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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15

The Importance of saving liquid
manures is apparent from the fact that
in every 100 pounds of cows urine
there are sixty-fve pounds of water
five pounds OF urea, five pounds OF
phosphate of lime, twelve pounds Of
sal ammonia and muriate of potash,
aud ten pounds Of carbonate of pot
ash and ammonia. While the solid
excrements from one COW during the
year will manure half an acre, the
liquid manure matter properly APP
piled, would fertilize three times that
Western Rural.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15
Gge dditBita Gaslf.
THE AUTUMN KEY.

How gently falls the fading light,
The Autumn's sunset veil,
While dusky grows the wayeriDg flight
whip-poor-will and quail.
The grain is bound, the nuts are brown
On every wooded hill,ss
The light is softened on the down,
And silvcred on The rill.
The partridge drums; the ployer's call
Statutes the sportsman's ear,
And just above the waterfall
The fisher sets his weir.
The REDEEMED leaves with witbered wing
Sweep lightly TO the sod,
And Autumn walks liz land and sings,
With rustling sandals shod.
--.Scribhes for October
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15

Hens eggs hatch in from nineteen
10 twenty-onc days; turkeys, from
twenty-six 10 twenty-nine days;
ducks, twenty-eiaht days: guinea
fowls, from twenty-five TO twenty
seven DAYS; pea fowls, twepty-eight
10 thirty.eiehf days; geese's, thirty to
thirty-two days. Fresh eggs will
hatch one or two DAYS sooner than
those two or three weeks old.-Ger-
ednnf0Un Telegraph.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15

Her manure is SO rich that il should
be mixed with three or four times its
own bulk of swamp muck, or some
similar substance, for If applied undi-
luted il will burn and XIII plants and
prevent termination. 1t is estimated
that single hens excrement during
year is equivalent to fifteen pounds
of guano; and experiment has shown
that the droppinss of twenty-five
fowls, properly composted during the
year, will make manure enough for an
acrc.--Rurcl NeU Yorker.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15

Leaf manure possesses excellent fer
tilizing properties, and greatly i'm
proves the texture and character of
tho soil. Analysis proves that the TO-
liagc Of trees contains vastly more
mineral riches-such as phosphates
lime-potash and soda than the solid
wood, and that the older the leaves
the greater the amount of these they
contain. Now that the fallen leaves
begin 10 rustic brown and crisp in the
wood-lor, and will soon litter the
ground, the farmer whose farm pays
well gathers them carefully TO be
either used ia the compost heap with
other decomposlble vegetable matters
or employed as litter for his animals
during winter, or as coatings for his
yard or other Enclosures where ami
mails are confined, and where the
leaves, by absorbing the liquid void
ings may be readily converted into ex-
cellent plant-food. Moore's Rural.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15

~ Our House is located near the Depot, avoid
ing the transfer of baggage and bus fare
All baggage transferred free
Good stables with the House. Free corral for
our patrons.
Farmers trade specially
The tables are furnished with the best the mar
ket affords, the beds excellent, and the proprie-
tors always found trying to please at tho low rate
of 81 so per day.
Richey Bros. Proprietors.
Wichita, Kansas, November 30, Is76. 35-tf
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15

O7T II lis not easily earned in these times but
ID 4 4 il can be earned in three months by any
ON of either sex in any part of thu country who
Is willing 10 work steadily at the employmen
that we furnish S66 per week in our own town.
lou need not be aw ay from home over night You
can give Jour whole time to the work or only your
spare Moments. We have agents who are max
ing over so per day. All who engage at once
can make money fast. At tn present time money
cannot be made so easily and rapidly o. any other
business. II costs nothing to Try the business.
Terms and S. outfit free. Address at once, Ii.
HALLETT q Co., Portland, Maine. lS-ly
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15
President State Horticultural Socie
G. G. BRACKET, Secretary.
Ducks and Chickens.

We want to say a good word for
dncks. We believe that this kind OF
fowl is not very popular with the
farmers generally, nevertheless they
often prove valuable. A brood OF
them frequently succeed when chick
ems fail. They may not equal hen. in
the quality of eggs, but they are fair
layers, and are quito manageable and
easily kept in their proper Enclosures.
They take naturally to the water, and
yet they do very well without it, ex-
cept as drink. In fact, the young
buckets should be kept out of the
water until they are well fledged. Un-
cooked corn meal is too strong food
for young ducks, neither should they
be fed with whole grain of any sort
till they arc nearly grown. a com
pound OF corn meal, bran, cat meal
etc, well cooked, makes suitable
food. They will eat with voracious
appetite grubs of all kinds and angle
worms, when dug out of the ground
They should be well supplied with
this kind of food when attainable.
Ducks Kept for their eggs, mainly,
should not be gorged with food, but
fed regularly aud rather sparingly
with nearly the same kind of diet as
that supplied to the ducklings.
Hens need careful IN anagement.
Their wants as 10 food, water, and
clean nests should be seasonably at
tended to. Women, and oftentimes
children, are first-rate managers of
poultry. We believe that no business
in proportion 10 the investment made,
pays SO well as the keeping of poultry.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15
The Southern Kansas Institute.

