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The Portland daily press., 1901-01-26

VVANTFD-A few adults TO occupy with a
w private family suite of two or three
beautifully furnished modern rooms, bath,
steam heat, electric lights and telephone. sat
isfartory board If desired. References given
and required. Address f. L.. Press Office.
The Portland daily press., 1901-01-26

DIANoS FOR SALE-Deeker s Son. $500;
Il New England. good as new. $1,000; Cor
ham, very fine tone, Sil5O0 Write for full par
ticuiars TO CRESSEY, JONES q ALLEN,
Portland. Me. 241
The Portland daily press., 1901-01-26

ITO I.ET-Choice lower rent. 297 Bracket ST.,
6 rooms In fine order. VIII be vacated this
week small family OF adults wanted, rent low.
GEO. 4. JUNKINS. go Middle srteet. near
Monument Square. ri
The Portland daily press., 1901-01-26
M. VI p.
Means Mountain View Park.

PIANOS FOR sALE-weber Square, carved
4 legs $500; Gorham. carved legs, four
round corners, $500; Gilbert. small size suit
able for small room. $1,000 Write for fun par
ticulars TO CRESSEY, JONES & ALLEN,
Portland, Maine. al
The Portland daily press., 1901-01-26

xVANTED-By Nova Scotia girl position
w for few weeks 10 DO homework or TO
help care for an invalid or aged persons refer
ences. Address J. NJ. C., Box 1851. 26l
The Portland daily press., 1901-01-26

ISOR LEAsE-The well lighted, very desir-
II able ground floor Office No. 9 Exchange
street. well situated for brokers compartments
Owner would 1T II up to umderlet sphce IN SIN
TO satisfy a good tenant. BENJAMIN SHAW
g. CO., 81 Exchange street. 49,
The Portland daily press., 1901-01-26

ITO LET.-Nice, large sunny front room. with
Il bath room privilege. None but respectable
parties need apply. "a FREE STREET, Port
and. lO-2
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
CHAINLEss BICYCLES.
That They Are Steadily Coming
Into More General Use.

With each succeeding season the
beveI gear chainless type of wheel
has found its popularity increasing,
until it is rapidly approaching
point where in the near future it
will divide honors with the chain
wheel. There is little question but
that were the price of both types the
same the chainless would come into
universal use within single season.
The cost of manufacture, however,
owing to the greater care and exc
pens+ve machinery employed in cut
ting the gears, necessitates higher
price being put upon the chainless
than upon the chain wheel, and in
consequence it holds its position to-
day as the product de luxe of the BIZ
cycle industry. The difference in
price, however, is by no means a
formidable one, and when the SUI
perior features of the type are con-
sidered is well worth paying. Cleanli-
ness, of course, is one of the great
desideratums, as is the lack of ne
cessity, in drop frame designs, for
complicated dress guards. Within the
past two years adjustment and ac-
curacy in gear cutting has been
brought so near the mark of perfec-
ton that backlash has been reduced
to the minimum, and the highest APP
plication of power with the least eff
fort, is assured. So substantial are
the gears themselves that the chances
for breakage are most remote, and
the attendant results of a sprocket
jumping chain are, of course, with
out the pale of possibility. The
writer knows of no instance in which
the rider of a chainless wheel has
gone back to a chain mount, but is
familiar with countless instances in
which chain wheel riders have for
ever abandoned their mounts for a
bevel gear wheel.-Cycling Gazette.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20

there is any place in the world where
young women do not need additional
protection it is in the city of Wash
ington; and the petitioners from New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago,
Cincinnati, St. Louis, San Francisco,
New Orleans and other great cities of
the country would do well to confine
their missionary work to their own
cities. There are many thousands of
women in the employment, of the gov
eminent in this city. This condition
has endured for years; and out of it
not dozen scandals have ever grown.
There is nothing in the history of the
policy of employing women in the
government departments that doesnot
rebound to the credit of American
women.
There are very few people living in
Christian countries to-day who obey
the injunction of the. Founder of their
religion to Judge not, that We be not
judged" That is the reason that good,
well-meaning people, who regard them
selves as apprOximating perfection,
take such an interest in making their
Ineighbors behave themselves. They
overlook John, the drunkard, in their
own community. IAey overlook Mary
the Magdalene in their own village.
They are so seif-satisfed with their
own lives, and with the workings Of
their churches and socie ties, that they
want to reach out and evangelize the
other poor fellows who are not so
righteous as themselves. Consequent
| y they want to reform the national
capital
In one of our churches recently
man from an Illinois farm. who was
| visiting relatives here, addressed a
prayer meeting, and expressed the
hnpe that "an of the members OF this
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20

