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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
TRAITS OF GEN. sToEssEL.
kouropatkin Selected Him for Defend
err of Fortress.

Nouropatkn selected him TOT DSIenu-
err of Fortress.
1t was Gen. Kouropatkin who in
sisted that Gen. Stoessel should be
put in command of Port Arthur. Kou-
ropatkin said Of him. "StOessel is a
bad tactician. Put him against equal
force, against a Gourko or a Skobeleff,
and you'll find him tricked and cut to
pieces in four.andtwenty hours, But
stick him behind one of his own earth
works, where there's no question OF
maneuvering, and all the forces Of
earth and hell will not prevail against
him." Gen. Stoessel showed himself
to be a man of singularly few words"
writes an English critic, though his
TIE Deum addresses to his troops after
the repulse of Japanese assaults, as
well as his dispatches to the czar,
were couched in phraseology which
seemed to have been equally borrowed
from the Psalms of David and the
pages of Victor Hugo. Otherwise, he
Was ever DllCl anu CNCu uul upL VI
speech, this fortressholder with the
tall, bulky but rather ungainly figure
and face so little suggestive of the
conventional hero.
"He could wire Hugoesque dis
patches of victory to the car" this
same critic continues, though to the
company of soldiers which sent word
that they could no longer hold their
post his only reply was: But you can
die, them And die they did. What
order can be done, was his rule,
and all breaches of discipline were
punished with the most merciless Sc
verify. Garry out the sentence was
his invariable reply to cOurtmartial
recommendation to mercy; 1T will
save lives in the end A dealer who
was found to be selling putrid timed
meat to the soldiers he sentenced to
be locked up for three days and fed
exclusively on his own poisonous stun.
Never popular before. Stoessel
soon came to be the idol of his Off.
GERS and men, who recognized him
to be the soul and beacon of their
glorious defense. People say, wrote
correspondent in Port Arthur, that
Gen. Stoessel never sleeps; for when
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
Good for Cattle.

The feeding of pumpkins, beets, car
rots, turnips and potatoes to cattle
should be done more with view Of
adding variety to the food than to CIV
ing such articles as portions of the
regular rations. Grain and hay are
the best of all foods for cows in win.
ter, but, the animals appreciate a.
change from the dry foods to ensilage,.
or vegetables. Pumpkins, beets and
carrots may be sliced and fed raw.
while potatoes should be cooked and
thickened with bran and corn meal by
way Of adding to the variety.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
HAD TO SHOW HIS WHISPERS.
Cleveland Mans Wife Locked Him
Out After They Were Shorn.

Cleveland Mans Wife Locked Him
Out After They Were Shorn.
When Herman Flick, prosperous
grocer at Wilson and Payne avenues,
says a Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch to
the Chicago Inter Ocean, parted with
his thirty-fve year old whiskers the
other evening he almost lost his home.
Flick lives at 16S Hoadley street, and
his family is grown up, for he has
seen sixty summers. For thirty-five
years of his time Flick and his whis-
kers have never parted. They were
proud, breezy, luXuriant whiskers, too,
not the common garden variety. For
years the customers at the big gro
Gerry knew the proprietor by his whis-
kers.
A few neighbors dared Flick to d.
vcrce those whiskers.
you wouldn't dare" said one.
What do you bet l won't?" said
Flick.
well, $1O'
where's the money!?
The cash was made up and the par
ty went over to a barber shop. There
were a few snip-snaps of the shears.
the scraping of a razor, and Flick's
face was whiskerless.
That night a smoothfaced, young
looking man turned into the yard at
16S Hoadley street and rang the bell
The door opened cautiously and a
woman looked out.
What do you want?" she asked.
81 want to come in"
"Who are you?"
81 am Herman. Don't you know
me?"
Bang went the door, click went the
key in the lock.
Flick tried to argue. It was no use
So he ambled back, woke the barber
gathered up the late crop of alfalfa
and took it home. Passing 1t in at the
door, his wife was convinced and ad
mittcd him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
Conviction of Land Robbers.

After the people of the United States
have been robbed of millions of acres.
there has at last been conviction of
five land robbers in Oregon. In this
case, involving 5000 acres Of timber
land, the fraud was accomplished with
more or less official connivance by
the use of fictitious names for land
entries. Two of the convicted land
pirates were extensive timber operat'
ors and hitherto very respectable
members of society.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
Dividends for Bank Creditors.

