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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
His First II
We ak Fish
"MICKEY FINN"

THE sloop yacht Sibyl lay Juggling
at her anchor rope in the middle
of the FishkiIl channel, in Jamaica
Bay. June had lain her smiling bene-
diction over all the land and sea. Gases
of grass in the black water waved in
the pulsing of the ebbing tide. A
strong breeze from the ocean had
kicked up fretful sea. The wind was
warning with the tide. The wide wa
ter reaches were alive with white caps.
The spume from the little waves swept
the deck of the Sibyl. It was bap-
tism by sprinkling. The sun was rest
ing his chin on the edge of New Jer-
sey, throwing a fiery pathway up the
lifting tide, and painting the horizon
with reckless prodigality of color.
The angler stood in the cockpit with
a ten-ounce rod in his hand. 1t was
fashioned with wood from the jun
giles of Calcutta. A master workman
had welded 100 pieces of this resilient
wood together with glue such as Guam
arius used in his sobbing violin. The
rod was further strengthened at in
tervals with ibres of crimson silk
The guides were lined with smooth
glass and the tip with amber. When
at home the rod reposed in crossword
box carpeted with blue velvet. No
woman can ever take the place in an
anglers heart occupied by his best
fishing rod. That rod had skittered
pork rind for pickerel in the wiIds of
Pennsylvania. 1t had jerked the gym
nastic bluefish from his environment
of blue water. 1t had thrown a thin
shadow over the smiling ripples of the
NeYersink at the foot of Slide noun
tain. 1t had conjured leaping grilse
from the tide waters of the Miramichi,
and still its spring was arrogant, its
fiber unimpaired.
The reel was a mechanical gem of
solid silver, cunningly devised, like a
JurgensOn watch, its pivOts running
on Jewels, its barrel multiplied four
times with each revolution of the
handle. The lightest touch would set
it whirling as if in sheer delight of it's
perfect bearings. For any one but a
high priest of the art of angling to
touch this reel were a proclamation.
The line was of 12-thread linen of a
special weave, with tensile strength
of ten pounds to each of the 800 care
fully paraffined feet. The cost of the
line only was sufficient to pay a
months rent in a tenement house. The
double leader was five feet in length,
of carefully selected silk-woven gut,
and the hook of blued steel, keen and
cruel. It measured three-quarters OF
an inch from shank to barb, and
would have held anything from a
shark to rubber boot filed with sand
in swirling East river racing tide
way.
''The wind is rising, SIR" said the
guide. "We'l have to reef her goin
, in. Shall I take up the anchor?"
"Not YETI replied the angler. 81
have been out here all the afternoon
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30

and not sign have seen of our old
friend, Cynoscion regalia. have
chummed him with two quarts of
shrimp, 1 have tempted him with yards
of blood worms at five cents per yard.
and yet he has not responded to my
wooing. shall try one more cast,
and then we will pull up the anchor
and sail for home.''
Three of the largest shrimp left in
the bait box he carefully impaled on
the hook. Then he dumped the re-
manning shrimp into the bubble and
snow on pancake griddle. The line
ran slowly out, carried by the tide.
The twilight was deepening, the breeze
freshening. Sea lettuce, weeds and
grass fioated down and lodged against
the thrObbing anchor rope. The Sibyl
waved and plunged. Still the line ran
| on and on until $50 feet of water had
| been covered.
Suddenly the line lifted over the in
| tervening burrows o. water. The
point of the rod went up in the air.
The line frightened until it sang tune
in the stiffening breeze, and little
beads of water dropped from it into
the bay. Cynoscion RECALLS had come.
The angler braced his feet, for the
Sibyl was as uneasy as yearling colt.
The fish had struck the hook in the
white-plumed apex of a wave, which
the departing sun had dyed a vivid
crimson. In the red glare he shone
like refined gold. Urged by the resili-
ent rod and persuasive revolutions of
the silver windlass, the fish came near
er and nearer to the boat, in narrow
ing areas of a circle, crossing and re-
crossing the radiant waterway made
by the setting sun; the line cutting a
little jet of spray before its tense
fiber.
Only once did Cyroscion reveal his
silvern symmetry as he darted through
one water furrow into another in the
effort to rid himself of that inexorab BILE
line. Frightened at the sight of the
boat, the fish dove and tore Is feet OF
line from the willing reel and the I'M
willing angler. But the hook kept his
mouth open, and he was slowly drown
ing. One despairing attempt he made
to rush under the boat, but the strong
wrist turned him, the landing net
slipped under him, and he was laid
tenderly upon the rounded, wave
swept free-board of the Sybil. Rum
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
canada,s Game Fields.