doned the nest completely. A day or
two later something-boy or beast
had discovered the deserted nest and
stolen all four of the eggs.
If the yellow warbler builds another
nest and succeeds in raising its brood
where the cowbirds cannot find it even
the first catastrophe may be all for the
best. Even when only one cowbird's
egg is laid in nest and is Matched out
with three of four young warblers the
latter are likely to get the worst of it.
The young cowbird from the moment
it breaks the shell is bigger and greed
Ter than its foster brothers and sis
tiers. 1t will crowd them to the side
and insists on eating much more than
its share of the food which the yellow
warblers bring for their young.
Across the barbed wire and rail
fence from the warbler's nest is big
woods pasture. Close to the fence
grow thick clumps of hazel brush and
wild crab and plum trees. In some
places the thicket is so dense that a
man has hard work in forcing his way
through it. High up in these tangles,
six or eight feet from the ground, two
pairs of catbirds have built their
nests. They are apparently safe
from all other but bird enemies, for
the long, sharp thorns and the inter
lacing branches protect them from
attack from the ground.
Close tothe catbird's tangle and lying
on the ground in poor apology for a
nest were found a recently Matched
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20

is, if the authorities do not interfere,
and it does not seem likely that they
will.
Speaking of the plan, Murphy re-
Gently said: cit may seem fool
hardy thing to attempt, but for my
own part I shall not stop to think Of
the sway, the height or the danger.
I did nothing of the sort when fol-
lowing the train, and I came through
all right enough and without in
jury.
my work for the last few years
on a home trainer of the roller sort
enables me to steer a wheel without
minding the sway of the wires. On
that high-strung bridge, though it
sways fearfully. I feel that 1 will
be able to ride just as steadily as I
did back of the train. I will not be
nervous, for that would probably
mean certain death. My nerves
never trouble me on such a ride. I
have them under perfect self-control
at all times.
81 admit that this ride will tax me
great deal, but am eager to make
it, and am confident that it will go
through without a single jar or
break"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
NEW MOTOR BICYCLEl

Acety1ene gas or hydro-carbonp provides
the motive power and can be carried
in a suitable tank disposed to best
advantage, as on the seat mast, as
shown. The arrangement shown is
merely diagrammatic and the various
parts may be of any suitable con-
struction. The inventor also uses the
frame of the bicycle for storing the
gaseous fuel. By his construction,
the engine is so supported that it
projects equally on both sides of the
bicycle frame, thus not only securing
an even balance, but bringing all the
strains in the central plane of the
frame, so that there is no tendency to
twist or distort it, and a lighter frame
can therefore be used than would
otherwise be practicable.-Cycling
Gazette.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST

The German army includes more
than 10000 musicians.
Twenty-eight different kinds of
food are needed to feed the animals
in the Berlin zoo.
The average distance Travelled by
British locomotive engine drivers is
from 10000 to $4,000 miles every year.
There are about 10000 drivers in tHe
United Kingdom.
Emperor William has ordered all
German officers on leave in France,
in places where there is no garrison, to
report their arrival to the local civil
authorities within the first "A hours.
With a view of preventing dust
from accommodating on the line and
blowing into the carriages, the whole
of the London & Northwestern main
line from London to Carlisle is now
baIlasted with clean granite chip
pings in place of cinders.
The pig, as is well known, will de-
stroy and eat ratt1esnakes with i'm
punity. It is said that the poison is
not sufficiently introduced into the
circulation to cause death, owing to
the thick. adipose layer with which
the demonstrated pig IS covered.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20

