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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-10-20

day We are more frcibly impsesed viii the
Truth d this observation, and he young
men Of the pFeseutdhy especially, have need
10 ponder these words. The gentleness of
her manner, the sweetness Of her disposition,
the purity Of hR- 'na1uee, snA her natural
grace and dignity, are the irresistible charm
which will prove the salvation Of those who
come within the sphere Of her influence, for
the love and society ola virtuoH, intellec-
tual lady, Is the mose eAectual safeguard
young men can have against temptations Sd
prevalent in crowded citiea. II Il true, that
men immersed in business or absorbed in lit
eraTy pursuits, or in the search of political
honors, may, after manner, live without
the refining, elevating cOnpaniOuship of the
other sex, but such an Isolated existence is
imperfect at best, and there Is NO real, heart
felt happiness to brighten il Man was not
made to live alone, and despite his pretended
yearns for quiet home, irradated BY the
smile of some chosen one, ~ the sunlight IL
lumines the lonely vale, and his soul is sad
and lonely, without the congenial mate that
Heaven designed should be his from the b.
ginning. Then in the hour Of trouble sick
ness-what Is man without the tender minis-
trations, the soothing presence and gentle
voice Of an household angel; her con6ding
ways her tenllernea. and her, helplessness,
all renders her inexpressible dear, and the
true husband feels in the depths Of his heart,
that life would have no charm without her
society Al! thank God for woman! This
Is the utterance that springs involuntarily 10
every heart that has felt the holy power Of
her love and presence. With her to lead
one away from the vices and vanities that
beset US, our heart will grow tenderer, Purer
and better day BY day. f-
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KANSAS CITYCENSUS.

The Journal Of Commerce, Kansas City,
prints in conspicuous type at the head Of a
leader the figures representing the footings
Of its census roll. Then it proceeds to COM
ment upon the same in facetious vein. If
it he true that the resting places of those who
have passed into the unknown country,
whittier We are all tending, have been visited
and their names once more sacriligiously
used to promote the selfish and silly ambitions
of wild and frenzied municipality, then
this brazen advertisement and accompanying
facetious commentary, take on a gashtly as
pcct. We have no hesitation in advertising
or Discrimination to publish the census re-
turns of our sister village Of Missouri, 81
$50.
We are making no criticism Of the men,
women and children Of that illustrions mod
ern Herculanaum. How could he tell
who were dead or alive when he
entered the buried highways in
the bowels Of the earth? Some, undoubt-
cdly, seemed to he alive. They talked and
made motions like unsepulchcrcd people.
But il is weired place to go-the under
cavities where men and women and chill
.lrcn are buried And it would take man
Of iron nerve to refuse to report what he
thought he heard, without particular exami
nation. We acIuit the Marshal Of all pur-
pose to exaggerate the figures. We have a
great dread Of underground cities, and should
probably multiply our figures by incalcula-
bic ciphers under the shivering responses Of
the people of sepultured city.
There are, We repeat, above and under,
3. as6-if the Journal is reliable paper.
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KANSAS FARMER.

We have received the October number
of the Kansas Farmer. OF course this jour-
nal is an institution of the State, and the
farmers, and all other business people, who
we'll know how intimately their Interests are
connected with these builders of the wealth
and greatness of the nation, will consider its
claims without any encouragement from US.
The Journal nov, as it comes to us, is most
emphatic testimonial of the energy, enter
prise and ability of its editor and publisher.
1t is published in the same form, and with
almost equal mechanical skill, as the Agri-
c,dtxria. We have personal pride in
having It fulfill its mission. We once under
took its conduct and publication-in the
days of turmoil and strife, of excitement and
uncertainty in this State. There was no
labor in the newspaporial profession that
We would have given with greater gratiica-
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SINGULAR DEATH.


An Inslian, his Squaw and his Dog
wild Staring Statues I'm q Tent-W n
Aed Explorer.
A Sioux City Uowa) paper says: We
learn the following interesting particulars OF
the death of the noted Indian farmer, Vel
low Hawk, and his wife and dog, near Fort
Sully, from Colonel Bannister, who has Just
returned from the upper country: G
yellow Hawk was shrewd old Indian,
who had abandoned his native mode of life
to great extent and gone to farming on the
Peoria Bottom, fertile piece Of land in the
up river country. BY his industry and
economy he had accumulated wealth enough
to purchase horse and cart, with which he
has been in the habit for the past few years
of traversing the country and disposing of
the products of his farm to the different forts
and posts within his reach. He always car
ried with him a canvass tent, which he
would pitch whenever he saw an approach
ing storm.
