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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20
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TIE OLD TxRUIK.

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Gria relic Of distant time.
More interesting thxn Sabine!
Thou r. sitting subject fog my rhyme.
And touchst me queerly,
Unlike the touch that youthful crime
Provoked severely.
Il was . dark sad fssrfui day,
When thou heid's sovereign rule and sway,
And AZ Humsnity might ssy.
The doom that brought thee isso plsy. >
And wrought rs hurt!
All. Soiononi that dogma wild
o. spsring rod and spelling child.
And lev defend it;
] Our teaehens draw Il far more MID -fEe
$50 And strive 10 mend IL -i-a,--s
Oh. bitter were the blows and -hscks
That fell ON our delinquent backs
When, VARYING from moral tracks.
In youthful error
Thou madest our stubborn nerves relax
With direst terror.
know twas urged that our own good
Dwell In the Jingle Of the wood
That scared Us a. We trembling stood,
And couldn't Zee IL;
But confess never could
Exactly see IT,
The smothered wrath at every stroke
Was keenly felt though never spoke,
And twenty devils rampant broke.
For one subdued;
And all disturbances awoke-
A fenfiish brood.
And impish trick and vengeful spite
Esssyed with all their skill and might
To make the balance poise Alright;
And hate sharp-witted
Ne'er left occasion day Or night,
To pass omitted g..
Isee IL now:-the whitfield Doors
The window panes smashed in By scores
The deseerxted classic floors r f-frT
The benches leyelled;
The streaming ink from murky pores,
The books bedevilled.
Small reverence for LearIiings fame, 81
For masters toll Of nerve and brain;
They saw Instruction MARRIED with pain,
And Alma Mater
Was thought Of only by the train
To dePrecate her.
lis strange to have thee in my grasp:
My fingers round thy handle clasp
No sense of pain my fe-lings rasp
As last knew thee:
Then thou didst sting me like asp, .T
Foul shame unto thee.
But gcntIer moods suggest the thought
That still thine office anguish fraught
For our best good unselfsh wrought,
Had we but known it;
And we with grateful spirit, ought
To freely own it.
Perhaps-but am glad at heart
That thou more bear st sovereign part
In helping on Instructions art
BY terror rule
That other modes will prompt the smart
Than thee in school,
Thanks old reminder Of the past
For this brief vision backward cast
We measure progress To contrast
Times far and near:
Rejoiced. in summing up at last
We're not arrcar.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

A GOOD lady. who on the death of Ter first hus-
band married his brother. has portrait of the
former hanging in her dining. Ioam. One day
visitor, remarking the rainting, asked, Is that
q member of the familyi' ayes! that's nv poor
brsther-in-law,r was the reply.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20
SONG OF THE "RKFoRMKR."

want TO be a Granger,
And with the GrSsgers stand
A horny farmar.
With hsy-stsek In my hand
Beneath the tall tomato tree,
IN swing the glittering bee.
And snite the wild pOtato-b1g. ~
AZ he skips Ger the snow.
I've bought myself Durham ram,
And gray alpaca CIV,
A lock.stitch Usage orange hedge.
And patent leather ploS.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

TIE discovery is said to have been made that
it rs not necessary TO groove a rife barrel the
whole of its length, bat that . few inches of
growing near the muzzie will give the bullet all
the needfnl amount of spin.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

APPLE DUMPLINGs.-Pare and stew three hints
Of apples; mash them. add fanr eggs. a quarter
Of q pound Of butter. suaar apd nutmeg or grated
lemon. Bake IL on short crust.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

Miss LOFTY" He lily. sir, don't remember;
VIE was il have met youf"
Je1kins-"Weil ae amt met often sn to
speak, bur said you them stock'nS, which, 1
gussy you've got nH."
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

GOVERNOR HOFFMAN, when last beard from,
was in the Holy Land en- route to Damascus.
Sanl. of Tarsus, once iourneyed that way, and saw
great light-Brooklya irgs,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

DELINQUENT subscribers shonld not permit
their daughters 10 wear this paper for hustle
There being so much due on it, there is danger
If their taking cold.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

A LOAfER arrested in Rochester. n Y, for a
trivial offense, pleaded, in extenuation, that he
was discouraged on account of the back-pay bus
mess.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

WHY shonld not farmers generally set fruit
trees IN the fance corners, on each side of the
ruadf They viii make much more ereditahle
appearance than brisrs aud eldars.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

