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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25
THE BLIZZARD is GENERAL.
Snow Falling and Adding to the Dis
comfort of the Poor.

New York.-The state Of New York
from north to south is covered with
snow and in many sections blizzard
weather prevails, adding to the dis
comfort occasioned by the shortage OF
coal. In New York City and vicinity
fine snow, the kind that usually stays,
was falling all day Saturday, to be
turned into slush in the crowded
streets. 1t provided good sleigh roads
in the parks. A sharp wind accom-
panied the snowfall. On the elevated
roads the electric trains were not run
regularly, but the steam trains and
the surface cars were able to handle
the traffic. The weather got colder
and the weather bureau held out no
comfort for the near future, the pre-
dictiens being gales, with rain, sleet
and snow.
The heaviest fall Of snow was re-
ported from Cooperstown, N. Y,
where twelve inches had fallen. Ten
inches covered the ground at Geneva
and in Ithaca and throughout Temp
kns county there was eight inches on
the level. The street car and steam
railway services in and around Buff
falo were interrupted. At Schenect-
ady there was blizzard weather and
barely enough coal to supply the
wants Of the people.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

The odds against a whist player
holding all the trumps are 15s. 75s. s9s
to 1.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

Toledo, GA severe storm visited
this city Saturday. About four inches
of snow fell and there was a high
wind. Traffic on the steam and cleo
trio lines were greatly impeded and
the local street car service was
blockaded for hours.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

An inventory of the state school
fund is just finished It shows that
the fund has, all told, $3.50, 900 in
bonds, the interest of which goes to
the support of the common schools of
the state.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

A story is being told about Gaylord
prize stingy man. He had three
sound teeth pulled by travelling den
fist who offered to extract them fol
nothing.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

Andrew Brasch, a wealthy farmer
living on Tennessee prairie, five miles
south of Galena, is dead from injuries
received while driving through the
woods on loose load of hay. He was
knocked from his seat by an overhang-
ing limb. He suffered conclusion of
the brain and never regained con-
seriousness.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

To prevent skating on ponds and
creeks in Leavenworth before the ice
Is thick enough the city council is
considering the appointment of an in
spector to MAKE a thorough examina-
ton and announce when the ice is
ready for skating.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

The dealers in Kansas horses have
shipped setveral carloads in the past
week from Abilene and several more
will go in the next few days. The
farmers are receiving more for their
horses than ever before, almost any
kind of good horse bringing $100
The Kansas horses are topping the
Chicago and ST. Louis markets regu-
1arly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

II. ]. Bone, attorney for Southwest
ern Kansas cattlemen, says they will
resist attempts to remove fences from
the government lands.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

William Barr OF Chautauqua county
has cherry tree which is bearing it's
second crop Of ripe fruit this year.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

The meeting, in Leavenworth, Of
group one Of the State Bankers asso-
citation OF Kansas, representing banks
OF Northeast Kansas, was largely at
tended, bankers being there from
nearly every important town in the
northeast part of the state.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25

An illustration of the efficiency OF
the postal department was given at
the statehouse recently. An old farm
er in Connecticut wanted some infor-
nation from the Kansas Agricultural
department He addressed his letter,
'The Horse Useful, Kansas" The
letter was delivered promptly to Sec
rotary Cobrun, where it properly be-
lOnped
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26
Athens ana the Goat.

Your genuine Athenian believes the
goat to be the proper milk producing
animal. and he regards the COW in this
the mare. The milkman takes his AMI
mails with him. jangling their bells and
sneezing. Gala" he shouts. a quick.
startling cry. with "g" whose gut
tural quality is unattainable by adult
learners and usually unperceived by
them. When customer comes to the
door. he strips the desired quantity in
to the proffered receptacle before her
vigilant eyes. selecting one of the goats
and paying no attention to the others,
who understand the business as well as
he does. Patiently they stand about.
GUS doorsteps. When their master
moves on. they arise and follow, more
faithful than dogs.
The obvious and well nigh overpow.
ering temptation to which the mllkman
is subjected affects him In Greece as In
America. In Greece 1t is taken for
granted that he cannot resist. and he Is
therefore obliged to take his animals
with him. But even thus he Is not
above suspicion, for they tell OF a rub
Der water bag carried inside the coat
and provided with a tube reaching to
the palm of the hand. Each time the
milkman closes his hand over the I'D
der he presses the bag between his arm
and his body .-Scrlbner's.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26
Your husbands Cravats.

