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Winter in the East.

Some of the streets of New York look
like newly opened quarries of unsightly
stone. A compound which by courtesy
we call ice, has fearfully accumulated
in many of the streets, forming an un-
derlying stratum from one to two feet
in thickness, while frozen mounds adorn
the narrow passage-ways on either side.
Cutters are frozen up, of course, and a
warm day deluges the crossings with
muddy "slush," while deep pools often
make lOcOmotiOn absolutely dangerous.
1t is true that Broadway and some of
the wider thoroughfares have been made
comparatively clean, that is to say, pass
able. But the cOnglOmeration of ice
and mud, ashes and garbage, which
clogs many of the narrower streets fore
shadows a deadly malaria when warm
days become more continuous. How to
avert impending evil from this cause is
a sanitary question important to every
citizen. Snow in the city seems to be
an unmitigated nuisance, except to a
few jolly owners of sleighs and sleds.
But not so in the country. In Maine,
for example, where there has been steady
cold weather and superabundance of
snow, the people seem bright and cheer
full about it. The Portland, (Me.,) Tran
Script-albeit Portland is a city-thus
expiates on the weather, giving US a
pleasant idea of good, cold, wholesome
winter:
"What is more invigorating than a
morning walk at this season, with the
mercury in the neighborhood of zero ?
The beauty of the scene is itself exhil-
arating. The air is clear and frosty.
Every particle of the broad expanse OF
snow glistens in the morning sunlight
How pure and clear is the landscape.
The hOar-frost beauties every object
In the still air the smoke from innum.
erable chimneys goes straight up in
cloudy columns, which take no fantastic
| forms. One sees in them the snow.
wraiths lowering over the wintry scene
The atmosphere is sparkling, and the
aspect of the scene is as conducive tC
buoyancy of spirits as the intense colo
is to activity of motion. This is wintel
in its brightest aspect. 1t is the entire
thing-nO halfway measures about it
No mist nor drizzle, no slush nor mud
no raw, damp, dismal weather. ."-Harp
er'S Weekly.
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How to Read.

The following useful hints on this
subject, copied from the american CuL-
tiUator, are worthy of being remembered
and practiced:
The way we formerly instructed young
men to read the newspaper is the one
that we would recommend them to prac-
tice now. Presuming you are a regular
subscriber to some first-class and ably
edited daily paper, when you sit down
in the evening to read, have on your
reading table, or near at hand, q good
modern atlas, WOrcester's or Webster's
large dictionary, with good biOgraph
ical dictionary for reference, and when
ever a place is referred to whose geo.
graphical location is not known, or q
word whose meaning or pronunciation
is not apprehended, or some noted man
spoken of, concerning whom and his
whereabouts you would know more,
Immediately turn to your books for ref
erence, that you may learn what you
would know, and thus may do without
the living teacher. Any young man
who adopts this method of reading at
the age of twenty, or younger, and prac-
tices it until he is a seXagenarian, can
not fail of being man of good informa-
tion of the worlds dOings relative to
business, politics and religion.
Such reader OF good newspaper,
will meanwhile acquire taste, at least
some will, for reading works on politi-
cal economy, on geology, natural his
tory, with the works of historians,
poets, and novelists-the works of Ba-
con, Locke, Maeaulay, Grote, Carlyle,
Tennyson, Mill, Tyndall, Herbert, Spen-
Ger, Huxley, Lewes, Fisk, McCosh,
Taylor, Lewis, and other great lights,
because they have been hard students
in their several departments of investi-
CATION and study.
How much better 1t is for young men
and women thus to employ their leisure
hours which all have, than to suffer
them to run to waste as is too often
doneI The farmer who furnishes bis
home with good books is almost sure to
train up his children to become honor
able and useful members of society.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

