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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS
CLUB.

Session of Tuesday, Nov. 30.-Hon.
N. G. Ely in the chair. John w. Cbamb-
ers, Secretary.
The audience was so large that clust-
of lockers on near the door could not be
seated. Many ladies were in attendance,
and they are always welcome. Business
was begun by the reading ola letter from
IL Connecticut correspondent, who stated
that he is young and unmarried, has a
capital of $4,000, has been educated a
farmer, and has no wish to change, ex-
cept as to location.
DIR. Smith, am a great admirer OF
Kansas, and am not informed of any
more desirable locality to recommend.
Mr.. Ely have an excellent opinion
of Kansas, especially since the Fair OF
the Institute, at which fully one hun
dred varieties of apples were shown
from that State. They bore no mark OF
moth or curculiO. and were certainly
the finest OH exhibition.
Mr.. Meeker-It must be remembered
that Kansas fruits are The first of the soil.
and consequently are better than they will
be by-and-by. When I was in Kansas.
not many weeks ago, l tasted some o.
The fruit, and | found it, in many in
stanses, spongy-like man overgrown.
However, it is an excellent State to go To
provided one is sharp and smart. ThoS
here now are of this character, and the
new ones who come in must be posted
or they get the worst of it. Further
West, even greater qullific ltions of this
kind are requisite. Next week I may
take OCCASION to give somewhat more
definite information bearing on this very
subject.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31
AN OLD FASHIONED KIrcnEN.

My grandmothPrs kitchen was great,
wide, roomy apartment, whose white
sanded floor was always as clean as
h4nds could make it. Ii was respl. nd mt
with the sheen of a set OF secured pew.
ter plates and platiers. which stood ar
ranged on dresser on one side. The
great fire place swept quite across all
other side. There we burned cord wood.
and the fire was built up Oh architecture
al principles known to those days. First
came an enormous back log, rolled in
with the strength of two men, on the
top of which was piled smaller log !;
and then q fore-stick of size which
would entitle it to rank as log in our
time, went 10 make the front foundation
of the fire. The rearing of the ample
pile therefore was a matter of no small
architectural skill, and all The ruling
members of our family circle had their
own opinions about its erection, which
they maintained with the zeal and per-
finacity which becomes earnest people.
My grandfather, with his grave smile,
insisted that he was the only reasonab e
re-builder of the establishment; but
when lie had arranged the sticks in the
most methodicaI order. my grandmother
| would. be sure TO rush out with thump
here and twitch there, and divers in
coherent ordinations tending to imply
that men never know how TO build a
fire. Frequently her intense zeal for
immediate effect would end i'm general
rOut and roll of the sticks in all direc-
tons, with puffs of smoke down the
chimney, requiring the setting open of
the outside door; and then Aunt Lois
would come TO the rescue, and, with
face severe with determination, tear
down the whole structure and rebuild
from the foundation with exactest pre-
cisioiI, but with an air that cast volumes
of contempt on all that had gone before.
The fact is, that there is no little nook
of domestic life which gives snug har-
Dor to so much self-will and self-right-
eousness as the family hearth; and this
is particularly the case with wood fires.
because, from the miscellaneous nature
of the material, and the sprightly activ-
ity of the combustion, there is con-
slant occasion for tending and altera-
ton, and so vast field for individual
opinion.-From HRS. Stoare's "Oldtocn
Folks.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31
AGRIt ULTURaL EXPERIMENTS.

