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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28
An Episode of Juvenile Crime.

For many months back the firm OF Iuf-
berry Il Ayers, merchants, OF Railway n.
j.. have been sorely puzzled to find out
who was the perpetrator OF several rob-
berries made at their establishment Some
times the depredations would be made
two OF three times week, and at other
times two or three weeks would elapse
Amounts varying from $50 to $40 would
be taken, but the more frequent practice
was the purloining OF only few dollars
at time. The money was taken from
the cash drawer III the counting room
and the drawer itself was apparently not
opened or unlocked, and no violence was
used in gaining admission to the premises.
The utmost vigilance was taken, watch
men were placed i'll the building at all
hours, but everything failed to detect the
thief. Soon the money stolen began to
amount to thousands of dollars. The rob-
berries continued, and the manner of their
preparation became more mysterious as
time wore ON. 1t was ascertained that
the thettS we've committed every time
soon after the establishment was closed il
the evening. The money drawer was
never emptied, a small amount being al
ways left behind. Whether the thief was
ghost, hobgoblin OF fairy, was a comm
drum. At last the mystery was revealed
One evening last week a watch was set
before the door was locked. At dusk a
soft tread was heard q childish form was
seen to slip a key into the lock; it entered
and closed the door carefully and glided
across to the desk She Ga little girl it
proved to be) had an empty whiskey bot
tie i'll her hand, which she placed under
her arm and then passed her little tiny
hand under the back of the desk up be-
hind and over the rear end of the cash
drawer. Thus she reached its almost en-
tire contents. A mans hand could not
have done the work, so close did the draw
CT tit She withdrew a portion OF the mon
ey and the watcher stepped from his place
and arrested her. She was taken to the
police station and identified as Lettie DON
ohue. q little daughter of workman en-
ployed in the establishment Her mother
drinks whiskev, and whenever supply of
the article,was needed the foregoing means
was adopted to obtain it. And thus the
mystery was solved which for many
months nearly puzzled the wits OF Messrs
Lulberry and Ayers.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28

How prone we are to hide and hoard
Each little token love has stored,
TO tell of happy hours:
W lay aside with tender care
A tattered book. a curl Of hair,
A bunch Of faded flowers.
When Death has led with pulseless hand
our darlings to the silent land
Awhile weSit berett.
But time goes on; anon we rise,
Oar dead being buried from our eyes,
We gather what is left.
The books they loved, the songs they sang.
i he little flute whose music rang
SO cheerily of old;
IN, ! ne pictures we have watched them pant
The last-pluckcd flower, with odor faint,
That fell from fingers cold.
We smooth, and fold with reverent care
The robes they, living, used TO wear;
And painful pulses STIR
As DER the relics of our dead,
With bitter rain of tears, we spread
Pale purple lavender.
And when we come in after years,
With only tender April tears
ON cheeks once white with care.
70 look at treasures put away
DeSpaifins on that far-off day,
A subtle scent is there.
Dew-wet and fresh we gathered them,
These fragrant flowers,- every stem
Is bare of all its bloom.
Tear-Wet and sweet we strewed them here
TO lend our relics sacred, dear.
Their beautiful perfume.
That scent abdes on book and Lutte.
ON curl and flower, and with its mute
But eloquent appeal,
Il wins from us II deeper sob
For our lost dead-a sharper throb
Than we are wont to feel.
1t whispers of the long ago
Its love, its loss, its aching woe,
And buried sorrows stir;
And tears like those we shed of old
Roll down our checks as we behold
cur faded lavender.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28

The New York Commercial, paper
usually careful in its statements, publishes
the following, which we copy for the pur-
pose of putting people on their guard in
taking out assurances on their property
- house owner took policy in the Agricul-
llrti insurance Company of Watertown, NY,
stating to the agent that the size of his house
was 2SX3O, though as he was not at home,
and not sure about this, the agent verbally
promised that he should not be held strictly to
the statement. The policy, however, stipulated
house being in fact 24X29, when it was burned
down the company refused to pay, and the
supreme court held them not bound.o
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-28
100000 ACR IS
OF MICHIGAN LANDS
FOR SATE1

The Lands Of the jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Rail
road Company are now offered For Sale.
They are situated along its railroad and contain
large tracts of excellent FARMING aud PINE
Lands The farming land include some of the most
fertile and well-waercd hardwood lands in the
state. They are tmbcred mainly with hard maple
and beech soil black, sandy loan, and abounCls in
springs OF purest water. Michigan is of the
least indebted and most prosperous State in the
Union, ana Its farmers have Il greater variety of
crops and resources than any Western State While
some OF the prairie States may produce corn in
great abundance, they have no other resource. and
when this crop fails destituton follows as has been
the case the past year in Kansas and Nebraska For
Maps, Circulars and further information, apply to or
address q, M EsA rIyEs
Land Commissioner, Lansing, Michigan
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School Notice.