About three weeks ago there passed over
Fort Sully a terrible storm, and in it old
Yellow Hawk yielded up the ghost. On
the day following the storm party of men
ran across little canvass tent pitched upon
the river bank. There were no signs of
life about it, and one of the men, out Of Curl
osity, went up to it, and lifting the canvass
door stepped in. There, in one end
of the tent sat Yellow Hawk, erect
and rigid as statue, with his eyes
wide open, and one hand firmly grasped
on a dogs neck, and the dog stand
ing on his fore legs, and partly sitting on his
launches, staring wildly in the same direc-
ton as his master, while on the other side
of the dog was the wife of Yellow Hawk,
resting on her elbow on the ground, and
staring in the same direction that the other
occupants of the tent were gazing. The
man was inexprcssibly terrified by the spec
tacle, and his first impulse was to run, but
there was something SO wildly strange in
their eyes and the general expression of their
features, that he was bound to the spot. Not
a muscle of their faces moved, and they
held their positions like statues-they were
dead. .~
The balance of the party were attracted to
the tent by the prolonged absence Of their
comrade, and they saw the scene above des-
cribed. They left the tent without disturb
ing the attitudes of the dead, and went on to
Sully and reported their discovery. A party
of soldiers Immediately repaired to the spot,
and found them still in the same positions.
1t is presumed they were killed by light
ming during the storm Of the previous night,
still there was NO evidence that their death
was caused in this manner. Their features
bore an expression of intense fear, but there
was no sight of the lightning's work about
them, or about the tent. They were buried
on the spot where they were found, by the
Indians
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Francis Nutting, Of Lansingburg, COM
mitted suicide On Wednesday, by lying down
upon the track of the Troy X Boston Rail
road, near Eagle bridge, in front Of an aD-
preaching train. He chose a curve in the
road, 40 that the engineer could not see him
until it was too late. He lay with his head
from the engine, and thus awaited DEATH
The locomotive, tender, and FIVE coaches
pared over him, nearly cutting off his head,
and shockingly mutilating his body. The
following letter was found in his clothing:
81 have selected this place because the
curve is large, and cannot be seen until it
is too late to stop the engine. Thus / shall
20 out Of the world with a rush. ! have
fortified myself with some forty-rod whisky,
which got at the Hollow, where may be
found some more of the same SORT. Who
ever finds nv dead body and this paper will
know Who am. Send my personal effects
to nv wife, Mrs. Gertrude Nutting, in Lam
singburg. i did this by nv own hand.
Rum is the cause. have but one regret
that Is my wife; for she has been i wife to
me in every sense Of the word. But l can
not live any longer, for ] am tired Of life
So nov farewell to the world.
"FRANK NUrrING."
81 should like to write to c. ]. Lansing,
Lansingburg, but my time is short, and I
have no paper: r. ""
81 write this on the top of the rail. Bury
me in my clothes a l am. I am not worthy
Of q shroud or coffin. have twenty-five
,ents in my vest pocket. Send that and the
,ther things to my wife, as before directed.
| have brother at Johnsonville. / hope
he will shed tear in memory, and then let
ne be foFgstten!
Father, l wish I could live to fulfill your
ropes and wishes, but l cannot. Oh, rum,
'um! rum! +. ""
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Chimborazo wos long supposed to be the
tallest mountain on the globe, hat its supre-
macy has been supplanted by Mount Everest
in Asia, and Aconcague in Chill. In noun
tain gloom and glory, however, it still stands
unrivalled. The Alps have the avalanche,
''the thunderbolt of snow" and the glaciers,
those icy Niagaras so beautiful and grand
Here they are wanting. The monarch Of
the Andes sits motionless in calm serenity
and unbruken silence. The siIeuce is abso-
lutte and actually oppressive. The road from
Guyaquil to Quito crosses Chimboraso 1t
the elevation of fourteen thousand feet. Save
the rush of the trade wind in the afternoon,
as it sweeps over the Andes, not sound is
audible; not the hum Of an insect, not the
chirp Of bird, not the roar of the puma.
nor the music of running waters. Mid-ocean
is never 50 silent. You can almost hear the
globe turning on Its axis. There was time
when the monarch deigned to speak, and
spoke with voice of thunder, for the lava
on its sides is an evidence of volcanic activ-
ity. But ever since the morning stars sang
together over mans creation, Chim5orazo
has sat in sullen silence, satisfied to look
''from his throne Of clouds DER half the
world"
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A WOMANx THOCGnTX ABOlrr WO.
MEN.

think Miss Juliet in the play
A forward little mink
{ADd Mrs. Grundy likes 10 say
What Mrs. Grundy thinks.
Her conduct with X. Montague
Seems perfectly absurd:
Such bold and brazen language, too,
think l never heard.
think OthelIo led a tame
And wretched kind Of life,
With I,es41emona what s-her- name
His namby -pamby wife,
To run away at such an age
And with negro too
Such conduct, even ON the stake,
think ] never knew.
think that, a. TO Beatrice,
Her husband vas fiat
For looking for life II peace
With such wife Is that.
Her conduct wasn't over strict,
For all her length If JAZZ;
And such muh rs Benedict
think ] never saw.
! think, when Portia's lovers came
And played at pitch and toss,
The gentleman rho won that dame
Contrivei To gain loss.
think Emilia was n shrew,
And ROsalind ill-bred;
tBut "As you Like IT, es're ro.s.
think / never read.
Think Macbeth was led astray
BY wicked Lady NJ.
And those three witches BY the way,
don't think much Of them.
think Ophelia-thAt's . fact
The best Of all the set;
In: any body quite 20 crack'd
think never met
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now is that potatoes will be down in the
market, but it cannot be that they will
decline to last years figures. 1t is clearly
not in accordance With ''the eternal fitness"
that great sound Peach Blows should fall into
the hands of caterers at the rate of twenty
five cents per buahel. Farmers have not
been favored by the weather clerk in the
matter Of harvesting their broom-corn
Many acres were grown in this part of the
county, but much of it will be left to rot on.
the stalk on account of the overmuch Cali
ing weather" Of the last few weeks.
An entersprising Farmers Club has been
organized in the Garden Prairie (TOwn's)
district recently. The meetings which are
held one evening in each week, are attended
by the farmers of the neighborhood, and
promise to be both profitable and instructive,
A singing school has been opened at Fair
mount, by Mr.. ]. L. Early, Of Leavenworth.
A fine class of pupils has been enrolled, and
the scale, staff, clefis &C., are the subject of
cheerful discussion every Tuesday evening,
at the school house. Other schools have
been organized in the township, by Prof
Root, of High Prairie. The fall and winter
terms of our public school has been opened
by Geo. A. Prentiss, one of the best teachers
Of the county, with an unusually large and
promising class Of pupils. Our local merch-
ants, Smith & Churchill, have enlarged their
store room, and added materially to their
stock of goods. Paramount is Choking up"
although there are still few unoccupied lots
upon the town site to be had at the original
prices.
Uncommon activity is displayed by our
local politicians. Ambition to represent the
district next winter at Topeka, has become
in fact mania. At meeting held at a
school house few miles south of this place,
on Friday evening, no less than four candi-
dates stood before the people and urged their
claims upon popular support for the coveted
honor of seat in the new State House.
Owing to the limited dimensions of the school
room, all the candidates were not in attend
ance. Candidates for places on the county
ticket have also been ''sloshing about flush
ing the prairie chickens and interviewing
probable delegates.
PARAMOUNT, Oct. Is, 1870. JBS.
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A MISS AT IME DOOR

We were standing in the doorway
MY little wife and +
The eOblsn sun upon her hair
Fe1l down - silently,
A small white hand nPon NV arm,
What could 1 ask for more
Than the kindly glance of4ovinS eyes,
As she kissed me 1T the door?
know she loves me with all her heart
The one who stands beside.
And the years have been ~ joyous
since first called her bride.
We've had 50 much Of happiness
Since We met in years before,
But the happoDst time Of all was
When she kissed me at the door.