To one who knows what the vast
sohtudes of northern Canada really
mean the dread of game extermina-
ton does seem rather uncalledfor. The
latest census of Labrador gives it a
population of one man to every 35
square miles. This can hardly be called
an announcement crowding. There are
almost as many persons in single
East side New York block as there is
in the whole of Labrador. Why should
game become extinct in this region
must confess can see no reason why
the caribou and the bear and the other
animals should not live out their lives
just as they have always done. The
number killed by man must surely be
quite insignificant. The. same condi-
tions obtain in northern Ontario, the
greater part of the northwest terri
tories, and very large part of Brit
ish Columbia. The date is far dis
tant when there will not be sufficient
game and to spare for the sportsman
who is content to take the bitter with
the sweet and to leave behind the lux
uriousness of the fashionable resort.
Outing.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
STILL NEEDS THE WORKERS.

The world still needs the workers, though
it may sometimes forget
That 1t owes the weary laborers an ever
lasting debt;
Without the busy toilers gold would cease
at once to buy
The things that please the palate or are
grateful to the eye;
The world still needs the people who must
labor cay by day,
But the world keeps on forgetting, in its
easy-going way.
The lady in her satins, who is beautiful
to see,
Forgets that those who labor lend her all
her witchery;
Without the busy toilers all the millions
she commands
Would not procure a scented piece of soap
to wash her hands;
without the busy people who must labor
all their days
All her money wouldn't even buy new laces
for her stays.
The magnate who looks proudly on his mil
lion-dollar yacht
Forgets to give the caFlenter yfrgle kind
ly thought;
He ceases to remember as he sips his SPLEEN
did wine
That without the ones who labor there
would be no fruitful vine;
lie forgets that all his money wouldn't
clean the crumbs away
II there were no luckless people who must
labor day by day.
The ones whose names are famous, who are
high and great and proud,
Forget that pride would die without the
busy, weary crowd;
Without the ones who labor none could hope
for greatness here,
Without the busy toilers all we prize would
disappear.
Oh the world still needs the people who
must toll through all their days,
But the world is so forgetful in its easy
going ways.
S. E. Kiser. in Chicago Record Herald
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30

ming the hook of a pocket scales
through the blight of the smell, the
angler raised the fish.
Three pounds ten ounces" said
he, land with a belly rounded like
fifteenth century prior's."
Then he lay Cynoscion RECALLS
back upon the deck, a living jewel
bathed in brine. His sides were sill
very, with irregular dark, undulat-
ing stripes. His eye looked like a
spot of jet in circle of amber. He
lay perfectly still except for faint
motion of his fanlike rudder. AS
the light touched his armor the
FURNISHED scales took on iridescent,
kaleidoscope hues.
''Do you think he Is dead?" asked
the angler.
mo, sir; he is only wind-blow.n."
The angler leaned over the side
of the boat and placed the fish gem
thy in the water. He lay upon his
side, supine, inert. But the waves
handled him and the juvenescence of
| old ocean triclled through his Grim.
son gills. His body began to tilt un-
til it stood nearly on an even keel.
His dOrsal fin rose like a sail on the
far horizon. Cynoscion RECALLS was
| alive again. One firt of his mighty
tail, one heave of his virile, fexu-
Gus body, and he was gone, leaving
the angler wet with the spray of
his parting salute.
Two hours later the angler went
down an elevated railway staircase,
near Central Park West. At the foot
of the stairway a carriage was watt
ing. In it sat a woman wearing an
anxious look.
ooh, john" she said. 81 am so
! pleased to see that you have come
back in time. Really, I was getting
frightened"
"Wen, my dear, 1 don't see what
| there was to be afraid Of"
''Why, do you know, I was afraid
you would not get back before all
the fish stores were closed. IN. Y.
Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
TOLD IN FIGURES.