THE SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMIT
High School Room for the purpose Of examining le
teachers, on the following Saturdays at O'CLOCK
2. NJ: October Both and November 18th and 2Sth
at no other time. Those desiring to be examined
must furnish evidence satisfactory to the Committee
that they have been engaged by the Agent.
j. A. ROSS, Sup. School
2w16 PHIIO HERSEY Committee
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at should bcr,ad hy tI.c Young, The middI-a aged
and even thc DID, New lurk Tribune.
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- -.
Rest.

The following lines were found under the pil
low OF a soldier who WAS lying dead in hosri
tal near Port Royal, South Carolina;
lay me down To sleep,
With little thought or care
Whether my waking find
Me here or there.
\ bowling, burlencd head,
That only asks TO rest,
Unquestoning, upon
y loving breast.
Ny good right hand forgetS
Its cunning now
To march the weary march.
| know not how.
am not eager, bold,
Nor Strong-all that is past;
| am ready not to do
Al last, at last.
My half days work is done,
And this is all my pat;
give Il patient God
My patient heart,
And grasp his banner still,
Though all its blue be dim;
These stripes no less than stars.
Lead after Him.
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Commissioners Notice.

WYE the subscribers, having been appointed by
w the Hon. Asa Thurough, Esq. to receive and
examine the claims Of creditors to the estate of
GEORGE o. CLEMENT, late of Montvie, de
ceased represented insovent, do hereby give notice
that six months allowed to said creditors to
bring and prove their claims and that shall at
tend that service at the hall of b. X. Vose Co., in
Freedom, in said County, on the first Saturday of
November, 1875, and the second Saturday of Febru-
airy, 1876. JOHN HASKELL, Commissioners
3w16 |. b. THOMPSON, Noni'iiiosioiefs.
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Dr.. j. c. AVER & co, Lowell, Mass.

Tt1NV7V'FI '71T't -NTTIIN ITV3TI 'Ilt 7IIII-T.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
The sad Experience Of a Good
Beacon with a. Maynard.
Calf.
Leavenworth Times.


Last Sunday, just as one of our
straightest deacons was getting
ready to shake the lines over his
horses backs and say, "ge dap"
his wife happened to remember
that the calf hadn't been fed. The
deacon looked at his Sunday
clothes and observed that he did
not deem it incumbent upon him
to suffer for the negligence of 9th
ers; to which the deaconess re-
piled that such language in the
presence of the children, on q Sun
day morning, and from a piller of
the church, was enough to shake
ones belief in the professions that
had been made by some one man
she could name. The deacon
handed the lines to his oldest boy,
and climbed over the WIZ eel without
saying a word. He went around
to the back door and took the
front door key from under the
mat, came around to the front
door, and as he was trying to put
the key in the hole the key slip
ped from his hand and fell down
into the mud. Finally he got IN
to the kitchen and started for the
barnyard with his milk. He set
the pail down on the ground and
called to the calf, but the beast
wlisked his tail in the air and
beloved at him. Then he cap
tured the animal and pulled it
along by the ears and jammed its
head into the pail, but the calf
gave spring, sending the milk in
a cloud of spray over the deacon's
shirt front. In trying to recap
ture the beast, the deacon dropped
his hymn book out of his pocket,
and before he could rescue it the
calf stepped both feet on it and
tore the cover of. The deacon
got mad. He took q hoop pole
and belabored that calf. One end
of the pole struck the shed and,
bounded up knocked the deacon's
plug hat off. 1t rolled directly
under the calf who set his foot
through the tile, and then went
tearing around the yard with his
tail In the air and that hat fasten
ed Just above the knuckle joint.
The deacon went into the house,
and as he unbuckled his shirt col
lar, he called out, s.Maria, you go
on to church, and if anybody asks
after me tell them | stayed home
to feed the calfp'
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04