mourning dove and a white egg from
which the little bird had not yet picked
its way. This nest was close to the
stalks of some close growing bushes
and would never have been discovered
if the old mother bird had not gotten
up and flown away in terrible fright
when the nest seeker was four or five
feet away.
With the instinct of most of the
ground-buiIding kind, the old bird
went off with an apparently broken
wing, and did her best to decoy danger
away from her helpless little ones.
It is a wonder how these little doves
escape the proving cats which hunt
in the meadows and woods all about,
but so far they have done finely, and
on Saturday last the elder of the two
was already able to use his wings in
a fight of three or four feet.
Out in an old telephone pole which
stands at the corner of two country
roads is regular birds fiat building.
About Is feet up from the ground, just
high enough up to be the despair of
small boys, is a small hole leading
down to circular chamber. Here
blue bird family has its home. Five
feet higher up is another and larger
hole. This is the front door to the
residence of red-headed woodpecker.
At present the young woodpeckers
are just getting ready to try their
wings, and at almost any time one of
the youngsters may be seen looking
out of the hole a what must seem
strange world. Still higher up, in the
third story of the fiat building, is an
other opening evidently made by a
flicker, who changed his mind and left
before he completed his work. There
is likely to be an English sparrow's
nest in that cavity before the summer
is over, for the "avian rats" are going
out into the country for the summer
in great numbers and bid fair soon to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
HIGH GEARS FOR WOMEN.
Veteran Rider Says They Are Re-
sPOnsib1e for the Tired Feeling
Experienced by Lady Riders.

Too much emphasis cannot be laid
on the fact that many women have
been discouraged from riding by the
use of a gear too high for them. Low
gears for women is sign that vet
eran century "plugger" says should
be in the window of every cycle shop.
He added:
''Not a day passes that in talking
about wheeling I do not hear some
woman remark that she doesn't ride
because she gets tired, and when 1 ask
her what gear she rides she tells me
so or ", or something like that; some
times 81 or SO. That tells the secret.
Women walk with shorter step than
men. They have shorter legs and less
muscle, yet they have been led along
until half of them are riding high
gears. It's a shame. They should
have low gear that will give them a
short, quick and easy stroke. In the
early eos, Sc, So and 63 gears were
thought high enough for women.
Now they use from 20 to 90. 1 think
&C to SIS is what they should use, even
considering that wheels run better"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20

ity in Washington which is absolutely
perfect, and without sin"
There was no reply to that innocent
sarcasm. But such things should not
occur in alleged Christian commun-
tiles. There is neither reason nor eX-
cuse for any community to boast of its
perfection, nor its approximation unto
perfection. The churches in this city
are no better than the churches in
other cities, towns and villages. And.
likewise, the churches and societies in
the various cities and communities OF
this republic are not Terfect. They
have neither right nor reason to sup
pose that the national capital is hot
bed of corruption; and that it needs
the guardianship of the reformers OF
innumerable communities, who might
better be engaged in casting the beams
out of their own eyes, before they look
for the mote in the eyes of our people
here in this ten-miles-square which is
the home of the federal government.
When the congress is not in session,
particularly, this is model city. The
people who are so anxious to regulate
the morals of the army posts and the
spiritual development of this city
might well employ their time and tai
ents in selecting model men to repre-
sent them in the national house OF
representatives. Tt is when the con-
gress is in session that the hotels
make their ''big money" as they call
it, by their all-night poker games with
liberal sales of champagne and cigars;
all of the most costly brands. It Ia
when the congress is in session that
the strange woman" described in
Holy Writ infests this city. It is
when the congress is In session that
the national capital needs the guard
ianship of the moral elements of the
nation. Therefore, let the people who
want to make this perfect city quit
sending here as their Representatives
men who worship themselves, instead
of worshiping their Creator; who wor-
ship their appetites and passions, well
knowing that they are safely screened
by newspaper men OF small caliber, to
whom they offer small official favors.
Thus is plain talk, of course; and it
is all true. But you must not imagine
that the people send nothing but
sporting men to the national house OF
representatives. Quite the contrary
4nSTe are oo9 nSHADerS Oh VndG DOuy'
Fully 900 of them are reputable and
worthy citizens. But the people who
want this to be a model city usually
elect so or more common scrubs every
two years, and they leaven the whole
lump with impurity and disrepute.
So don't allow yourselves to imagine
that this community needs national
guardianship. It don't. 1t is one OF
the best governed cities in the world.
1t is a credit to the republic, and to
every citizen of the republic. Petitions
for the betterment of the city are
valueless. Let the people send only
proper representatives to congress.
and the national capital will be all
right. SMITH d. Fry.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20

