davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1872-05-07
Rates are unchanged as follows:

The money market worked easily enough during the
forenoon and 7per cent In the afternoon the large
shifting OF loans consequent upon the heavy decline
stocks created more active demand which stfened al
rates to per cent. gold. and S2d fat Prime corn
merciaI paper moves at TO per cent. The rise IN
gold stimulated an advance IN Government bondA
which close per cent above the latest official hs
ures OF Saturday.
New-York tribune., 1872-05-07

Mr.. d. Wood. for many years partner In the hous"
OF yermiye Co., and Samuel B. Davis OF the Stool:
Exchange have formed copartnershp under the stya
of Wood Davis. for the purpose OF ransacting gen-
eraI banking and brokerage business. Tho new
nrm have taken offices No. 81 Pinest, and will keep
on hand variety Of choice investment securities with
which to supply investors.
Tho Philadelphia stock market was steady today.
Pennsylvania G., iO6a; Philadelphia and Enc Railroad.
2s; Reading Railroad, 50; Pennsylvania Railroad ID
Gold, 1881.
The bank statement compares as follows wish fw"es
New-York tribune., 1872-05-07

A. MERwS, AucuoDoeE
PY BANGS, MERWIN g. CO., Broadway. cor
ID ib-S OF Books WORKS Of Ar Fancy Goods Furniture k
TUESDAY and "WEDNESDAY, at p m. Eiwan J. Cleveland,
CO.'S Colecdon Of COINS MEDALS, and PAPbh MONEY! Also
AUTOGRAPHS and BOOKS
GEO. "A. LEAVITT H. Co. date Leavitt,
NJ str,beeh Col Clinton Hail. Astorplsce Por tho SALE by
Of LBRARKs COLLECTIONS oi Boozs PAsJse and al
kinds of LrERARr PRorraTr
New-York tribune., 1872-05-07
City bank shares also dull and the transactons
were confined to sales Of less than 100 shIes at thu
boards. We annex the bids

There lees active business in railroad bonds than
on Saturday and previous days Of last week bat prcea
WERE as q rule, well maintained. Central Paeihes sold
alO2i Union Pacific Firsts at 92 9e2a Land Grant
at 81, aud Incomes at s.Ss5i; Boston, Hartford and
Erie Firsts were traded 4s 0. The folio wing
| bids:
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-12
THR SPANISH DIFFICULTY.

The difficulty between the United
States and Spain is rapidly nearing
crisis. Our government has for
maliy protested against the conduct
OF the officer who boarded and
searched the Florida upon the high
seas, and has demanded from the
Spanish government, first, an apol-
cgy second, to disown the act of
the officer thirdly, to punish him /;
and fourth, to pay damages.
That the Spanish government will
promptly and full nmeet all these
requirements, is not doubted at
Washington. While Senior Sagosta,
who is at the head of the Spaniah
ministry, is known to be hostile to
the United States, it is also known
that he has no power to do harm, as
his party in the Cortes is in minor
ity, and any policy unfriendlY to
this country will be outvoted.
II is given out, as matter of Of
fetal record, that about seven
months ago, General Sickies, in con-
Eefsation with a distinguished gem
eral of the Spanish army, whose
Official employment afforded him
ample means Of securing correct in
formation, was informed that over
forty millions of dollars had already
been expended for military purpo-
SEES In Cuba during the year just then
passed. 1t was further stated that
the aggregate force under arms was
over 10000 men, more than half of
whom are regular troops, and the
l@sAks Of that army exceeded 49,
0ED3aen. The insurgents had lost
no ground of any importance they
are are better disciplined than ever,
and in some recent engagements
had gained considerable advantages
over the Spanish troops.
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500, and is the most difficult part
Of the work. From $40 to $50 for a
good story, according to quality
and length. This is exclusive OF
editorial salaries and cost of special
articles, which would increase the
amount considerably. 1t is said
that an ordinary number Of HGr-
P0r's Weekly costs within q small
fraction OF the subscription price,
SO that all the profit has to be de-
rived from advertising. AS to the
literary quality of Every Saturday,
that must be left to the critics to de-
eide, but it will be admitted that it
was lacking in nationality, and was
far more an English than an AmOri-
can journal in its general features.
The pictures were taken from the
Graphic, and, while admirable
specimens of art, were not interest
ing to the average American read
or, who would yet be delighted with
Nast's cartoons. Charles Reade's
story offended more readers than il
attracted. Waud's and Keeler's
sketches of the Southwest were
good, but these were not enough.
The editorials were strong and the
essay writing unusually good. On
the whole, the failure of Every
Saturday must be ascribed not to
want of excellence in any feature,
but in. deficient attractiveness for
the average reader, due to mistaken
editing.-SprinaJfeld Republican.
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she succeeded in saving her second
charge. But in saving the lives of
these two children the brave wo-
man had got terribly burned. The
flames had been creeping up nearer
to her, and as she stood at the win
dow tying the children, tongue of
fire would often leap up and encircle
her, but she never flinched. Wrap
ping the child she held IN her arms
lightly in q wooden cloak to prevent
the flames touching it, she would
stand quietly bearing the fire until
it had once more gone down, and
then she quickly proceeded with
her work.
"But now it seemed too lat to
save the woman herself, for the fire
had reached the store of wood at
the top of the house, and the roof
was in flames. Her hands and arms
too were badly scorched, and We
feared she would never be able to
hold the rope. But as the cord was
thrown to her the people raised q
tremendous cheer as though to en-
courage her, and catching at the first
attempt, she managed to fasten it
around her body, and throwing
herself out of the window, she was
gradually lowered to the street. and
carefully taken to the hospital,
where she at pre- mt lies in 9 crit
ical condition. There have been
many cases of devoted heroism in
times past, but 1 know of. none
more noble than this of a simple
servant girl, who not only risked
her own life, but stood such dread
full torture in order to save the
lives of the children under her
charge, and gladly give her name.
1t is Albitz Of BirkendorE The
Swiss people are a warn-hearted
race, and the devoted conduct Of
the girl seems to be fully apprecia-
ted by them. The whole press has
spoken loudly in praise of the hero
ism she has shown, and already g
subscription has been opened for
her benefit, as it is feared her injur-
les are so severe that she will never
again be able, even if she RECEIVERS
from them, to gain her own living"
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CUTTING OUT.

