The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-10-06

"Mack," of the Chicago Republican,
called on Long John Wentworth, at the
fremont House in that city, few days
ago. He found him sick with lumbago.
and after little chat, asked John his
opinion of Mr.. Greeley:
Mr.. WentWorth's eouDtenance, which
grew dark with anger. Rising himself
on his elbow with one prodigious effort.
he replied, although his frame was
RACKED WITH AGONY:
''If there is lie America hell hound,
q slave, and a swindler worthy of the
gallows, that hell-hound, that slave and
that swindler is Horace Greeley"
r. You astonish me sir. I under
stood only few days since that a BAN
quet in this very hotel, where the bran
bread sparkled on the board and the
milk toast circled merrily around, your
self and Mr.. Grinnell nominated the
Chappaquan mower and editor for
the Presidency. Is not that true?
Mr.. w. 1t is, unhappily, too true.
r. Why then this vigor of express
sion7 Is it as the politician or as the
agriculturalist!
Mr.. W. AS both, of course. The
man who would
LIE TO YAM,
or commit an assault upon sheep,
would make q worse President than
Grant himself, and he is bad one.
r. So Logan says, anyway. l gath
er from your conversation that Mr..
Greeley has disappointed you. In what
respect, pray?
Mr.. Wentworth then made the fol-
lowing statement, which we give verba-
tim, retrenching any vigoI redun-
| dancies better suited for the columns OF
the Sunday Times than for our pureI
paper:
"a few days ago Mr.. Greeley came
to this city, and was met at breakfast by
myself and Grinnell. We paid for that
hoary lunatic's oil cake-milk toast,
mean. His hack hire didn't cost him 6
cent, and we thought ourselves REIN.
bursed by his words of wisdom on the
crisis and the crops. shall allude by
and by to his political rawlings; JUS
now only refer to this farming phase
of his insanity. I sat at that mans fee
| like Paul at the feet Of Gamaliel.
acted on his thee ries, and in one shOrt
week was
A RUINED MAN.
You ask me, How so? Go and look al
Summit Farm it looks like the aka
line desert, Q bowling wilderness dotted
with skeletons7 Greeley said I, what
do you think of my Merino sheep?
have-that is had about two hundred
i of them, worth SITS apiece 'MerinC
d. said Greeley, mildly; why dom
you cultivate siik-bearing sheep? Meri
no is played out. I have tried thous
ands Of times to get my sheep to pro.
due Merino underclothing have tri
ed irrigating. mulching, top-dressing
sub-soil blowing, wood ashes, muck
loan, guano-an was of no avail. They
will lay nothing but raw wool. Now
raw wool costs thirty cents a pound
and when to this you add interest
wages, insurance, manufacturing, bad
debts, &C., you see that you cannot com
wear, with the pauper nations of Eu
rope. On the other hand, silk is heav
lily protected, and the production thi
year is limited. In Assam the
CROP has PROVED A FAILURE.
owing to the frost, and the harvest vii
not yield more than thirty bushels Z,
the acre. Silk will therefore advanc
in price. In 1882 You could buy 3 wool
|. en- dress for $3.50. In 1871 q silk dres
costs $500. 1t stands to reason, therefore
that by making Your sheep spawn sill
; you will make S5 5-7 times more profit
was thunderstruck with this, An,
could only stammer Hoy 2 The hoary
headed fraud answered: BY graftins
Of course. Those sheep can spin CO
: oooHs like silk worms If they only Civ
: their minds to it, and the man who de
: mics it is 3 liar and horsethief. Littl
, sheep that can spin and won't spin mul
be made to spin. The fact is, Went
; worth. You oEeraeed your sheep, an
n Vary their diet, give them, say pee