to give some pomp and parade to the
ceremonies of Inauguration next Mon
day, and though nearly impromptu,
since commenced only to-day, still be-
tween the regular troops stationed here
and the volunteer companies of the
city, together with the few to arrive
from other cities, we can make quite a
display of military which, in connection
with the universal turnout of our citi-
zens, may give demonstration equal
ing in many respects those of former
Inauguration days. 1t is always a holi-
day embraced by all our people, when
ever the weather permits, for everybody
practices upon the belief that it is the
day of all others of our history to see
and be seen.
Though the incoming of Mr.. Hayes
assures the office-holder, generally, that
no radical changes will be made, yet
their anxiety is not much lessened, for
the Cabinet officer may desire to install
his particular friends and thereby oust
Tue pIeSCuI luCuLDUeIlt duu kuOWlUR
this, each one fears, of course, that he
is to be the one selected for official de-
capitation. It is sorry life which
thousands lead here in government en-
ploy, for they have no assurance what
ever that the next week or month may
not throw them out upon the world as
coldly as had they never rendered SER
vice. The people are concerned only as
to the President, while the clerk real
ICES that his future is determined only
by the Cabinet officer. Mr.. Hayes, the
President elect, arrived this morning,
and was met at the depot by a large
crowd. He made no speech and merely
bowed to the people before entering his
carriage. He was driven at once to
Senator Sherman's, where a sumptuous
breakfast was laid for him and a few
intimate personal friends. A large
number of ladies and gentlemen have
been paying their respects to him as
the new President. FELIX.
Washington, D. c., March 2, 1877.
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Edna, happier than she had been for
years, was returning to her cabin, car
rying one babe and leading another,
when the wretched woman whom she
had invited to the entertainment, and
therefore could not blame for being
there, came up to her with bloated face
and babbling utterance and hissed:
'Enjoy your triumph while you may!
You are living as the wife of man you
loathe, and you are no better than 1,
much as you may despise me. You
pauder to drunkenness and vice, and
you will be rearing many sons to walk
in the footsteps of their father! How
do you like the prospect ?"
Edna turned away, her heart sinking.
Had not the woman spoken truly? And
was not her self-hood of more value
than the bonds she hated {?
az will consult Mr.. Handel. Maybe
he can advise me properly" she said, as
she entered her cabin, to find John in a
glee of maudlin hopefulness over her
unlooked-for triumph.
'pve got fortune in you, Ed, and
no mistake" he said, chucking her
patronizingIy under the chin.
ITO be continued.l
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Pen Portraits Drawn by a Woman

Mary Clemmer, in the Independent of
this week, thus sketches in outline, the
various members of the Commission:
Clifford, an immense man in girth and
hight, with an equally immense jowl,
broader even than his head, which is
not narrow-a man who thinks it
enough on earth or in heaven to be a
Justice of the Supreme Court. Miller,
all perception, with just enough lack of
reflection and caution to leave him at
the mercy of his wonderful insight, to
tell what he sees sometimes, when il
would be wiser to keep still; a man of a
remarkably sunshiny temperament and
amiable nature; man so gOod-natured,
indeed, that he would never have
reached the supreme seat in which he
finds himself by his own scratching and
the pushing of other men out of his
way, if Mr.. Lincoln had not found him,
and said: "You are such clever fellow,
both in brains and temper, come higher"
Justice Bradley is another little man
with big head, big nose, and wise, far
seeing eyes. Then there is the junior
Justice Field, fairly tall and well-built,
with a full beard and very bald, in GER
tain directions the most accomplished
scholar on the Supreme Bench, with
more blood, if not more brain, than his
brother David, sitting opposite.
The two fine gentlemen of the Com
mission are Josiah G. Abbott, of Massa-
chusetts, and Henry B. Payne, of Ohio
Both of these men have passed middle
life. Abbott looks like Hawthorne in
his cast of features and moustache. Mr.
Payne has full gray hair, with Roman
nose, on which his spectacles perch like
! flies. George F. HOar is more a scholar
and in sentiment no less a gentleman
though his temperament is too irritable
to allow perpetual graciousness. Epps
Hunton has pug nose and coarse ears
! but he has strong eyebrows and a gooC
head. So has Garfield. Senator Bay
ard has stronger face than most meI
have of whose great-grandfathers W.
hear so much. 1t is clear cut and intel
| lectual. Thurman has huge wedge o
a nose, mouth with terrible grip, al
upper lip too long to admit of the slight
est nonsense, and a grand, capaciou
brow. Frelinghuysen is the "handsomt
man" of the Commission, and, lik
Bayard, has family behind him. AnC
yet Napoleon said: 81 would rather be
gin family than end one." We hav
giants in these days 1 say, as look q
Edmunds and Morton-two men VIII
owe less to their bodies and more t.
their brains than any other two men il
the Senate.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

