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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
"sTIcK TO YOUR BUSH.


Mr.. Morgan was rich and also a
good man. The people of the town
respected him, sent him to Parliament,
and seldom undertook anything with
out asking his advice. If school
house was TO be built, the plan had TO
be talked over with him. Widow p.
asked him what she should plant in her
field. Farmer s. always got his add
vice in buying cattle, and Mrs. R
consulted him about bringing up her
BOYS.
full, Mr.. Morgan said:
Il will tell you how it was. One day.
when l was lad, party of boys and
girls were going to Il distant pasture to
pick whortleberries. I wanted TO go
with them, but was fearful that my IA
Their would not let me. When / told
him what was going on, and he at once
gave me permission to go with them, l
could hardly contain myself for joy,
and rushed into the kitchen and got
big basket, aud asked mother for
luncheon. l had the basket on my arm,
and was just going out of the gate,
when my father called me back. He
took hold of my hand, and said in
very gentle voice: Joseph, what are
you going for, to pick berries, or to
play = To pick berries / replied.
Then, Joseph, l want to tell you one
thing. 1t is this when you find a pref
ty good bush, do not leave it to find a
better one. The other boys and girls
will run about, picking little here and
little there, wasting a great deal of
you do as they do, you viii come home
with an empty basket. Ii you want
berries, stick to your bush.'
II went with the party, and we had a
capital time. But it was just as my IA
Their said. No sooner had one found a
good bush than he called ali the rest,
and they left their several places and
IAN of to the new found treasure. Not
content more than minute or two in
one place, they rambled over the whole
pasture, got very tired, and at night
had but very few berries. My fathers
words kept ringing in my ears, and
stuck to my BUSH When l had done
with one, l found another, and finished
that then / took another. When night
came, l had large basketful OF nice
berries, more than all the others put to-
gether, and was not so tired they
were. l went home happy. But when
l entered, l found my father had been
taken ill. He looked at my basket of
ripe, black, berries, and said: We'll
done, Joseph was it not just as told
INV SO1Sh w SOoA OuoiAs
lie died few days after, and L had
to make my way in the world as best i
could But my fathers words sunk
deep into my mind, and ! never forgot
the experience of the whortleberry par
ty-I stuck to my BUSH When had
a fair place, and was doing tolerably
well, did not leave it and spend weeks
and months in finding one little bet
ter. When other young men said,
Come with us, and we will make a for
tune in few weeks i shook my head,
and stuck TO my bush.' Presently my
employers offered to take me into bust
ness with them. 1 stayed with the old
house until the principals died, and
then had everything 1 wanted. The
habit of sticking to my business led
people to trust me, aud gave me char
acter. l owe all have and am to this
motto-'Stick to your bush.'"
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A FoEcIBLE ARGUNEST.-In urging
upon prairie farmers the importance
of tree culture, both fruit and forest,
the following reasons, presented TO its
readers by the Nebraska NeUs, had
never occurred to us. 1t says;
He'll is represented 10 be entirely
treeless, owing to an unquenchabie con-
flagration which is peculiarly unpropi-
tious to timber growing. The inhabi-
tants of Nebraska should endeavoF to
make their homes as unlike hell as pos
sible This can be easily accomplished
by putting ont trees-fruit trees, forest
trees, all Kinds of trees. That there are
trees in Paradise, everybody knows !;
but understanding branches in hell
will never be heard of. Plant trees"
Who has not seen, upon bleak hill
top or sun -scorched plain, farm house
surrounded by neither fence nor tree,
its unresieved walls making desolation
appear more desolate2 And who has
not seen the neat farm cottage upon the
hill surrounded and protected by state
Iy trees and thickIy eluitered shrubbery |;
or nesting In a shady grove in the val
ley, its windows and doors half shut
with climbing roses and honey
The difference between these two
condition is none too forcibIy illustra-
ted by the Nescs, in its figure of heaven
and hell. One is an earthly paradise !;
the other, at least q foretaste of perdi-
tion.-h1asds Fdr7Rer
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AFTER BRIGHAM YOUNG, wharf,
can discover no successor to Brigham
Young. He has men of ability-Inen Of
fanaticism and courage-aronnd him;
able instruments for his will; but see
no coming man for his place no one
who can stand ia his shoes, who can
command such obedience among fol-
lowers, such fear among outsiders, such
serene victory over himself. Most OF
his wisest and ablest associates, men in
spired with the traditions of the church,
aud inspiring the faith OF ita members,
are all old like himself. They and he
must soon die: and, If not before, then
will enter in the elements of doubt, and
difference and disintegration, In re-
Spouse to the elements of change end
revolution and recreation that follow
the banuers Of civilization and OF de-
mocracy everywhere. No Mormon viii
admit this perhaps; but IL Is . truth by
a diyiner sight than any that he pOssese-
es. Devout as Mussulmsn, devoted as
q Romanist, Jealous as Methodist, there
is higher truth than he has mastered.