To the woman who must buy her
husbands cravats want to say word
by way of advice-don't do it, says a
writer in the Haberdasher. If you
really must buy your husbands era
watts, do not try to get crayat so warm
that it will feel like a mustard plaster
on his chest. That might be good for
his bronchial tubes, but it might en-
danger his chances of ultimate redemp-
ton. 1t would perhaps stave off throat
trouble, but it would be apt to produce
family trouble, which is good deal
worse.
Let him pick out his own cravats,
and then he alone will be to blame for
them. He may not know much about
the harmony of colors, but he is not
likely, nevertheless, to pick out era
vat that will hurt the eyes of the spec
tators like a limelight at a champion
ship glove contest. He may not know
what he wants, but he knows what he
does not want, and ten to one, if you
have seen something ut the crava'
counter that you think is perfectly love
ly, that is it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26
Agreeable Parting.

"Well. major, goodby. Glad to have
met you"
Indeed, sub? Wherefore glad? 1t
must take little to make you glad, subj"
at does"
"Hah! Well put. But every one says
glad to have met you on leaving a
new made acquaintance, and none
means it,"
Mere figure of speech. To tell you
the exact truth would hurt your feel
ings. major. Only hypocrites can be
real nice TO people. AS a matter OF fact,
sir am sorry met you. and don't
care If we never meet again"
why hang IT, srh, you are getting
to he an honest gentleman! l should
like to meet you again, subj"
"Never, If happen to see you first
major Ta-ta,"
SO the raspy old soldier had some.
thing to think about.--New York Press
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26
Keen Accounts.

Keeping accounts, simple in form
plain, clear and easily understood
showing amounts due to or from 9th
ers, entering correctly the dates or
which money is paid out or received, is
the best plan to avoid disputes about
money matters and relieves the memo
~ of many unnecessary burdens. A
written record of money transaction
has greater legal value in case of con
troversy in court than any verbal state
ment.
The habit of keeping accounts In
duces economy in expenditure and in
spires the habit of saving up, besides
showing at oil times correct financia
condition. Housekeepers, mechanics
and all who handle money in the man
agcment of their personal affairs will
find it most profitable to form the hab
1t Of keeping accounts.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26


81 have just served sixteen subpnnas
on Uncle Sans weather man." said
process server at the county court
house the other day. land handed him
sixteen half dollars to legalize the COM
mand that he appear to give evidence
in that many cases and SIG to enforce
the direction that he bring the weather
records along.
do you know, he Is much In de-
mand as witness? There are hum
dreds of cases, especially in the acct
dent and negigenc actions in the city
court, in which it is necessary to prove
what was the state of the weather at
the time of the accident, and obvious
ly the man to give that information to
the jury is the observer of the local
weather station, for he has the records
made at the time to show indisputably
whether 1t was raining or whether the
sun was shining.
Sometimes this duty keeps the
weather man on the jump have
known him to give testimony in six or
eight cases in a day and to earn wilt
ness fees far In excess Of his salary
I presume these fees are his perqui-
sites, and know that the lump sum in
a year is handsome amount New
York Times
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26
Street Railway Franchises
10 ElOTTiSIOWQ,,

the essay to contain a discussion
of the question What should be
demanded of a street railway com
pany in compensation for the
privilege of running its cars
through the streets of the town :?
Each essay must bear a fictitious
signature and ten copies in galley
proof or clipping must be furnish
ed the Secretary for the use of the
Committee of Award.
BY order of the Executive Com
mittee,
NORMAN FOX,
Chairman.
G. F. WILSON,
Secretary.
Mo1ristown, N. j., Dec. 10, 1902
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26
THE GERMAN CAPITAL.
Berlin One OF the CIcanest and Best
Kept Cities In Europe.