SCANDAL.-What "they say" is be-
meath your notice. What's the use OF
lying awake of nights with the unkind
remark of some false friend running
through your brain like forked light
ming? What's the use of getting into a
worry and fret over gossip that has
been set afloat to your disadvantage by
some meddlesome busybody who has
more time than character? These things
can't possibly injure you, unless, in
deed, you take notice of them, and In
combating them give them character
and standing. If what is said about
you is true, set yourself right at once
if it is false, let it go for what it will
until it dies of inherent weakness.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

On THE RELIGION OF THE INDIANS.
Col. A. B. Meacham, late Superintend-
ent of Indian Affairs, lectured on the
"Religion of the Indians" in DIR.
Burchard's church, in Thirteenth street,
New York, recently. He said that all
Indians have a religion. The Modocs
believe that there were two men at the
creation who could not stand upright;
that one was coward and cried all the
time; that the Great Spirit came down
and permitted both to stand erect on
condition that there should be no more
crying. Therefore an Indian brave
never sheds a tear. They believe a
woman was formed of four bones of a
man, and that when the Great Spirit
blew the breath of life into the body,
the tongue moved first. In regard to
Adam and Eve, they consider Eve to
blame for listening to the voice of a
stranger in preference to her husbands,
aud for that she was debased. They
have sacred piece of land, on which
they believe the great Peacemaker de-
scended. They never hunt or fish on
this ground. The Peacemaker, they be-
lieve, was not nailed to cross, but was
killed by arrows, and then placed be-
meath a rock. He recovered life by his
own power. In memory of this they
have placed numerous stone piles in the
Indian country. Indian religion teaches
that il man smites an Indian on the
cheek, the Indian shall hit him.
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A New Hampshire man told a story
about flock Of crows three miles long,
and so thick that you could not see the
sun through it. "Don't believe it,"
was the reply. "Wa'al," said the mar
rator, "Yon're a stranger, and l don't
want to quarrel with you; so, to please
you, I'll take off quarter of mile in
the thinnest part.n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

1t was New Jersey boy who, having
done some wicked thing and being
asked whether he did not want to go to
heaven, replied: ''No; don't want to
get my fingers sore playing on an old
harm ~
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

Two Quaker girls were ironing on the
same table. One asked the other which
side she would take, the right or left.
She answered, promptly, 'It will be
right for me to take the left, and then il
will be left for thee to take the right
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

A three-year-old little girl at Roches-
ter, n. Y, was taught to conclude the
evening prayer, during the temporary
absence of her father, with, ''and please
watch over my papa" 1t sounded very
sweet, but the mothers amusement
may be imagined when she added {:
"And you'd better keep an eye on
mamma. too ~
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

Just now Great Britain seems to be
having quite an epidemic of capital
punishment. Every batch of papers
received from there contains an account
of at least one execution. During one
week recently there were four persons
executed within three days, and the
number of murders keeps pace with the
number of hangings.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

A Rhode Island man has written a
lecture entitled, "W'hom Shall 1 Marry?"
1t is fine work, but so far as we are
able to see, holds to the old opinion that
after all there is nothing better than a
woman for q man to marry.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

Danbury's absent-minded man at
tended church the other evening, and
placing his hat on the stove, backed up
to the cabinet organ to warm himself.
The sexton discovered the mistake and
hastened to the rescue of the hat and
Orpan
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

A pIucky schoolmarm in South ia
maica, L. l., whipped the biggest boy
in the school, and when his father,
six-footer, came around wanting to
know, you know, she put him to flight
with the fire shovel. The scholars now
understood who's boss.
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Woman's degraded, helpless position is the
weak point of our institutions to-day-a dis
turbing force everywhere, severing family ties,
filling our asylums with the deaf, the dumb,
the blind, our prisons with criminals, our cit
ies with drunkenness and prostitution, our
homes with disease and ddeath.-[NationalC Cen
tennial Equal Rights Protest.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

