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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
FREE WEDDINGS IN LONDON
Old Custom of Easter Monday which
Has Been Discontinued
in Pact.

Free weddings, such as formerly
took place every Easter Monday at st.
James church, Bethel Green road, are
who reside in the parish. A year or
two ago this RED Church." as it was
called, was besieged on that day by
hundreds of couples, chiefly belonging
to the coster class, from all parts of
the east end, who took advantage of
the one occasion on which they could
be married without having to pay the
ministers fee. The custom original ed
through the then vicar of the parish
becoming disquieted at the decreasing
number of maria ges-in his district and
offering to forego his fees on this day
annually as an inducement to tardy
couples who hesitiated, says the Lon
don Telegraph. The appeal was not
without effect, for the first year 80 free
weddings took place; on the second
anniversary more than double that
number, and in succeeding years the
marriages performed became so nu-
merous that couples from every parish
in the east end used to make the Red
church" their objective on Easter Mon
day, and they had to be married in
patches, and at last restrictive meas
ures had to be taken. Now, the offer
is only available to inhabitants Of The
parish, who, however, show a disap-
pointing lack of enthusiasm to take
advantage of it. The costers are to-
day much more "class" than they used
tn he
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ment is more complicated, and in
places very unlike that which his pro-
genitors are supposed to have exhib.
tied. One of the most remarka BILE
points of difference is the neck and
upper chest, where the slant is up
ward, not downward. Mr.. Kidd at
tributes this change to the use of
clothing.
The upward tendency on the Shout
ders, part of the back and the back
side of the upper arm may be due to
an attitude which primeval man oc-
cupied. No doubt he often leaned
against tree or rock while sitting,
and his slow slipping would comb the
hair up. Other changes have probably
been wrought by sleeping on ones
side. Mr.. Kidd concludes as follows:
''The lower half and most of the
forearm are equally simian and SIM
pie. The only exception on the fore
arm is the reversed slope on the exc
tensor surface, due, I submit, to the
resultant of two forces, a downward
and forward one, acting when this
part OF the limb rests on any object,
as it frequently does. This point does
not distinguish man much from apes
and monkeys, and in all of these
groups similar mechanical forces oper-
ate to produce it, including in the lat
ter the effect of tropical rain, in their
arboreal lives. . This popularity is
found very marked in the carnivores,
such as short haired dogs, and IN
gulates, such as certain antelopes,
which lie with their foreIimbs extend
ed in front of them in the very attitude
calculated to produce this slope.
ION the lower limbs the direction is
simple and primitive, as that on the
upper part of the body is complicated.
The only area worth noting is the
upper third of the back of the thigh,
where the effect of the sitting attitude
is clearly able to produce the direction
Indicated"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
TELEPHONE IN SURGERY.
Used to Locate Bullets or other Metal
lie Objects Imbe dded In HUI
man Bodies.

According to London medical jour
nal, several London hospital surgeons
are now using the telephone, whenever
they have occasion to probe for bull
let's, or other metallic objects en-
bedded in the body of a person. The
receiver of the telephone is placed on
the head of the operator, and the pa
tient is placed in the usual manner,
in contact with plate; the general
medium employed being wet sponge
or some paper saturated with a sa-
line solution, which is spread over the
plate The latter is connected with a
telephone by wire, and the probe after
it has been introduced into the body
vibrates a. soon as the foreign metal
lie substance comes in contact with it.
The probe is also connected with the
telephone by wire, and thus no such
blunder is possible as sometimes hap
pens when an ordinary battery is used.
When a telephone is used in this way,
the plate acts as one pole and the probe
as the other. Needles, bullets, grains
of shot. and pieces of steel and copper
Iave been easily located by use of this
simple method. The only instances
when the telephone does not work sat-
isfactorily are when the objects to be
located are of the same metal as the
probe. French and German surgeons
have been following these experiments
in London. with the intention of intro
ducing the same method in the hos
pitfalls of Berlin and Paris.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
Arc You In the Kingdomg