HEREAFTER don't ask prisoner. a Are you gull
fy OF not EniisyP Let the Question be, Have
you or have you not any rich relationsfn
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

AWIscoSsIN thief has actually robbed the hen.
r"ost of the Chief Justice. This is considered
to be not only LARCENY, but contempt Of court.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

VINO ia; hit me. War dat ianfsrlf were
the .nq l., II an aston shed Elmira Gsg' ev. af-
ter being th'oTp s0m.tising like hul,drst feet
~ lseolnofirr.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

A NASHVILLE man boasts IF owning " the ink
stand nsed by General jackson at the battle Of
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

The Seneca Falls ladies are singing about " the
moth-eafen hustle, the old iron hustle, the cloth
covered bnstle that hung on so well.H
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

The following was recently stuck under a door
in Rochester, Ind:
"To whom 1T m Concern
Every body Read thiS) if The good Templers
and Church members persist in Prosecuting the
Saloon Keepers They might See The BgesT Fire
what They Ever Seen in Rochester mind That
"grand Jury Be carefulln
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-20

- LETTERHEADs BILLHEADS ENVELoPE3
MONTHLY STATEMENT BLANKS anc ~ s1sn WOKE
ezecuted IN NE bsss styie st ths org eslses
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-09-10
IN GENERAL

The bonds specified in the new call have
already, many of them, beenpresented for re-
dempton. They Ere presented by the Syndi-
cate who it appears long since purchased
them at a'discormt, before it was known that
they were to be redeemed. It is stated that
the Syndicate control most Of bonds under the
new call, which they acquired m this way.
During the first year that the business of
the late Freedmen's bureau has been undor
the charge of the adiutant generals Office in
the war department, claims, amounting to
$424, 228 have been prepared for payment, and
only await the call of the claimants and IN
appropriation Of one hundred thousand dol
lars to carry on the business.
The bureah of education has infrmaotion
that Chicago and Cincinnati, each, received
from the Vienna exposition the grand medal
of progress for their. system of education,
teaching and instruction. and Cleveland, and
Jackgonvipe, Illinois, were awarded q diplo-
ma Of merit in the same department. In this
one department Of education, teaching and
instruction twenty-five prizes were awarded
United States exhibitors. ola.
There is heavy pressure at Washington
for change in the postal law by the next
congress allowing free exchange Of newspa-
pers, and the renewal of franking in some
modified form.
The board OF visitors to West Point have
submitted their report. to the seeretqry Of. war,
They recommend that the course Of instnlc-
ton should il possiblebe somewhat enlarged
by allowing some time to be given. to literary
and historical studies, and to exercise in elo-
cution. Even purely military education can
not be said at the present day to bo complete
which omits wholly frem-its course of mstruo-
ton history and letters. The fact that so
many of the last appointeeH failed in literary
examination is attributed mainly to the want |
of thoroughness in the schools of the e3un-
try with respect to the primary work. The |
academy owes it to itself and it's influence as |
national institution on the whole system of |
education, to render and publish to |
the world this honest verdict. II our school |
boards and superntendents !and teachers i'll
the north and in the south, in the east and IN |
the west, will but heed the verdict and use due |
diligence to correct this great defect, some |
abiding good may come from the morttylng |
experience of this years examination.
1t is officially denied that the peace com
missioners or the interior department furnished |
the Sioux with breeoh leaders or other arms. |
Any Weapons they have must have been fur
nished by traders. The officials regret that
the friendship of the Pawnees for the whites
should excite the hostility Of the Sioux but 1t /
is not thought the government will interfere
further than to keep the peace among the
tribes. The fact that the army uses the Paw
nees as scouts, it is thought, may intensity the
enmity of the Sioux. ."
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-09-10
VERMILIONVILLE, ATTAKAPAS, I