TO EXTERMINATE CHINCH BUGs.-
w. s. Cook. of NeOshO Rapids,
tried this plan last year successfully,
and recommends that the farmers
in each neighborhood combine to-
gether this season and clean out the
chinch bugs:
The present bugs are those which
have "wintered over" They are
now laying countless eggs, and il is
the hugs that are hatched from these
eggs that are to be feared. Take u
corn field, for instance, and the little
bugs can be found some mornings
leaving the stubble and covering
the first few rows of corn. They
are all there. Get plenty of boiling
hot water, and kettles, and pour the
water on these rowe of corn. Near
ly every bug will die, but the corn
will revive. Let this be done to
every field when the bugs first hatch
. out aud begin eating and they will
have no chance to scatter and do
damage. Mr.. Cook saved q deld
this way last season, and is confident
that il neighboring farmers would
all combine on this plan, that q few
days work would annihilate chinch
bugs all over the county, and State.
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ONFORD.
Crops How Oxford Treats
SInadererS.
OXFORD, Kan,
Nov Och 1917

OXFORD, Kan,
May Goth, 1875.
EDITORS OF NEWS: After a de-
lightful TRIP throughout almost the
entire length of the Valley of the
Cottonwood, and enjoying fine
visit at Peabody; being "made at
home" while there by the family of
Mr.. Campbell, the lumber ner-
chant, who lives on a beautiful emf
hence One-half mile south of town,
and then admiring the Library
building of which the people of
Peabody may justly feel proud, !
found myself in the grand Arkan-
sas Valley and bound for Wichita,
the great metropolis of the South
west. l spent the Sabbath in the
city, and was favored with two ex-
cellent sermons by Rev. S. 3. FIem-
ing, OF Arkansas City, the Moder-
ator of the Emporia Presbytery,
with whom, the day following,
rode to Oxford, 30 miles below
Wichita. on the west bank of the
Arkansas. All through this valley
the crops look exceedingly well.
Wheat never was better, rye cannot
be eXcelled and corn looks as we'll
as any l have seen in the state. Har-
vest will commence in about two
weeks. No grasshOppers or chinch
bugs have yet made their appear
ance. Altogether the farmers are
confident of reaping a rich harvest.
Our usually quiet burgh was on
last evening the scene OF quite a
disturbance. 1t seems that young
man, blacksmith by trade, bearing
the dignified cognomen of Martin
Van Buren, George, had given vent
to his feelings by slandering the
character of young girl residing
in this place, and this was Lot the
first Instance of like slanderOus re-
ports from him. Several of the
''bOys" concluded to teach him a
lesson; consequently after Van. had
retired for the night and was sweet
ly dreaming of honeymoOns, etc,
he was suddenly reused by a rap
at the door, to which he responed
"come in" and in another moment
he was surrounded by ten stalwart
youths i'll disguise, who Immediate
ly took him from the house to the
street, where, after quite u struggle
he succumbed and was bound fast.
He supposing his fate was to serve
as food for the buZzard or crow,
bnt the boys did not wish to harm
the fellow, consequently as they
had torn his coat very badly in the
atfray, they resolved to replace it,
SO he was furnished with a new
coat, consisting of tar and Sleeps
wool, which was Indignantly re-
ceived. "Thusly" we serve trans
gressors OH the frontier.
More Anon,
MINNESOTA.
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Washburne College. TopeLa.

The State Capital is fortunate in
securing this institution. Before the
death of Mr.. Washburne, of Wor-
cester, Mass, he willed $4,000 TO
found FREQ college at Topeka. His
widow has contributed $1,000 more.
Chas. Bodwell, of Hartford, CT,
added $4,000. Other endowments
raised the amount to $4,000. The
trustees then decided to build. and
have put very fine $65, 900 build
ing, upon an .emineHce near Topeka,
overlooking the beautiful Shung-
anunga valley. The building. is
three stories high, of stone, 81 feet
wide by 1876 feet long, and the plan
was drawn j. q. Haskell, of Law
renee. The land belonging TO it
comprises forty acres. Hot air and
gas pipes In every room. The
building will accommodate as far
as now finished, sixty boarding
students. 1t has at present five
pcaiuiuS anu III udy StuuCutSs hG
institution is open to every hody,
regardless of race or color. None
but males are allowed to board in
the building. Female students can
obtain board in private houses at q
convenient distance. A building
for the especial accommodation of
female boarding pupils will event
uSlly be erected. The trustees say
that President McVickar, who is in
New York soliciting, has added TO
the $4,000 above mentioned enough
more to pay for the building. Their
objects Is TO receive an endowment
fund of 100000 and put it at inter
est, making the income permanent
source of support, SO that the insti-
tuition can be conducted free OF
charge, and educate at least 100 pu-
pills year in aud out.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
The Ladies'.

