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VOL. VI. NO. 32.
PHILLIPSBURG, KANSAS-, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1884.
Si 50 IN ADVANCE.
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liips&urg Herald.
PUBLISHED EYEBI TElfiSDAY,
BY
BissBLL & lightfoot;
EDITORS. .
' Secret Societies.
' l.O. O. F.
Fhilhprtmrg Lodge No. 165.ineetsvery Wd
uesday. Visiting brethren ecrdially iuvileA to
attend. W. V..Asirk60,2. ti.
F. T.M.SXutche', Rec.Sec'y.
A. F, and A. M.
PhtUip&burir Lo 4ge number M. meets evry
Saturday on or betore the full moon, visiting
brethren cordially invited to attend.
1 T. M. Dutcher.eea'y. P. 0. 6. Lowe, W M
Crefent Lodfro number 42. mets 'every Mon
day evening. Visitiugbrethreoordially invit
ed to attend. 1avu Maskku C.C.
J. Jackson, K of R and S-
C. A R.
hUiiBbursr Post mnnber77 meets Saturday
after full moon, Viaitini? eoturades aay
-welcome. Fa Stkaik, 1' U
V V. Anderson, Adj.
Church Directory.
Jl.E. Church Rev, W. K- Allen, every Iter
Tiate Sabbath at 11 o'clock A. M. aad74 o clock
P. M. commencing May 6th 1882.
Prefbyteriau Rev. Theo Bracken very sab
bath morning at 11 o'clock. Alternate eveuings
atll.
TJnion Sabbath School Every Sabbath at 10
c'oclock a. m. ,
Pre8bylenan Sabba- h School At the church
very Sunday jU 10 a. in .
Union Prayer Meeting Every Thursday
evening.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY-
ISTATE OP JZZJJSTSJS.
Governor G. W, Glick.
Xileut. Governor D. W. Finney.
Secretary of State James Smith.
Aud i tor........ E. . P. McCabe.
Treasurer Sam. T. Howe.
tiupt. Pub. Instruction. ..H. C. Speer.
Attorney General. W. A. Johnston.
Public Printer.,.T. Dwiglit Thatcher.
,. a . f J. J. Ingalls.
US. Senators P. b. Plumb.
PHIIjIiIPS COTJITTT,
district Judge.. W. H. Pratt-
fttate Senator G?o. H. Case.
v jpresentative W- H McBride
C.'k 1) 1st. Court. G. A. Spaulding.
-County Clerk .J. V. Lowe.
Iteg'r of Deeds- Ritner Smith.
Treasurer D. L. Smith.
Sheriff. John Woods.
3uit. Pub. Instruction. ..C. A. Lewis.
Probate Judge ..H 13. Spauldlng.
County Surveyor W. B. Stubert.
Couuty Attorney S. W. McElroy.
Coroner ..... O W Gaudy
I 1st Dist, -H. Moulton.
2d Dist, -J. H. Close.
3d DIst,...T. M. Bishop.
.fcupt. Poor Farm I. E. Dixon.
District Curt sits the fourth lion
-day in March and fourth Monday in
45eutember in regular session.
Commissioners Court sits the first
Monday in January, the second Mon
day in April, the first Monday in July
.and the first Monday in October, its
regular sessions.
PHILLIPSBTJBG-.
3Iayor. ..! - C. A. Lewis.
Police Judge- Frank Strain.
V Councu-mkn : J W. Lowe, S. C.
L Cummiuga, Chas. Dickey, N. Poling
.and C. H. Leflingwell.
-Clerk C. W. Suodgrass.
Treasurer G. W. YoUtig.
City Marshal B. F. Delph.
BUSINESS CARDS-
C. BRUNER.
ID In. - SlrLop.
Hoofing, Sheeting and Repairing
ipmiaptly. and neatly fljne.
S- C. CUMMINGS-
Livery, Feed & Sale Stable-
Good rigs at reasonable rates.
Wm. Bissell-Beal-Estat3
& Loan Agent-
Business before the U. fc. Land Of
:co at Kirwin, Kansas, and before the
department at Washington, D. C,
promptly transacted.
Central House-
E. ALDAUQH. Proprietor.
PHILLIPSBURG. - K ADS AS.