as if to throw that in, when [ accosted
him. "What are you about there, Tay.
lor's boy?" '..' "s s'..as
" Niger in the well, rnister.l
i'm blae we'll I'm giving him sol
to keep him up" ,..ra.t s,I i7i Z
Keep him up| Remarked. "How
long do you suppose pickaxe will keep
the boy aAoat ?"
Taylor's boy made no reply, but voci-
ferated vehemently, "Niggef in the
we'll nigger in the wellE.
Taylor's boys shoutings brought Mrs.
JOhnsing to the door, Mrs. Johnsing be-
ing engaged just then at our family wash
tub Mrs. Johnsing took in the situa-
ton at once and started for the cistern
just as she reached it her foot caught in
some of the gearing of the patent pump
she tripped, and went headlong into the
oistern.
"Two niggers in the well P' cried
Taylor's boy.
"The well is full of niggors !'' And
up the street he started, shouting Mt the
top of his voice "The we'll is full of
niggers The we'll is full of niggers ~
AS you may well suppose, thingswere
rather lively in that neighborhood for
few minutes. Taylor's boys statement
of the condition of the we'll alarmed all
the neighbors, who, rushing into the
streets and hearing Mrs. Johnsipg's and |
Pete's screams for help, and not being
able to locate these, ran madly to, and |
fro 4galnsb eacn oTner, In quest. on Ufie !
immersed colored folks, At length we |
fshed themout. Mrs. Johnsing, assoon
as she reached dry land, getting her son
apd heir into the proper position, nd
ministered to his person a heavy dose of
shoe; and Pete, released from the ma
ternal embrace, observed to Tay1or's,
boy, who had assembled again "See
yere, Jim Taylor Did you frow my.
mother into dat we'll ?''-Nce0 York
World.
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-09-10
nntns Of AdvertlalnRl
News of the Week.
EAST

m. iron merchants Of New York, attri-
,,s lbe looknu! at Manchester, England, to
aso fset that the high price of English iron
s3incrsasod production in this country have
,n5asd The American market wholly inde-
adent oi Great Britain. The importation
4 British hon this country il very light and
r5tnsl to special products such as Scotch
do American iron is now sent to Canada,
n5Consumsra in California who formerly OBJ
arei III their iron from England are now
s51pg t in Pittsburg. An extensive dealer
assl1. IN making an estimate this week in re-
asi to eleven hundred tons Of sheet iron, to
sy, found that it oould be bought Of Ameri-
aa manufacturers at half cent per pound
N Than the price Of an inferior grade i'm
ported. .,s''.' ..,
The Btatement ia now made that Kate
soidnd's confession, published some time
10 accusing herself of being the murderer of
Charles Goodrich, .was a police fiction to de-
his the alleged murderer Roscoe, into be5
If that the woman stoddard stood accused
ni condemned herself to save him, and that
snaed not fly from justice. The so-called
sfessiOn was put forth by commissioner
Iyufdan and ex-Chief Of Police Campbell, of
hooilyn, .......
The amount Of United States moneys and
audties redeemed and destroyed during The
nr ending June 80, 1878, shows total of
HA,743, ,962 The average daily destruction
4 fractional currency was over $4,000. The
mount Of legal tenders destroyed during the
ssr was S65Ol9,OG7.
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-09-10

where the rocks are gray and the shore is steep,
| AND the waters below LOOK dark and deep,
| Where the rugged pine, in its lonely pride
| Leans RLooInily over the murky tide
| Nhere the reeds and rushes are long and rank
tg.a AIla Ihe , weeds q, gTe1E tal ~ tay haatlss
| mere lies at its mOOTmgB the old canoe,
The useless paddles are idly dropped,
Like sea-brd's wings that the storms had l0pped
| Ana crossed on the railing, one o'er'one,
| Like the folded hands when the work is, done:
| While busy back and forth between
| The spider stretches his siIvery SCREEN
| And the soumn OWL with his dull "to0-hoop
Settles down on the side of the old canoe.
| The stern half sunk in the slimv wave
Rots slowly away in its living grave,
And the green moss Crecps DER itR dull decay
Hiding its mOldering dust awav
Like the hand that plants DER the tomb flower,
Or the ivy that mantles the falling tower.
While many blossom of Iovelist hue
Springs up DER the stern of tho old canoe
The currentlcss waters are dead and still
But the light wind plays with the boat at will
And lazily in and out again
II hOats the length Of the rusty chain b.
Like the weary march of the hands of time
That meet and part at the noontide chime,
And the shore in kissed at each turning anew
By the dripping bow Of the old canoe
Oh, many time, with a careless hand,
l have pushed it away from the pebbly strand
anu pduhitu " upWn WDore the stream quick
Where the whirs are wild and the eddies are thick
AND laughed as leaned DER the rocking side,
And looked below in the broken tide
To see that the faces and boats were two
That were mirrored back from the old canoe.
But now, rs lean DER the crumbIing side,
And look below in the sluggish tide
The face that see there is graver grown,
And the laugh that hear has BUbsrer tone
And the hands that lent to the light skiff wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things
But love to think Of the hours that sped
As rocked where the whirs their white spray shed
Ere ere TIE blossoms waved, or the green grass grew,
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-09-10
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