the truth in the revolution in the inter-
ests Of equality, Of individuality and OF
woman's Independence. These are
against him these will conquer him,
pray he ever so sacrediy, fight he ever
SO valiantly. Brigham Young Louis
Napoleon, the Sultan and the Pope ara
all doomed by the same law. Slavery
went down under ii, pofygamy win fol-
iow.--Sansaes B0scers.
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SMALL FRUIT.-A correspondent of
the Country Gentleman makes the state
ment that Buffalo, last year, furnished a
market for Loo bushels OF Blackcap
raspberries from the single town of
Knowlesville, Orleans county. One
dealer there has 8 contract in Buffalo
for all the BIackcaps he wishes to fur
nish at twelve cents a pOund-a quart
weighs a little over pound. Mr.. L.
j. Potter of Knowlesyille, commenced
sending Bfackcaps to Buffalo in 1851
First season only sent 10 bushels, which
there was some difficulty in selling at
all, and for which he realized less than
five cents quart net, or only Sl.0O per
busheI. There was very little demand,
as few appeared to want them. The
next year they sold better; go bushels
brought 81 cents per quart-Over 50
per bushel. The third year 355 BUSH
els sold for I09z cents-S3.2S per bushel !;
while the fourth year he sold 395 BUSH
els for 49, cents per quart. which is
S4-26 per bushels, and gives the nice
sum of 81 ,5S4 net for the produce of
six acres. Since that year, 1865, prices
have huctuated, as will be the case with
all products, but / believe have given >
fair profit on the average Of every crop,
although there are many growers, and
thousands Of bushels are sold every
year.
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A REFORM DEMANDED.

The New York Independent utters
ton just now attracting unusual atten-
ton among the thinking men of the
country:
1.-The distemper, or rather the vice,
which makes offices the reward of po-
litical services, with which jefferson
and jackson inoculated our body poll
tic, must be eliminated, Or it will be
the death OF it. 1t is a malady that can
only be cured by radical treatment
which must proceed from the people
congressional doctors at Washington
who get their chief gain by it. Fitness
for the places, to be ascertained by COM
petitiye examinations, and not dirty
work done i'll caucuseS and at the polls,
must be the only claim TO them, if this
flood of corruption is to be stayed. And
when thus gained, there should be u
permanent provision for the holders,
during good behavior; regard being on
ly had to the way in which the duty is
done. This will be effected when the
great lazy public-perhaps, rather, the
too busy pubiic-wakes up TO the truth
that offices exist for the nation, and not
for the Office holders for the masters,
and not for the servants; that the pub
lie service is train to be run not in the
interest of the conductors, brakemen,
and engine-drivcrs, but for the passen-
gers and shareholders. This is a re-
form that stands nearest us all. It was
impossible so long as. slavery existed
Ii is possible now, but only by strug-
gle second only. in difficulty to that
which has Overthrown slavery. The
organization and the corruption TO be
resisted and overcome are scarcely less
perfect and less extensive than those
created by slavery. But the same means
which brought the arch-eneIny of the
human race to destruction can put am
end to the lesser foe which threatens
our republican life.
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AS It is of much interest to the peo-
pie of the State at large to know how
the State House is progressing, we took
q stroll through its cumbrous arches ia
the basement. Messrs. Tweeddale g
Cook are laying the pipes beneath the
floor first, and also the erchfng Of brick
between the iron joists of the hrst floor,
which will be grouted and made level
for the floor above. The partition walls
which divide the Offices on the fret stO-
ry are nearly mp to the main hall. The
stairways viii turn right and left from
the hall at the west end of the building,
and will be broad and commodioas.
and no doubt will be the means Of lifs-
ing many man up In the world, who
we hope will retain his position after
he has made the hall resound with his
eIoquence. The work is heavy, and
must necessarily progress slowly. Be
patient, and If you live . few years
you will be proud Of the State House,
the Capitol Of the State of Kansas
Kansas Daily Common scedLeh.