Good sample "rooms for commercial
vtravelers. Feed stable ia connection
with house.
MELR0Y '& MCKM.
ATTORNEYS & COUNSEL
- ORS AT LAW.
SPK!t-t-IPSDURG. - KANSAS
Furnish abstracts of title, mak eol
ations, and tniSct a gener4 land &sd
SUNSHINE COMES TO-MORROW.
Some days must be dark and dreary,
Some lives must be full of gloom.
Some hearts of their cares must weary,
Till they long for rest in the tomb.
Some eyes must grow dim frcm weeping
While others are glad and bright,
Some wake while others are sleeping
Care-free, until morning light.
O, well for the hearts which sorrow.
That the longed-for rest draws near,
And well that the sun to-morrow
May shine on the patb.3 now drear,
There are sunny isles in mid-ocean.
Where the myrtle and orange bloom,
Unheeding the wild commotion,
Or the depths which no stars illume.
As to those isles to the shipwrecked
mortal.
Tossed about on the ocean's crest,
So the entrance to Heaven's portal
Tells only of endless rest.
fLilla N. Cushman.
A GREAT RAILWAY PROJECT
Akin to the work of the-Panama
Canal is a project introduced by Con
gressman Stewart into the House of
Representatives. He wants the Unit
ed States to build a railroad from Mex
ico through Central America so as to
unite the railway systems of North
America with those of South America.
The projected line is finally to be ex
tended to the Argentine Republic.
Tliis is u very bold scheme, yet who
will dare say will never be undertaken?
The trade of South America is now
monopolized by Great Britain, because
she has an abundance of steamships,
and we have none at all. But had we
direct railway communication with all
the centers of trade in South America,
a gigantic business would be devel
oped, to the immense advantage of the
manufacturers and merchants of the
United States. From Dcmorexfa
Monthly for July.
THE DISTRIBUTION OF rlSH.
One of the most marvelous and suc
cessful achievements of modern enter
prise is the introduction of new fish
food into the streams and lakes of the
various continents, The salmon of the
Pacific coast has been successfully intro
duced into the east coast of North
America. The delicious shad of our
waters is now to be found in the sea-going
rivers of the Pacific coast. Califor
nia salmon were successfully introduced
in 1877 into the Australian rivers, where
that fine fish had never befere been seen.
The re-stocking of streams with fish is
going on all over the world, and will
eventually increase the supply of fish
food a thousand fold. In England, our
American trout, black bass and white
fish have been naturalized, while the
German carp, a fast-growing and food
producing fish, is already widely known
in the United States. This country leads,
the world in fish eulture. Our experts
do not despair of being able in time to
vastly increase the swarms of fish on our
sea-coast. It is known that from time
to time there is a short supply of salt
water fish, but experiments are now be
ing made with the spawn of cod, had
dock, sea bass, Spanish mackerel, and
other denizens of the ocean, which
will undoubtedly be successful. It is
said that an acre of water can be made
to furnish many times the quantity of
food produced annually by an acre of
land. From Demorest's Monthly for
July.
Beecher's Luxurious Habits
Mr. Beech er, has directed his mana
ger, Mr. Pond, to book an extensive
lecturing tour for next year. Mr.
Beecher's salary is $20,000 per annum.
He averages to receive double this sum
from his lectures and a large addition
al sum from his pen. He is not rich,
however. He keeps open house (with
his sou, with whom he resides), and
gives, louus, indorses and does other
uubusineas-like things constantly at a
heavy cost to his treasury. It is said,
that beyond his farm at Peekskill, the
house and stock thereon, and his li
brary and brick-a-brack there and at
Brooklyn, the great word painter has
nothing t3 show for his large income
for each of. very many years. His
library is so large that it is now being
catalogued with a view to soon mak
ing a Side therefrom. He has expend
ed, it U estimated, $130,000 in books
and &n many more have been given
him by publishers. His house at
Peekskill, built not long since, Mr.
Beecher says has cost him $40,000.