Are you in Gods kingdom? It is
well sometimes to put the question
to ourselves. What are we here for,
and what are we doing with our
selves? Are you living for yourself,
self-centered?-th you are in the
kingdom of seIfishness. Are you liv-
ing, on the whole, to make other
people happy?-then you are living
in what I call the kingdom of good
nature. Are you living to make the
world better?-then you are living
in the world of philanthropy. Are
you seeking to do Christ's work in
Cbrist's way2-then you are in the
kingdom of Christ. 1t cannot be very
difficult for you to find out. It is
not a question what you did; it is
not a question of whether you were
baptized; it is not a question wheth-
er you belong to a church; it is the
question whether you are seeking
the welfare of your fenow-men
wherever you are, and all in your
avocations under the inspiration and
the leadership of Christ as your Mas
ter.-Lyman Abbott.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Forty thousand Syrians reside in the
United States.
Germany produced 2,25O,OO tons of
beet sugar last year out of $3.50, 600
grown in the whole world.
There are about 100000 French
Canadians in America, to-xit: 1,4O4,-
974 in Canada and 1,22s. 600 in the United
States.
The cost of telephone service for
the New York fire department this
year will be 81, 800. for the department
of parks, S2,354, and for the street
cleaning department, $s,26O.
Lake Huron holds the record among
lakes of containing over 5000 islands.
The area of Lake Huron is 20. 400 square
miles. It's largest island is over !. 600
miles square. Tough Erne, in Ireland.
has 800 islands.
John D. Rockefeller has just pur-
chased another estate in the Adiron-
dacks, where his holdings now amount
to 10000 acres. the whole having cost
him $500, 900. He owns all OF Meacham
Lake, a mountain resort Of great pop
ularity. His latest purchase was 5000
acres, all the residents of which have
been notified to leave at once.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
The Young
SubaHern' Ride
BY Fred 9Nyron Colby.

NHEN the terrible Sepoy war,
wv which our fathers and mothers
remember so well, broke out in
India, Sir Henry Barnard, who
commanded the English forces at
Meerut, desired to send a message
to Gen. Arson, at Delhi. The distance
was 40 miles, through a country alive
with the rebels, and it was believed to
be all mans life was worth to under
take the journey.
However, there were applicants
enough for the undertaking, and it
only remained for Sir Henry to select
his messenger. Surveying the young
officers with a keen eye, he picked out
a slight, slender fellow, who>had a
firm mouth and an eye like falcons
and who wore the chevrons of lieu
tenant. Calling him to his side, the
commandant asked:
do you think you can convey mis-
sive to Gen. Arson, and carry it
through safely?"
81 can try, SIR replied the young
lieutenant, with an air that meant he
should do it or die in the attempt.
''It is very important that Gen. An
son should have this by early morning.
Have you a good horse?''
GAS good as there is in the army"
''Then be ready to start in half an
hour, for there is a long ride before
you"
Five minutes before the half hour
had expired the young subaltern stood
in the presence of his commanding
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
rhe TMo Excentfone.

"You mustn't think that all the
good men in the world are in your
churches said non-church-goer
the other day. "There are men OUT
side the pale of any church who are
blessings to their race, and whose
lives make for righteousness" 81
have no doubt of it," agreed,
promptly; ''but think you will own
that the man outside of the church
whose life makes for righteousness
is the exception; and the man inside
the church whose life makes against
righteousness is also an exception"
1 had to take silence for consent;
my companion seemed to be wrest-
ling with my statistics, and let him
alone, hoping that his honesty would
show him which of these companies
it would be better to take chances
with.-Wellspring.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
SOCIAL WASP AND HER PREY.
How the Wary Insect Catches Un-
suspecting object and Stores
1t Away.

The wasp does not sting her prey.
Her habit is to seize the squirming
caterpillar in her fore legs, pass it
back several times between her man.
bibles until it is quite limp and dead,
and then to roll it deftly into a ball
and hold it between the fore legs while
she flies to the nest. There the opera
ton is continued three or four min
utes longer until the malaxation is
complete, says Popular Science Month
". In distributing the food the mass
is held firmly against. the. ventral side
of the thorax by means of the femora
of the first pair of legs and a bit part
" pinched off with the mandibIes.
Next, the wasp inserts her head into
a cell, lightly touches the larvae with
her antennae, causing it to stir and
open its mouth, and then pushes the
bit of food into the mouth with the
tarsaI joints of the fore legs. With
the remainder the wasp now passes
to another cell. and the process is re-
peated until the ball of food is used up.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
GOV. stanley. state Dinner.

