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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

The Atlantic Monthly for December
is on our table and excels the usual
high standard of that magazine. The
prospectus for 1869 is full OF the prom
Use of good things from the host of able
and entertaining writers who regularly
contribute to its columns.
We quote the following from an ar
tiele on cooperative, Housekeeping
in the number before us.
COOKERY.
Regarding cookery, ] believe that.
like dress, it will never be what IL
can and ought to become, until women
of social and intellectual culture make
it the business of their lives, and, with
thoughts unfettered by other household
cares, devote themselves, like lesser
providences, to its benign necromancy.
Being one of the great original func-
tons of woman, like clothes-making
and infant-rearing, there is no doubt
but that she has special gift or instinct
for it; while the superior keenness of
her senses and fastidiousness of her
taste must fit peculiarly for all its
finer and more complicated triumphs.
All the Paris letters lately have men
toned Sophie, cook of the, late DIR.
Vernon of Paris,-Oniy woman, and
probably an uneducated woman at that.
Nevertheless, she is said to be "the
most consummate culinary artist of the
day; looking down with unspeakable
contempt on Baron Brisse, and even on
Rossini and Alexander Dumas. Minis
tiers, bankers, artists, men of letters
paid obsequious court to this divinity
of the kitchen, who ruled despoticallv
hats eft o1s,- 4
room, and who had made it law that
no more than fourteen guests should
ever sit together at the doctors table"
If such is her success, what an artist
was lost to the world i'll the New
England house-keeper l attempted to
describe. Delicate to etherealness, &C.
curate to mathematical severity, she
might have wrought marvels indeed
had she been initiated into the myste-
ries of the modern cuisine. Therefore.
above all things, let the cooperative
appoint one of their
number, at a liberal salary, to the Office
of cook-in-chief. If possible, let them
afford her every advantage of CASTRO
nomical education, such as go through
the great French chefs, who learn
another, CONNECTION from a third. and
so on. If the cooperative kitchen
should ever become universal. we shall
probably see American ladies by dozens
going out to Paris to study under Just
such artists as the great Sophie above
mentioned, and then returning home to
benefit the whole country with their
1t is well known
fact that no nation in the world has
such variety and abundance of the
best food that Nature gives as we our
selves. She teens with such bounty 10
her adopted children that it has often
seemed to. me missioner to call our
country ''Father-land"-Ho
she is for the whole earth, with her
broad lap of plenty sloping from the
Rocky Mountains down to the very
Atlantic shore, as if inviting the hungry
nations to come over to it and be fed.
w hat feasts fit for the immortals might
grace every table, if we knew how to
turn our treasures to the best advantage
and to think that millions of us live
on salt pork, sour or salaratus bread
and horrible heavy pies I
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04

The st. Louis Journal Of Horticulture,
being asked to give list of apples suit
ed for cultivation i'll Missouri, names
for summer, the Red June, Early Har-
vest and Red Astrachan :; for fall, Maid
ems Blush, Rambo, and Pennsylvania
Red Streak; for winter Winesap,
Rawle's Janet, and New York Pippin.
The Hutchinson Pippin and Fall Bell
flower, of Johnson county, Missouri
are we'll spoken of.
Fruit-trees, bushes, canes and vines,
will be greatly benefited by a heavy
mulch or dressing of manure in the fall
This will not only be protection to the
roots from that alternate freezing and
thawing which is SO injurious to them,
but it will also furnish supply ofthose
ingredients which are necessary for
keeping up the health, vigor and pro-
ductiveness of the trees. Wood ashes
contain salts of potash, and other ingre-
dients which exist in very considerable
proportions in wood, bark, foliage and
fruit, and on this account they should
be applied every fall to large and small
fruit trees, bushes and canes. Although
barnyard manure is good material for
mulching, it sometimes furnishes COW
er for mice which girdle the trees when
snow covers the ground.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04