Others who watch business matters
closer are familiar with, its growth, say
that $70,000 would be nearer the cor
rect sum. His cows are all Alderneys,
and the herd is believed to be worth
$15,000 to $18,000. His farm and its
manner of running and open hospital
ity ia enough of itself to absorb a large
income, i It is yet somewhat incum
bered. Tlh cslieciion . of bric-4j.-bric
would make a large and valuable mu
seum. Fine prints, bronzes, paintings,
statuary anything beautiful in shape
or color find a ' worshiper in Mr.
Beecher. and it is said he cannot go
through the streets of New York or
Brooklyn without becoming a pur
chaser as heroically as he may labor
to resist and avert hi eyas from tempt
ing show-windows. From the Ithaca
Journal. -
Poetry teaches the enormous forces
of a few words, and, in proportion to
the inspiration, checks " loquacity."
Great thoughts insure musical ex
pressions. Every word should be
the right word. Emerson
Of the members of the United States
senate at the commencement of the late
civil war, and who took their seats at
the memorable first session of the thirty
seventh congress, July, 1861, but
twelve now survive, as follow3 : Willard
Saulsbury, of Delaware, Lyman Trum
bull, of Illinois, James Harlan, of Iowa
Samuel C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, Morton
S, Wilkinson and Henry M. Rice, of
Minnesota, Daniel Clark; of New
Hampshire, James W. Nesmith, of Or
egon, Edgar Cowan, of Pennsylvania ,
Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island,
John Sherman, of Ohio, James R.
Doolittle, of Wisconsin.
THE GREAT CANAL-
It is now proposed to join the Bay
of Biscay with the Mediterranean Sea
by means of a great ship canal, which
will save the voyage around the Spnn
ish peninsula. This would be a work
second in importance only to the Suez
Canal itself, for all 'the vessels from
England and Northern Europe woujd
be forced to use this means of commu
nication. It would be a gigantic work,
but it would certainly pay in time. In
the meanwhile the Panama Canal is
being vigorously prosecuted by M. de
Lesseps. This is a -mighty work, for
it aims to join the Atlantic and Pacif
ic oceans by a great ship canal cut
through Central America. A vast
amouut of work has been done, and
the most gigantic effortsare bei ng made
to finish this extraordinary channel by
the close of 1886. But it seems that
only 1-60 of the dredging, 11-50 of rock
cutting, and 1-15 (2,967,000 metres) of
earth of excavation had been complet
ed on the first of March last- The im
portant supplementary work, theCha
gres Dam, is not yet begun. There is
reason to fear that the canal will not
be finished before 1900. Of the 600,
000,XX) francs subscribed for, 300,000,000
have been spent in preliminaries and
plant, and 100,000,000 in purchasing
and improving the railway. It is sup
posed that 500,000,000 more of francs
will be required to complete the work.
From DemorcsVs Monthly for July.
THE LIFE OF MAN.
Bob Burdett says, man, born of wo
man, is of few days and no teeth. And,
indeed, it would be money in his pocket
sometimes if he had less of either. As
for his days, he wasteth one-third of
them, and for his teeth he has convul
sions when he cuts them, and as the
last one comes through, lo! the dentist
is twisting the first one out, and the
last end of that man's jaw is worse than
the first,' being full of porcelain, and a
roof-plate built to hold blackberry
seeds.
Stone bruises line his pathway to
manhood ; his father boxes his ears at
home, the big boys cuff him in the
play-ground, and the teacher whips
him in the school-room. He buyeth
Northwestern at 110, when he has sold
short at 9C, and his neighbor unloaded
upon him Iron Mountain at 63 5-8, and
it straightway breaketh down to 42 1-4.