Kept Cities In Europe.
According to consular reports, Ber-
lin, although a busy manufacturing
city, is one of the cleanest and best
kept In Europe The smokeless condi.
tion of the Berlin atmosphere is as
cribed to three facts--the preponderant
use Of coke and briquettes, which are
ractically smokeless; the sklllful sci
entific construction of boiler furnaces
and chimneys and, finally, the high
standard of skill that is taught and
enforced among firemen who stoke fur
naces with coal for steam and manu-
featuring purposes. Before a man can
assume such charge he must be
taught the theory and practice of eco
nomical, scientific firing, by which the
coal is distributed in such ii manner
and quantity over the CRATE surface as
to secure the most perfect combustion
of its volatile elements The S!iesiaD
coal used in Berlin in most large steam
plants and factories Is rich in bitumen,
but would rank below many of the
bituminous Goals of the United States,
and yet the long, dense, trailing clouds
of smoke from mill and factory chin
neys which are SO familiar a sight to
many American cities are rarely seen
In that section of Germany, where the
indiscriminate shoveling of raw btu
minous coal into the steam and other
furnaces is considered an ignorant and
wasteful proceeding.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26
NOTICE.
Plumbing, Timing, Steam and
Gas Fitting,

at their OFFICE, All Mill street, ITele.
phone 1884 l, or at the store of William
Fl. Hibler, South street, city.
The Senior member of this partner
ship, JOHN j. CARROLL, has been
plumbing in this City for twenty nine
years, and his reputation as a plumber
is too we'll known for. any further COM
ment. 253S
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26

out making any addition to the ex-
clamation.
"And then" continued the other,
"thlnk how sad it would be for us to
part from Lille never again to see
her trotting about the house. never to
hear her merry voice singing after we
return from work of an evening"
81 have been thinking Of all that for
q long time, my dear John"
at must be put an end to-"
"And your planY'
ut is very simple IL It pleases you.
shall marry her before she gets fond
of any one else"
"Zoundsw
The elder brother stood up. almost
| threatening
al also have thought Of that plan. |
was often going to speak about 1t, but
always held back"
"Why"
because / wanted to marry Lille
| myself"
The two brothers looked at one an
other far from amiably. Then the
younger said:
This Is the same as with the mother
! formerly. Do you remember. James?
gave her up to you. 1t is your turn
now to give Lille up to me. You are
| three years older than !"
(which nevertheless does not make
you very young"
A song was heard ascending from
below stairs. Lille was coming back
from her daily shopping.
Listen" said John rapidly. 1.-THE
child who has made our happiness up
to this must not be cause of disunion
between u.s. Let her choose which
one she likes best"
"All right" said the other. "That is
quite fair"
Lille entered, took the two men by
the neck. kissed them and, drawing a
chair between them. said:
II wish TO speak TO you seriously"
The face of the young girl looked
quite joyous.
IL wish to get married"
John and were Just speaking about
it."
"But you have not found me a hus-
band"
"As matter of fact we have. You
love us very much, sayY'
Like father and mother at once"
THAT is why we wish TO propose to
you to choose between US"
why chooseY
(which of us you will marry"
The young girl burst into a fit of
laughter SO joyous. SO prolonged. that
the two brothers remained quite dunn
founded Then, brushing the tears
from her eyelashes:
mo nonsense. my uncles l said
wanted to speak to you seriously. You
mustn't joke. | have sweetheart"
Neither replied.
"Now. you must not be angry. | am
so fond of him. and be is coming to-
morrow TO see y0i."
Like that! All at once! And US, LII
lie?"
"You will always be my two IA
Tiers "-Translated From the French
For Detroit News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26
THE speNDTHRIFr.