The Scientific american cautions the
public against the use of adulterated
vinegar. The heavy Government tax
on alcohol has raised the price SO much
that resort is had TO cheaper substances
to give the required acidity to vinegar
For this purpose, sulphnric, nitric and
hydro-chloric acids are all used though
sulphuric acid, as the cheapest and
sourest thing that can be found, is
chiefly used. This, however, is very
destructive to pickles and whatever is
placed in it for preservation, and very
injurious TO the health of those who use
the vinegar made of it. A gallon of
the stuff called vinegar can be made for
a cent or two from sulphuric acid and
water, with some coloring matter. To
detect the presence of sulphuric acid,
take a small quantity of the vinegar in
clear glass and drop few drops of
the chloride of barium into it, or the
nitrate of baryta. Ifthe liquid presents
a cloudy appearance, there is sulphuric
acid in it, and it should be returned to
the manufacturer or. turned into the
gutter.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04

Mr.. Pollard, in an article on Stone
wall Jackson in Patnona's Monthly for
December, states that he once recon-.
mended night attack to be made by
assailants stripped naked, and armed
with bowie knives, suggesting that the
novelty and terror of such an appari-
tisn would paralyze the enemy.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04

In reply to q young writer who
wishes to know (which magazine will
give me the highest position. quickest"
the Petersburg Express Gays sta powder
magazine, if you contribute fiery ar
ticle.o
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04

A fashionable Washington lady. who
has a billiard table in her mansion. in-
vites her friends TO billiard break
fasts."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04
''tFs' MRS. c. Z. WINNIE
Has opened q
MILLINERY AND DRESS MIX.
Frs ESTABLTSHMEN

ID Next door south OF the Postofice. CONNER
,cial street, where she will be glad to see
the ladies Of Emporia and vicinity at all times.
she IL prepared 10 do all work in the line,
speh - dressing straws, felts, etc. Give her
. call. 11-36
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04
Brick by the Million
Large Size, Good Quality and Cheap.
ROBERTS & RICE.

Are now manufacturing the best quality of
brick, of large size and good color, and
are prepared to deliver almost any amount
either at the place of building layed up in
the wall, ut reduced rates. Those who are
DESTROYS of building will do well to consult
them. They are old and experienced ma
sons and will guarantee satisfaction to those
dealing with them. ROBERTS & RICE.
EmpOria, Kansas, September 18th, 1858.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04
BLESS mel amt it pleasant, n
Dining on a rail.o

Kansas CITY Journal of Commerce.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

Sea sickness.
We hpve an utterable honor of sickness
at sea and, to be candid, we are no especial
lorer of sickness on land. The following
condensed picture of saltwater disagreea-
bility We clip from letter addressed to
the Boston Chronicle:
At my suggestion my physician ordered
me tc Europe for my health. That's the
reason why l am here on board the steam
er Minnesota, halted at the mouth of the
Mersey waiting for the tide.
The voyage has been achieved in twelve
days, and should think about hundred
and twelve nights. Some people may en-
Joy the night at sea. do not. The ex-
ternal circumstances have been all that
could be desired, the internal circumstan-
ces, to use the stereotyped lingo of the re-
porters, beggars description. Going to
sea for ones health is very much like 60
ing to perdition in search of salvation.
At any rate, it would serve admirably as a
purgatory for that large class of wicked
people who have just enough religion to
make themselves intolerant and intolera-
bic.
TO say the truth, sea,voyahe is a
necessary but unmitigated evil. 1t is
evil, only evil, and that continu ally-es-
pecially continually. OF all the dreadful, ,
dismal, disheartening, disgusting and di.
abolical diseases known to the bowels OF
humanity, sea-sickness is the most dread.
ful, dismal, disheartening, disgusting and
diabolical.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

The LONG AND THE SHORT OF Ir.-The
fashion of occupying a portion of the edi-
torial page of newspaper with para
graphic wit or wisdom is an American one.
British journalists, until lately, have pre-
ferred to pen all their lucubra lions for the
day in two or three long articles. They
are beginning to adopt the American sys-
TEN now, however, and although the
innovation was commenced in ondon by
the Telegraph, it has spread, we see to the
Star, the News, the Express, and the
Standard. This looks like a newly
acquired relish for common sense. In
this busy, working world, nobody but the
idle has. leisure to peruse two moral col
umns in order to possess himself Of ideas
that might be more forcibly conveyed in
half column and if journalist has
many tropics he wishes to discuss with his
readers, he can discuss them more poin-
tedly himself, and more pleasantly for
them, in concise, familiar paragraphs,
than in elaborate and didactic essays. AS
an English writer justly observes: sit is
not to be questioned that the time is at
hand when anything like long articles in
newspapers will be thought insuferable.
Editors will have to follow the example of
Liebig in another province of food; facts
will be demanded in their essence. Para
sraphists will be the future leading press
men,"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