In his invitation to dine with the
president at the executive mansion
on the occasion of the presidents
visit in Topeka, Sunday, September
%, Gov. Stanley included Senator w.
A. Harris and Senator J. R. Burton,
Congressman Charles F. Scott,
Charles Curtis, J. D. Bowersock, a.
NJ. Jackson, J. NJ. Miller, w. A. Calder
head, W. A. Reeder and Chester 7.
Long; George A. Clarke, secretary OF
state; George E. Cole, auditor of
state; Frank E. Grimes, treasurer of
state; Attorney General A. A. GODDARD;
Frank Nelson, superintendent of
schools; National Committeeman D.
w. Mulvane and State Chairman Nor
ton Albaugh. All are republicans ex-
cept Senator Harris and Congressman
Jackson, who will not be able to be
present, Senator Harris will be on
the Atlantic ocean and Congressman
Jackson will be belfast with a bro
ken leg. Senator Burton, who, like
Senator Harris, will be on the sea
but coming from the opposite side OF
the world, will also be absent. This
will leave three vacant chairs for the
governor to fill later.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
POISON IN FLOWERS.
OdOrs of Many Familiar Blossoms Are
Dangerous to Health When In
hailed CareIeSsIy.

The majority of people think that
the tulip has no smell, and this is true
of a great number of the fashionable,
variegated kinds. The old self-coI-
ored sorts, however-particula
those of deep crimson hue-have a
powerful odor which is dangerous
when inhaled. The odor is of saffron
flavor and affects many people in a
very peculiar manner. If breathed
deeply, it has the effect of producing
ight-headednesS, which continues for
some time, causing the sufferer to do
and say all manner of remarkable and
ridiculous things. It's influence often
lasts for an hour or two, and is fol-
lowed by depression.
Another common flower, whose odor
has evil properties is the poppy. This
is doubtless due to the quantity of
opium which the blossom contains.
Numbers of especially
young ladies of highly strung tempera-
ments-complain of the drowsy SEN
Sation which comes after walking
through a field of these flowers, and
afterward of violent headaches and q
Discrimination to move about. In Asia.
Minor, where the poppy is grown in
vast quantities for the purpose of ex-
tracing the drug, tourists are fire.
quently incapacitated for many hours
after inspecting poppy plantation,
and two cases of death among Eng
fish tourists were traced to the same
cause last year.
All flowers grown from bulbs are
dangerous in rooms where there is i'll
ness. Although punches of flowers are
invariably taken as presents to pa
tients, such blooms S hyacinths, lilies
of-the-valley, tube roses, and even DAFT
fodils and narcissus, should be care
fully avoided. The perfume is as
dangerous to a person in critical
state of health as a dose of morphia
would be, without possessing the ben
efits which that drug sometimes con-
fers.
Cases of poisoning through eating
the berries of the beIIadonna, or dead
ly nightshade, are all too frequent;
but there is the greatest danger in
even handling this attractive plant. 1t
is very common practice in the coun-
try among parties of young people to
pick the berries and flick them at each
other with fingers for sport. Then,
when heated by the fun and fusilade,
the face is sometimes mopped with a
handkerchief upon which fingers sticky
with the juice of the berries have been
wiped. Should but just little of this
get into one of the eyes a fearful ca
lamity may ensue. Iritis, or paralysis
of the iris of the eye, which invariably
results in blindness, has been known
to come on, and against this dread dis
ease medical skill has, as yet, proved
unavailing. This, too, in the face of
the paradoxical fact that the treat
ment with tincture of beIladonna is
the one usually adopted in the elemen-
tary stages of iritis.-Chicag Jour
nal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
CASTLES m THE AIR.