In the present state of science it is un-
doubleday true that very many disputed
questions in agriculture must he settled
BY experiment. rather than by scientific
reasoning. The frequency with which
farmers are urged to try experiments is
fully warranted by the value of The re-
suits when the experiments are carefully
| conducted. 1t is a matter of surprise
that nearly all of us will contentedly go
through life believing, thinking, guess
ing that a given practice in agriculture
is better than another, when with a very
little labor we might know positively
whether it is SO or no. But while all
this is true, it is true that many agricul-
tural experiments have done no good,
and that some have done harm.
Two things, among others, must be
remembered If we would make such ex-
periments of value. They must be re-
ported accuraiely-with no guessing as
to times, amounts, etc.; and positive
conclusions must not be hastily drawn.
There is q tendency TO neglect both
these points. A farmer will decide TO
try an experiment in feeding, for III
stance, but ueglects weights aud meas
uremeuts, and when lIe comes to sum up
the results he finds. practically, but a
series OF guesses. Or if he tries an ex-
new mode of sowing. he sews ''about'
so much seed on "abcut" so much land,
at E.about the first of May," and reaps
ga little over" so many bushels. Such
experiments may enable one to give
some approximation to correct results,
but they are comparatively valueless.
The second point is also very common
~ neglected. A farmer will purchase
seed of a new variety of grain and, find
ing it do we'll one year, and under one
set of circumstances, at once assumes
that it is very valuable and exactly suit
ed for general cultivation, when further
testing may show that the success the
first year was exceptional, and that 1t has
little real value.
In some careful experiments with po-
tatoes, conducted by Prof. Daniels, of
the University of Wisconsin, it was
found that the yield of different lots,
apparently under almost exactly the
same conditions, varied greatly: so
much so that directly opp osite cOnclu-
sions as to profit could be drawn from
the experiments with different lots, TAX
en- separately. The same degree of va
ration was found in the case of expert
ments in feeding pigs and sheep at the
Michigan Agricultural College, under
the direction of Prof Miles. Without
any perceptlDie reason, pigs III one pen
failed to thrive and sea- cely made any
growth with the treatment under which
those in another pen thrived finely. Had
the experiment been limited to one pen
it is evident that the result might have
been very different from the average
one, attained by striking the average OF
a number of experiments.
These instances, and others which will
readily occur to farmers, illustrate the
necessity for care in drawing general
conclusions.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

Insanity prevails, to large extent, I'm
California and especially in San Francis
co. Disappointment in the pursuit OF
wealth is considered the principal cause.
During The year ending October 81, 1869,
no less than 214 persons were examined
by the Commissioners of Lunacy in San
Francisco. OF this number, three was
discharged at once, seven were sent 10
the Home for the inebriates, eight TO the
AIms-house, and the remainder to the
Insane Asylum at Stockton. Only five
were reported in and discharged from.
that establishment. Of196 persons sent
to the Asylum, 118 Were single men.
which is supposed to indicate that bach
eiorhood is bad for the brains. But as
a large proportion of The population OF
San Francisco consists of Young men
who have gone there to seek their for
tunes, the proportion who become in
sane is probably not greater than among
the married men or the women of the
place. But the gross amount of insani-
ty is very great for city of the size OF
San francisco.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

CHINESE HoNEsTY.-An article in
the December number of the Atlantic
Monthly. OH the Chinese I'm this coun-
try has the following paragraph in re-
latioil to the proportion of crime found
among them:
"Ford's history of Illinois relates that
in the early days OF GaIena the only
question the settlers asked about a new
conner was will he stealY IF that
could be answered in the negative, they
regarded him as an eniinently desirable
acquisition, All emiHently respectable
man. John can stand the same test. his
enemies TO the contrary Botwithstand-
ing. Many of our Chinese immigrants
came from the coast; their lives at home
were chiefly spent on the wafer, and
they belonged to the poorest, most ig-
norant, and degraded class. Their treat
ment IN California, too, has given them
unusual provocations to crime; and the
cruel laws which forbid their testifying
against white men in the courts have
greatly aggravated the disadvantage at
which their Ignorance of our language
alone would be sufficient to place them.
Some Of them now confined in the Cal
ifornia aud Nevada penitentiaries are
believed TO be wholly innocent of the
ofenses for which they were sentenced.
And yet, Notwithstanding all these
drawbacks, the public records of both
States show that the percentage of Chi
namen convicted ofcrime Is much small
er than that of foreigners in general,
and but trifie larger than that of our
native born population. Furthermore,
the Six Companies, 10 some one of
which John always belongs, exercise
such paternal care that no Chinese beg
gar is ever seen in the streets of San
Francisco, and no Chinese patient in
the public hospitals. And the first
Chinaman unable to read lis own Ian
guage has yet to make his appearance
in California.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31
ANNA DICKINSON ON THE mORMONs.