AMIABLE WEAKNEss.-All authors are
alike in one respect, viz: they all love to
have their literary bantilings known and
eulogised. Distinguished or obscure,
affluent or INDECENT, dependent upon OF
Independent of the worlds opinion, they
equally share in this amiable in6rmity.
Even the queen of Great Britain is not ex.
empt from this little display Of complacen'
cy, if it be true that she desired her pre-
mier. Disraeli, to allude to her late pub.
lication in his speech at the Literary Flnd
dinner. Nor would the same minister
have mentioned her majesty's book in a
parliamentary debate without instruction
Authorship, like death, reduces US all, il
is clear, to the same level. We all court
the smile of that "dear public" which
those who must affect to despise commonly
most care to propitiate.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

How THE Pubic DEBT Is PAID.-Mar
with large sums of gold soliloquizes-
"Next Monday my property is to be as
sessed. l have on hand $1,000 in cur
rency and $4,000 in gold. cannot af-
ford to pay taxes on all that, yet don't
want to swear that have less. Let's see;
how am l to manage it? All have it
now )" and he walks rapidly down to the
third national bank.
Good morning, Mr.. Al" and the
smooth featured cashier is all smiles, for
he knows who 'Mr. A." is.
''Well, thank you, Co. returnes the
aristocratic A. ''lIave you any 7-3Os ON
hand ?'
60 yes" responded c., show many
will you have?'
"Well," (calculating) "the matter of
$4,000 or so. The fact is, c., want to
report to the assessor Monday, and want
to get rid of my yellow boys for few
days. These taxes are devilish high, and
don't feel like paying the government
taxes when l can avoid it, These poor
devils that are toiling in our machine
shops, on our streets, or tilling the soil,
will do that for me.''
$50 much, my boy" patting MIR. c. on
the shoulder, ''for having a good radical
government!
Hoorah for Grant and Colfax.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09
Facts fnr the People.

General Blair is the best abused man ira
the country, and man abused by the
Radicals without the least possible cause.
1t was Blair who was the first Union man
in the Slave States to raise troops to put
down the Rebellion, and the first also to
raise the anti Slavery standard in Slave
State. He was saint SO long as he wasa
Republican leader, but wears horns and
hoofs, now that he carries the Democratic
flag of equal rights for States and People!
Mr.. Greeley proves in the Independent
of this week as clearly as that two and
two make four that he has no confidence
in the success Of the Radical ticket. His
public reasons are that much sis yet to We
| done = that six times as many Grant clubs
are necessary that the clubs must gather
and CLEAN half million votes from those
who are now Indifferent or hostile" to the
Republicans, which he says ''implies such u
canvass as has never yet been made in our
country" So far from Grant and Cofax' Il
election being certan he saws: 'They
9 are this hour in peril Of defeat, and twill
4 surely be beaten if their steadfsst supper
c ters arc not speedily aroused to general an,
c intense activity"
d Republicans 'have to poll their ycr
0 last vote in half of the States-many NOR
a States beginning with Connecticut and eS
e tending through New York, New Jersey
O Pennsylvania and Ohio to Indianna-o
Il Seymour will be President ''There i
J. danger-grave DANGER" he adds. Whel
g the worst comes to the worst Broehe
: Greely can console himself that Grant wa.
not the man of his first choice and that the
Tribune pronounces him "a deaf and
dumb man. without policy, and in its
issues of April something worse.-N T..
Express.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

We are told that the Elkader German
Herold is now pointing its guns directly
at the Democratic, liberal, conservative
party. Its subscription was obtained on
promises of neutrality, large numbers of
democratic germans sustaining it to show
respect for their language. If it has col
lected money under such pretenses it
should disgorge and own the falsity of its
promises. MIR. Eibeck and Mr.. Papin,
owe to their reputation to straighten this
little matter. Germans here will not be
thus imposed upon. We have heard some
very unkind talk toward all concerned in
this small way Of getting up list for sale
to the highest bidder.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