/ ON ralny day in the holidays, when hC
didn't know how to amuse himself, ahd
fell from idleness into amfgahisF from
mischief into defiance, saa7 gfsess y,ss.sfj-
ance into sulkinbsE.; or 3gsss A a 81
absolutely refused to let him 1iavsSa
tailed cont "haIf." although every other
boy of his age had gone into tails
already? Surely if we could retail that
early bitterness, and the dim guesses,
the STRANGELY perspcctiveless conception
/ 80 I;c, 41t ,s,r,,, A., J;44,,,,ooa ITO in
t4..,.,-- ~ ''''.' '5',~ '' .I11t ~,
:',r''' we ','o, I:I5u NV Io Chn3Inn1 Fo ta,,
L-4t,. ;.;a ..o4ko,
~ 49, - ,,,41;uo3 nor,n.,,
%...',,, - Iy;-, 80,
CULTIVATE HABITS OF OhshRVATloN IN
CHLLDhEN.-Lhe. boy VINO leaves BcAso22l
with n fixed habit OF observation IS
really Just beginning ms ed'lcatloh' ne
is passing from the tuition OF lmPer1ect
teachers to that OF instructors whose
store OF knowledge is borholeSs' ana
whose methods are always the neS''
Ihere Is really no more curious s'uuJ
than fhat OF mems habits ia TINS parIlc"-
lar. 10 ordinarily ooSerV"ht PeoPiS Ii
seems SIMPLY marvel that some meh
and women can see SO muoh ana learn
so little. We ourselves have known,
for instance, persons OF fno aolllty' oc-
cupymg editorial POSITIONS VINO couIQ
never learn how to indicate desired
,.I,o,, 4,n,, ,raro ooIlad ,,no, +o so imJ; ~;
a4ot1,o;n.n;eho,,o o,, o,,orr do, an ,roof-s1;ns
-, r,I,;o1, o74oro4; ;ons ,v6ro morkod
,,I,.,.7,, W. 1,no sbi,r;ro.o1ork
,,no astor 1oo1;nn diroofv with
,,,,;al,o1-t,,
, - ,,4oor,hoot !,
,,,,1a. | ~ ,,,at,, rho toGaoncv' - this
1'.I,;4 - .1,aamu,tia,, ,tonothor with itg
'''','O ~ ,,.t IT,, I,1,;ta at oer,,,orison and
,,Ynoot;a,,' not,,ro ;,,,1onta in avorv
I,,,,,,,,, ,r;na ond = 10 this +ba+ pives
l,;,tl ,ll, T., 4tn ,or,,1ov;ro. onostionings If
III nt;I1ron yTbon + is allowed to de-
,,n1o,, w. itaolf i hocomos tho bast and
srrolt ~ Ill odncators bnt for the
n,aat nort i ID r,,dolv renressea in
na,l,, ob;ldhood Nv rooson Of the indo-
1oaaa 81 ,,oron+s and so wa find if ex-
it;,,o, 1oo W vow, foabl,, r. ot al in half the
naa,1Io ,,,o rooot yonr child wants to
i,noI,, Enor +I,o foots about ovorvtbipo he
aaoa ond the reasons for them He
ot,'roII,, ool,s his father or his mother
IrLo - him oro tho ronositories Of all
,v;sJom Ttisnot always eosv to answer
him. and % the average parent cares a
HlIu "iIu no 'ii0 "F'A"S" B''' ' =
GOOD doo1 moro for bis or her own,aem-.
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-09-10
Woman Degraded.
Bcooher Points a Moral with Some Una
dorned Modern Tales.