Lustrous and silken haired he swept ~
The blaellthorn silver loose and lept us
Into the eaAess lane; i@8l
Els pleasant minstrelsy began; A AZ
Torrents OF music riot ran s4sf5
Across the haze girt plain; nj
BE flung the fields new liveries
And green slashed doublets to the treeA
Then. stopping, from lily bowl
Drank Of the sweetness Of her soul
And madly sprang away. "a
In marshes and moist meadows he =
eundered the stately 6eurs-de-lis;
Kingcups in gilt array
BE tossed amid the tasseled reeds
Quiy'ring and bent with crystal beads
And ever in his thoughtless fight
About him danced in vestures bright
His minion butterflies.
His plumber was the rose hid dew,
Rose leaves the largesse that he threw
At random TO the skies.
Nor ceased he till he havoc made
Amid the jasmine's starry braid.
So was his rich inheritance
Ruined and lost. With swift advance
And stern in russell gown
Came autumn. Of the spendthriit youth
BY bitter bonds devoid of ruth,
Demanding summers crown.
Here from the corralled yews alone
The robins mourn his broken throne.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-12-26

The latest thing for ladies In the
stationery line is your name printed
in the corner Of your letter paper.
We have the very best qualities of
linens and bonds. Dan make envel-
opes to match any size or quality
paper you select.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-23
OBEDIENCE

The Christian Endeavor topic for Feb.
q is found in I. Samuel, XIV, 22-23: /.
Kings, iii, IA; Revelations xii, H. The
lesson is devoted to obedience It is the
duty Of every man to obey God Fear
God and keep His commandments This
is the whole duty of man" But we
should not only obey God, but our obe-
dience should be prompt and cheerful
Our obedience should be characterized
by the spirit of the psalmist when he
said, Il will run in the way of Thy com
mandments" and 81 will delight to do
Thy will. God not only loves cheerful
giving, but cheerful obedience.
The Bible teaches US what man is to
believe concerning God and what duty
God requires of man." How important
that we hear and heed the voice of con-
science! How important that we know
and understand the word Of God!
The topical references present two i'm
portant facts, both of which should in
spire US to obedience to the will of God.
l. The consequences of disobedienca
should inspire US to obedience Disobedi
ence means rejection by God and the
ruination of life. How awfully is this
illustrated in the case of Saul! No young
man ever faced life under more promis-
ing circumstances than Saul. the first
king of Israel. In physical appearance
in intellectual and political powers, in
spiritual attainment. Saul stood pre-em
inent among the men of his day. yet All
his hopes and prospects for life were
blasted in an hour One act of disobedi
ence led to his rejection of God and he
fell to the lowest depths and died by mis-
own hand! What a wrecked life and all
because of disobedience! And how MANY
modern Sauls are Wrecking their lives bv
eisobeying the laws of God. Talents, op-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-23
Common
Experience.

you have to continually trade on a ris-
ing market.
And she's awfully good. She doesn't
see now you can take any pleasure =
the admiration of a lot of men, or now
any woman could be so purbiind az Ho ~
prefer career to a husband and she
winds up her lomilies by quoting what
Tom said about flirting and ambitions
as If it were all of the law and the
prophets.
You get to avoiding the engaged girl
not that you like her less, but that
elf-preservation is the first law of ma
ture-but one day you hear Tom has been
her.
How jolly" you say, 'this is like old
tlmes, but she glares at you as if you
We're heartless heather. Presently a
telegraph boy arrives with a message.
Il know he is dead she walls; 81 felt
1t. l had a presentiment that / should
never see him again when he left me
on, Tom, Tom, why did I let you go?"
With trembling fingers you tear open
the envelope and read: docs nv little
birdie miss me?' It is too much. You
grab your muff and depart. The danger
ously insane and the awfulIy in love
ought to be kept in solitary confinement
until the paroxysm is past.
IEere's one thing about the engaged
girl that always strikes the observer
with pity, and that is that she can't bot
tie up some of her superfluous admira-
lion for Tom and her belief in his in
talhblllty to use in future years. It's
such a waste of good material for the
time always comes when she needs. it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-23
Dejgbbors...
THE GOOD NE1GHBoR.

THE GOOD NEIGHBOR.
We haven't any neighbors nowadays,
says well known writer. The good
neighbor" has moved away or gone into
'sassiety' and in her place is 1.-The wom-
an next door," Who are they? Good
gracioust don't ask me. How should l
know? All am certain of is that they
don't go to ''our church, l dare say
they're, all right and all that sort of
thing, but"
Especially in city life is the good
neighbor" missing: some how the good
neighbor', belongs not to advancement;
style and fashion are qualities unknown
to her environment. She belongs to fields
that have breathing space and to days
that have trouble, to nights when sick
ness hovers and to days when death sets
his dread seal on lips that we love. The
good neighbor'' never alters, never
changes. never fails u.s. We don't value
her until we lose her-until we let go her
hands and turn face to the maddening
crowd where the gentle clasp of her hon
est hand is not felt or known. She has
virtues-homely virtues that commend
themselves to us only in our need But
we have parted with her heedlessly,
thoughtlessly, and unknowingly Only
yesterday we knew she had gone lit
was when, sore distress, we ran next
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-23
Gbe Engaged Girl
ERE ARE A FEW EXCEPTIONS.