He riseth early and sitteth up late that
he may fill his barn and store-houses ,
and lo! his children's lawyers divide
the spoils among themselyes, and say,
4Haha!" He growleth-and is sore
distressed because it raineth; and he
beateth upon his breast, and sayeth,
4 My crop is lost!" because it raineth
not . The late rains blight his wheat,
and the frost biteth his peaches. 11 it
be so that the sun shineth; even in the
nineties, he sayeth , "Woe is me, for I
perish;11 and if the north wind sigheth
down in forty-two below, he crieth,
Would I were dead!" It he wear
sackcloth and blue jeans, men say,
'He is a tramp ;" and if he goeth forth
shaven and clad in purple and fine linen
all the people cry, "Shoot the dude!11
He carbyeth insurance foe twen-ty-fivs
years, until he has paid
thrice over ?ok all. his goods, and
then he letteth his policy lapse
one dat, and that same night fire
DESTROYETii his store. He buildeth
him a house in Jersey, and his first
born is devoured by ciosqaitoa; he
plicbctiis teats ia New York, asd
tramps devour his substanee. He
MOVETH INTO IOWA, AND A CYCLONE
CARRYETH HIS HOUSE AWAY OVER INTO
Missouri , while a prairie fire and ten
million acres of grasshoppers fight for
his crop. He settleth himself in Ken
tucky, and is shot the next day by a
gentleman, a colonel , and a statesman,
"because, sah, he resembles, sah, a
man, sah. he did not like, sah ." Ver
ily, there is no rest for the sole of his
foot, and if he had it to do over again
he would not be born at all, for "the
day of death is better than the day of
one's birth.'1 The Insurance Journal.
Mr. Tilden's weakness is gaining
strength. The majority of democrats
believe that he is able to carry the par
ty, that is, Watterson thinks so, and
Watterson is the majority of democrats.
Arkansaw Traveler,
Ben Butler, as the champion of the
greenback party, is likely to work a
severe reform in American politics.
AH of Butler's measures are severe.
He is so pressed with economy that
long ago he decided that the employ
ment of two eyes was an ocular extrav
agance, and consequently turned off
one of the burners. During the cam
paign none of his enemies can sav any
thing to reflect the lurid glare of a de
rogatory light on the brawny and
bristled character of the old gentleman.
Some "rooster,11 red-headed in his de
sire for prominence, may breathe the
old spoon scandal, but tne green-eyed
party can with one hand sweep such a
charge from the cheek of the earth. It
'has been said that Butler thinks for
himself. A natural deduction. A man
who does not do his own thinking, does
not think at all. Arkansaw Traveler.
Stole a Flower, r
An old woman, with long gray hair,"
stepped forward whea .byname w
cafled-'and confronted the "-"police'
Judge. '
"You are a very old woman to be in
a place of this kind," said the Judge.
"What is tne charge against her?"
turning to an officer.
"Stealing a pot of flowers, your hon
or." "Who made the complaint?"
"I did," replied a man, stepping for
ward. "I know tlfat it looks hard to
have such au ld woman arrested, but
I am a law abiding citizen, Judge, and
I don't intend to be imposed upon.
This is the way the whole thing came
about: I keep a large flower depot.
Day before yesterday this woman came
into the store, nnd when I asked her
if she wanted to buy anything, she
shook her head. Just then a custom
er came in and I paid no attention to
her, but after she was gone, I discov
ered that a pot, containing a fine ger
anium was missing. I knew she took
it, and what she wanted with it is more
than I can tell. If she had stolen some
thing to eat or wear it would have been
a diffeient thing. "
The old woman looked up and said:
"Judge, I stole that flower."
"Didn't you know it was wrong?"
"Yes."
"Was the temptation so great that
you could not withstand it?"
"There was no temptation. It re
quired more of a struggle to take it
than it -would have required not to
have taken it."
"This is a very singular occurrence,
ratdani. Tell us all about it. DonH
think that you are among those who
desire to see you punished, and rest
assured that I will stand by you. Law
or no law, it makes no difference.
There is a court in the human heart,
old woman, whose decrees go farther
and are nearer to justice thau the writ
ten declarations of any tribunal."
The old woman again looked up.
Tears were in her eyes, but with a
corner of the old ' black shawl drawn
arouud her shoulders she wiped them
away.
"Oh, 6ir," she said, "to make you
understand why I took the flower
might be a story too long to tell in a
court, and it might be out of place to
tell it anywhere to strangers, but as
you have spoken so kindly, I will tell
you. Years ago T lived in this city.
My pareuts were well situated and I
was carefully reared. I married a man
whom everyone recognized as an ele
gant gentleman but to me he proved
to be a d ru n ken bru te. At last h e took
our little boy and went away, I know
not where, leaving me, with a baby
two mouths old. My parents liad died
and I went out into the country and
changed my name. I worked for a
living, heart broken as I was. One
day my darling was taken ill- I took
her in my arms and started toward
towi, where she might have the prop
er medical attention, but she seemed
o grow worse. At last I knew she
was dying and Isatdowti under a tree.