Who cares for wealth or land or sold,
Or fame, or matches power"
II does not give the happiness
Ofjust one little hour,
With one who loves me rs her life
She SAYS she, cloves me more, -
And thought she did this morning,
When she kissed me at the d.Sr.
At times it seemed that all the world.
With all its wealth and gold,
Is very small and poor indeed
Compared with what held.
And when the clouds hang grim and dark
only wish the more
For .'vne'' who waists my coming step
To kiss me 1T the door.
II she lives till age shall scatter
The frost upon her head.
know she II love ME just the same
As the morning we were vel;
But il the Angels call her
And she gots To Heaven before.
shall know her when meet her,
For she II kiss me at the door.
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Out in the country the leaves and grasses
are taking on the dun and ruaset hues Of
autumn. Farmers are busy with their com,
hay and potatoes, watchful Of the markets,
and solicirous as to taxes, weather, and all
those concerns that country folks have to do
with on the approach Of winter. Fewer hay
stacks are visable than were to be seen at
the same time last year. Gras was not as
good this season ms usual, and the frequent
rains of last month have greatly intesfered
with haying. Hay is likely to be scarce and
dear during the coming winter, both in the
city and country, rs the grass crop and hay
ing season appears to have been no more
favorable in Missouri and the neighboring
counties of Kansas than they have been with
us. But an unusually great breadth of
wheat has been sown in this portion of the
country, and it all looks in fine condition.
Potatoes promise better than they did early
in September. The tardines of frost and the
mild weather of the last month have brought
on the later varieties, which were kept back by
the August drouth, and there is fair pros
pect of a good yield Of this crop. The talk
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No DOUBT AT ALL ABOUT IT.

The Commercial has discovered "mare' S
nest" Yes, of course We are doing what We
can for Sidney. Our neighbours sharp. We
want to make republicans sort who watch
which way the straws point-in other parts
of the State. believe that Clarke is making
alliances with the democrats hereabouts, and
thus influence such shaky fellows to keep in
the market. That is amusing. We only
wish we had such marvellous POWERS of di-
vination. What comfort it is for a poor
devil of a newspaper editor to be possessed
of exceptional qualities that enable him to
interpret the ways of men-the crooked
ways, the dark ways-as well as the mean
ing of the shaping and the motions of the
stars. All! Mr.. Commercial, We are like
Crockett's coon, don't shoot, and well come
down. Sidney, our plan is spoiled. That
is only another illustration of the smart saw
ing of some ancien. poet. Who was he?
'Twas'nt Scott; well, then it was Burns:
Z" The best laid plans of rats mo, think it
is mes, though what's the diference?) and
mice aft gang aglee"
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The following statisis are from the Lire
Stock Journal. But few penous realize the
magnitude of the daiIying interest in this
country at the present time. The present
produce Of cheese supposed 10 be 1t 300, 000,-
DO pounds, which; At fifteen cents Der pound,
amounts to 81, 900, 900; and of butter 575,-
OO0, 600 pounds, which, af twenty-five cents
per pound, amounts to $751; 000, 900; With
100, O00, 900 gallons of milk sold in the
cities and towns, and GO, 000, 900 gallons con-
sumed in families where produced, worth
$1,000, 900; making together . dairy pro-
duct of S2l5, 000, 900, besides the pork made
from the refuse Of butter and cheese diaries.
The number of COWS i probably not len
than 1000, 900; the number in 1869 was g.
72S, S62. If We allow 5000, 900 cows for
making the butter it will give lis pounds
per Gov, and !, 500, 900 COWS employed in
producing cheeee, which win be 200 pounds
per COW; 700,0 600 COWS for the production of
milk consumed in cties and families of pro-
ducers, leaving l, 800, 900 COWS in the Nes-
tern and Southern States devoted to raiaing
stock.
From these facts it will appear that the
average product of butter and cheese u very
far below what it might be with the intelli-
gence and attention to breeding, feeding and
general management which The magnitude |
Of the subject demands.
The frss Collins cheese factory of. Erie
County, n. u, for 1869, reports tie average
from seven hundred and thirty COWS 1t -four
hundred and twenty pounds Of cheese per ]
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THE LONG WHITE SEAN.
Br yEAN IxGELOw.

A came round the harboe buoy,
The lights began u gleam,
No wave the land-lOcked harbor stirred,
The er1es were white - cream;
And I marked my love BY eandle-ight
Sewing her long white scam.