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TRAINING HORSES.

''Horses, as general thing" says the
Rochester Union, ''get too much whip
ping and too little feed. If a man loses
his hat while driving, he whips his
horse to pay for it. If he runs into an
other wagon through his own careless
ness, he whips his horse to make it all
right. If his horse slips or stumbles, he
gets whipped for it. II he does any
thing. he gets whipped"
There is too much truth in this; and
yet, if colts were properly trained there
would be little occasion for whipping
at any time. Colts are left entirely too
long before they are taken in hand for
breaking in. Their future life should
be part of their earliest education, in
stead of as generally now being left to
go as they list until the time arrives for
the professional "breaker" to practice
on them. 1t is just as easy while COM
mencing to fondle and pet them to teach
them to be obedient TO the halter and
other things, and they would then be
brought to work more easily and with
a better spirit than they now often are.
We saw at the close of the war a seven
year old which had hitherto known
service as a cavalry horse, broken in
to go in heavy wagon. The cruelty
it was nothing else-necessary though
it seemed to be, was shameful. The
owner had bought him for that purpose
and he would not pull. Two men with
green clubs beat him for nearly an hour,
during which time he broke the wagon
and gears nearly all to pieces, in his
rearings and lyings down. He learned
at last that all this meant that he had TO
pull forward, aud he ever afterward
was an excellent driving horse. But
all that suffering might have been avoid
ed by a proper training when young.
There are some horses like some men,
whose nature is essentially vicious, aud
with whom the rod cannot be spared
without spelling the child; but with
proper training of the colt it would be
found in horse raising as i'll child rails
ing, the old rules OF Kicking and cutting
will be oftener more honored in the
breach than in the For
ney's Press.
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Dom Piatt illustrates the demoraliz-
ing effect of holding Office in Waghing
ton by this sketch:
II saw sitting in chair of the lobby
DOT long since creature who had lost
in drink almost the semblance of man.
His ragged clothes were actually indie
cent, while his swollen hands, feet, and
red, bIoated face, made the passer-by
turn his head aud hurry on. He sat
there half asleeps q poor, sodden
wretched creature. And yet l had
known the time, only twelve years
since, when / was glad to know this
man. He was handsome, intellectual,
welI-nlannered and pleasant. lie had
then been offered and declined, as be-
meath him, the position of Assistant Sec
rotary of the Treasury. He gave delic-
ious little dinners, was merry aud liber-
al But he did accept an Office in Wash
ington, and sank lower aud lower, un-
til now, while write he sits ioathed
thing in the lobby, Stunned by all
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
DISEASES AND REMEDIES In FRUIT
GROWING.

One of our correspondents says: Be-
ing contributor to your paper, l have
read with a good deal of interest the
articles published on horticulture. My
experience for the last thirty years in
Western New York in grating and
fruit growing makes me disagree with
some of your correspondents in some
points as to the disease and remedy I'm
fruit growing. There has been an I'M
usual interest manifested for the past
few years in fruit growing, and an un-
usual falling off in the article produced.
This leads us to examine our practice.
There has been great number of fruit
trees distributed through the country,
but few have arrived at good besriug
condition. Those who planted in .
good natural soil succeeded very well
with comparatively little trouble; 9th.
ers, taking little pains, planted their
trees in unnatural soil, expecting good
orchards with little trouble. This lat
ter class has been sorely disappointed.