I held her to my bosom a long time,
for she shivered, and when I looked
up into her face again, she was dead.
A man who lived near by made a cof
fin, and I buried the little girl under
the tree where she had died. Then I
wrcnt away, I know not how, and be
gan a long search for my husband, not
that I wanted him, but that I wanted
my sou. I must have gone crazy, for
I was seized one day and taken t the
mad house. How long I remained
there I don't know, but I could see
that I was much older looking than
when I went in. From time to tinu?
I implored the keeper to let me out,
buMie refused. About a month ago I
saw an -opportunity and escaped. I
was not mad, for when again under
the clear sky, the memory of my troub
les were as fresh as though hut a day
had passed, I turned, after Tmuch in
quiry, towards my native place, and a
few days ago Iarrived here, but I did
not stop until I had found my way to
the little grave under the tree. I had
carried stone and built a little wall
around it, but briars and bushes had
grown up so thickly that I could hard
ly find the place. I cleared the briars
away and came to town. While pass
ing along the street I saw this man's
flowers. T stole a geranium pot, and
it now sits on the child's grave."
The flower dealer had sunk upon a
bench. ''Great God, Judge!" he ex
claimed, springing up, "The woman
is my mother." Arkansas Traveler.
Firm for Blaine, But a Little Shaky on Orthog
raphy. Yesterday afternoon a Jo rnal re
porter met Bob McReynolds rushing
toward the depot with a paint bucket
and brush.. Upon being interrogated
as to what was up, Bob .said that he
could not stop he had been sent for
by the Colorado delegation to Chicago,
which was going through on u special
ca,r and he was going to meet them at
the depot.
That the delegation wanted Boh, ex
cited no surprise in the reporter's mind,
but what they wanted with a paint
bucket and brush was beyond his com
prehension, and falling into Bob's
wake lie followed him to the depot.
When the train came in it needed only
a casual examination of the car to solve
the mystery. On one side of the car
was a banner displaying the sentiment
'Colorado Deligation foi Blane" and
on the other a banner reading "The
Rocky Mountain's are tor Blane."
Bob was seized by a delegate as soon
as he appeared and set to work remod
eling and enlarging the Denver stple
of spelling to conform to eastern ideas.
He daubed a lot of white paint over the
apostrophe In "Mountain's," trans
formed, the "i" in "deligation" into
an "e" and inserted an "i" in "Blane"
in both mottoes.
"The painter who got up your mot
toes seemed to have some orthograph
ic idiosyncrasies," ventured the report
er to one of the party.
"Oh, those are all right," was the
reply. That's good enough in Denver.
When Eugene Field was out there he
used to always insist on putting on all
the frills in spelling, but he's gone
now. He got too many eastern ideas,
and that's the reason we sent him on
to Chicago. There 'aint any use of an
"I" in Blaine, but every fool loafer at
the depots along the road after we got
into Nebraska made fun of the spell
ing, and we concluded to get It changed
here and telegraphed for a painter.
Dou't say any thing about it in your
paper. Our constituency would go
back on us to a man if thev knew we
went back on the Colorado way of
spelling as soon as we got into Nebras
ka.1 1 The bell rang here, and the
speaker took his leave, and after view
ing the remoddelled mottoes with a
look of disgust entered the car. Slate
Journal.
AN AMATEUR JOURNALIST.
Jimmy Tuffboy is up to something
like now. He has fixed up the attic of
the woodshed as a printing office and
issues therefrom "The Semi-Occasional
Bazoo,11 a readable little sheet devoted
to the interests of independence in
everything, freedom in all the rest."
We extract a few paragraphs from the
current issue :
We acknowledge an invitation to
partake of ice cream and strawberries
from "Tib1 Guijn's mother. Mrs. Gnnn
is a charming woman who moves in
oar best society. She works dishes for
ehurch lawn parties.11 . '
Mr. Jasies CloseSst, sen. esq., has
given three cents tothe bojp club as a
subsidy to keep the boys from ch-iiliing
his barn door. The club agreed and,
aow uses charcoal instead of chalk.11
'We are under indebtedness to onr
very near and dear friend, Hon . Sam
uel Solid, for two tickets to the last cir
cus, it is needless to remark Solid has
made himself so with us. He is a gen
tleman , a schol&r and an orn&cient to
nis sex.