History.
Would-be Vice President Colfax, in a
recent speech, asserts that "the history of
the republican party is written in the
brightest pages of our country's annals"
| The following are the more prominent
results Of the success of the radical party
which now seeks by usurpations and
military force to perpetuate its power, as
stated by the New York Express:
lst. The history of the radical PARTY
| began in 1860, in war which extremists
north and south labored to precipitate.
I'd. In two millions of men, north and
south, in arms, facing each other with the
destructive weapons of warfare Of modern
invention.
Sd. In the loss, north and south, of
over 100000 of lives.
4th. In an expenditure of over four
billion of dollars for the north alone
1000, 100000.
9th. In an existing debt of over two
billions and half-2, 500. 100000.
9th. In the heaviest taxation ever i'm
posed upon any people in any country
under which our labor is so groaning, tha
it can nowhere come into competition ever
with taxed Germany, England, or France
7th. In enormous high prices upon
everything.
Sth. In an irredeemable currency of
mere paper money, $3OO,OOO,0O0 in ma
tional banks, which is paying the owners
If them from 10 to 30 per cent. per an
mum, and in S4OO, 100000 of greenbacks,
not good enough even to pay duties to the
custom house, or interest due the bond
holders on their $500, 100000 Of debt.
9th. In standing army of 60, 900 men
on paper, $4,000 men in fact, costing
millions and millions Of dollars, nearly
$2,0OO,O0O for every regiment.
10TH In the hordes of freedmen's bu-
reau office holders, paid for by the north
to govern the negroes of the south, costing
millions per annum.
llth In cloven negro governed states
admitting the most british darkey to vote,
but excluding over 100000 of the most
intelligent white votes.
10Th. In tariff which drives off from
the outer ocean preserving for Americans
only the coatwise trade) almost every
American ship, and which nearly stops
all foreign ship-building in the United
States.
18th. In tariff monopoly which every
| where makes the rich richer, and the
poor poorer.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

SOMETHING OF DiFFERENcE.-The ex-
penses Of the war department for the en-
tire four years that James X. Polk was
president, were 800, $40, ,7SS. This EN-
braces the expenses consequent upon the
Mexican war.
The expenses Of the same department
the year enGiag July lst, 1864 time of
peace-were $l2s 1853 ,494-over SIS. S.OOO,-
600 more than it cost for four years of
Mr.. Folks administration, including the
Mexican war.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

A SIGNIFICANT FAcT.-In speech re-
Gently delivered by Senator Sherman, he
says that the interest on the public debt
for the last three years has amounted to
Of yshs hs public III asS dss iay' Ia. nas
paid in that time. Yet he gives the inter-
est paid now as SAL ,635,5 per year. 1t
seems that we pay more interest now,
with $266,0OO,OOO, of the debt paid of,
than we did before it was paid. There is
a screw loose somewhere. His tinancering
is like that of this state. We pay an
interest hero of $4,000, with the state
reported out of debt.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

The Rev. Adam Poe, who died recently
in Chincinnati, was a grandson of Adam
Poe, the famous pioneer who killed the
Wyandootte chief. "Big Foot" on the
Ohio river, just above Wheeling, during
the early settlement of that region of
country. 1t was a terrible contest, Poe
being a very large and powerful man, and
the Indian himself being almost giant
in size. Poe killed him at length with a
blow from the butt of his rifle, breaking
the stock. The broken gun-stock is still
preserved in the Poe family.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

Washburne, Of Illinois, while urging
Congress to adjourn, said:
''He desired an adjournment at the car
liest possible moment. for if they went on
at the rate they were going. the Govern
mcnt would have neither money nor credit
left"
What an admission for leading Re-
publican to make on the floor of Congress,
and in the face Of the American people
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09
IIoorah for Grant and Colfax.

TEXT AND CoMENrARY.-The following
text and comentary place the acts of the
Radical party in their proper light before
the American people:
Iert.--Governments derive their just
powers from the consent Of the governed.
Declaration of independence.
Commenta,y.--Mr. Woodward inquired
of Mr.. Devices whether the reconstructed
governments in the South could be1main-
tanned in any other way than by the bayo-
net.
Mr.. Dwees--We can if you will give US
arms to keep down the rebels, and by no
other means. If you want to sus-
tain those governments, you have got to
give to us some assistance.--De6ate an
House Of Representatives, on 23d July.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

There is man in Vermont who cannot
speak to his father. Previous to his birth,
a coolness took place between his father
and mother, when Tor some time she re-
fused to speak with him, but the difficulty
was healed before the son was born. When
the child was old enough to talk, it was
found impossible for him to speak or an
swer his father, all his attempts to do SO
resulting in groans and tears.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

Brigham. Young said, in recent sermon,
that he had refused several young men the
privilege Of becoming acquainted with his
daughters because they (the said young
men) were ''profane cusses," and then
added: II do not wish my daughters to
be entangled with one who does not serve
God. would rather see every one OF
them sealed to Father Perkins here, who
is eighty five years of age, than that any
one of them should be sealed to u wicked
man."
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

Commissioner Capron, Of the agricultural
bureau, has abolished the system of dis
tributing seeds, except SO far as to furnish
seeds for experiment to those who desire
to test them, with u view Of improving the
products of the country.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

A REpLr.-Some ''loyal'' gentleman as
suming the name of "Teddy O'Toole"
writes to the Chicago Journal, commend
ing Blair to the people because he likes
good whiskey and sarcastically advises all
to vote for the Democratic ticket as in
such case the "whiskey" will come down
to cents drink. A home correspon-
dence of ours, a genuine Irishman and an
unassuming poet withall favors US with
the following, by way of rejoinder. 1t is
brief and to the point:
Mister O'Toole its mistaken indeed,
think that y'ees your verses read,
For just my honor, and lay by all cant,
Theirs few could dhrink whiskey wild johnson
or Grant.
And faith you'll excuse me if that begin
To dale wild your heads this great ladin sin
You may think I'm dishloyal ard coppery too,
You may think as you like, but steer this canoe.
To begin at the head thin, they say in q class,
Folks must not throw stones, whose housse are
glass;
The great loyal party on which all depnd,
Has found at the last that the glass is their frind
Now Misther o'Toole, and what does yees think'
Was your candidates liver too loyal to dhrink?
They niver refuse either whiskey or wine,
Didn't GRANT your great leader, fight it out on
that line,
JIMMIE.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

People all feel good when they poetize
whistle or sing. 1t is gratifying to see
what influence the certain prospect of sue
cess in November has upon all the demo.
Gratis. Here is a lively touch from North
McGregor, entitled "New words to an old
tune" 1t will pay to read:
Rhymes for the Times.
Workingmen, have you heard the news
That's floating all around,
The Bondholdels hereafter
Must pay their tax es down.
No more with untaxed millions,
Will the bond-holder be seen,
While working men are taxed to death,
The PEOPLE aint SO green. .....
The time of shoddy managers
Is very nearly past,'
Like other dogs the 'yve had their day.
But we're muzzling them quite fast
And in November al the polls,
We will sweep them out so clean,
They'll show their teeth and snap and bite,
But People wont he green.
We've heard them snarl these seven years,
A bark wont scare us now,
The New York platform. muxzle on,
will stop their big "Bow wow!"
And after next election time
On Salt River they'll be seen,
Their theivins ':jokes" are growing stale;
The PEOPLE are not green.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

The year 1869 will witness the compile
ton OF the two greatest engineering enter
priscs the world has ever witnessed-the
Sucz Canal and the Pacific Railroad.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

A very enterprisins Italian is getting up
IA company to reclaim and cultivate the
Desert of Saraha by digging artcsian wells
i'm the sand.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

Gen. Garibaldi has resigned his seat in
the national parliament.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

TESTIMONIALS.
HON. GEO. w. WOODWARD.
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court ef Ih, writes:
Philadelphia, March IL, 1867.
81 find IIoonands German litters Is
q good tonic, useful In diseases OF tho
digestive organs, and ~ OF great bencnt IN
cases of debility, and want OF nervous
action in the system. Yours truly,
lVAADW ARD
The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-09-19

Why is it
 That Dry Goods are sold cheaper in Prescott than elsewhere this side Of San Francisco! En- quire of HENDERsoN Co' mylS