/ hear them complaining of the borer
destroying their trees or mice girdling
them. In the first instance the trees
could not get sap enough to keep them
alive in the rays of the sun, consequent
ly they were more or less injured, ex-
cept those that lean to the south, the
leaning ones being in shape to catch
the rays of the sun more direct. They
are killed first on the upper side; then
u small white worm, common in forest
timber, comes to prey on the dead
places. In the absence of the worm the
dead places are generally attributed to
the blight. The blight generally at
tacks the most thrifty trees. There Is
another worm, rightly named the borer
they usually work near the ground, and
are not very troublesome I'm this Sec
ton of the country; they work in the
peach and pear trees, as well as the APP
plies. / would recommend, to protect
young trees when set ont, TO make q
box four or five inches in diameter and
long enough to reach the first limbs
from the ground, placed around each
one. The box will be found very benz
eficial in protecting forest or ornament
al trees newly set out from the rays OF
the sun, and will also be protection
against snioo and rabbits, sheep and
swine. The box may be substituted for
a round bore tile, made in two halves,
and put together around the tree. and
will serve to keep the tree straight, and
secure a safe projection, except to large
animals; il should be as low as where
the roots branch out. With regard to
the curcnliO, they attack the fruit aud
cause it to fall off soon after 1t is out Of
the blow. For this troublesome pest I
would recommend putting something
OH the top that would emit an offensive
Odor, and out of a great many expert
ments we may get the best remedy, or
they disappear like the nudge in the
wheat. If any of your readers have
thrifty bearing tree, graft it to Rhode
Island greetings, and they will have no
reason to cucit DOWN. Y. Times.
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IMPORTANT no THE PUBLIC.
UNITED STATES INTERNAL REvEzUE,
Collectors Office. District Of Kansas,

Collectors Once. District Of hansss
Ieayenw orth, May 56th, 1853.
II is believed that, through misappre-
hension. an important provision Of the
Revenue Law has been very generally
violated in this District.
The amended act of 1867 provides
In Schedule G, for the stamping of Can
ned Meats, &C., in the following words !:
For and upon every can. bottle, or
other single package, containing meats
fish, shell-fish, fruits, vegetables. sauces.
sirups, prepared mustard, jams or jel-
lies, contained therein and packed or
sealed, made, prepared and sold, or of
Tered for sale, or removed for consamp-
ton in the United States, on and after
the first day Of October, eighteen hun
dred aud siXty-six, when such can, bot
tie or single package, with its contents,
shall not exceed two pounds in weight,
the sum of one cent.
When such can, bottle, or other single
package, with its contents, shall exceed
two pounds in weight, for every adj
ditional pound, or fractional part there
of, one cent"
1t will be seen by this, that the articles
enumerated in this paragraph must be
stamped before they are offered for sale
by the dealer. They are permitted to
leave the mandatory in trade packages
without stamping, and may pass from
the hands of one dealer to another, IN
the original package, without liability
to stamps; but so soon rs an original
package is broken, for sale either to
dealers or consumers, each bottle or
package must receive the required
stamp. twill not do to put them upon
the shelf of store or shop, for sale, be-
fore stamping. If so placed before the
public, they are ''offered for sale" and
are liable to seizure and confiscation.
The law, in this regard, will hereafter
be rigidly enforced, and it is hoped that
every one will Immediately bring their
practice to a strict conformity with this
construction of the law.
j. GEORGE T. ANTHONY,
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A WossA1.s SERMos.-Dear friends,
there are three things very much woIis
der at. The FIRST is, that children should
be SO foolish as to throw bfickbats ana
clubs into fruit trees, to knock down the
fruit; If they wauld sIet 1t alone It
would fall itself. The second Is that
men should be so fooliah and even 80
wicked as TO go to war and XIII one az
other If they would only let each otss-
err alone. they would dis Of thenselves.
MI tho third and last thiag which
wonder st Is. that young men should be
so unwise as to 60 after the young We
men If they would only stay 1t hoEles
the young women would come azsee
them.
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PERSONAL PROPERTY.


1st. Family bible, school books and
family library. I'd. Family pictures
and musical Instruments used by the
family. Sd. A pew in any church or
place of public worship, and a lot in
any buryiBg ground. 18th. All the
wearing apparel Of the debtor and his
family, bed, Dedsteads and bedding,
cooking stoves and all the appendages
and all cooking utensils and stoves,
sewing machines all spinning-wh heels
and looms, and all other implements of
industry, and all other household fur
niture not herein enumerated not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars in value.
9th. Two cows, one yoke of oxen or
one horse or mule, or i'm lieu of oxen or
one horse or mule one span of horses
or mules, twenty sheep and the wool
from the same either raw or manufac-
tured. 9Th. The necessary food for
support OF the same for one ycar,
either gathered or growing or both, al
so one wagon, cart or dray, two plows,
one drag, and other farming iInple-
ments, including harness and tackle for
teams not exceeding $500. 7th. The
grain, meat, vegetables, groceries and
other provisions on hand, and also the
fuel necessary for the support of the
debtor and his family for one year.