off you want to know what man Is. ex-
anime his castles in the air-'-Spectator.)
Where is my castle in the air,
My true self's home and palace fair?
Its towers built in land of cloud,
With dream-wrought pageantry endowed,
A place of moon-erchanted air
With glistening spires and turrets, where
With magic spell the orbe6 queen
Weaves warp and Woof- of shade and sheen,
And brimming stars spill from the sky
The Jewels of their galaxy?
Or it's place of moss-grown walls
Where sad sweet memory recalls
The deeds of other spacious days
Or upland cot in some far dale?
Or where in deep sequestered vale
A twilight bower, meath forest trees
Drowsy with hum of honey-beess
Tempts men to sleep and dream away
The dangerous length of summer day?
Or it's among the thronging feet
OF croWding muItitudes, the street
ReSounding loud to drum and fife,
The trumpets blare, the changing strife.
And peoples voice acclaiming far
Some mighty victor from the war?
All, no ah, MOI my true home there,
Where my glad spirit. debonair
Can range. from vain temptations free,
To list diViner melody;
The songs Of life and love and truth,
OF childs romance, of mAnhood's ruth,
OF quiet joys and simple ways,
The dear wife's smile, the good friend 5
praise:
The laugh Of ills by Fortune sent,
The scorn of cynic argument
How wiles expe dent may redress
The balance of the More and Less,
Forgetful that to dare and fail
Is better than to win and quail.
Nay, this my chiefest aim and mark
TO be myself: then days may dark,
My souls at peace, my heavens all light,
Affair or near, at noon, at night,
Hap then what will, or veal or woe,
Conscience will crown me, and I, so,
King of myself, shall everywhere
Be my own home and palace fair.
Charles w. Stubs. in The Spectator.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
SLOPE ~ HUMAN HAIR.
II Leads a scie.tIfc Man to Indulge
An Some Decidedly Instructive
SpecuIatiOns.

Except on the palm of the aand, the
soles of the feet and the knuckles, the
whole human body is covered with 3
light growth of hair. On the head the
hair grows about half an inch a month,
and elsewhere more slowly. If indi-
vidual hairs be carefully observed, it
will be seen that they do not grow out
straight, except at the eyeids. but
have perceptible slant. The slant
is in one direction in one place and
in another elsewhere. Scientific men
AIRED isposed to regard the hirsute
growth as an inheritance from the
simian ancestors of the human race,
although it is much diminished in
abundance and length. In knowledge
Walter Kidd calls attention to another
difference. The slant is not the same.
He, therefore, considers the possible
causes of this change.
On monkeys body, Mr.. Kidd as
sumes, the hair points downward on
the breast, back and legs. On the
arms it points from wrist and shout
der to the elbow. On man the arrange
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27

when the latter are unprepared and
sting them to death.
A spider after being stung once has
generally sufficient strength to hide
in a tuft of grass, but this shelter
proves only of temporary service, for
the pitiless fly soon returns and-com-
pletes its work by stinging the helpless
victim twice in the lower part of the
thoraX.
Darwin studied these curious in
sects for some time in the suburbs of
Rio Janeiro and French naturalists
have recently been making further in
vestigations in the same direction
Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
The States Bond Account.

1t is shown by State Treasurer
Grimes report that the receipts dur
ing the past fiscal year amounted to
So, 595, 35O.19, while the disbursements
for all purposes aggregated $3,545,-
6O9.33. The state holds in its bond ac-
count the following: Permanent
school fund. $6,814, $500; agricultur-
al college fund, $476, 065.87; universe
tvs permanent fund, Sal, 867.5O; nor
NAL school fund, $2O4, 4O4.19; Stor-
mont library fund, STATS. There are
also fraudulent bonds held amounting
to SIS, 900. The state itself has out
standing $685. in bonds, all held
in either the permanent school or
state university fund. These bonds
will come due as follows: Deem
Der 1, 1908, $4,000; July 1, 1909, $685.
900; July /, 1902, $15O,OO0; July /,
19O3,- $211, 900; January I, 1904, $780,
mn
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officer, ready to start on his danger
GUS mission.
"The lives of thousands may depend
on your success" said the commander.
"Be vigilant and be swift"
The young officer saluted, mounted
his horse and galloped away, while the
gallant old Briton wiped tear from
his sunburned cheeks as he thought
of the brave messenger who had rid
den, as he feared, to his death.
1t was, indeed, a dangerous under
taking, and the young lieutenant
knew it, but he was prepared to meet
the danger. All that summer night he
rode on through the darkness, lighted
only by the stars, avoiding as far as
possible the travelled highway, for
there the danger lay in encountering
bodies of Sepoys that might be on the
watch. On and on he rode through the
Jungle paths lined with banyans, man
goes and cocoanuts, by watercourses
that glinmered dark and silent under
the stars, past fields of maize and cot
ton. Villages and hamlets he avoided,
for he could afford to take no risks.
Two-thirds of the distance had been
passed, and he was nearing Delhi. Once
he had halted to let his foaming steed
drink at a stream, and he had heard
far off the roar of a leopard and the
bowls of jackals, but human beings he
had not seen nor heard, and he hoped
to reach the British lines about Delhi
without interference.
But suddenly. as his horse dashed
round sharp turn of the road, he saw
gaIloping toward him half dozen
horsemen. He had no time to turn
about, for they were within 80 yards
of him, and by the early dawn light
he could distinguish the familiar uni
form of silvery gray faced with scarlet
and the white sun helmets denoting
that they were Sepoy. sowars, or ma
tive cavalry. There was but one thing
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
Some GIarine inaccuracies.