"As the summer season mnmiok it.
is only proper to state thstt no boy who
k noes s ior admission at our front gate
can expect to come in unless he wear
base-ball shoes."
"The vounsr ladies of this blocb cfTeet
roller skates and roll about on ths con
crete walks with an air of mrfira a.nd
lovliness that is quite charming. We
wuum especiauy mention Alias iir&cie
McFardle. the lovliest littl sorlte that
ever sat upon our knee," New Haven
register.
AN AMATEUR CARPER TER,
In nay opinion every professional man
should keep a chest of carpenters1 tools
in his barn or shop and busy himself at
odd hours with them in constructing the
varied articles that are always needed
about the house. There is a great deal
of pleasure in feeling your own inde
pendence of other trades, and most es
pecially of the carpenter. Every now
and then your wife will want a bracket
put np in some corner or other, and
with your new, bright saw and glitter
ing hammer you can put up one upon .
which she can hang a cast-iron horse
blanket lambrequin, with indexible
water fillies sewed in it.
A man will, if he tries, readily learn
to do do a great many such little things
and his wife will brag on him to other
ladies, and they will make invidious
comparisons between their husbaads,
who canTt do anything of that kind
whatever, and you are "so handy.11
Firstly, you buy a set of amateur car
penter tools. You do not need to say
that you are an amateur. The dealer
will find that out when you ask him for
an easy running broad-ax or a green
gage plumb line. He will sell you a set
of amateurs tools that will be made of
old sheet-iron with bass wood handles,
and the saw will double up like a pieca
of stove pipe.
After you have nailed a board on the
fence successfully, you will very natur
ally desire to do something much better
more difficult. You will probably try
to erect a parlor table or a rustic settee.
I made a very handsome bracket last
week, and I was naturally proud of it.
In fastening it together, If I hadn't in
advertently nailed it to the barn floor,
I guess I could have used it very well,
but in tearing it loose from the barn ,
so that the two could be used separate
ly, I ruined a bracket that was intended
to serve as the base, as it were of a
lambrequin which cost $9, aside from
the time expended on it.
During the month of March I built an
ice-chest for this summer. It was not
handsome, but it was roomy, and would
be very nice for the season of 1884 , t
thought. It worked pretty well
through March and April, but as the
weather begins to warm up that ice
chest is about the warmest place around
the house . There is actually a glow of
heat around that ice-chest that I don't
notice elsewhere. Pve shown it to sev
eral personal friends. They seem to
think it is not built tightly enough for
an ice-chest. My brother looked at it
yesterday, and said that his idea of an
ice-chest was that it ought to be tight
enough at least to hold the larger
chunks of ice so they would not escape
through the pores of the ice-box. He
said he never built one, but that it
stood to reason that a refrigerator like
that ought to be constructed so that it
would keep the cows out. You dt
want a refrigerator that the cattle can
get through ihe cracks of and eat up
your strawberries on ice, he says.
A neighbor of mine who once built a
hen resort of laths, and now wears a
thick thumb nail that looks like a Bra
zil nut, as a momento of that pullet
corral, svys my ice-chest is all right
enough only that it is net suited to this
climate . He thinks that along Behr
ing's strait, during the holidays, my
ice-chest would work like a ehara. .
And even here, he thought, if I could,
keep the fever out of my chest there
would be less pain.
I have made several other littia arti
cles of vertu this spring, to the con
struction of which I have contributed iv
good deal of time and two finger nailj.
I have also sawed into my teg several
times. -The leg, of course, will get well,
but the pantaloons will not. Parties
wishing to meet mo in xsy studio dar
ing the morning hour will turn into ths
alley between Eighth and Ninth streets,
eater the third sfcabia door cn tha, Iz't,
pass around my Gothic horse and give
the countersign end threa kicks on tea
door ia cidinsn tone cf -rel: