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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-23

rNORSALE.-1n quantities to salt and on easy tsrms
II my Otter Creek and other farns, In u Sale and Liv
ingstoR counties
0dell, lll.-Sept 91st 66H, WILLIAM SrRAWN
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
C0RRY O'LANUS On BOYS.

Some things may be said in favor OF
boys; some trades will hardly live
without them.
( The glass-put-in men wouldn't have
much to do, and putty would decline if
there were no boys to break windows.
There would be no customers for the
cast-iron peaches and green apples
ilicIi come early in the season but for
the boys. and the doctors wouldn't have
so much TO do curing cases of cholera
morbus arising therelrom.
Boys can be useful when they have a
mind to, and can sell newspapers, black
boots, hold horses and do chores.
In the printing offices, the boys are
known as devils-printers have a plain
way OF speaking.
Boys individually are better than
boys collectively.
If there was only one boy in the
world, think he would be a good boy (:
it generally takes at least two boys to
get up any mischief.
Have one boy in store and you can
have him useful.
Hire second boy and their time will
be chiefly devoted 10 chasing one an
other over the counter, and firing the
dust brush and directory at each others
heads.
A boy begins to be nuisance when
he is eight years old. How soon he
grows out of it depends on eircum-
stances.
Some never do.
1t is a question whether BOYS lead an
enjoyable existence. They take great
deal of fun at other folks expense, but
they have most always got grievances.
They would like to have their way a
little more, and u pretty way it
would be.
Give boy his choice of an occupa-
ton in life, and the chances are that he
would prefer either to be a Robinson
Crusoe, on desert island, or captain
of a band of robbers, such as he has
read about, and seriously thinks of go
ing into one or other of these desirable
occupations when he gets to be a man.
He has great respect for the Stage
driver and the captain of canal boat
there is an air of command III these po-
sitions that takes his ideas.
His idea of being a man is, having
plenty of money, doing what you
please, and being able to smoke or
chew tobacco without getting sicN
over it.
Somebody wrote song, II would
were a boy again" Those who had tie
bringing of him up are not likely to
have echoed the sentiment. Raising
boy once is as much as anybody wants
to undergo, and fortunately when they
once grow up, they stay growed up
and have boys of their own to afiict
them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
From the New York Tribune.
RIVET THE LAST PACIFIC RAIL.
BY GEORGE W. BuNGAY,

Rivet the last Pacific rail,
With silver hammer and golden nail;
For over the hill and over the vale,
The iron horse is swiftly coming.
Along the prairies wild flowers sweet,
With red lips kiss his flying feet,
" I'D eagles his wild scream repeat
His hymn of praise the bee is cumming.
Hail to the day and deedI
Hail to the iron rail-
Hail to the West, all hail!
How the rising and setting sun
Shall see the East and the West are one,
Wherever the steed of steam shall run,
The Union shall be one forever.
State Linked with State with iron bands,
Hearts linked with hearts, and hands with
hands,
Hail to our broad free lakes and landl
Hail to our free lAndsi
Hail to our free handsi
Hail TO the gold nailf
Hal to the last ruiII
Over prairies of gold and green,
over rivers that roll between
Plumed mountains Of richest sheen.
The steam horse tolls harder and harder
Now soaring the wild herds and flocks.
Now laundering over granite blocks.
Now climbing the steep shelving rocks,
Now up the Sierra Nevada.
Hail to the plains below!
Hail to the peaks of snow!
Hail TO the hammers stroke!
Hail to the echoes wokei
From ocean to ocean the rail
Runs over the mountain and vale.
w hich echo with blows on the aaiI,
Now heard by the hst'ning races.
Hail 10 the pathway of nations herei
lt runs To-day through hemisphere,
The good tnIie coming must now Ue near,
1t shines on our hope-lighted faces.
Hail TO the age of steam!
Hail to the iron teaml
Hail TO our iron bars!
Hail to our flag Of starsI
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
HOW TO MAKE SWEET BUTTER.
Extract from How net to be Sick" by A. .
HaIIukVS II

Extract from ''IIow net to be sick,'' by A. j.
.HailUWs, u. ID.
Food, to be perfectly digested, mu at
be taken only in such quantities as the
system demands, and ii we take only
natural food, in which is the appropri-
ate mixture of necessary elements, the
appetite can always be trusted TO inter-
pref the demands of the system. and in
that case we should never eat too much.
But eating. as we do, Aour, butter aud
sugar, which have but a part of the eic-
ments required, these articles can only
be digested as they are eaten with food
deficient in the elements which they
contain, and these are very few. Con-
seauently these redundant articles, in
just about the proportions in which they
are eaten, remain undigested in the
stomach and bowels, causing f1atulence
and arrangement of the secretions OF
the stomach, mouth, and all the diges-
tive organs, and the sordes OF the teeth,
bad taste in the mouth, fouIness OF
breath, and fastidious appetite, which
they always have who live on these con-
centrated carboDaceous articles.
| have often wished-but of course
never dared TO suggest the idea-thai
our fasiidious confectionery and cake.
eating Young ladies. who have no appe-
tite except for unnatural carbonaceous
food, and whose breath is in conse.
quence 50 offensive TO themselves as t.
require constantly some aromatic seeds
or irix. and whose mouth is SO filled
with offensive saliva, and whose teetl
so covered with sordes, that charcoal
and toothbrush need every day viii
not keep them clean, might look into
the mouth of COW. dog, or even 8
pig, neither of which use charcoal
toothbrush or trix. aud see how clean
the mouth and teeth are and how pure
the secretions, and-(s,angels and minis
tiers of grace defend us !'')-Hoac sacee
tbei1. breath is!-comparatiyely- Now
why Is not the breath of q young lady
as sweet as that of a-iittle child whs
needs no more charcoal, trix or tooth
brush than pig? and why is not he
appetite always as good, and her teetl
as clean? No reason can be given bu
that to which / have referred. Littl
children, cows, dogs and pigs digest al
| their food, and the waste passes Of
leaving the system pure. The foot
OF the young lady who hves on cakes
pastry, starch and butter remains IN
j digested, to derange all the digestiv
functions and eecretions in Just "a
proportion IS these earbonacecus art
cles take the place OF natural food.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

ILLINOIS AND THE WEsr.-Under this
caption, the Cincinnati Enquirer states
that, in polling over 450, 900 votes at the
late election, Illinois lis tPeading hard
upon the footsteps of Ohio, and by 1870
will very likely be with us. She is now
considerably in advance of where New
York was in 1910. Her vote is now
larger than Ohio cast previous to 1868. .
The next census will undoubtedly ex-
hibit growth not only for Illinois,
whose progress we view with so much
pride, but Tor all the States OF the West.
Our neighbors, Iowa aud Kansas will,
with Missouri, show an immense in
crease of population. wealth and re-
sources of all kinds. The COMPRESSION
al delegations of each viii be consider
ably larger than at present, unless the
ratio be reduced, and the voice of the
Great West in the National Legislative
halls wall begin TO assume that weight
aud power and influence to which our
grand and growing section is entitled.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MEMORY
The Buffalo Courier recalls an occur
renee in the New York Legislators
about eighteen years ago, when the
present Secretary of State was the Wing
candidate for the United States Senate
in place of Daniel s. Dickinson. The
vote in the Senate was a lie, but the I'M
explained absence of q Democratic MEM
Der gave the Wings majority, and Mr..
Fish was elected. Strange as it may
appear, q gentleman strongly resenI-
bling the absentee Democrat of eighteen
years ago turned up in Washington re-
Gently, and, spurning all red tape cir
cumlocution, had a private audience
with the Secretary of State-the same
Mr.. Fish-and soon after reappeared on
Pennsylvania avenue with the commits
sion for fat Consular Generalship In
his breast pocket. This is remarkable
case of memory in politician, whose re-
wards as class are generally actuated
by a lively sense of fayors to come,
not past, especially after so long an In.
terval as eighteen years:-NeiO York
Herald.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

The Fort Scott Monitor says that Mr.:
Wiley Britton, who has just returned
from Texas. informs US that the Calves
ton road is being extended north at the
rate of thirty miles per year, and that
they are waiting patiently for our Kan
sas road to be extended south. He In
forms us that there is a large body Of
rich country between Dallas and Calves
ton, that only needs to be developed to
make it one of the finest countries In
the South. Galveston contains a popu-
Iation of about 22,OOO. The buildings
are mostly of wood. Business in Texas
is not so good as in Kansas. This is
probably owing to want OF enterprise in
the SoutherE people. Let q few Ysn-
KEGS get down there, and they will see .
change for the better.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

THE LARGEST LUMP OF GOLD EVER
FoUND.-Accounts from Australia re-
port the finding by miner of the big
gest gold nugget on record. 1t was un-
earthed at a claim in Dunolly, where
big nuggets have been found before.
Two men were working for over year
at the place, and had found a couple Of
nuggets weighing respectively los and
SO ounces. Ia February last they sue
ceeded in opening up the largest mug
get the world ever saw. One of the
men in following the claim aud working
round the roots Of tree in his path,
struck some hard substance with hie
pick, and, not supposing it was gold,
exclaimed, Il wish it was nugget aud
had broken my pick" On unearthing
the impeachment the nugget was found.
though the pick sustained no damage,
1t weighed 2l0 pounds troy, and yielded
2,268 ounces and 10 pennyweights of
pure gold. 1t is mine in itself, worth
nearly $4,000 in coin, and about S4T, 600
in greenbacks.
The largest nuggets previously found
in Australia were as follows: The
Welcome nugget, found at Ballarat, at
the depth of $50 feet. and weighing I84
pounds ounces; the Blanche Barly,
found at a depth of thirteen feet, at
Hangover, and weighing Ids pounds 3
ounces; nugget at Canadian gully.
Ballarat, weighing 134 pounds II ounces,
at depth of sixty feet; the Lady Hoth-
am, weighing ninety-eight pounds.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
GHOST PHOTOGRAPHY-WH WHERE 1T
FIRST BEGAN.

Years ago man was i'll the employ
of Bigelow q Kennard, great jewelry
firm in Boston, in the capacity of en-
graver. He was an ingenious fellow,
and bought, among other things, pho
Geographic apparatus, and went to TAX
ing pictures for amusement. Mr.. Ken
nard tells the story, that one day he
took a picture on a plate that had been
previously rubbed out, and when be
developed it the original picture came
out more faint and shadOwy. AS
joke he showed it to a Spiritualistic
friend, and told him that it was the
work of spirit The latter readily be-
lieved it, called some OF his friends in !;
all wondered at it, and some sat for
their pictures and were taken and taken
in. So the business started up and the
artist was doing well. One afternoon
the Hon. Colorado Jewett called at the
artists studio, and said he wanted the
spirits of the great men of the past TO
come to his aid and inspire him TO do
great things. He wanted his picture
taken with the spirits of these men i'll
the background, and asked the artist
to put him through i'll that line. The
artist told him that he could not do it
then, but if he would come again he
would accommodate him, or at all
events. would make the effort. In the
evening the artist went out and procur-
ed the portraits of Webster, Clay, CAL
houn. Benton, and Napoleno, and the
next morning, before Jewett arrived,
he had the plates properly prepared.
Jewett sat for five pictures in success
sion, and one after another the great
men gathered around him. Jewett
was delighted but he wanted Washing
ton, and begged the artist to bring the
Father of his Country TO him. The
Washington in the house, and finally
Jewett knelt upon the floor and prayed
to have Washington come to his aid.
But Washington didn't come; the art
list thought it would be carrying the
| joke too far, and so the great American
diplomat departed without hin.-Netc
York Correspondence Of the San Fran
| cisco RuLlekiu
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

Rich WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE
Many a man is rich without money.
Thousands of men with nothing III their
pockets, and thousands with a good,
sound constitution, good heart aud
good limbs, and a pretty good head
piece, are rich. Good bones are better
than gold, tough muscles better than
silver, and nerves that flash fire and car
ry energy to every function are better
than houses and lands. It's better than
landed estates 20 have had the right
kind of a father and mother. Good
breeds and bad breeds exist among men
as really as among herds aud horses.
Education may do much TO check evil
tendencies, or to. develop good ones /:
butt is good to inherit the right pro-
portion of faculties to start with. The
man is rich who has favor of wit and
fun in his composition. The hardest
thing to get along with In this life Is a
mans own self A cross, selfish fellow,
q timid, esre-hardened maR-thesc are
all deforzned on the inside. Their feet
may not limp but their thoughts do. A
man OF fortune, On the brink Of the
grave, would gladly part with every
dollar to obtain longer lease of life.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
We fnd the following paragraph in

We find the following paragraph in
the special Washington dispatches of
the St. Louis Democrat:
ssThe fact has lately come TO light that
one of the last acts of Secretary Brown
ing was 10 order patents TO be issued to
j. +. Joy for the large tracts heretofore
reserved for settlers In the Cherokee
lands The matter was done with great
secrecy, but the agents OF settlers here
accidentally discovered IL, and this ac-
ton is said TO have largely Influenced
the late demonstration Of setf1ess on the
Cherokee tract
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

''SoRosIs."-This name is Greek, and
signifies fruit of many flowers" The
pineapple is the best known specimen
of this kind of fruit; and but seven va
rites have been noticed by botanists.
Every point OH pineapple indicates
the location of a flower, and the fruit is
the product of just as many flowers as
there are points; yet this consolidated
product of a cluster of flowers is as
much one as all apple which comes from
a single blossom. The ladies who took
this as the name of their club, aim to
combine as many women as possible to
act as one in any direction determined
upon by the majority. Their pledge is
TO aid each other in all laudable efforts,
and to defend each other from calumny.
At late meeting, they have resolved
10 oppose the dictum of fashion when
ever they shall deem it unreasonable.
Some of the best wives and mothers.
best housekeepers; most Womanly wo-
men we have ever met; are prominent
members of Sorosis, and tie associa-
ton is well adapted to developing true
wOmanhood. We should be glad 10 sec
branch of Sorosis in every city and
town in the land.-NTS. StciSShetns.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

was heinz Instructed in morals by his
mother. The old lady told him th4t al
such terms as by golly," "By jingo,"
BY thunder" &c, we're only minced
oaths, and but little better than any 9th.
err profanity. In fact, she said, he could
tell profane oath by the prefix by"
all such were oaths. well then,
mother said the little hopeful, ''there's
a big oath in the Kansas IribuRe-"By
Telegraph The old lady gave it up,
aud the boy is bewildercd on morals
laurence Tribune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
NOTICE TO STOCK GROWERS
THE YOUNG HORSE.

LON z ST AR.
UyILL stand the ensuing season As follows:
w At the stable Of the suoscFiher during
each week until the 15Gh Of July. except on
Saturday Of each week, when be viii be found
At Groves Livery Stable, In EmpoTiA.
LONE STAR IL q let black, four yezes old,
1ffeen and oaeshaif hands high.
Will serve mares at eight dollars 20 insure {
mare to be with foal; the money to be paid
when the mare Is known 70 be with foal, or the
property changes hands. DEacAFe Will ee 1ak.
en- TO prevent accidents but no responsibility
April q, 1852. is-sl
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

Senator Sherman has written letter
in which he says that while he is for
making the women equal with the men
as regards property, business, employ
menf, liberty aud social position, be IL
not for granting the right to vote till
majority Of the women concur in de-
tnandingft. "Aly fear" says he, els that
the right to vote will tend to disturb the
harmony Of society, make discord IN the
family circle, and Thus eGuse mach great
er evil than good
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

An exchange paper has the following :
sit is said that there are more p5s1ets
unmarried than any other ciass % pro-
fessoniaI men, For the tezsoe, We
suppose, that . majority @ H'sa -
rnen of fine sentiment, and 40 DOT Hsah
-. etarye anybodyss sister.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

They propose, in Ohio, to tax heavily
all unmarried men over the age oi
twenty-five. They should further pro
pose TO furnish such bachelors with
wives as want TO get married, but can.
not find ladies who, like Barkis, art
"wiIlfn."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

The German Catholics sent two and 8
half million dollars 10 to the Pope on the
occasion of his jubilee, and the an
dresses to him were signed by $1,000
persons.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

Dickens books do not sell in France.
Wilkie Collins and Hrs. Gaskell are the
only two prominent English authors
whose works meet with much favor in
France.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

James II. Billings, prominent COM
mission merchant of New York. who
died last week, worth S2,000O00, began
life as yankee Peddier," on q capital
Of 500.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

Total cost In currency at st. Louis. $40 s.
If now we deduct the Government
impost, S12 Is, we find that the ton of
Scotch pig, If imported free of duty,
would cost when landed in st. Louis,
S2S go.
The same pamphlet shows by similar
detailed statements that the cost OF q
ton at Pittsburg is from S27 IS to
$50 70; at Youngstown about S25, and
at Brazil about the same. Now iron
from England cannot be landed at Pitts
burg or at any other point above Mem
phis at less cost than it can be supplied
from our own furnaces, and the quality
of our iron is better than that of tile
imported variety, of which the Profess
sor gives the cost What follows?
the iron manufacture OF our country
moving fiom the seaboard to the banks
of the Mississippi, we sustain tariff SO
board, successfully. with foreign iinpOr-
tation. And therefore, thus far, 1t
stays, or moves westward but slowly:
Now q tariff for revenue only would
reduce the tax which the whole country
has to pay on iron, and ct the same
time yield larger revenue to the gov
eminent; it would rapidly drive the
iron manufacture to seek its strongest
and most permanent basis on the
banks of our interior streams, and it
would there speedily develope that
manufacture to such a degree that we
should soon be able to supply the sea-
board itself with iron at much lower
prices than are now paid. Are not
these legitimate conclusions from the
facts stated ?-lfissoRIE Democrat.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21

Nine churches Of San Francisco pay
s24, $40 per annum for choir music.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
ALMERIN GILLETT.
A NEW TAILOR SHOP.

HTOULD announce To the public that he has
wv opened Tailor Shop at the store Of G.
w. Frederick. in Emporia, where he will Mt
all times be ready to wait upon those who may
favor him with their patronage. Clothing re-
paired and renovated. Clothing cut for others
TO make, a speciality.
December - 1888
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
THE LION BUSINESS.

In an srticle Saturday, we stated that
\ better iron can be imported for $3.50
per ton, without duty, can now be
made at Carondelet for $500 per ton.
In other words. even If there were no
tariff at all on iron, the Carondelet fur
mace would be able to supply the trade
in spite of foreign competition. This
statement will surprise some readers,
but the latest pamphlet by Professor
Waterhouse on the resources of Mis-
souri,, which has been placed before US
since that article " as written, gives de-
tailed proofs to which we did not then
have access. A perusal Of this very In
teresting paper, which the Professor
has prepared with great labor and care,
will show any candid reader that the
State of Missouri ought to become the
great If not the only iron producing
State, so remarkable are our advantage
es- The Professor shows by transcript
from the books of the establishment st
Carondelet, that the exact cost of max
ing one ton of pig iron there Is as fol-
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Lovers. observe! Before man enters
the abode Of matrmony he should ting The
belle.
Babies are the coupons attached to the
bonds q matrimOny. The interest Is due
81 random.
II you 20 into store and End The clerk
living on the counters sleep, yo1 may know
that The firm don't advertise. Anything Tor
quiet life.
An honest dame IN New York. Standing
beside The corpse VI her deceased hashand,
bewailing. IN piteous times, his uniimeIy
departure. observed. s'Ii's pity he's dad.
for hs teeth are as good as they ever were
Two physicians 81 lhr bedside of pa.
iisnt dispuled as TO the nature ~ The dis-
esse. At last me Or them erded the dis.
cassion By saying: VERY we'll, have IL
yosr own wsy noS, but the post mortem
will show that an right" The patient
was not much encouraged.
To be woman Of fsshiOn is one of The
easiest things in the weird. A late writer
thus describes il. "Buy everything you
don't want. and pay Tor aoihing yss get;
smile on all mankind but your basbst a; te
happy everyshere boz a, home