Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-02-16

The perfected adding.machine Is a
triumph Of inventive genius but the
man who worked 1t out unbalanced
his mind
A Kansas farmer, being asked what
he did to get rid of the weeds on bis
farm, SAID that he sold most Of them
as mutton, az three and one-half to
four cents pound.
Governor Pennypacker Of Pennsyl-
vania says he believes the devil is an
editor. Pennypacker may have good
ground for his belief. You know what
he has been catching lately.-Ex.
The Chicago Tribune says: After
Kansas has its coal refneries running
smoothly and has acquired several
thousand miles of railway, with the
necessary rolling stock and equip
ments, it will make Mr.. Rockefeller
look like thirty cents, q
A man at Pitsburg, Kansas, was
fined the other day fifty cents and
costs for shooting his wife. 1t will
depend upon the costs as to whether
the man had value received: Any Or
binary wife ought to be worth more
than half dollar.-St, Louis Star.
Three good exchange propositions:
A half section Of good level land, well
improved to trade for stock of hard
ware. A good stock Of drugs to trade
for farm property. A stock of gener.
Il merchandise for sale or exchange.
Address inquiries to l. D. Thornton,
Marvin, Kansas.
They tell it on a Kansas girl, that
when she recently returned home
from italy a friend asked her, "Wbat
do you think of the lazzaroni?" "Oh,
don't talk to me about 1t, was the re-
oily; sid rather have a good dish Of
plain American macaroni baked with
;heese any day."
"Brother," said a man in the meet.
ing, SO many sinners are dying every
lay l have come to the conclusion
that hell is full" He sat down, when
IN old deacon in the amen corner
"aiSed the hymn: "There'sa place re-
'rved for you, brother, place reserv.
ed for you. western Publisher.
The New York World says Chicago
University has discarded the doxology
lud the follow has been substituted:
Praise John from whom oil blessings
flow:
Praise his oil creatures here below;
Praise him oil ye heavenly host.
Praise William some, but John the
most!
A bird dog belonging to the station
agent at Yale, Oklahoma pointed"
trunk, which upon request, the owner
refused to open. The station agent
then broke 1t. open and found 1t pack.
ed to the cover with quail. The owner
was apprehended and fined $50. The
trunk was billed to St, Joseph, Nilsson
ri.-Beloit Times.
A laboring man who had worked
hard great many years at the rate Of
one dollar and fifty cents per day. was
asked what he would do II his wages
we're suddenly raised to five dollars a |
lay. "Well," said he, II have figured
IN that and concluded that one Of the |
irSt things l would have would be an
attack Of the appendicitis. lex
County Attorney Moore. and Sheriff |
Utter were called to Prairie View
Monday where an old neighborhood
teud In district 115 had broken out
again. Mrs. johnson, Roy McClain
and Jesse Hickman we're arrested, the
two boys for lighting and Mrs. John
son for furnishing Jesse Hickman, a |
revolver Each plead guilty and
small fines were assessed
When the first settlers came to this
country they all took homesteads
along the streams. as they wanted
plenty Of timber" 1t was not long
until all such places were taken up
Ind the first corners would be about
The extent Of the settlements. About
1870 or 1871 the settlers came onto the
White Rock, In Republic cou lty, pref |
ty thick. The first one to go on the
prairie was German who had come |
from Che east and he hadn't a blessed |
thing to work with except a big hoe. |
he took a quarter of land, as level as q |
door and without shrub In the way
Of timber on 1t. A team and pillow
could have started a furrow on one |
corner Of it and gone clear around Ii |
without breaking the furrow, as there |
was not ripple on Its surface-yet |
everybody said "that Dutcbman is
,razy, taking that claim without any
timber on it," The first crop the man
put In was by digging In the sod with