There are in London $4,000 people
over IS years old.
Turkey now exports 100000
worth of opium year.
The 81 biggest estates in Britain
average $4,000 acres each.
The 25 largest London theaters will
seat 28,6OO people and earn $4,000 a
night.
In Swedish towns the average mar
rying age of males is 3O1s years and of
females 27A.
France has four classes of roads.
They are, respectively, so, 40, 80 and
IS feet wide.
About one in every rs earthquakes
recorded in the world is felt in the
British Isles.
Twelve per cent. only of the Brit
ish army are five feet ten inches or
over in height.
From a 2o-year-old mulberry tree
21s pounds of leaves have been
picked in a year.
Males preponderate in the popula-
ton of Sheffield, England, to the ex-
tent of 1,007 to every 1000 females.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30

Instead of carbon proper a COM
bination of it could be used, and
graphite acid would be best-suited
as, if mixed with aluminium, it may
perhaps contribute to the reaction.
The freed carbon would at once be
heated to a high temperature, which
otherwise would be done at the ex-
pense of the metal reduced. In this
manner the hydrogen developed
would even at a comparatively low
temperature still exert high pres
sure upon the mass in the bomb.
The mixture of aluminium and
graphite acid would, however, have
to be placed at the bottom of the
bomb, as otherwise the metal would
become saturated with carbon and
on account of its consistency would
not collect at the bottom
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
The Best Kansas News.
Recites a PecuIinr story.

Minnie a. Bushnell has brought suit
at Ottawa to set aside a divorce re-
Gently granted her husband, D. J.
Bushnell. The petition sets forth
that Mrs. Bushnell was induced to
sign an agreement for separation by
Bushnelrs representation that he was
in compromising relation with a
girl at Williamsburg. and that he
would remarry her-the plaintiff in
the case-as soon as the williamsburg
affair could be settled. Bushnell is
said to have failed to carry out any
part of his agreement, and to have
deserted his divorced wife entirely.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30

laid about 8 inches to the weather.
Plaster, two-coat work.
Painting, three-coat work.
American glass throughout, except
ing in front door.
All floors will be double.
Doors five cross panels.
Trimmed throughout with Georgia
pine.
The parlor is separated from the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Against Political ssPu11s.n

''The state board of charities will
endeavor to have bill passed by the
legislature next winter making it a
misdeameanor, punishable by fine and
Imprisonment, for person to bring
political influence to bear to secure
the appointment of employees in the
various charitable institutions said
Henry j. Allen, president of the
board. :'The proposed law will also
make it a crime for a superintendent
to make political recommendations,
and the penalty will be removal from
Office and a fine"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30

Chimney showing above roof is Of
press brick.
The entire basement floor is CO.
mented.
The coal-roof, fruit-room and fur
nace-rOOm are in the basement.
All work throughout will be of a
good kind, and the building is to be
left broom clean ready for occu-
pancy. GEORGE A. w. KNIT.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
ART IN ARCHITECTURE
Designed and written Especially
for This Paper.

THE six-room house here described
and illustrated will cost $4,000.
built upon cement and bowlder
foundation.
The sizes of the rooms are as fol-
lows: Parlor, 12Ax17 feet; dining
room, 12x13 feet; kitchen, 1Ox12 feet;
chambers, 121sx17 feet, 1Ox12 feet, SIX
ss feet; hall, 7x121s feet; pantry,
3x12 feet; bathroom, SKIS feet; al
cove, 3Hx9 feet.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30

reception hall by cased opening,
having columns at sideE and each
column having a carved cap. The
mantel showing in parlor and cham
Der will be of wood, having tile face
and hearth. The dining-room has
bay with three windows. Pantry and
closets have shelves. The sink in
kitchen is of iron, lined with white
porcelain.
The size of the house upon the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
The Wrone E.pression.