The Comptroller of the Currency re-
Gently declared a second dividend Of
Is per cent in favor of the creditors,
of the First National bank of Florida.
Of Jacksonville, Fla, making in all 40
per cent on claims proved, amounting
to $236,55S. The Comptroller de-
clared also third dividend of 20 per
cent in favor of the creditors Of the
First National Bank of Macon, Ca,
making in all IS per cent on claims
amounting to $621,113
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
Propcsed Relief.

1t is merely proposed to restore, in
part, the original power given to the
commission and exercised for nearly
ten years without harm to any one.
The courts can review and change
anything the commission can do under
the proposed amendment, Now, the
commission can condemn rate, but
that is all. 1t cannot say what the
new rate shall be, and its powers in
that respect are Observation-Disclosures.
Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

scrap heap the bulls, screws, turbines
and all the old models OF ships and to
build them according to new designs
on strictly scientific principles. The
new boats are to he called 'pneumat-
ic suction or 'typhooned" ships
The principle which he says he has
discovered consists in placing in front
Of a specially constructed ship a con-
all the old ideas concerning the re-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

sistance Of water. to throw on the
trivance he calls "typhoonoid" or wa
ter sucking cone. This cone, by revo
lutions impaired by horizontal shaft
similar to that used for screws, Will
create a vacuum in front Oh the ship
which will be drawn forward by pneu.
matte suction and fly. rs 1t were.
through a vacuum, jus: as ,etters az
through the postal pneumatic tubes.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

NJ. Andre Gambin. an inventor. says
in a communication to the Paris edi-
ton of the New York Herald that he
has made discovery which will
make it possible for ships to go 500
knots an hour.
According to this inventor the time
may soon come when people can
breakfast in London and dine in New
York. It will be necessary to discard
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

all the city is in darkness a light alone
burns in his headquarters, and, it
might be added, in his heart. Apart
from his own stout heart, which never
failed him, another constant source
of his courage has been the inspiring
presence of his wife"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Villagers in Kamtschatka are hav-
ing a deal Of trouble with starving
bears. which, in their turn, have
trouble in dlgesting the villagers. The
average Kamtschatkan is "a tough
proposition"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

After falling from the top to the bot
tom of hundred-foot hole Patrick
Joyce of New Jersey and the County
Sligo said he could whip any man who
said he was dead And not a man said
q word.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

According to Agricultural Depart.
ment statistics, the farm products OF
this country amount to S2,734,S63,7O2
not counting the precious and costly
vegetables that the suburban backyard
farmer raises.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Mrs. Elliott spoke the other day
about "the tongue Of scandal taking
liberties with a woman's skirt" and
1rvlne's son-in.law says: Father can
not talk because his hands are tied"
The whole case seems to be badly
mixed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

A Lutheran minister in Tennessee
says life insurance Is gambling. and
therefore something 10 be condemned.
But might not the same be said Of fire
insurance which the strictly orthodox
conside, 90 essential?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

A woman was arrested at Jersey
City a few days ago for obtaining
$1,000 on bad checks. Considering the
brevity of her financial career, she
couldn't have been much for looks.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

1f your stomach is normally
nealthy," says the Nebraska State
Journal, you can eat bow Of con
meal mush and milk for supper aud
sleep like a kitten till the boosters
crow at daylight" But why mush and
nilk II tire stomach's o. XII
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Now that jiu-jitsu is to be taught at
the naval academy ct Annapolis. It
ought to be taught at West Point, too,
or the West Point boys will be ut a
disadvantage in the next army and
navy football game.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
Dancer of Quoting.

Mrs. Kindle (whose husband has
told her at the apartment house was
the proper thing for her, nthe prin-
ciple of suites to the sweet)-Henry
said an awfully nice thing to me to-
day. Mrs. Kandle-Yes? Mrs. Kin.
dle-Yes. He said this was just the
place for me-flats to the-why, some
how, that doesn't sound right, after
all.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

II you cannot procure SandhoIm's Eczema
Lotion and Dandruff Cure from your druggist
or barber, write Sandholm Drug Co., % Man
haitian Bldg, Des Moines, Iowa, they will send
1t express prepaid 1t cures when all doctors
internal medicines, greasy salves and ointments
fail. Free booklet for the asking. Describe
your disease and special directions will be furn-
ished. Eczema, Pimples, Acne, Old sores, Ring
Dandruf, Scalp Trouble, Falling Hair. Nervous
Trouble II never fails. Lotion, 81; Soap, CSC.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Lord Rosslyns sisters are hard up
for money. II Edward will make titles
descend from women the he title hun
ters of America will keep English
ladies out of the poorhouse.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Why, certainly, there is general
election" this year. 1t is up to the
people generally to elect whether they
will keep their new year resolutions
or not. Go to.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

That lecturer who says a woman
should not marry until she can sup
port a husband must want to put the
men of this country on level with
foreign noblemen.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

BY changing its name to Cushman,
Bernardston can have $4,000. Many
women have changed their names for
less.-Lewiston Journal.
And been sorry for 1t afterward,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Enter the joke about the joke about
the joke about the broken resolution,
the diary, the expense account, and the
rest.-New York Evening Mail
AS above.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Bob Fitzsimmons' typewriter was a
little rusty. but by oiling it up he
succeeded in starting a pugllistic bat
tie in the mos: approved professional
style.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

That last years calendar may not
be altogether useless, after all. You
may need it to figure up how long
your noe has yet to run.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Kansas has an editor governor, an.
other editor his private secretary. an
editor auditor of state. another editor
state superintendent two editors in
the senate and three in the house and
another editor secretary Of the senate
Osborne Farmer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

They are always talking about
lambs in Wall street, but our expert
ence is that the lamb there is mighty
tough.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

The Pulajones are on the war path
in Samar. This is the first outbreak
that has occurred in the Jones family
for over forty years.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Port Arthur's new tenants may like
the location, but tho will find the
premises in a shocking state Of disre-
pair.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

The mikado denies the authorship Of
the poems that were recently attrib-
uted to him. And they were pretty
good poems, too.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

The boil weevils increase Of activ-
lty leads to a suspicion that the Guate-
malan ants went over to the enemy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
A Goth.

a Goth.
Didn't you so to sleep during the
classical program" asked Mrs. Cum
roX. severely.
No" answered her husband. mo
such luck"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Was there ever a baseball player
who, in December, wasn't going to be
In better shape than ever" in the com
ing year?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

No other city disputes Boston's
title Of Hub" Too suggestive OF
wheels.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

The New York papers have kindly
refrained from describing Uncle Rus
sell Sage's Christmas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Exchange says that "a woman can
make fool of any man." AS a rule
she doesn't need to.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Doubtless the proposed permanent
alliance of Balkan states would be
good thing while it lasted
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

The black and shaded areas on this
map are from 5000 to 10000 feet
above the sea. They are perfectly
healthful. The Guas Ngishu plateau,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

A New York man is living with a
rubber stomach. The rubber neck
may be taken for granted.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Miss Letter will get the Suffolk fam
lily gems; Suffolk will get the Letter
family "rocks."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
LASTING RELIEF

my nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregularities Of the kidneys. /
suffered intensely from severe pains.
in the small Of my back and through
the kidneys and was annoyed by pain
full passages of abnormal secretions.
Doctors failed to relieve me. | began
taking Doan's Kidney Pills and l ex-'
perienced quick ard lasting relief.
Doan's Kidney Pills will prove bless
ing to all sufferers from kidney disor-
ders who will give them fair trial"
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. w..
proprietors. For sale by all druggists.
price so cents per box.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

A woman can always fish out some,
old keepsake that is only good to cry
over.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

The Jewell Republican thinks that
if Mrs. Chadwick ever gets a good
chance at the judge and jury which
are to try her, they will not have
enough left to buy breakfast.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

shown in solid black, is the area
which the British government has Of
fered to Jewish colonists, No Brit
ish settlers have yet been invited to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

In the whole Union there are only
seven states in which there is more
mail delivered by rural carriers than
in Kansas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

the Nandi and Mau highlands, but
British farmers are settling on the XII
kuyu plateau. The land is said to be
rich and easy of cultivation.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Some success is born of conceit, ana
much conceit is born of success.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

For years Kansas City whisky has
been piped to Kansas. Now in ex
change. Kansas City wants Kansas tc
pipe natural gas to that place. In 9th.
err words. Kansas City wants to lllum.
mate at both ends Of the line-osborn
County Manner.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26
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( SHORT KANSAS ITEMS !
Observation-Disclosures