There is q boy who thinks he was
not "cut out for a farmer" Well,
there is something in cutting out,
but a great deal more in making up.
Ask the tailors if it is not in the
power of careless, clumsy work
man to spoil the most skillful cut
ting. Some men are specially fit-
ted for some special work, as were
the great masters of art; and the
Lord never wastes material by Civ
ing to all the same gifts, since there
is an endless variety of work to be
done in the world. The marble
must be hewn from the quarry, and
the iron track laid over valley and
mountain, before the sculptor can
give lasting shape to his beautiful
imagining, or the inventor bring
into play the work of his genius.
And one kind of work may be
just as honorable as the other. AS
a general thing our work comes to
US without much seeking; and be-
cause we do not quite fancy it, or
think we should like better to do
something else, it is by no means
certain that we are in the wrong
place. 1t is all right to try to find
work that does please US, since that
is what we shall be likely to do
best; but never fancy you are so
poorly cut out that you can not do
well and honorab1y any honest
work that is plainly laid upon you.
It is not so much what you do as
how you do it, and scarcely any
one will tell You he is doing what
he fancied, when he was a boy, he
should do.
AS for my farmer boy, I am afraid
he does not quite understand how
much may go into the making of q
good farmer; for, if you will no.
tice, you will find people always
think they are cut out for larger
places, and not smaller. There is O
good deal of hard work in farming,
and boys sometimes get tired of the
monotonous parts that fall to their
share but work is work the world
over, and nothing gives SO great a
variety as the farm.
When the boy grows older and
learns how much science, and art,
and philosophy have done for the
farmer, what room there is for in
telligent thought, for careful exper-
iment, for skillful labor, he may
change his mind, and conclude that
q farmer ought to be cut out men,
tally as we'll as physically by a
broad, generous pattern.
So We say to him, don't trouble
yourself great deal about the cut
ting out, but be sure you do your
best to make up the material that
God put ipto you, so as to make an
honest, upright, useful man; and,
above all, never believe that the
Lord cuts anybody out for a shirk,
or an idler, or an unlucky fellow
LiItle Corporal. ..--
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CARLYLE'S STUDY.

