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A RARE CHANCE FOR STIIMPAGE

1'HE undersigned, agents Tor the Franklin Land
l Miii ana Water Co., offers all the stumpage,
Gems sting of Pine, Spruce Hemlock Rock maple
and other hard wood timber on a thousand acre
iot, In township No. TO- South Division, Hancock
Couhty, near Franklin, Maine, at great bargain.
fire having ran through it last summer, but IL ct
materially, if at all injuring the timber, if taken
on the present season and coming winter.
Also, to Let, a Saw-Mill, Mlll-house &c near
said lOt-For further particulars apply To
Bunker 4 Gerrish, at Franklin; Farripgtons
TOzier II Hail OF Boston, or to
Agent for said Co., at Kittery Point. Me-
Nov. Is. 1873. ,,-
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THE DoME or THE CAPITOL. The
dome of the capitol at Washington is the
most ambitious structure in America
Ii is los feet higher than the Washington
mon ument in Baltimore, Is feet higher
than Bunker Hill monument. and %
feet higher than the Trinity Church
tower in New York. 1t is the only
considerable dome of iron in the world
1t i. a vast hollow sphere ofiron, weigh
ing o,0oU.Oo0 pounds. How much
is that. About 900 tons, or weight
OF about 10000 full grown persons, or
about equal 10 thousand loaded coal
cars, which. holding four tons each.
would reach two miles and half
Directly over Your head is figure in
bronzed, "Amcrica." weighing l4,9s5
pounds. The pressure of the iron dome
upon its piers and pillars, is l2.477
pounds 10 the square foot. St. Peter
presses nearly 2o,0Oo pounds more to
tue square foot, aud St. Genevieve at
Paris, $4,000 pounds more. 1t would
require to crush the supporters of our
dome a pressure OF 5j7 ,27o pounds to the
square foot. The cost was about ,000,-
90. The new wings cost $1,000, 900.
This architect hasa plan for rebuilding
the old central part of the capitol and
enlarging the park, which will cost
about 80, 200 900.
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Chapped Hands. face, rough skin, pimples,
ringwOrm, salt.rhrem and other cutaneous
affections cured. and the skin made soft and
smooth, by using the Juniper Tar Soap, made
by Caswell, Hazard 4 Co., New York. Be
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, as Their
are many limitations made with common tar
which are worthless. AVIS
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THE WEATHER-The most old foSy
sigher for ''ye olden times" must be
abundanfly satisfied with this weather.
The ..oldest inhabitant" Is speeches.. He
iatimates by signs that he cannot do the
subject justice. It beats him. It also
beats the mink. the musquash, "Old
Prob" and all the other weather prophets.
No one foretold this. and yet 1t Is upon US.
People are disgu<ted at the low spirits Of
the Thermometer.-25" on the second day
ofDecember is too low for any respectable
Thermometer. But 1t Is nofhiuY after one
gets used to it. 1t Is far better weather
than we had in November. or even In
August. The air Is purer and more brac-
ing. The system is invigorated and its
tone exhilarated: The intellect is quicken
ed, ones thoughts are better and stronger.
Upon the whole, a clear cold Maine winter.
when once fairly entered upon. is "a thing
of beauty" and now on Wednesday morn
ing the Thermometer respects itself and
comes up out of its depths and marks 800
odd above, which is showing some mercy
toward coal bins and wood piles.
lNsuRANCE.-Charles c. Burrill, Insur-
ance Agent, represents none but reliable
companies. Give him call. He is also
agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pas
sengers ticketed to all parts Of the West
md
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Hrauklis.

FraHkIIo.
On Tuesday, Nov. 18th inst. Mr.. r.
A. Crab;ree, shot two deer, one of which
weighed 225 pounds.
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CDtiae.

Casstae
The W inter term Of the Eastern Nor
mai School at Castine will begin this We'd
nesday week.
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Business Notices,

ember that = cough, cold or some other COM
mon affection Of the throat or lungs always
precedes Consumption, and that all these all
ments are cured with absolute certainty by
HALE's HONEY OF HOREHoUND AND TAR
Crittenton's, 9Th Avenue. Sold by all Drug
gisis.
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For Eruptive Diseases Of the Skin. Pimples
and Blotches, VEGErINE is the great remedy,
- 1t removes from the system tbs producing
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PORTLAND. Dec. 2
ACCIDENT.