According to a London doctor.
black eyes anu deceit go together in
women.
A Chinese young lady was recent
ly an applicant for q vacancy among
the teachers of San Francisco
school.
A crusty bachelors objection to
ladies with beautiful teeth is that
nine out of ten of them would laugh
at q funeral.
A Rhode Island woman says she
would rather have the nightmare
seven straight nights than to tell
her husband that the flour barrel
was empty.
An Iowa paper tells of q smart
wife who helped her husband to
raise seventy acres of wheat. The
way she helped him was 10 stand in
the door and shake a broom at him,
when he sat down to rest.
How sweet is a perfect under
standing between man aud wife.
lie was TO smoke cigars when he
wanted them, bat he was to give
her 10 cents every time he INDUCED
i'll one. He kept mis- word, and ev-
cry time she got so cents ahead he'd
borrow it and buy cigars. And so
they were happy.
At Pompeii they recently found q
curious record. 1t was scratched on
the stucco of the Kitchen wall, and
has been thus translated: "Light-
ed the fire, cooked his meals, and
swept his house for him 5000 times
to this day, and he refuses to take
me to the circus" Beneath this, in
different hand, is written: "Wo-
men are never satisfied"
A peculiarly sad case of elope.
ment is reported from Millbury,
Mass. '"The wife who e1Oped was
q years old, having been married
seven years, and the husband whom
she left was 81. The husbands
two sons by a previous wife were
married to his recent Wife's two
oldest sisters. and her brother is
the husband of her husbands daugh-
| ter"
Here is French lady's excuse for
clipping with M. Achille: Glad
found in my husband man like NJ.
Achille, l should not have failed in
my duties but he was nothing-a
mere nothing. What would YOU
have me do? My husband would go
to his occupation early in the morn
ing when he retured he was in
stantly asleep. Besides, he took
snuff to excess, and refused to wear
a night-gown."
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ONE szzs.1. sCmOOs. TAX
FROM The Real Essate R.e.ister.


e The impression is almost uni,
versal that the one-mill state tax
for the support of schools is re
quired by the state constitution.
It is not, however. The constitu-
tion does not make appropriations
or levy a tax. This school tax is
provided by law published in the
General Statute of 1868, and the
one mill for schools list therefore, al
ways omitted by the Legislature in
its bill making the annual levy fol
state ia xes. The state board OF
equalization includes this lax with
the others, and it is SO required in
the certificates sent by the secre-
tary Of state to county clerks.
Thus the state levies and collects
q school tax and then distributes
it. It would be q great saving in
time and in cost of collection TO
abolish this machinery and allow
each locality to collect and dis
burse Its own school money
Commonwealth.
About q year ago we called atten-
ton to this matter, in an article
published in the Emporia News.
The leading paper has just
found out that this cumbrous and
expensive machinery can be dis.
pensed with. The practical work
ing Of this old statute, which
ought to have been repealed long
ago, has been that the entire
amount collected from this one
mill tax, has remained idle fol-
nearly year, doing nobody any
good, except the members of the
state treasury ring.
This is but a specimen of thu
bungling style of assessing ant
collecting taxes. The amount o
money thus collected from the
people and allowed to lie idle fol
Il year before it is returned anC
put in circulation again, has aver
aged one hundred and t,oenty JIG,
thousand dollars a year for thu
last five years.
The amount contributed by
Lyon county for the year 1874, t.
this fund. was $3,SSl.4O.
How much of this will be re
turned to this county? Our Coun
ty Superintendent can tell US SOM
time next winter perhaps. Whel
will Legislators learn that this ant
similar abuses must be corrected
Echo answers, when?
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The Very OIdess Settler Heard
a From. sa
The foilpwing letter is interest