Miss Anna Dickinson is giving the
people of San Francisco her impression
on Mormonism. The Chronicle of that
city gives full report of the lecture,
from VI iiich it appears that Miss Dick
inson likes Salt Lake City, which she
calls the Sodom of the plains, quite as
she deIests its inhabitants. The streets
are wide aud clean, the buildings are
beautiful, and the scenery around it is
picturesque, but the men and women
that inhabit il bear on their faces the
stamp of brutality and .'ebasemcnf. and
even the little children that play In the
streets are wretched aud unhealthy look
ing, with countenances hat reflect the
most Brutal passions of man. Miss
Dickinson visited several Mormon FAM
lilies, and eUnversed Ii eelv with the wo-
men concerning their condition.. Nome
of them, she says. are happy. They
wear "drbaSed servile air. look
more like tolerated slaves than conpan-
loss. Many OF them are worn and ia
died and cklv-mlde SO by excessive
child bearing. nearly all the middle-aged
women having borne from ten to fifteen
children. Some did defend polygamy
at first, but closer questioning revealed
a sad unrest and discomfort. One NO.
man was especially earnest in her asser-
ton that she lived happily and would
not change her conditions if she could;
but when Miss Dickinson questioned
her about her early English life, and
painted the picture of the little cottage
at home and the courtship, and at last
the marriage to one whoie-souled. hon
est husband; and how they would live
together, and how she would wait at
the door of their home and watch for
his coming in the evening, and when
HI iya6 har ho anrtlA nnf no hannu
in such home, the Mormon wife put
her handsome hand to her face and
bowed her head and cried, %. my God
couldn't I? And then it was plain, it
was easy TO see how that woman really
thought and felt"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31
THE SEWERS OF PARIS.

That indefatigable American, Rev.
DIR. Bellows, included the great sewers
among the sights which he made it his
business to see in Paris. and he gives
the following account of them: DE
scending n winding staircase, we found
ourselves at twenty feet below the SUR
face, in stone tunnel. through
the cen er OF which ran a channel ten
feet wide and perhaps five deep, through
which stream OF almost inotfensivc
sewage was just about emptying itsel
into the Seine. Suspended in the air OIL
iron posts, ten feet above the floor, were
two great pipes of the diameter of six
feet each, through which the water ffO Tvs
that supplies certain parts of the city.
Telegraph wires, Enclosed in lead pipes,
were also hung OH the sides of the vault
of the sewer. Gas pipes I looked for.
but did not find, and why cannot sur
misc, as there seemed ample room for
them and much more. The long hail
for it seemed such-opened in several
directions, aud lighted quite brilliantly
with oil lamps and refectOrs. = = We
kept passing the numbered openings o.
smaller sewers, matching the streets
above, and into each of these were APP
parrantly openings from each building
in the street. 1t is said that there are
three hundred miles of these sewers.
and if all Paris is brought into the sys-
tenn, there is nothing eXtravagant in the
statement. The plan seems to be TO
make the sewers SO large aud high aud
light, and to pour so much water COLI
tinually through them, that it will be
possible for a necessary force of men TO
live constantly in them (there is day
and night watch, twelve hours each,)
watching and preventing any stoppage
or accumulation, any leakage or injury
of any kind, either 10 the sewer itself or
to the pipes that carry the water, the
telegraph wires or any gas pipes that
may exist in other parts OF the system.
= The proof of the thorough purify
of Paris above ground is the essential
sweetness of the sewers themselves
and this is proved BY the fact that hun
dreds of workmen live here twelve
hours of every day without sickness or
developing any local disease, aud still
more by the daily evidence thar troops
of ladies and gentlemen go through the
sewers without spotting their gaI ments
or disgusting their senses"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

Gen. Boynton, the Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
tells the following incident, showing
how a sharp clerk brought TO light one
of the tricks of that honest fraternity
known as government contractors:
A clerk in the Interior has done and
said good thing. Contractors who
bid for stationery in the departments
have a trick of bidding very low upon
all articles which do not come into gem
eral use, and very high upon the staples.
This has the effect of making the aver
age of the bids low, and at the same time
affOrding a large profit. One of these
contractors had marked blue ink, quarts,
down on his schedule, one-eishth Of
cent per dozen. A day or two since he
was surprised at receiving an order for
eight dozen. He hurried up 10 the de-
parfment in person. The chief of de
vision knew OF no great necessity for
such q food of blue ink, and the clerk
ordering it was summoned to explain
the sudden demand. He replied that
nothing unusual had occurred TO in
crease the call for this ink, but that he
had not thought it worth while to order
less than q cents sc0Tth.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31
A YAGAB0ND SAGE.