The dates for the Kansas state fair
at Topeka next year, have been set for
September IL to 16 inclusive.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Our postmaster boasts Of having
thirty-tnree grandchildren. Who can
boast of e?-Westmoreland Rec
ord.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Cowley county claims to have made
a good record in her domestic life dur
ing the year just closed. She had 1862
marriages and only seventy-one suits
for divorce.-Kansas City Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

The editor Of the Cawker City Rec
ord, after trying to put all of his hol.
iday advertisements next to reading
mater, knows how a politician feels
when he tries to place 100 people in
twenty-five jobs.-Kansas City Star.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Corn is unusually heavy this year,
as is evidenced by the fact that when
a load is taken from the shelter to the
elevators the farmers usually have
from three to four bushels more on
the wagon than the shelters were paid
for cleaning.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

ments, Mesdames Young, Purcell and
Greeley.-Manhattan Nationalist.
There is a queer state OF affairs In
the little town Of Lanham, Washing.
ton county, Kas. The main street OF
the town is the line between Nebras.
ka and Kansas. The north side Of the
street is in Nebraska and the south
side is in Kansas. Nebraska has o
high license law; Kansas, prohibition.
On the north side Of the street there
is no saloon; on the south or Kansas
side .-.ere are four.-osborne Farmer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

Every editor is threatened by some
one with horsewhipping by the ladies'
if he is a man; if real young girl the
subscribers threaten to give her a
spanking Westmoreland Signal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

A Scandal woman who ordered
cloak from mail order house is out
So express so far and has no cloak
either. If she had ordered through
the local merchant and the goods
were not as represented she would
have recourse without any expense
Journal.
Arizona republican., 1905-07-17

A writer in the "Esoana Economies y Financiera" of Madrid, has been con trasting the Cuba of today with the Cuba of the old Spanish times. Hes a candid senor. During the last period of our dismal rule the trade balance was regularly against the island" he says. "The yellow fever was a chronic reproach to our colonial administration. A few months of hygiene and sanitation during the American intervention did more for the island than the power of Spain had done in four centuries. These compar- isons are far from flatterinS to our colonizing methods and to our public men. In order that Cuba might con form herself to the great modern na- tions in hygiene. instruction govern mental mechanism, industrial develop ment. etc, she had to escape from our sway"
Arizona republican., 1905-07-17

$. L. Joshi writes from Columbia university. and is vouched for by the "Sun" as an educated Hindu. He re- ports that the sometimes predicted solidarity of race feeling" in Asia does not exist, and that there's no "mikado worship" in India, though the events of this war have height ened India's respect for Japan in a limited sense" With regard to the future of his country, MT. Joshi says: What we in India are absolutely and rightfully demanding today is to be given the same privileges of colonial self government that have already been secured by Canada and Australia. These granted, England will have a warm place in the heart of India. The present administration is progressively extravagant, thereby involving in creasing taxation, from a share in tine regulation of which the educated classes are debarred, and under which the masses suffer hoDelessly.'
Arizona republican., 1905-07-17

A man measures his own greatness by the littleness of his neighbors.- Philadelphia Record.
Arizona republican., 1905-07-17
Dr. RIxev,s Warning

The Providence Journal thinks 'ft would be just as well for the public to take with some grains of all lowance the assertion of Surgeon Gen eral Rixey of the navy that John Hays death was the direct result of over strain and overwOrk."
 The Journal points out that in the first place, it is the duty of pr. Rixey to circulate statements of this kind, for he is the recognized court physi- elan at Washington, an office of much pleasure and profit to the incumbent in the way of administration favors. although not regularly provided for in the budget or listed in the Blue Book. The surgeon general is, so far as the navy is concerned, practically a sin ecuve. and the doctor who holds it has plenty of spare time to devote to dis tinguished patients, to whom his prac-
Arizona republican., 1905-07-17

When a woman keeps a secret 1t pertains to something that is no cred it to her.-Philadeluhia Record
Arizona republican., 1905-07-17

But the man who has plenty of push can worry along without a pull.-PhiI- adelphia Record.
Arizona republican., 1905-07-17
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Arizona republican., 1905-07-17

Many a patent leaather shoe covers a cloven hOof.