THERE ARE A FEW EXCEPTIONS.
Some unknown writer, who has suf-
fered long, says: Every woman has
either been engaged, or is engaged, or
wants to be engaged, and there is no one
whom l have met more numerously than
the engaged girl.
Now, an engagement ring is that
Which, put upon the finger of a girl
fills her with sentiment and Stiffness and
robS her of her reason.
She may have been the most level
headed person alive, but the minute she
becomes engaged, she takes leave of her
senses and never knows a rational mo-
ment until she is married and has the
first quarrel with her husband Then
she comes down to earth again and is
glad to throw herself upon the mercy of
the friends she has neglected.
While the misery lasts, no one will
deny that the engaged girl is a trying
person with whom to live. She goes
about in trance, IN which she picks
up the burnt matches and cigar stubs
of the adored one and adorns them
with ribbons and hangs them UP in her
room, and wakes her poor old father up
IN the middle of the night to ask him if
he thinks that Tom-a husky six-footer
could have gotten lost in the way home
cold street No-''
Then she has such an overweenins
sense OF her own Importance You NAV
nave known her as modest girl with
humble estimate of her abilities but
as soon as she is engaged. her ondnior
or herseif goes way up above par, and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-23
Puzzle Corner,

PRIZES-A copy Of a short story will
be sent to the first person to send in an
swers to all puzzles. The person who
sends in the best original puzzle this
week will receive a copy of a choice
story. The puzzle printed first in this
department will be considered the best,
concerning which opinions may differ.
All puzzles should be written on one
side of the paper Write name dis
tirctly.
ANSWERS to puzzles two weeks ago:
2S1-Buried countries: Peru, Asia, In
dia.
222.-An easy riddle: Pay
Answers from Sadie Anderson, SILVIA
ter, MINI.
PUZZLES to be answered March 9:
2S5.-Alphabetical quotations: Each
blank may be filed with a letter of the
alphabet.
How doth the little busy -"
In her - a merry look
my heart, my hearts over the -
THE farmer cried -, Dobbin!"
.',Ihe shining -" Ga river).
Forever and for"
He was mean old -
A'The old manse had stone -, COW
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-23
Curious Things In
Life and Literature.

June Is, 1885, between the French. under
Napoleon, and the English, under Wei
Answers by, Willis Burney, 24s Revere
street, st. Paul.
QUESTIONS to be answered March g:
351.-Who was George Seele?
an?" 49,
3031Who wrote the tales Of a Way
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-23
Is City Life
Too Artificial !?

door to ask-whatever the question was
it was never asked, for the cold eye that
met our own, and the cold voice that an
sWered our own, and the cold reserve
that met our honest endeavor to be
'neighborly'' quite froze out all chance
of neighborliness. Where the heart hui
man used to throb joyously now stands
the niche for ambition Where friend
ship once fed and Toasted, now acquaint-
anceship grows sparsely green. Where
we loved and cherished now we admire
and esteem, and alack-a-dayi Where We
trusted implicitly and well, we now
watch guardedly and with cause.
The reason for it all is not far to seek.
Artifciality has deadened truth. We
pretend all day long and are phantoms
to ourselves. The day of make believe
is with us and until we drop sham and
shallow pretence, the good neighbor'
has fled our presence, for the true and
the false may not commingle any more
than water and oil do. Some day-it
must be day of awakening-we'n real
ize that we have given up much in order
to gain very little. This thought will
cCme. on us in the day of trouble, in
that hour We're going to reach our empty
yearnlng hands to the old, tried good
neighbor." and hope in that hour Of af-
fiction she will be, there to hear.