Entering his study you find moth
ed it. "Don Quixote," with all his
Dick on tho ''Sacraments," Mark
Twain's jumping Frog" and Car
noeh on the attributes" Passing
across the room, you stumble
against the manuscript of his last
lecture, or put your foot in piece
of pie that has fallen of the end of
the writing table. You mistake his
essay on the "Copernican System"
for plotting paper. Many of his
best books are bereft of their bind
ing, and in attempting to replace
the covers, "Hudibras" gets the COW
er that belongs to Barnes on the
"Acts of the Apostles" An earth
quake in the room would be more
apt to improve than unsettler there
are many marks where the inkstand
became unstable and made hand
writing on the wall that even Dan
iel could not have interpreted. If,
some fatal day, the wife of the
housekeeper comes in while the &C.
cupant is absent, to 'Eclear up" a
damage is done that it takes weeks
to repair. Fer many days the Ques-
ton is: "W here are my pens
Who has the concordancee What
on earth has become of the diction-
ary2 Where is the paper cutter 2"
Work is impeded, patience lost, en-
| RaGements are broken, because 1t is
not understood that "the study" IL q
part Of the Students life, and that
| you might as well try to change the
knuckles to the inside OF the hand,
or set the eyes in the middle of the
forehead, as to make the man OF
whom we speak keep his pen on the
rack, or his books of the floor, or
the blotting paper straight In the
portfolio.
The studio is a part of the mental
development. Do not blame q man
for the style of his literary apart
ments, any more than you would
for the color of his hair or the shape
of his nose. II Hobbies carry his
study with him, and his pen and
inkhorn in the top of his cane, Sc
let him carry them. II Lamaratine
can best compose while walking his
park, paper and pencil in hand, so
let him ramble. If Robart Hal
thinks easiest when lying fat on his
ba ok, let him be PROSTATE. If Sal.
masius writes best surrounded by
children, let loose on him the nurs.
cry. Do not criticise Charles Dick.
ems because he threw all his study
windows wide open and the shades
up. 1t may fade the carpets, but
will pour sunshine into the hearts
of q million readers. If Thomas
Carlyle chooses to call around ar
ink-spattered table Goethe and
Schiller and Jean Paul Friedrich
Richter, and dissect the shams o
the world with g plain goose-quill
so be il. The horns on an ox'i
head are not more certainly part o.
the OK than Thomas Cerlyle's STUDY
and all its appointments are . par
of Thomas Carlyle. The gazeilt
|. will have soft fur and the lion
shaggy side, and the sdnctlEna sane
torsLRs is the students cuticle.
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HUMBoLDr.-Asa marvellous in
stance of what one man may achieve
by doing systematically and thor
ou2hly whatever he undertakes, we
cannot de better than consider the
life of Alexander Won Humboldt.
There was no part of the world be
had not visited, and he had been no
where without acquiring the most
exact knowledge Of the whole coHn-
try, its geology, its animal life, its
botany, all its physical characterize
les, as well as the language, habits,
customs, laws, and history, of its
people. He led this life TIL he was
ninety years of age, and even then
no fact, in any part of the world,
escaped his notice. His mind was q
museum, where all the knowledge
that had been brought into the
world was placed in order, carefully
guarded, and always ready for use.
We are not wrong in attributing
the boundless learning and prodig-
ious memory Of this great man to
his habit of systematizing his mem
tai labor, and to his great power Of
INSTRUMENTATION; and to his wis
dom Of God. -.Seienf9fe american,
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A STRANGER IN THE PEW.

Poor little Bessie! She tossed back her
curls,
And, though she il often the sweetest OF
girls,
Thisi was something abe couldn't and
wouldn't endure;
Twas the meanest, most impolite act, she
was sure,
And a thing. she declared, that she
never would do:
To 20 TO n church where one didn't be-
long,
Then walk down the aisle like the best in
the thrOng,
And seat ones self plump In another
ones pew.
Humphl Didn't her father own his out
And didn't they I'LL It up full, just about,
when mammA and papa, and herself z
Were sea ted And didn't their boots
make q noise
In moving along to make room for
strangerl
And wasn't IL cool, with the braZenest
face,
To expect at each hymn pa would ind out
the place
or Ben didn't, or Bob, but there wasn't
much danger)!
With such feelings at heart, and their
print on her face,
Last Sunday our Bessie hitched out Of her
"plAceV
To make room for girl, very shabby and
Who had stood in the aisle till mamma
asked her In.
The poor little thing tried her best not
TO crowd;
And Bessie, forgetting, soon had the mis-
hap
To slip from her drowsiness into a nap,
From which she awakened by crying
aloud. ... -.
Poor Bessie sat upright with cheeks all
At sleeping in church, and we felt FOR her
shame;
But twas strange at the close Of the SER
Our Bessie, now gentle as gentle could be,
Take the hand Of the shabby young
And walk with her out OF the church with
smile
That shone through the tears in her eyes
all the while,
And frightened her face with radiance
new.
'GSod-by,D whispered Bessie at parting,
''and mind
Our Pew's forty 1--we, with a pillar be-
Then she stole to her mother: "oh, moth
Such a curious dream! Twas no wonder
thought was sitting in church in this
dress,
With = girl like a beggar-child right in
our pew
We were sitting alone on tho seat, just we
And felt more ashamed than you ever
could guess;
"when, all in moment, the music grew
loud,
And on It came floating beautiful crowd;
They were angels, knew, for they Joined
in the song,
And all OF them seemed in the church 10
belong.
Slowly and brightly they sailed through
The rays from the window streamed GRIM
son and blue,
And lit them in turn as their forms glided
through;
could feel their soft robes passing Ov err
my hair.
some came to my side. Very sadly she
There's stranger In here.' 1 lifted my
And locked at the poor, shabby girl with
.'Tis not she,' said the angel; the naughty
and vain
Arc the strangers at church. She Is
humble and truc.'
Then cried out aloud, and the minister
spoke,
And just az they fioated away / awoke,
And there sat that dear little girl in our
MARY Il. DODGE, in Harpers Ma0a<lms
for JdRudrv-( Itlustrdted)
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AN INVENTOR IN OUR MIDST.