Mr.. Frank Buckland, the English
naturalist, advises ladies to trim their
dresses with tanned snake skins.
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Be mersifull to all the dunn animals;
no man can git to heaven on a sore
backed horse.
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ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the
the Librarian of Congress at Washington City. ]
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It is provoking to acknowledge q
charming serenade from Thomas Scott,
and see it in print the next morning as
Thomas Scatt.
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The CRATE fight il fust for bread, then
butter on the bread, and then sugar on
the butter.
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Ask 10 woman her age.
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Do not play at chess with a widow,
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INAUGURATION

Active preparations are being made
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EDNA AND JOHN:
A Romance OF Idaho Flat.

BY Mrs. A. J. DUNIWAY,
AUTHOR OF Judith REID" "ELLEN DoWD,"
"AMIE AND HENRY LEE" 1.-THE HAPPY
HOME" GONE woMAN's SPHERE"
"MADGE MORRISON"
ETC, ETC, ETC.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-08-09
Letter from san Juan.

SEVERANCE, KAN, August 9Th, 1877.
Editor CHIEF Under the above caption, and above
the signature of B. O'D, in the Chief of August 2,
1877, find an idea which is strange to me, and
would like B. O'D oe1plain it to me, as he ia man
of letters. In speaking of the mountains, B. OD.
this language: NO; each and every deposit was
made in one and the food, and in rapid success
sion, and the gulches ravines and river-beds were
torn out and shaped just find them now by the
action of the waters, in subsiding after the food
Now, the Bible tells that the whole earth was del
uged, covered with water deep, that the highest
elevations of land and timber were submerged many
feet If this be true, would ask where the water
ran to Is it fact say, that the earth is ho
lowi If 80, the waters might have rushed into the
great craters las some suppose they vertical tun
nes leading to the centre of the earth) sufficiently
fast toa euse the currents of which he speaks But
guess that could not be, for 50 much water would
put out the fire down there. Did the sun cause evap
Grafton to take place at some one point rapidly
that the waters rushing in to gil the Vacuum cans
ed these currents But there is trouble about that
the earth moves all the time, and evaporation would
take place exactly the line of the Equator There
are many points directly and indirectly connected
with this big water, that would like to have ex-
planned but this will be sufficient, at this time.
VIII b. O'D. tell me where the water ran tot
DIN.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-08-09

A COMPANION PIEcE.-on the same day that
the Ohio Republican Convention met and en-
dorsed Hayes, the Mississippi Democratic Con-
vention met. In the latter State, 100000 Re-
publican voters are disfranehised. Gov Stone,
who refused to take measures for the punish
ment of assassins Of men, women and children n,
for no other offence than being Republicans, va.
re-nominated for Governor The Convention
then passed q resolution in favor Of the protec-
tion and equal rights of all classes, without dis
elimination on account Of race, color, previous
condition Of servitude, or place of BIRTH The
Chairman spoke in eulcgistic terms of Hayes
Administration; and Senator Lamar warmly
endorsed the Presidents Southern Policy.
I is hard to tell which are the more honest and
consistent-the Republicans of Ohio or the DEM
ocrsts of Mississippi.
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CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.

7 DESIRE hereby to inform my customers that am no
longer able to do credit business and that after
tember 3D. 1877 all goods will have be paid for by cash
or its equivalent, before leaving store There III be
no exceptions made to the above and personal
friendship be taken into consideration
PEELED to take this step in my own interest well in
the interest Of Others Ny intention to sell all goods at
prices which will not justify in keeping with
any Thanking customers for the kind patronage
they have bestowed upon in the past hope that they
will trade with in the future and them that
will give them the benefit Of the change.
CHAS. R. KUCHS.
Doniphan, Kansas, Aug. Q, ls77-4w.
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CHICAGO MARKET.