Hiram Marshall a brakeman on the
Eastern railroad. slipped from The ROOF Oh
Il car last ,irht while near Portsmouth,
and was killed. five cars passing over MN
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City and County.
Ellsworth.
Religious Services il this City each Sunday.

'0NGkEGAIioNAL.--Sa School at 10 30
\, NJ. Preaching at 2:l5 and PM.
BAPTIST sabbath School at p NJ praaoh
Ing al Is and T. NJ
tNiiAEIAN.-sabbath School at 10 80 A. NJ.
Preaching al 10 and : F. NJ.
CAlHoLIC,-Preaching twice month nj 10
CLOCK a. NJ. Sabbath School at F. M
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List of Letters.

List Of letters remaining in the Post Office
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MEAT MARKET !.

anu by accommodation, punctuality and honest
dealings We hope to merit a continuance Of tie
Old patronage with rs many new Customers ~ see
lit to give us a call.
2Jtt CAMPBELL, LEACH 4 CO.
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WHAT IS EDUCATION,

Reading, writing and arithmetic.
These three accomplishments, in old
times, were supposed TO be all that
was necessary for q man to succeed
in life, and of these small amount
was held to be sufficient. But what
was enough one hundred years ago
will not do to-day, even to secure
moderate degree of success, any
more than the vocabulary Of words
which was quite sufficient to express
ali Lord Bacon's ideas, would serve
modern professor of natural SCI
ence, in writing one small volume
which should express the elemental
ry statements of natural science at
the present day.
Business is business" we know,
but it is none the less true that what
was meant by the term business one
hundred years ago will not stand
for it now. The world has been
transformed by steam and electrici-
ty. Regions which were remote
then, now lie at our very doors as it
were. st. Louis is not SO far from
Boston to-day as Philadelphia was
then. We live the same life as Lon
don, every day, by means of the
electric current under the ocean
waves. The Illinois farmer cannot
fix q price for his wheat until he
knows how 1t is selling in Europe.
And q revolution in France, or q
war between Germany and France
alters his estimate of his property.
All circles are widened. Interests
once diverse have become united.
The fire which lays in ashes the bus
mess center of Boston, lowers the
value of railroad stock along the
shores of the great lakes, and Affects
the sales across the ocean. When
the great earthquake at Lisbon tore
open the ground and shook the city
to its foundations, the water In the
Scotch lakes rose perceptibly and
was violently agitated; but that
Sympathy was as nothing to the close
inter-locking of human interests by
means of the steam engine and the
telegraph.
The business Mau of 1862 who
should appear upon the scene once
more, and enter into business, would
| find himself unable to make the
wide combinations, and TO calculate
| tho far reaching chances of the
| DE9SGtlls 4nC CoOOotAOA w AASA W Oo
sufficient then, is not sufficient now.
Time is worth more now than then.
More reading must DO done in less
time, and rapidity of calculation
undreamcd of then must he Guilt
waited.
The common people, the masses,
must be raised TO the level of sci
ence. This must be done through
the agency of the common schools,
and Il must be done If we would
not lose the interest on our money
Investments In whatever direction.
We cannot afford to have the mass
es uneducated. We csnnot afford
to give them only the education
which was amply sufficient one
hundred years ago. Nothing can be
more short-sighted than the policy
which would refuse supplies for the
needs of common school education,
and would limit the work done there
to the amount done years ago.
penny wise and pound foolish,
was the old English proverb: and
the capitalist who does not realize
what education at the present day
means, and the absolute necessity
for it, will find, when too late, th2i
in saving his pennies the pounds
have been LOST Am. Journal.
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self and family, and has to pay, In
addition to the cost of manufacture,
all the extra per cent. OF railroad
freights both on raw material and
the manufactured article, commits
sion, etc. But this Is not all. His
wheat, his corn and his beef have
to be sent to Ohio, 10 Pennsylvania
or to New England to feed the
operatives while making the
clothing, the shoes or other articles
necessary to his use, and ali this ex-