Beecher Points q Moral with some ShR-
dorned Modern Tales.
In popular theory, and to certain
extent in law, woman still remains a
weak, wavering shadow of man, his
helpless care and absolute property.
1t was this most monstrous condition
| which made of Walworth, the husband
brutal, domestic tyrant; course,
domestic bully. Should not man do
| what he would with his own? 1t was
this sentimental nonsense that made OF
Walworth the son calculating parri-
eide, Should not q son "protect" his
mother? That the costly legal ma
chinery of sovereign state stood ready
to "protect" her, as threatenings and
pistols could not, was fact too com.
monplace to weight with him. Her
honor being insulted, chivalry demand
ed that he should ayenge it. Smith,
who killed q man and tried to kill a
woman. because that man paid court to
that woman, justified himself hundred
times over with the same plea " She
belonged to me-" And he died, to his
own thinking, in the full odor of saneti-
ty. and in the sincere belief that he had
committed no crime. Gillem coolly
stabbed bis wife because she refused to
live with him on account OF his de-
bauchery, faithlessness and violence.
He thought that he exercised the plain
est right Of husband, and said to the
policeman, "Yot'd have done the same
If your wife had left you" And that
policeman admitted that he saw the
murderer lying in wait, knew his mad
RACES, and feared some violence, but
"did not like to interfere between man
and wife" Goodrich happened to be
the victim instead of the victor, under
his system, which was evidently the
sanne-namely, that the woman is the
absolute property of the man and the
creature of his will. To his thinking,
she had no rights in the case.
These are not pleasant pictures; but
ID is only in their concrete form that the
bad tendencies of society arrest the
general mind, The one hope of dimi-
nishing crime is to reform those false
modes of thought which generate
crime. No one of these is more dan
gerous than the notion Of a mans own
ership of woman, and of woman's
accountability TO man. 1t brutalizes
the lower classes from end to end. Its
consequences touch unborn children
and keep the ranks Of rogues and
paus perfuli. It makes the men the of
upper classes tyrannous and selfish !;
the women silly, exacting, frivolous
and weak. 1t leads to crimes of sensu-
ality and violence, and sets the code OF
honor above the law of the land.
Half the social questions that vex our
souls will be answered when the world
comedies that woman is normal, re-
sponsible individual that she must be
the protector of her own honor, the
Judge of her own duty, the keeper Of
her own conscience, answerable only to
the Law and to heaven. There viii be a
lofty observance Of marriage, noble
race of children, only when the man
and woman are intelligent equals and
friends. And Ia that day the world
viii be ashamed to remember through
how many centuries IL ranged men into
mock order Of devotees and women
into sentimental priesthood.
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An Arab Tradition.


"This tradition which / tell you,
said Refs Hassain, I" is many centuries
old. 1t states that there was a para
disc, q temple built Of precious stones
Man dared not utter its ,splendors.
Deep in the midst of the palms of Eden
it stood, angel built, a dazzling sanctu-s
ary. Our first parents sang their YES
per songs in the twilight shadows of its
courts for there were ,pillared balls,
and the cloisters of emerald and pearl, J
where fountains sprang aloft in the si-
lent noon, and long, luminous vistas,
where, hand in hand, those first two low
ers walked in sinless beauty. Then
there were pinnacles and domes of sap
phire, blazing in the sunlight by day
and glittering in the starlight by night
From court and terrace waters welled
out, and iris-crested cascades fell down
to cool shady dells Of asphodel below
for the temple was placed far within the
privaeies of that valley Of Eden.
Whence the four rivers flowed eastward.
"However, sad to relate, upon the
day that Adam fell, this glorious tenn
pie was shattered into O millioR, frag-
ments, and sown broadcast all over the
earth. These fragments we now Light
upon and gather up with cost and care.
and call them rubies, emeralds sap
phires and diamonds but they are, af;z,
ter all, only the splinters of that priraa
val place. The sunset splendors ~
the diadem of princes, the milky We
that sparkles in the heavens, and tha
spray that sparkles in the entanglemetis
of maiden's hair, are like but the cost
ly dust of that lost sanctuary-the sad
remembrances of a departed Eden"
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lie world grant IN return extensive common
cial privileges, allow the erection of naval
store-houses and theuse Of the best timber
for ship building. The Sultan was informed
that better way to present his proposition
was to send special envoy to the United
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ADANBURY man became convinced tho
other day that woman's temper is very
irregular. He had been molding bull
let's, aud had neglected to cool off the
Iadle in which the lead had been melted.
While he was counting the bullets his
wife came into the room humming
tender love song, Suddenly the song
ceased, and the man was made aware
that something had happened by catch
ing an adjacent coffee.mill ON the bridge
Of his nose. The unhappy wife and
mother had taken this picturesque mode
of informing him that she had picked
up the ladIe by the hot end. ' .
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THERE is a movement along the whole
line of the woman's rights phalanx.
Everywhere they are getting up petit
tions to be sent to the legislatures when
in session, asking that the property of
women may be exempted .fron taxation.
No vote, no tax, is their motto.
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QUnEs VICTORIA is said to have been
much annoyed at the shah's kiss. She
had only..to have held up her hands and
John Brown would have bounced him.