheat.

The Kansas commissioners to the
ST. Louis exposition have decided to
offer $21O in prizes for the best sam
pies of wheat grown in Kansas this
year. The prize wheat will be placed
in the Kansas exhibit at the ST. Louis
worlds fair in 1908.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09

Charles HinkIe, George ROUGH
Floyd South and Bradley Marker es.
capped from the Hiawatha jail the
other night. They sawed through
the steel ceiling and tin roof and went
to the ground on a rope.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Too Much advanced Thought.v

There is a division in the First Con-
gregationa1 church at Topeka because
the pastor, DIR. D. NJ. Fisk, is a be-
lever in advanced thought and be-
cause. as a result, many of the men,
bers are going to Rev. C. NJ. Sheldon's
church, the Central Congregational.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
sixth Crop OF A1faIfa.

o. S. Snow was preparing to har-
vest the sixth crop of alfalfa hay on
his farm near st. Paul. He had 20
acres of the crop, and it had already
brought him a profit of $43 acre be-
fore the sixth crop was cut.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Little Girl Burned to Death.

Bessie Giles, ten years old, who lives
on ex-senator Berry's farm near Blue
Rapids, was burned to death by a
lighted lamp falling from the table
and breaking, the oil splitting onto
the girls dress.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Fatal Quarrel over a Child.

James D. Duffy was shot at Film
wood by Mrs. E. D. Hotchlliss, of Great
Bend, and died one hour later. The
trouble was over child of the wo-
mans sister, who was the wife of
Duffy, but had separated from him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
County Must Pay It's share.

The attorney general holds that
county must pay for its portion of the
special improvement of streets. in
front of its courthouse or Jail or other
property.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
vaIuabIe GIFT from NJ. r. PIatt.

Mr.. PIatt, of Kansas City. Mo-, has
given the Kansas agricultural college
two purebred Galloway heifers. They
are descended from Black Prince of
Dramlanrig, the premier bull of mod
ern times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
New Bo5Iera at state Prison.

Four new boilers have been received
at the Kansas penitentiary. They
will be put in place at once and viii
make a much-needed addition to the
steam furnishing plant of the insti-
tuition.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Religious UpheavaI at winhe1d.

A religious upheava1 possesses Win
field and more than 700 persons have
professed conversion. A singing bril-
gade over 300 strong, composed of
college professors and students, high
school teachers and pupils, parades
the streets nights and sings revival
songs
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Educator Burned to Death.

J. D. Orr, principal of n ward school
in Kansas City, was fatally burned at
his home at Seventh street and Ann
avenue by the explosion of kerosene.
His home was at Hammond, Bourbon
county.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Woman Tries to Burn Jail

Conway Springs was greatly excited
oyer the attempts made by Mrs. Bert
Sparks to burn joint there. Her two
minor sons had been buying liquor
at the Joint
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09

~ All communications for this paper
must be accompanied by the name of the-
author; not necessarily for publication,
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
SWING names and dates, to have the let
tefs and figures plain and distinct
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
slowly Starving to Death.

Fl. L. Jones, the first representa-
tive in the legislature from Saline
county, is slowly dying at his country
home near Salina, being unable to
take any nourishment.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
water Plants Not Taxable.

At Wellington, District Judge Nc
Bride decided that municipal water
plants are not taxable under the laws
of Kansas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Monument 10 Ex-Gov. LevveIIing.

Wichita admirers of ex-Gov. L. D.
Lewelling have raised $3.50 for a mon
ument now being erected at Wichita
in his memory. 1t viii be unveiled
next month, on the anniversary of the
late ex-governor's ffty-sixth birthday.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
young wife Get. Damages.

In district court at Atchison Mrs.
Ella Nevins secured $500 damages
against her father-in-law, w. j. New
ms, for alternating the affections of
her husband.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Enough to Build 542 Houses.

The cost of the new buildings just
contracted for at Fort Leavenworth
is sufficient to have put up 542 houses
of an average cost of 1000.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Rurned to DeatI, WhiIe smoIsing.