church are really followers Of the
Founder of our religion" He had
scarce taken his seat when . good
brother arose and said: 'sCriticising
the church is small business. The
church is all right; at any rate, this
chuneh is all right
The Illinois farmer listened to the
TRADE which was so Unexpectedly
hurled at him, and then arose, saying:
''It is well for ME that came here to-
night. I never before supposed that
there was perfect church. composed
of perfect men and women. Out west,
where I live, ali men and women 40.
knowledge that they are imperfect.
and they are praying for salvation.
will go back nome and tell the old
folks that there is a church commun-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
AUTOMOBILE GLASSES.
Kinds Used to Protect the Drivers
Eyes and Face When Going at
n High Speed.

To the various sorts of glasses de-
signed for drivers use have now been
added automobile glasses, especially
designed for the use of the automobile
driver. These are not worn in the
city, where, with the restrictions on
the speed of automobiles, they are not
needed; but they are worn in the coun-
try, where the automobiles. un-
shackles the machine and lets it go
at 40 or so miles an hour, more or less.
Going at that speed his eyes need pro-
lection, and this is afforded by the
automobile glasses.
These glasses are spectacles fitted
with very large shell-shaped or con-
vexed glasses, the size and the shape
giving large field of vision. Attached
to the frame is mask that projects
high enough above the glasses to cover
the forehead of the wearer, up Under
the peak of the cap, and that extends
below the glasses and out at the sides
along the spectacle bows, sufficiently
to cover the entire fall, front and
sides.
For winter wear, when some
warmth in it would-be desirable, the
mask is made of suede leather, lined
with silk; for summer use these
glasses are made with the mask of I'm.
lined silk, either of the gray suede
color or of black.
Automobile glasses are a French
notion, and originally all those sold
here were imported from France.
Now they are made here. Lots of
them are sold. They cost, according
to the material the mask is made of,
from $3.50 to SIS a pair.-N. Y. Sun.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
NOVEL MOTOR BICYCLE.
New York Man Invents "A PrOpeIIing
Device That Can Be Attached to
Any Wheel Frame.

Dickerson's motor bicycle is rad
ical departure from all previous
types, as the inventor attaches three
motor cylinders to any standard BIZ
cycle frame, clamping one cylinder
to each of the three main frame
tubes, all in the same vertical frame,
and connects their piston rods to a
common crank shaft and driving
sprocket, supported pivotally in the
center of the frame on spider whose
arms clamp respectively to the head,
the main top tube and the lower bar
of the frame. A chain from this
sprocket drives a small sprocket on
the left side of the bottom bracket.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
MIDAIR CYCLING FEAT.
Charles Murphy to Cross East River
Bridge over a Narrow Pathway
Two Feet Wide.

Charles Murphy, who is known
among professional cyclists as ''Mile-
a-minute" Murphy, is planning new
bicycle feat which will make his for
mer efforts, including his famous ride
of mile behind flying train in
O.: 81 As, seem tame.
He will ride a bicycle from New
York to Brooklyn over a narrow
pathway two feet wide, strung on
slender, swaying wires between the
piers of the new East river bridge.
On this unsteady pathway, high in
the air, the venturesome rider will
make flying trip. Murphy viii make
the passage as soon as the wires for
the pathway have been placed; that
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
TROUBLES OF BIRD
s HOUSEKEEPING 8
5ar 3 4 8 4 3 43