Us aye sewing ashore, ny dear,
Watch and steer At sea,
It. reaf and farl, and haul the line,
Set sail and think Of thee.
climbed to reach her cottage door;
Oh, sweetly my love sings!
uksa shah Of light her voice breaks fOrth,
Ny soul to meet Il springs
As the shining water leaped Of old,
When stirred by angel wings.
Aye longing - list anew,
Awake and In my dream,
But never . song she sang like this.
Sewing her long white scam.
Fair fall the lights, the harbor lights,
That brought me in to thee,
And peace drop down on that low roof
For the sight that did see,
And the voice, my dear, that rang 70 clear
AL for the love Of me.
For Oh, for Oh, with brow bent lov
BY the Pickering candle CLEAN,
Her Wedding gown il vas she Wrought,
Sewing the long white seam.
Good Hords
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COW, while two hundred pounds and over i
. common yield, per Gov, in butter, from
good we'll fed COWS. This dairy interest," of
IN aggregate Of Sis, 80, 900, could readily
be brought up to $500, O00, 900.
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A PARIS wine shopkeeper, being asked
what he thought of the Republic, replied
'Why, sir, many Of the people in this dis
the next room think they now have the
right to call for everything they like and
not pay a sou. / can get no pay from them,
and when ask, they reply, Chalk it down,
and give rs more drink; It's Republic now
1t is useless to demonstrate, for they are =
rough Get about here"
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The broad and fertile valley of the Loire
continues to be the most active theatre of hos
tilities. The possession of Atenay, secured
BY the victory of the 10Th, gives the Prus-
SLAMS almost total command Of the railway
between Paris and Orleans, placing them, -
it does, within thirteen miles of that city.
If the "Army of the LOire" has alocal hab.
itation As we'll As name, it Is time that il
gave some evidence Of its existence. Be-
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From the Farmer Home Journal
John Randolph, the eccentric statesman
and orator of Virginia. never uttered trues
remark than this: "Withont female society
We should degenerate into brutes." Every
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The night Of the Steamboat explosion at
Oswego, guest at one Of the hotels had re-
quested to be called at o clock in the MORN
ing, and, on being aroused by the explosion
with rafting Of windows and wash pitchers,
he sprang out Of bed promptly, calling out
to the supposed porter, That will do, you
needn't make such laundering noise about
IN
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gether for good pan of the race.
''Oh, hope Susan Ann will win," e.
claimed the fair hacker of the bay filley.
eff my horse don't beat shall 70 into
fits" said the beauty who had Aaked . new
pair of slippers on Judge Curtis.
All the horses in the field came dashing
up past the three-quarter pole, leaving q
storm of sand behind them.
The ladies were batting their breath.
Said the first, biting hard on the end of
her dainty blue pencil and speaking between
her teeth-"By Jove, may my horse get in
and win"
But the prayer was not answered, for Su-
san Ann lost.
THE RACING.
There we're but two really fine races At
Jerome Park yesterday afternoon, and the
gloomy weather and heavy track in meas
ure spoiled these. The first race, the Grand
National Handicap, two miles and quarter,
was won easily by Niagara, Glenelg, Cava-
lier and Mozart being the defeated horses.
Glenelg was great favorite, and large sums
Of money were lost On him, but he was over
weighted, and had NO chance 1t all. Maya
"a, who was the winner of the race, and il
the same age, carried sixteen pounds les.
The Champagne Stakes for two-year-olds
brought out six starters, and again the favor.
tie was beaten, Sandford's bay FLY, Madame
Dudley, winning, after sharp struggle with
Fanchon. Kingfsher walked over for the
Annual Sweepstakes for three-year-olds, no
owner being willing to put in horse agains.
him; and the fourth race Of the day.
sweepstakes for all ages-brought out but
two starters, Zinsa and Felicity. The race
vas apparently close, but Felicity had it all
her own way, and could have won a easily
BY dozen lengths as by one The last race
"A mile and three-quarter dash-was really |
Inc, the finish between Midday and Judge |
Curtis, Who outsiripped all the Others, being |,
quite exciting. Curtis won by half length |
,ut had they run quarter of mile further |
he result would very probably have been !
.haneed