The policeman heard high words and
poked his head in the door.
whats goin' on here?'' he demand
ed.
'.Nawthin'! Nawthin' at ALI" an
swered one of the beIligerent Irish
men in the middle of the floor. There's
nawthin' goin' on, but theresa fight
comm off in iiss- than a minute, If yen
only keep moyin'. "-Chic&go Post.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
The Field AIl 90 Himse1f.

Abilene has unique industry en-
ploying 100 men almost night and
day who make all parts used in me-
chanical shooting galleries, merry
go-rOunds, nickel-in-the-slot pianos
and military band organs. The con-
Germ is said to be the only one of
its kind in the world and is operated
by Charles w. Parker. His trade
field includes the two Americas, Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa and the islands
Of the sea.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
~ IN tn standnrd.

Rev. Goodman was surprised to
see you playing golf last Sunday.
should think you would try to do bet
ter.
Hardkase--OI I usually do much
better. I was in wretehed form last
Sunday. Philadelphia Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Must Come Further West.

The center of corn production in
America is 81 miles southwest of
Springfield, III. The crop which will
be raised in Kansas this year will
yank the center of corn production
few leagues further west.-TOpeka
Capital.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Rose Is working Hard.

Vernon Rose, the democratic NOM
inee for congress in the Seventh dis
trict against Congressman Chester I.
Long, is conducting a very active
campaign. He is in the field all the
time and is speaking twice a day
most of the time.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
No speeches from Funston.

Gen. Funston, commander Of the
Department of the Colorado, writes
from Denver that he will attend the
reunion at Ottawa October l, 2 and
3, but under no consideration will he
make a speech.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
naptised over 5000 People.

Rev. W. B. McNutt, Baptist min
lister who died in Pratt at the age of
79 years, had been engaged in active
church work for half a century, and
during his career as minister had
baptised over 1900 persons.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Birger Acreaee Than Ever.

Despite the comparative failure of
the wheat crop this year, the farm
ers of the wheat belt are putting in
a larger acreage of the cereal than
ever. They consider that it was
only exceptional conditions which in
terfered with the crop this year.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
This VIII Relieve Them.

A license tax imposed on Yelling
ton druggists by the action of the
city council of $1oO a year for sell
ing liquor and $500 year if beer is
included, was declared invalid by Po-
lice Judge Shearman.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Has the Lareest Acreage.

According to a statement prepared
by Secretary Coburn, of the state
board of agriculture, 458,OOo acres
was planted to alfalfa in Kansas this
year, and it has a larger acreage than
any other tame grass.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Drowned while SEEMING.

Harvey Baker, a farmer, was
drowned in the Kaw river a mile
above Bonner Springs. He with
number of neighbors, had gone to
the river to seine fish. Mr.. Baker
had the outer end of the seine in
charge, and was swinging out from
the bank when he stepped off into a
pool over his depth.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Record for autck Corn.

Tanquarry brothers, who are ex-
tensive farmers near Beloit, claim
the record for quick corn. They have
well developed corn exactly Sc days
from the time they planted the
seed. They expect yield of 60 bush
els to the acre.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Boy ktI1ed By Lightning.

Grant Frame, aged seven, son OF a
farmer near Jerusalem, johnson
county, was killed by lightning as
he was entering his fathers barn. a
horse and three hogs were killed and
a brother stunned by the same bolt.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
The Agreement signed.

The Republican Editorial associa-
ton of the Seventh district viii go
on an excursion into Old Mexico,
leaving Hutchinson September 6. The
editors have signed an agreement not
to attend any bull fights.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
CIatms Harris, Re-EIeetion.

Grant Harrington, who has charge
of the fusion legislative campaign,
asserted that the fusionists would
elect so out of the 125 members of
the house and that w. a. Harris
would be returned to the United
States senate.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
School Fund Distributed.

The school population of Kansas
is 5oS,o11 and the semi-annual distri-
button of the state school fund ag-
gregates 1929, 1924, being the interest
on a $7,OoO,oOo permanent school fund
investment. This is A cents per
capita, an increase of five cents per
capita over the last distribution.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Option on HOO Acres.