IF THE average small boy knew
what hard time birds have to rear
their families under the best condi-
lions he would hesitate to disturb
their nests, even if there was no law
to threaten him with punishment if
he does so.
There was a patient pair of robins,
for instance, who built their first nest
more than six weeks ago in low APP
pie tree in the orchard. Presently
there were two blue eggs in the nest.
Then game the first catastrophe. Next
morning the nest was empty. On the
ground under the tree lay one of the
eggs with two holes picked in its shell.
The other was entirely missing. That
was the work of big, sneal1ing blue
jay, if one may judge by the fact that
the same afternoon the robins were
seen chasing a scolding jay about the
orchard, and that the picture of the
jay has long been in the birds rogue
gallery.
Immediately after the destruction
of their eggs the robins set about
building a second nest on another
limb of the same tree. They got so
far as to have three blue eggs in this
prospective cradle when a red squirrel
came down one afternoon from the
oaks adjoining the orchard and made
a robins egg omelet of what he found
there.
Then a third nest was built, and on
that the old mother bird has now been
sitting for two weeks. Perhaps she
will succeed this time in rearing an in
teresting family, but there is an old
white cat with three kittens under the
hay NOW stairs, who spends hours
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
Seriously Bitten by a shad.

William Duncan, aged 20 years, a
Delaware river fisherman, was bitten
by shad and is now in the Delaware
hospital at Wilmington, Del, suffering
severely. While hauling in his net ten
days ago once of the fish. which was
particularly vicious, seized his hand
in it's mouth and inflicted painful in
jury. The fish had fine teeth, which
cut the flesh. The wound was regard
ed as trivial, but in a few days the
hand began to swell. Now it is in
famed and swollen much larger than
the usual size, and serious results are
feared. The injury is infected with
a poisonous matter and the outcome
may be blood poisoning.
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L.
her tail, in the tall orchard grass, and
who thinks that a dinner of young
robins would do her own children
much good.
There is a little yellow warbler who
built down in the pasture wood lot
and who had equally hard luck in diff
ferent and really peculiar way.
The yellow warbler's nest was in
itself an exquisite thing. 1t was built
near the top of some thick bushes,
about five feet from the ground. 1t
was lined with soft, silky gray MOSES
like the inside of a spun silver cup. 1t
was built so artfulIy that leaves and
branches hid it on all sides, and it took
hard work and good luck to find it
even after one knew it was there. It
was found the day it had been com
pleted, when the mother bird was
just ready to begin laying her eggs.
But there was another bird out that
day, sneaking through the bushes like
a pickpocket, looking for a chance to
leave one of its eggs in newly-built
nest. The sneak was a coward, which
never builds nest of its own, and dis
misses the whole subject of maternal
responsibility from its mind when it
has left an egg in some other birds
nest. One of these big brown and
black cowbirds found the yellow warb-
ler's dainty little nest, and laid one of
its big spotted eggs there. Then it
few back to the pasture again, and
got down on the ground among the
cattle, with others of its sneaking
kind.
Sometimes when yellow warbler
finds cowbird's egg in its nest it will
build false bottom over the egg and
proceed to make its nest above it on
the second floor. But this poor warb-
Ter got no such opportunity. This has
been cold, late spring, and the war
blers and other similar birds have
been slow in building. Also there were
many cowbirds about looking for
chance to saddle off the Matching and
rearing of their young on their bet
tiers, and before the yellow warbler
mother could get chance to lay one
of her own eggs in the nest she had
built it was actually filed almost to
overlooking with four big cowbird
eggs. This is believed to be the rec
ord in the way of cowbird greediness.
Often two cowbird eggs are found in
the same nest. but rarely if ever be-
fore have four been found.
The greed of the cowbird in thus
completely occupying the warbler's
nest brought its own punishment with
it. The warbler, disgus.ed, aban-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
be as big nuisance there as they are

be as big nuisance there as they are
now in the city and nearby suburbs.
There seem to be other birds be-
side the bluejay which sometimes eat
or at least destroy the eggs of their
fellows. Thus the other day a horri-
BILE suspicion was aroused in regard
to that symbol of innocence and gen
tleness, the robin redbreast. The rob-
in flew from a tree down into the grass
of a swamp meadow. There he disap-
peared for a moment. When he came
into sight again he was flying for dear
life with a red-winged blackbird close
behind it, shrieking stop thief at the
top of its voice. Of course, the robins
intentions may have been perfectly
honorable, but why should the red
wing be reused to such a sudden pitch
of fury at sight of him?-Chicago
Tribune.