Sth. The necessary tools and inple-
meIlts of any mechanic, miner, or other
person used for the purpose of carry
ing on his trade, not exceeding 500.
9th. The library, Implements of Office
furniture of any professional man.
Heal Estate Register.
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The Lancaster (Alissouri) Excelsior
knows a girl in Schuyler county, who,
Zone night last summer, attended ball,
danced all night, went home In the
morning, got breakfast, dinner and sup
per for ten harvest hands, did two
weeks, washing and the milking, made
a calico dress. practised her music les
son. went blackberrying, gathered .
gallon, walked 20 town in the evening
10 attend . concert, and walked home
again before bedtime
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Uncle Sans treasury is in pretty
flush condition, when be can boast of
one hundred and twenty-five millions
in gold. We hope Boutwell, will con-
tinue the policy of selling gold and
buying bonds. Its results Wiil very
soon be felt.
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A speaker at the late Equal Rights
Convention In New York told the la
dies there assembled that there were
more woman in the country than fDea
opposed to woman suffrage. he was
undoubtedly correct ....4r
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CHEAP GATE.


Mr.. A Walton, of this county. one OF
our most intelligent and successful
farmers, says the Lawrence Tribune,
sends us the following plan for con-
structing q cheap gate-a desideratnin
on every farm. Mr.. Walton SAYS he has
used this gate a year or more and con-
siders it one of the best, for the cost, that
can be devised:
Take three fencing boards, run them
through the mortice in common bar
post, nail two pieces on each side, let
them extend sufficiently below the lower
board to almost touch the ground, SO
that when you shove your gate it will
slide upon them; the same at the other
end, leaving enough of your boards to
enter the mOrtice, and you have it. No
cost for hinges, no trouble about the
wind, no getting out of repairs. If you
wiso TO go out with a horse, you can
open it sufficient to let you out if with
a wagon, open wider. The best of il is,
its cheapness-SI.5 0 for pine lumber,
one pound of nails and one hours
work
MADISON, Kansas, May Odd, 1869.
FRIEND SToTLER: / clip from the
Lawrence Tribune of May 9th, the
above plan for cheap gate. Now am
using on my farm a gate which con-
slider much superior. have used both
kinds, and think the following plan for
a gate, much the best of any ever saw.
1t has, for me, lasted three times as long,
without repair.
Take tree from the timber that viii
trim up straight thirty feet and be three
inches across the top end, cut off two
posts six feet fong from the but, mOrtice
three holes five feet apart, commencing
two feet from the small end, and put in
3x4 studding long enough to reach with
in four inches of the ground; when the
gate is hung take four fencing boards
twelve feet long and nail to the stud
ding, and the gate is made. To hang IT.,
set the posts twelve feet apart; in the
clear one put latch to fasten the gate.
In the top end of the other bore two
inch hole and put in pin that will be
three inches above the top of the post.
After it is drove home, bore a two-inch
hole in the gate at the end of the boards,
farthest from the small end of the piece
used for the top part of the gate, raise
the gate and drop the pole over the pin
in the post; balance with a stone, or if
you want it little nicer, box of sand,
and you have gate that is easy TO open
or shut, can never sag or draw the posts
and will not get out of repair. 1 re-
member on the old homestead in Ohio
my father had one of the above gates for
over five years without its getting out
of order, and it was operating good for
as many more when he came West.
The cost of the gate will be, say for
the tree, so cents; twenty -four feet fenc-
ing, As cents; l make and hang one in
half day, IS cents; one-half pound
nails, 5 cents. Total, S1.7S.
For yards or garden gates use dressed
stuff, and it will be a gate ornamental as
well as useful. Respectfully yours,
w. b. GoDFREY
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EMPoRIA MEAT MARKET.
u. SCHMTDLING,

e
VIII furnish the citizens OF Emporia, and
surrounding country with fresh nests at all
times nc their new meat market, in the old
Clerks office building, one door north Of Fra
ker a. PeytOn's-
Flour, Meal and Shorts for Sale.
CASH PAID FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE
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