While smoking her pipe Mrs. Mar
tina Stearns, of Willis, was burned to
death from fire which caught from
the pipe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Rut Not from Her

.swen, what on earth did he marry
for2''
For sympathy"
''And he didn't get even that?"
''Oh, yes, from his friends. "-Phils-
delphia Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-09
Garden Flower
or Bantam ~ ~
BY F. H. LANCASTER.

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Copyright. 1901, by Authors syndicste)
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-25

involves daily observations of their rise
and fall, extending over a number of
years, frequent measurements of their
flow by delicate Instruments. and care
full observations of diversions by dams
or power plants already in operation.
When applied to the whole country
this work becomes of such wide scope
as to be beyond the efforts of any
but the general government, and, as
a matter of fact, few of the states,
to say nothing of individuals, have
made any systematic effort to UNDER
take it.
The survey has taken up and deVel-
oped this work because it needed to be
done and no one was doing it, and
now has a large number of stations
scattered among many of the import
ant rivers of the country. on these
rivers information is being collected
which Will be absolutely necessary
To further developments of their pow-
or. Since the improvement in the trans
mission of electricity to long distances,
water power streams have assumed
a new value and will be more and more
sought as means of cheap power. This
gives TO the work of the survey i'm its
river gaugings and measurements an
even greater Importance and necessity
as furnishing Indispensable informa-
tion which can be obtained from no
other source.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-25
MEASURING WATER POWER.
One of the Works Performed by the
Geological Survey.

one of the departments of the work
of the United states Geological Survey
which has a particularly practical bear
ing on manufacturing and other husi-
ness interests is the accurate measure
ment of flow of the country's streams.
It's utility lies in the fact that II re-
duCes to a matter of actual knowledge
the amount of water passing through
them at all seasons of the year. which
important factor has probably been
the subject of more guess work than
any other one thing in this branch or
engineering. More especially Is this
true of the low water stages on which
really depend the effective worth OF
the streams, 50 that many mills and
factories which have been built in ex-
pectation of being operated entirely
by water power, have had to be fur
nished with auxiliary steam power to
help out in times of a deficient and un-
expectedly low water supply.
Perhaps this Is the chief reason, this
general distrust of the reliability of the
estimates of the flow, that the really
magnificent power possibilities OF
many streams, both in the eastern and
western mountain sections of the coun-
try, have not been more fully devel-
oped. The trouble has not been that
the streams cannot be relied upon to
furnish power but that the power
which can reasonably be expected of
them has been overcstimated. The
accurate gauging of streams requires
much time and skilled knowledge. 1t
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-25
HONESDALE.


Honcsdalc. Sept. 2i.-At the Demo-
cratic county convention, held here
yesterday, Eben II. Clark received the
nomination for county treasurer and
Dr. \. u. Dryden for coroner.
Maple city band dance will be held
at the armory Wednesday evening.
There will be balloon asccnsions at
the fair Wednesday and Thursday. on
Thursday there will be race between
the horses of w. l.. Ferguson and Col.
col Coo Durland. The horses will be
driven by their owners.
Honesdale Opera house Wednesday,
Sept. -. Hoyt's latest. "A Day and \
Night" a comedy of the rolliCking fun
making ORDER.
The Republican county convention is
being held in the court house today
Fifty-two entries have been made for
the races at the fair this week.
The attraction at the Opera house
Thursday evening will be "rhc House
that Jack Built''-a pleasurable COM
cdy; another of Hoyt's successes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel I<atz have been
enjoying the sea brcczes at Atlantic
City.
Miss Mary Carroll has accepted sit
uation in the store of Connolly 4 Wal
lace, Scranton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seth W. Powell and
daughter, Miss Mary, are spending a
few weeks in Erie, Pa, with w. b.
Powell.
The musical history club will hold
their first meeting October - with
Miss Edith +. Torrey in charge. Sub
jcct "Chopin'