A few months since, in noting
some of the intricate handiwork OF
our fellow townsman, A. Combs,
we alluded to the fact that he had
just completed an Improvement in
the movement of a watch. We are
happy to now state that letters pat
ent have been granted by the gov
eminent, covering some six definite
improvements, one or two of which
are very important, and entirely
new, that is, bona flde inventions.
The american artisan in speaking
of it says: ga. Combs, of Burlin-
game Kansas, on November 2Sth,
was granted patents on watch es-
capement. In this novel escapemcnt
are arranged in peculiar manner,
with reference to the pivot and es-
cape wheel, the roller and the roller
pin on the balance staff, for inereas-
ing tbs leverage and stopping the
train only once for the beats OF the
balance. The Invention also in
cludes Q novel Arrangement of lev
er, roller, roller-pin, banking-pin
and banking-notch for operation
conformity" y
That's the way a scientific journal
describes the invention. 1t is the
neatest and most complete piece OF
mechanism that we ever looked at,
and our description of It would run
something like this: the ordinary
watch beats something like two
hundred and, forty times per min
ute, the whole train of its works
stopping and starting again at every
beat, of course. The new move
ment invented by Mr.. Combs, beats
or ticks just half as often as other
movements that is, the, train oil
works do not stop until the balance
wheel has completed both the for.
ward and backward movement, hall
the number of beats or stoppagei
being by that means overcome, and
the liabilities of q permanent stop
only half SO great as in an ordinary
watch. Mr. Combs has been labor.
ing years upon this pet movement
this great Improvement for the cor
rect marking of time. The cost o
procuring patents alone upon TIM
various improvements has been owe
$500. But for all this he now feela
himself amply repaid in the recog
uhnVh VI Sus true HVFAu VI uIS -
bors by competent judges. o
course so important an invention
cannot remain long in the back
ground with its merits uurecogniz
ed. The Seteneifc americas ha
procured drawings OF the move
ment and will publish an article up
on it soon. Many eminent anC
practical watehmakers have exam
ined and given to il their unquali
fed approval. The Elgin Watc
Co. and the American Watch CO
have both been in correspondent
with Mr.. c., expressing the hop
that "terms would prove favorable,
and all that.
Our friend Combs was the inveI
tor of the "thimble skein," frOI
! which he never received any res
( benefit. AS an Industrious, intelli
, gent and deserving man we exten
1 to him our sincere eongratulation
: with the expressive hope that b
I may reap competency as . suit
r stantial testimony OF his genius an
: for his years Of painstaking labo
: l-BurkillOdUle ChFOnicIe.- - ..
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interest. This gives us the sum OF
1914, 20l 80 clear net profit annually
from the Territory over all expenses
Of every description, past and pres
ent-a result which it is more than
doubtful if any other Territory in
our whole dominion can parallel.
The general results are as follows :
Florida pays US annually 5 per cent ;
Texas pays US annually % per cent. ;
New Mexico and Arizona about I
per cent. Alaska pays us annually
IA per cent.
Roughly estimating the annual
expenses, Florida pays us 4 per
cent. net; Texas pays US 20 per
cent. net; New Mexico and Arizona
pays US nothing, or worse; Alaska
pays US 8 per cent. net.-W. II.
DAD, an Hdrper's Magazine for
January.
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COST OF ILLusTRAT Cd PAPERS