An old man of very active physiog-
nomy, answering the name of Jacob
Wilmot, was brought up before the Po-
lice Court. His clothes looked as if they
might have been bought ond-handed
in his youthful prime, for they had suf-
fered more from the rubs of the world
than the proprietor himself.
" What business?"
None I'm traveller"
"a vagabond, perlIaps?"
You are not far wrong. Travellers
and vagabonds are about the same thing.
The difference is, that the latter travel
without money, and the former without
brains"
"Where have you traveled?"
"All over the continent"
For what purpose?"
observation"
+ "What did you observer"
"a little to commend, much to GEN.
sure, and a great deal to laugh at"
"Humph! what did you commend ?"
ga handsome woman who will stay
at home, an eloquent preacher that will
preach short sermons, good writer
that will not write too much, and fool
that has sense enough to hold his
tongue"
"What do you censure?"
GA man that marries girl for her
fire clothes, a youth who studies medi-
cine while he has the use of his hands,
and the people who will elect drunk
ard to office"
"What do you laugh at?"
81 laugh at a man who expects his
position to command that respect which
his personal qualifications and qualities
do not merit"
He was dismissed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

PLoD AND PLUCK. - Henry Ward
Beecher spoke the other day at the
commencement exercises of a business
college in New York. We quote pas
sage on plod aud pluck:
81 do not believe business man who
says he has asked for employment aud
cannot get it. 1 know of many now
out of employment, but they are drones
they are not business men of the world.
A business man may lack good many
things, but he will get OIL If he has
pluck. There is no business man who
ras not goi pluck, and it is the business
of Mr.. Packard to teach you all pluck
in life, as the first incentive to business;
and 1 hope that he teaches you another
word, which is the greatest business
word in the world-I name it in its
home1iness, and it is an old Saxon
word-it is called pLod. tOh,' says
somebody, he is only a plodder.' On
ly plodder! All! there never was
man-tlIe most brilliant genius in the
world, who does not owe to this pro-
cess of being plodder. 1t is very well
Tor genius 10 consecrate and light the
path of life, but it must be pluck and
plod that carries a man over the paths
of fife. 1 would have these words in
scribed over the walls, the pluck of life,
the plod of life.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31
Emporia Advertisements.

"AVING associated themselves in tn,
III Real Estate business, they are prepared
to purchase and sell town lots, improved anC
unimproved property, make conYeyances, PAL
taxes, &c.
They have for sale desirable property Of al
kinds, from raw prairie TO farms under higl
state Of cultivation.
They will issue papers containing full de
scriptions of property for sale. Those having
property to sell would do well to place il il
their hands.
yer. those purchasing from them will have as
surance that their titles are perfect.
In our list will be found
50
Acres of improved land 81 miles n w Of EN-
poFia; 25 acres of good bottom land 60 acre:
under fence: 20 acres under cultivation; pref
~ good log house, coal bank. 100 bearing trees
5000 peach trees in nursery. Price $15 pei
acre.
Acres Of first class bottom land ~ miles from
Neosho Rapids; acres Of good timber; 5(
acres under good fence. 40 acres plowed; good
BILE, good well, lasting stock water; g good
spring on the place. Time given on 800. Price
S1,25O.
fenced. 40 broken; acres of timber, living
water; hewed log house 16X24, 2 stone chin.
neys; stable, outbuildings, &c. Price $1,000
Acres of unimproved land, 81 miles n OF
Emporia; smooth, rolling prairie; living
water from a spring. miles from Americas
and Plymouth. Price So per acre.
Acres miles west Of Emporfa: 20 acres OF
timber; so acres well fenced and in cultiya-
ton; pretty good log house 14x1S, and 16x1s
stable; good well, good peach orchard, 70
bearing trees, small fruit, good stock water,
building stone. Price $500.
l9O
Acres miles from Emporia; .25 acres of bot
tom, some timber, living water. Price slope
acre.
Acres on Badger creek, miles east of Empo-
ria; good second bottom; 30 acres broken
good stone quarry, stone quarried to build a
house, lasting stock water, good spring, &c.
Price $500.
Acres of improved land, miles n w Of Empo-
frame house 16x1S; good well; in good neigh
borhOod; convenient to schools, market and
pasture land. Price 500.
Acres of unimproved land, 10 miles south OF
EmpOria; good quality of second bottom and
smooth upland; lies close to Eagle creek, on
the road to Eureka; fine stock range; conVen-
lent to school house; would make a pleasant
home. Price % per acre.
Acres of good upland, 6 miles northwest of
Emporia; good stock water the year round.
Price 80 per acre. ,ao
Acres 10 miles of Emporia; good, smooth
second bottom, n mile from timber; good
stone quarry on one corner; close to school
house. Price So per acre.
I6O
Acres miles west of Emporia. Best quality
of upland, being or Of sec 3 IL IL. Price
$1,000.
We have a large list of lands for sale. ana
those desiring it will please send to lIs and we
VIII send them the 'EmporiG Land Ad1er-
tiseT'' free.
we, aane large mumDer o. Gity lois and I'M n
show them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