It is understood that site for
the proposed $1o,Ooo,ooO cotton mill,
projected by southern and eastern
capitalists, has been selected at Hol-
iday, II miles from Kansas City.
The promoters, it is said, hold an op-
ton on 100 acres of land at Holli-
day.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Two Crops from One Field.

In Brown county, Morgan Walters
planted corn in his wheatfields imme Z
diateIy after harvesting that grain.
He has now plowed it three times
and will have good crop.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Tasted dust Right.

Charles MarbeI had a second crop
of Strawberries on his vines near
Troy They were not as plentiful as
the first crop, but were of good size
and tasted just right.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30

ground is 26x26 feet, a good size.
Building paper will be used be-
tween the sheathing and siding. Also
between the double floors.
The shelf hardware will be of a
neat design.
The house is piped for gas, furnace
and plumbing.
The basement, cement wall, is 12
inches thick.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30

The height of the first story is
95a feet; second story, 9 feet; base
ment, feet.
The floor joists are 2x8 inches, 16
inches on centers; roof rafters, 2x4
inches; studding, 2x4 inches.
Shingles, red cedar.
Sheathing to be of matched fenc-
ing.
The siding will be inches o. G.,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Curran Paid the Fine.

John H. Curran, secretary of the
popuist state committee, who had
an alteration with Editor n. N.
Gaines, in Topeka, pleaded guilty to
the charge of assault and paid $25
fine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
New Denot Ii OIL.

The Santa Fe railroad viii build at
olathe a $4,000 brick and stone pas
senger depot.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Etchtv RusheIs 10 the ACC.

Eighty bushels of oats to the acre
is the phenomenal yield of ten-acre
tract on the Isaac Baughman farm.
near Centropolis.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Farmer Uses Motor Cycle.

j. G. McCIun, a farmer near Cav
ker City, uses a motor bicycle in
riding over his farm and the sur
rounding country. The machine
makes 35 miles an hour and cost $500.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
For spanking His wife.

Before a Coffey county justice Of
the peace o. D. Dow, of Lebo, was
fined SO and costs for spanking his
wife, just as he would a two-year-old
boy, only harder"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
The Job Goes Begging.

The board of regents of the state
agricultural college is having a hard
time to find man to take the place
of Prof. A. NJ. Cottreu as professor
Of agriculture and superintendent OF
the college experiment farm After
a trip through the east they first Of
fered the place to Prof. Gibbs, of
Durham, N. Y, at salary of So, 500.
Prof. Cottrelfs salary was $500. The
offer of the board to Prof. Gibbs was
refused. It was offered to three
others, who likewise turned it down.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
A Pioneer of 1889.

Charles swartz, resident of Lyon
county since 1859, is dead at the age
of so. He still occupied the farm he
homesteaded 43 years ago.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
big Wheat Yields at HiIIsdaIe.

Some big wheat yields are reported
around HilIsdale. J. T. Minnick
thrashed So acres and the total yield
was 1889 bushels, an average of 36A
bushels per acre, and it was Of stand
ard weight.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Grandfather Before He Cou1

In Franklin county boy of 10 re-
Gently married a woman of 40. This
woman had a grown up son and at
about the same time this son also
married. Now the son is father of
child and the Ottawa papers are
presenting the step-father as a rec
ord-brealler-as a man who became
a grandfather before he could vote.
kansas City Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
An Aim ImperiIed.

Before you marry my daughter
you'll have to reform, sir
'But, my dear sir, then shall lose
her. That is what she is marrying
me for!'-Life.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
NichoIs WIN Not resign.

Ernest r. Nichols, president of the
state agricultural college at Man
haitian, has declined the presidency
of the Rhode Island agricultural col
Iege recently offered him at an ed
vance in salary.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-30
Perish the Thought.

They are now claiming that the
prehistoric" skull dug up at Ian
sing belonged to an ex-convict. The
skull was found on the site of the
old prison cemetery.