pense of freights, commissions, etc.,
is just so much more added to the
cost of the article when ready for
his use. But If coal in sufficient
quantities is to be found UNDER
meath our fertile, virgin soil, all that
is required is to bring it TO surface,
aRd capital with its potent force
Will come to our doors and ask for
the privilege of taking eur raw ma
terial and working it up into thous.
ands of useful forms ready for our
use. There will be no need of send.
ing to Massachusetts, or Connecticut
for wooden or cotton goods Our
fertile prairie will feed thousands of
sheep and produce an abundance of
cotton. No need of sending to In
diana for wagons. 1t is cheaper to
ship the raw material to the place
where the coal and the food is than
to export them. No need to 60 to
Pennsylvania for iron it is cheap
er to bring the ore from Iron Noun
tain or from Lake Superior to the
coal, and manufacture it into iron
for our railroads, agricultural inn
plements, and the thousands of
other useful articles, than to send
our grain to the coal fields of Penn
sylvania and other places to pay for
such things as we need to buy.
These are but few of the great
number of industries that would
spring up in our midst, if there was
fuel in abundance to run the neces-
sary machinery to manufacture the
raw material into useful and neces-
sary articles.
One of the greatest drawbacks
the cultivator of the soil has to con.
tend with is the extremely low price
of farm produce. The greatest
want of the western country is
home manufactures and home mar
kets. A bushel of corn should new
er be sent out of the State except in
the form of meat, but should be
consumed in our midst. The way
to accomplish this is to find coal and
thus induce capital to come amongst
us and thus build up manufacturing
induces, that will employ a large
number of hands and in this way
consume the surplus grain of the
farm. Look at Ohio ard Pennsyl-
vania and see the amount of manu-
featuring that is done in them where
coal is abundant and cheap. To
what does Pittsburgh, the greatest
iron centre in the country, owe its
great manufacturing prestige, but
to the great beds of coal with
which the surrounding hills are fill
ed! These are few of the many
advantages to be gained by the
opening of the bed of coal which I
think underlies our place.
Let those having the matter in
charge push it to q thorough and
final test, and if coal is found, as
predicted, we will soon have pop
nlation such as our fertile prairies
need to consume their products.
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Our staple crop-corn- win not
bear transportation. To convert
it into flesh requires capital not at
command of the great mass of
| producers Hence, the rich grow
richer and the poor hold their own
with wonderful tenacity.
We see but One means of relief
Home manufactures. We must
bring the producer and consumer
closer together. The East, suffer
ing for that which is our burthen,
excess of food, cries fol cheap
transportation. It demands of
Congress 8 regulation of inter
state commerce, that it may still
hold the West in bondage. Let as
seek emancipation from this old
time thralldom, by bringing man
ufacturers and mechanics to us.
Let US at once bring the hungry
mouth of the East to the full bo-
som of the West. Let us have the
skilled hands of the weaver with
in reach of the backs his nimble
shuttle works to cover.
When we cultivate Kansas SOL
with Kansas made implements;
when NE wear homemade cloth,
sit in homemade chairs, eat from
tables, warm our shins at stoves,
and dream on beds made in Kan
sas, then, and not till then, will
the unfortunate cry cease to come
up for more money lenders-more
leeches to consume our blood.
The ssiIl, only, is required to ac-
complish this. A concerted ac-
ton, aided by wise legislation,
would very soon carry us over the
"dead center which holds the
wheels of our progress in check.
Exemption of capital and product
of manufactures from taxation for
period of twenty years will ac-
complish it, if our people will
make it a part of their religion to
buy nothing from abroad that can
be made at home. The existence
of the manufactures in our midst
would produce two dollars of tax
able property where we exempted
one dollar. The increase in cost
of home production, if there should
be an increase, would be doubly
compensated by the enhanced val
he of that wherewith we buy.
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8.
EDUCATIONAL,
CONDUCTED BY PROF. $. 5. BAscoci

1t is said of Coleridge that his Ia
test poems are gems in which no
flaw of any sort can be found.
Among these we think the follow
ing, entitled Love, Hope and Pa
tlence,in Education, one of the most
perfect compositions in the English
language. 1t is a model that the
teacher win do well to study both
as to matter and manner.
OF all that has been written on
the subject of school government
there has been nothing to surpass it
Ger wayward childhood would'st thou
hold firm rule,
And sun thee in the light Of happy faces;
Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be
thy graces,
And in thine own heart let them first keep
school.
For. as Atlas on his broad neck places
Heavens starry globo, and there sustains
ft,-so
Do these upSear the little world below
or Observation-Disclosures Love and Hope.
Methinks see them grouped in seemly
The Strengthened arms upraised.the palms
aslope,
And robes that touching. as adown they
flow,
Distinctly blend, like snow embossed in
snow.
o part them never! If Hope PROSTATE lie
|. Love too will sink and die.
But Love is subtle, and doth proof derive
From her own life that Hope is yet alive;
And, bending DER with soui-tranSiusins
eyes,
And the soft murmurs of the mother dove
Woos back the fieeting spirit, and hHif
supplies:-
Thus Love repAys to Hope what Hope first
gave to Love.
Yet haply there will come weary day,
When oyertasked at length
Both Love and Hope beneath the load
give way.
Then, with statues smile, q statues
strength,
Stands the mute sister, Patience. nothing
10th,
And both supporting does the work Of
both.
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In ansEnglish newspaper of 1764,
we dad, besides the advertisement
of new edition of the kaistory Of
the House of Tador, In 2 vols. email
paper 40, price lE. 5s., the follew-
ing announcement, which is curious
both as an evidence of the popular
ity Of Humeas works, and as show
ing that . mode of publication ex-
teBsiEely adopted in our own day
Is no novelty :sf< ssa
esssThis day is published printed
on o new type and coed paper, the
seventh Yolame, octave, price 5s., In
boards, OF the Complete History OF
Engi1nd, from Julius Cesar to the
Reformation Vita Additions and
Corrections. And to the last vol
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FACT AND FANCY.