Ida Lewis, the Newport heroine, late
~ received letter from a young man
in Bridgeport, which ran thus: Eek
cuse me for taking the opportunity of
in the pleasure. On looking over Frank
LesIie's paper / first saw an account Of
One to whom thought ! would love to
hold a correspondence with. I am
Twennty Three Years Age, Black Hair,
Black Eyes, Fair Completed, Five feet
md Ten inches in Highland am now
doin a business in this place, etc shall
endeavor to call upon you in the month
Of and if everything provesfavora-
able shall make you one of the Happi-
lest as well as one ofthe Proudest Ladies
in the Land"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

The receipts of produce from the,
West at New York show the rcmarka-
BILE fact ofaB immense increase OF wheat,
which. for the eleven months of the cur
rent year, amounts TO q. 0S4630 bushels.
against 1880, 1913 bushels in the same
time last year. and 9.343.979 the year be-
fore. Tie increase OF wheat -four is
about l6 per cent. on receipts in rorres-
pondimg times. Germ and corn meal fell
of in about the same proportions that
wheat and wheat -four have increased.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

a large number of temperance men
of Chicago have again started move
meBt looking TO the enforcement of the
Sunday law requiring all liquor saloons
to be closed on that day. 1t is thought
that the new Mayor will be willing to
enforce the law. The former Mayor
never attempted it. A mass meeting
has been held, and committee appoiat-
ed to wait upon the present Mayor and
urge him to enforce the law.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

If one wants to commit wickedHess,
and hide il so effectualiy that even Mrs.
Harriet BeecheP Stowe cannot scent il
out, or even the recording angel find il
At The great day. let him bury it in the
Congregational Globe. 1t will siumber
there beyond the reach of the last trump
in the finaI judgment.--Doa Pratt.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

Reports from Kentucky say the hog
cholera is prevailing very severely in
the central part of thai State. Wednes-
day the meat inspector of Cincinnati
condemned drove of 200 hogs just re-
ceiysd from Paris, KY, on account Of
tile cholera.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

The citizens of Battle Greek, Michi-
gan, have subscribed 100000 TO Car
son League fund, and appointed vigil
alIce committee of twenty-five to pros
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

The n. Y. Tribune thinks the indica-
tons are that Congress win pass free
banking act during the session, and viii
not accede to Boutweil's suggestion Of
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

The following is the amount of grain
in store at Chicago: Wheat. 2.I11,7I7
bushels: corn, 496, 057 bushels; oats,
46l ,793 busheIa; rye, l30,264 bushels /;
barley, 3s5, 40 bushels.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

A wealthy bishop congratulated
poor priest on the good air which he
breathed in his parish, 70 which the lat
fer replied, "Yes, my lord. the air
would be good enough If one could live
On il"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

An Englishman paid thirty francs fer
the cushions on which Eugenie leaned
In her gondola ride in Venice
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EmpOria Chapter u. D.. H. A. VI.
meets at Masonic Hall every Saturday evening,
n ~ O'Clock. Companions in good standing
are cordially invited to attend.
P. B. PLUMB, Il P.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-31

Union Lodge No. Is, meets at their hall In
Emporia, third story of new bank building.
every Tuesday evening ut O'Clock D. m.
HIRAM CONNER, n. G.
J. w. NORRIS, Secretary