The failure of Eoery Saturday as
an illustrated periodical was predic-
ted from the frat by newspaper ex-
perts here, and hence was not unex-
pected. 1t costa q heap of money
to mako q good illustrated paper,
and it is necessary to have an enor-
nous circulation, as Hd,peySs Week
" has, to make such periodical
pay. Whom it is considered how
expensive good designs for illustra-
tions are, as well as the engraving,
besides the extra cost of paper and
presswork, this will be apparent.
Mast is paid FROM $50 to $500 for his
caricatures, and other artists in pro-
portion. To engrave very moder-
ate sized design costs from $50 to
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-12
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

a farmers wife in New Hamp-
shire, Gays she grew this year 30Z
pounds of potatoes from eight eyes
taken from a potato that weighed
but five ounces.
j. W. Lang, of Maine, reports to
the Ohio Farmer that he raised 5
bushels of Sugar Beets from rs
square feet of ground. This is at
the rate of 1904 bushels per acre
certainly a very large yield.
The American Rural Home says
Mr.. Root, a prominent farmer of
Western New York, has 300 rods of
water pipe made of bass wood sap
lings, which have been laid nine
years and are now apparently, per-
fectly sound. He thinks Eastwood
one of the best kinds of wood for
underground water pipes.
L. w. Rabbit, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa through the Pioneer Farmer,
recommends the Chester White,
Poland China and Berkshire as the
three best breeds of swine. He
recommends but one litter of pigs a
year-to come about April, and to
D0 WClI CdTCu lOE duu WCll 1cu utlI1
January l, when the best of them
of the two first named breeds, will
weigh from 300 to $50 pounds net.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says the regulations as
to the importation of cattle are more
stringent in Guernsey than in either
Of the other Channel Islands. No
bull is allowed to land alive, and no
imported COW is allowed to remain
more than three months. There is
no restriction, according to this
writer, to importation into Alder
ney, and on the Island of Jersey it
is said the Guernsey cattle are al
lowed and bred from.
The Faribault, Mimi, Republican
chronicles a yield of oats on the
farm of Charles Graham, of Forest
Township, of 1913 blu. on three acres !;
also, that Michael II. Knopf. of Hol-
ton, Goodhue County, raised Peach
blow potatoes which averaged a
peck to hill, and, while some of
the potatoes weighed two pounds,
none were less than a pound in
weight. They yielded at the rate
of 4S0 bushels to the acre. Mr. Knopf
planted but one eye to the hill.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Enos Batchelder,
lately celebrated their golden we'd
ding at Avon, New York. A sing
ular fact of the occasion was that
Dir. Batchelder was the brides third
husband, she having had two 9TH
ers, with whom she lived six years
apiece, and by whom she had six
children.
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The Misses Lukens, a family OF
girls residing at Brington, Pa, edit,
print and publish 8 monthly paper
about the size Of the Revolution. It
il 3 very neat, pleasant amateur
sheet called Little IRtngs.
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Trenton, n. b., owns the lsrgest
circular saw in the world. 1f is
twenty-five feeE in saw-eum ference.
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HOTELS.
BUCKEYE HOUSE,

BUCKEYE HOUSE,
TNETH AVENUE, Emporia, Kansas, neaa
- corner OF Commercial Street. BirdsAn 4
Franz, proprietors janiT2tf
MADISON HOUSE.
SKTH AVENUE east OF Commercial street,
- r. J. HASKLA, Proprietor. Furnishes
hrst-ciass accommodations at most reasonA-
BILE prices. Stages leave daily for all points
southwest and south OF Emporia. jan1T2tf
ROBINSON HOUSE,
N ROBINSON a SON, Projectors.
Lie Corner of Merchants street and Sixth
Avenue. This house has been refitted and
furnished throughout, and is now open 20 the
public. Stages leave daily and connect with
all Eastern Railroads. jAn1Tstr
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NEW BARBER sH or.

SMITH e WHITE, Props,
Next door TO NeoshO Valley Bank,
So EMPORLAs KANSAS. ~ aH
Shaving, Ehampooing and Hair Dress
ing done In drst-c1ass Style. ~.
We also keep for sale Whites Spanish
Lustral, for the hair, JanItf
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!. 8. CLEYRLAND,s

TENTRAL LIVERY, FEED AND SALE
~ STA BILE, on 6th Avenue, between Com
and ready for business, and will furnish teams
at any time during the day or ntsht. Pas
seDgers conveyed to any part Of tie country
on liberal terms. Particular attention paid to
boarding transient stock. ianI72tf