The police BUSINESS of Chicago
has diminished about one half
since the closing of the saloons
on Sundays.
The debt of the State of New
York was reduced $4,095, 976 last
year.
Chicago transferred real estate
last year to the amount OF $751;
600, 900.
In the rebuilding of Chicago
s64, 100000 have been borrowed
outside of the city.
Caldwell begins to think that
success will not remove the
stigma of the transaction"
During the six years ending
1866, Pennsylvania expended $12,-
745, 061 in education, and 42I, $685.
$50 during the past six years-an
increase OF $s,s33,1 This j.
good.
There arc 100000 children in
the public schools of the State Of
New York, besides I3I $40 attend
ing private schools. Ten millions
were spent in the public schools
last year.
Our imports at New York for
the three past years compare a.
follows: 1870. $50, ABS, 7SS; 1871,
$3.50, 0S2, 900, 1872, $425,OI7, 495.
Increase in two years, 1921 ,579.707.
This don't look healthy.
The rate of taxation in fifteen
cities and towns of Indiana ranges
from 2i.7 mills on the dollar in
indianapolis to AL mills in KO-
komo; the average being more
than double the rate in thirty. five
cities and towns in Ohio.
During the past six years the
city debt of New York has gone
| up from &45,950,757 to $1iS,S55,-
220; and her annual taxation from
&16,950,767 to So. 036, $50. The
mayor says it is difficult to realize
the magnitude OF this increase.
Should think II would be.
1t required $40, 1924, 799 to run
the city government of New York
in lS72-@7, DOC, 900 less than in
| 1s7I-though all items consider
ed the reduction Of the expendi-
ture was actually IS, 73S, $3.50. Re
form pays. Another reform might
bring the expense TO reasonable
amount.
The message of Gov. Leslie. OF
Kentucky, states that of the 1851
school districts in that State, all
except 73 had schools taught un-
der the law, and that the school
attendance increased nearly H.
600 over the previous year. En-
couraging. The Governor treats
OF education at length, and il
| earnest in behalf Of better faeili-
ties for the education Of colored
children.
notwithstanding ali her present
railroad facilities, the great En-
pire of the West is still struggling
for cheaper transportation to the
tide markets. while the consum-
ers in New York are paying one
dollar per bushel for corn. the
', Western producer is getting but
seventeen cents per bushe1 ae his
farm in Illinois. The difference Of
So cents per bushel goes into the
} pockets OF the transportation con-
panies and middle men. So that
: the Western farmer has to give
almost five bushels OF corn TO pay
, | for taking one bushef TO the East
ern market. But IL waterways
could be provided 50 Is to cheaper
transportation for the West, the
New York consumer would ao:.
/ need to pay dollar per buakeI Tor
|, icofn, nor would the Western farm
ers be found burning corn for fnes
on the score Of chelpness,
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The Board of Apportionment for
this city (New York;, created by
the State law of April 10, 1871, has
appropriated to the maintenance of
church schools for 1873, from the
excise fund, the sum of 1880,
of which the Roman Catholic
schools will receive $l19,112, and
all others but S23,77S. 1t will thus
be seen that the Roman Catholic
schools receive $l5 for 81 given to
all the other church schools. This
use of the public money for secta-
rian purposes is incompatible with
the spirit and genius of q republic
can government, and should be pro-
hibited by tho Constitution. In the
absence of such prohibition, it is
the duty of the Legislature to in
terpose it's authority to the same
end. If religious sects are not sat-
isiied with public schools, and
choose to found others to teach their
dogmas, they should be required to
pay for them out of their own rev.
cnues. To quarter such schools on
the public treasury is an abuse
which we are sure tho people OF
this enlightened State will not much
longer tolerate, since 1t is not only
wrong in principle, but Injurious TO
the common schools, which afford
means Of secular instruction to ell
the children of the State, Catholic
as well as Protestant, Jew and In
fidel as well as Christian. Christ
ian Union.
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What is the use Of Sc
lent letters iR a10rdsy s.-
No use at all, to those who are
obliged to commit the arrangement
of the letters in words to memory
before they can remember the way
in which to spell them-NO use at
at all to those who have frequent
occasion to use them in writing,and
by SO doing arc obliged 10 make
from one TO two or more extra let
ters every five minutes. Very much
use to the philolOgist who sees in
them surest evidence of the origin
of the words in which they occur.
Thus in the word Wednesday, the
school boy sees in the supe huous
d an enemy placed in ambush to
catch him tripping and thereby make
him lose his place in the class; the
penman sees in il an enemy bound
to make him execute four strokes Of
his pen, not one of which is neces-
sary to the expression of the idea to
be conveyed the philologist, how
ever, finds wonder. world spring
up before him at the very sight of 1t,
for he no longer sees the Wednes-
day of the school boy, and the PEN
man, but there stands ont before
him in type of perfect beauty
Wodensdeg, aud he is carried back
many hundreds of years, and stands
amidst thousands of his Saxon an.
cestors in the presence OF the mighty
Wodin, the great god, from whose
loins sprung Thor and BuIdur. 'Tif
tho day for his worship, this fourth
day of the weeks and since he is &c
be appeased only by the choicest of
ferings, to-day they will slay for his
qualification tho fairestof their maid
ems, or it may be a score or two OF
captives just taken in war.
But there is scarcely an end TO the
memories Of the past which
this little silent q in "Wednesday Is
able to call up.
Catarrh, which contains two SUI
pernumeraries, has its origin in one
the most musical words; meaning Of
ito flow downward" And, while Il
the school boy, and penman Jaboy,
mentioned, they area WEAKNESS {,
the flesh, TO the scholar they supply
the key whicb opens to him the dool
to the real meaning Of the word
they give him its full history, auC
explain TO him how It came to b,
used. We arc sorry that our fail
correspondent looks with so mucl
disfavor upon silent letters for W,
think they help more in after Iif
than they hinder in early life.
| Should letters be taught Jefor
srords1 gfsf ~ ei
a No. Tho hTord should be to tn
child the picture of an idea tn
letter represents nothing with whicl
the child Is familiar, hence the worI
il more easily learned than the LET
ter, besides the child learns the let
tiers as parts of words more readii.
than he can when they stand alone
, How far the child should be take
in words before he is taught letter.
Is . qucation upon which teacher
are not sgreed. We think that ih
letters ought to be taughtas soon q
! 1.-THE pupil begins to print words, an
2 this he should de &imost inmed
/ asely after entering school.
: Several questions remain 70
answered. $50 eas4s IS s
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hotels.
MADISON HOUs

EMPORtA, KANSAS. Gtn avenue
~ near Commercial street. This l4yOr.
tie hotel has been thoroughly retittsd and
furnished. The most careful attention
paid To the comfort u guests.
35tf NJ. l.. FUNKHOUSKR.
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TXCLUSIVE attention paid to the re-
~ pairing OF watches, clocks and jewel
ry. All work W warranted. North window
of Tandy Il Eastman's drug store, Empo
ria, Kansas.
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|. A. LHAMPLIN. Is. r. HUdHI
CHAMPLIN 4 HUGHES,

CsTOSE CUTTERS AND CONTRACTORS.
y We are prepared 20 do all kinds OF stone
cutting, such window sills, circular caps
OF ans u,.SIgn. ioOr sills, columns, mouidings,
and all work In the stone emitting line that
builders may desire. They also furnish bases
and soc ets for tombstones. or iers promptly
nlled. shop on the eornerof Fourth Avenue
and Constitution street. Emporia, Kansss.
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