ing.
WYANDorrE, KS, May 81, rs.
Secretary State Board OF agriculture:
DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of
yours of the 18th instant, asking
Information concerning the yisI-
tation of grasshoppers in Kansas"
In reply allow me to say, their
history, SO far as Kansas is con-
cerned. is very soon written. I'm
til 1867 the oldest inhabitants had
not heard of them.
AS you know l came to what is
now the State of Kansas in 1887,
and it has been my home ever
since. The Indians were accus-
toned to hunt at random the en-
tire plains east of the Rocky
Mountains-if they ever encoun-
tered .grasshoppers / am certain i
should have heard them speak of
the occurrence. From them, or any
other source, I never heard of the
existence Of our present invaders;
1867 is their first appearance. AS
they do net belong in our climate
l do not apprehend we shall soon,
if ever, be scourged with their
presence again.
If our citizens, recently located,
would consider that since 1887
there has been but two dry seas
ons, 1860 and 1874, and that
grasshoppers were not heard or in
the memory of man until 1867,
they would not be greatly alarmed
at . the recurrence of such evils
in Kansas, one of the best States
of the many.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN @. PRATT.
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I will answer your inquiries as
best can. 1st. Fall wheat is half a
crop; spring wheat good; oats me-
dunn; rye good; corn good, but
hard to get stand fruit light-say
one-fourth a crop; grasshoppers
played out. We have some bugs in
fall wheat, but they have not dam
aged it yet; and as to the hopeful
ness of the farmers, about all they
have to live on is their hope.
Respt'y, RoBT. CLARK.
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Hartford, May %.
Wheat on the bottom lands good.
Corn and oats look well. Apples
very few blooms considerably, but
no fruit. Peaches fair prospect.
GrasshOppers doing much injury to
gardens in this vicinity; not injur-
ing crops very seriously. Chinch
bugs have put in an appearance
not time yet to determine the
amount of harm they will do. Crops
look as well as usual at this date.
Farmers generally in good heart.
w. p. GOULD.
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Every duty brings it's peculiar de-
light, every denial its appropriate
compensation, every thought its re-
eompense, every love its elysium,
everycross its crown ;pay goes with
performance as effect with cause.
Meanness overresches itself; vice
vitiates whoever INDUCES in it /; the
wicked wrong their own souls /;
generosity greatens virtue exalts !;
charity transfigures, and holiness is
the essence of angelhOod. God
does not require US to live on credit !;
he pays us what we earn as we
earn it, good or evil, heaven or
hell, according to our choice.-Char-
les Mildmay.
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TAYLoR CREEK. Nav q.

Wheat on upland an entire fail
ure; bottom ground promises a fair
crop. There is q large amount of
corn planted; good deal had to be
planted over, on account of cold
weather and bad seed. but there ia
now a very fair prospect for a crop.
There is q large breadth OF oats
sOwn, and promises a fair crop.
But few grasshoppers aud chinch
bugs doing no damage worth mem
ton. p. EDWARDS.
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Administrator's- Notice..

NOTICE is hereby given that the under
IN signed has been, by the Probate Judge OF
Lyon courty, Kansas, appointed .administra-
tor to settle up the estate OF the late firm of
Helwig Lane G. w. FREDERICK.
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appraiSement
nar- annn
May 21st, 1875.
SHERIFF'S SALE.

Thomas Miller,
J. X. & Irena Z. Miller.
District Court 5th Judicial District Green
wood County. Kansas
RI virtue of an order of sale issued out of
- the District Court of the 9Th Judicial
District, sitting in and for Greenwood county
Kansas. wherein Thomas Miller is plaintiff
and D. n. Miller and Irena +. Miller are de-
PENDANTS l will, on Monday, the 21st day of
June, y. ID. 1915, at IL O'Clock a. m. at the front
door OF the court house, in EmpOria, Lyon
county, Kansas. offer for sale at public auc-
ton, to the highest bidder for cash in hand
all the right, title and interest of the defend
ants, James X. Miller and Irena E Miller in
and to the following described real property
to-wit: The southeast quarter of section
thirty-One i3l) and the west half of the south
west quarter of section thirty-two 1927, town
ship twenty-onG eli, range eleven IN and
the southeast quarter eff the northeast quarter
of section thirty-four (34l. township twenty
one t2l), range ten Q0), all in Lyon county
Kansas. said real property Is levied upon as
the property of defendants, James X. Miller
said order Of sale.
Sheriff office, May sIst, \ 1875.
JOHN BAY
1.-Two Sheriff of Lyon Co., Kan.