The Topeka Mail and Breeze reg
listers complaint against the geogra-
ply supplied to the public schools.
In it Topeka is made city of only
$4,000: the great wheat-producing
section of Kansas is located in Kear-
ney county where, as matter of
fact, they do not raise enough wheat
on the average to fatten small flock
of blackbirds; the great smelters
are located at Argentine and wire
plant at Lawrence, whereas both
statements are false; the greatest
water power of Kansas is said to be
at Arkansas City, when as a matter
of fact the mills there have to de-
pend on steam half the year because
there is not enough water coming
down the Arkansas river good share
of the time to turn a tanning mill,
but the book says not a word about
the really great water powers of
Lawrence and Blue Rapids.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
INSECTS KILL SPIDERS.
Daring Little Flies Which Invade the
Haunts of Their Enemies and
Destroy Them.

Flies are the natural prey of spiders,
yet, strange to say, there are some
flies which prey on spiders. These
daring little insects do not differ much
from ordinary flies.
They are hymenoptera, and pepsis
ornata is typical insect of this kind.
They usually come upon the spiders
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
New style of Steamship.

The new type of steamship of Herr
]. Brohan, of Hamburg, is equipped
with four propellers. The vessel is
f1at-bottomed, with a short keel in
the center and two false keels for
ward, and one propeller is placed be-
tween the forward keeIs, another
Just before the rudder, and the two
others at the stern. It is claimed
that such a steamer 800 feet long
would make the trip from Havre to
New York in four DAYS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
caldwe1rs Enemies Anxious.

Charges have been preferred
against Postmaster E. F.. Caldwell,
of Lawrence, with the object of GUST
ing him CaldweIl's four-year term
expired last July and. Congressman
Bowersock was delaying the appoint
ment of his successor until after the
November election.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27

When strong Is Inaugurated.

Arrangements are progressing for
the formal Inauguration of DR.. Frank
Strong as chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Kansas October 16, II and IS.
The first day will be a general re-
ception with concert at night. The
second will include the formal exer-
cises with an installation address
by Arthur T. Hadley, president Of
Yale. Scott Hopkins will preside.
There will also be short address
on behalf of the UNCONVENTIONAL
schools of the state by Prof. Swens-
son, of Bethany college. Prof. Muir
lin, of Baker university, also win
speak. October IL there will be a
banquet in the new museum build
ing. Among the college presidents
from whom acceptanees have been
received in addition to those men
toned above are Prof. Jesse, of
Missouri university; Prof. Andrews,
of Nebraska university, and possibly
Prof. Angel, of Michigan.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
LARGEST Pendulum Known.

The largest pendulum ever made is
that with which Messrs. Berbet and
Flammarion have been demonstrating
the earth's rotation in Paris. \ lead
bali of Sc pounds is attached to fine
piano wire about 210 feet long. The
oscillation lasts 16 seconds.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-27
Sues Tor Girl wife.

Edgar Hutchinson and Melvia Alb
shear, the latter only IA, eloped from
Sumner county to Arkansas City and
were married. The girls guardian,
NJ Harvey, took the girl to his home
and will not let Hutchinson see her
and the latter has brought habeas
corpus proceedings to obtain posses
sion of his wife