wheat-Active but lower; No. spring. H 1901 %
cash u o9a1 oss August q est September No spring
Soc.
Corn-Fair demand and lower high mixed, 4s3c cash;
25Ic August; 25c September.
Rye-Steady; No. . SC.
Barley-Steady; No. spring 40d4ic.
Pork-Quet; sl3 30 cash August; sl3 3ll 013 Sep
tember; Si3 37k ais 40 October.
Lard-Quet; q s7i cash or August as 75ds ~ Sep
tember.
Bulk Meats-Shoulders SCI short rib SIC. short clear
Ic-
Cattle-Receipts 1000. Texans e. 35a4O0.
Hogs-Receipts 5000. Lower; heavy 90a5 25; light
smooth bacon IS 25 as 40 common 20 choice heavy pack
ing and shipping a so 15 light smooth packing Is 250
30.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-08-09

A RECORD TO BE Proud OF.-The County
Board, on Tuesday, made the tax levy for the
ensuing year. 1t is almost S1.25 on the 500 or
II per cent. less than last year-in other words,
the tax for the coming year will be reduced more
than one-fourth below that Of last year, unless
the school Districts increase it. N
4 The present County Board has done work in
tAalstsrest Of - r6sple thss thsy will apprsci-
esns into olsee, and found over a., 900 Of 1oAs-
ing County scrip issaed, with no moasy in the
Tnsasary to Psy it, and dsbt ef +. .00o borrowed
money to pay County expenses, beside. Scrip was
selling at IS to IS cents on the dollar, and not
many anxious to buy it at that. The levy for
County purposes, the previous ysar, had been
81 on the 500. In one year, they paid tho
5000 debt, redeemed the $4,000 floating
scrip, brought warrants mp to par, and reduced
the tax for County purposes to 80 cents ON the
dollar. This year, they have further reduced
the County lssy te-75 esnts On ths dollar, and
the last quarterly report of the Treasurer shows
that there is over $4,000 of the County fund in
the Treasury, to pay all demands that may come
in. They have, besides paid of nearly s, 900 of
Poor Farm bonds, and built number of substan-
tial bridges, with contracts for others, and mon
ey to pay for them. Further, they have re-or-
ganized the Poor Farm, brought its management
to first class order, added to the comfort of the
paupers, and have promise of bountiful crop,
this season, which will go far toward paying the
current expenses of the institution.
We occasionally hear growing about the Board,
and plans have long been concocting to "reform"
them out Of Office, this Fall. But the people will
be apt to look at what they have accomplished,
and govern themselves accordingly. Doniphan
County was almost bankrupted by one "Reform"
Board, and the people will not he in hurry to
renew the experiment.
II Pttsburg has about come to the conclu-
sion that when she dropped the b from the end
of her name, she ought to have placed it at the
Cor aha has l,aas, ssssisxlI l. II
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Notice by Publication

In the District Court the Second Judicial District Of
the State OF Kansas sitting within and for Donphan
County.
VNO MARTHA L. OWENS, Administrative of the 4.
Il tate of Hepjamin Owens. deceased Isaac Owens Sa
rah E. Weaver NJ. Priscilla Burgess, N. Letitia Owens
Alberta Owens and Ella Owens dnfantJ non residents
Of the State of Kansas Take notice. that on the 18th dav
Of July 1s. the undersigned John Evans As plaintiff
commenced suit in the District Court of DonipLsu (oun
ty, Kansas against you Margaret Hensha and Phip
Owens defendants The object and prayer OF his petiop
therein IS 70 obnin Judgment for the Of s12 and
al io per cent on promssory note by
Benjamin Owens in his life time, 70 A j. Seloyer n,
SEE March 10TH ISL and also a decree Of foreclosure
and sale Of the cast half Of the of the
quarter OF section in township three south OF
range n Doaiphan County. State Of Kansas
sasiy said sum Of e72 and interest costs attorneys
Zee and Judgment obtained BY plaintiff in the Probate
Court Of Donphan County Kansas July sh ian FOR The
sum Of two hundred atsn and 100 olars and irtsr
est and praying that all defsndant. barred ON aid
sale from setting mp any interest in said lands You are
required 70 demur aaid petition on or hr
September sth ie7 the said petition win be takeo A
prayer Of said petition
JOHN c. EVANS.
By PERsr ARNsTEoxG his Aftorpeys
suy - ie"-w. Prs fee, SO.