REV. II. wINSLOW ABBOTT, A. NJ, Prin-
cipal.
MRS. II. W. ABBOTT, the famous Vocalist,
Teacher of Music.
This Select School for males and females will
open on the first Monday of Ssp1omDer. ISL.
The scholastic year will be divided into three
terms OF thirteen weeks each.
Tuition in the Literary Department SIS per
term Tuition in the Musical Department, sIf
per term. Primary pupils not solicited. Fer
farther particulars inquire of
III. WlNSIOW ABBOTT,
Wichita, Kansas.
No extra charge for Greek, Latin, French or
German. 20
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15

Patterns Of Glass sets, 81 TO 81. rs each
IL do do Gsblets, 81. so to o. so per dox
Glass Bowls, open and covered, high or low.
Bar CLASSES, Ale, Beer and Lemonade Glasses.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-15

C.sfors and Bottles, Plated Ware, Spoons and
Cutlery.
Knives and Forks, Pocket Knives, Lamps and
Chimnies.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21

Nothing can be done by any one who
does not care enough for the matter to
take a good deal of trouble to get what
he wants: and to those who insist so
warmly that a house cannot be made
pretty and attractive without money,
venture to insist as warmly that money
is the least important element in the
business Taste and cOntrivance are of
far more importance than money; and
of all the attractive houses that it has
been my good fortune to see, by far the
greater number have owed their attrac-
tiveness to the taste and to the ingen-
uity of their owners rather than to their
long purses. a person with no need to
think about the cost of anything may
90 into Cottier's rooms and buy and
order right and left, and give the house
commission to decorate and furnish, and
upholster, and fill his cabinets with
sold blue" and never spare for cost,
and when all is done, nobody who
comes to visit him shall say, GLOW beau
tiful this is! How interesting! What
taste you have!" but only, "Oh, then,
| see Cottier has been with youv" There
has simply been a transfer of goods
from one show-place to another.
The truth is, I'VE are depending too
much in these days on furniture and
bric-a-brac for the ornament Of our
houses, and not enough on things more
permanently interesting, We ought to
seek (at least so it seems to me- the in
dividual expressions of ourselves, of our
own family life, our own ways of living,
thinking, acting, more than the doing
as other people are doing, more than
the having what other people are hav-
ing. am not in for a tilt against fash
ion; fashionable people may do what
they like; 'twcre vain to say them nay.
They may buy embossed brass coal-scut-
ties and put them in the middle of their
parlor hearths in front of dummy fire
places, neither coal-scuttle nor fire.
place ever having been intended to be
used; they may put china cats
nursing their kittens on their satin
sofas, and enjoy their being taken for
real ones by old beaus and maiden
ladies; they may put artificial flowers
in garden-boxes in their windows; they
may do anything that comes into their
nonsensical pretty heads, and all we
shall have to say about it is what old
Mrs. c. said after some stylish girls
had been "going on" and showing OFF,
their new-fangled dress and airs; GLOW
nice it is of 'em to do 50, dear!'-Scrib-
| DpT
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21
Chinese Women.

The wife and daughter (says Powers
Of the Chinese farmer walk about the
world with such feet as 1t has pleased
God TO give them; and very pretty feet
and ankles they generally are. In fact
whatever want of beauty of feature there
may be among the Chinese women, no
one can deny them the merit of re-
markably beautiful feet, ankles, hands,
and arms. OF the rest of the figure one
can judge but indfferently from their
peculiar though not ungraceful cos
tunes, In the country villages the young
girls and matrOns may be seen at their
doors or grouped together beneath the
trees, or In the yard attached TO the
house, engaged in farm or household
occupation, laughing the while in mer-
ry chorus to their work. l have often,
from the back Of my house, looked
over the low walls at such group
but the result was rarely compliment
ary for some coy damsel catching sight
of my Saxon face she would scream an
alarm to the rest, who retreated to the
house with a general screech. On
reaching the threshold, however, they
would generally stop to giggle at the OBJ
ject of their fears, on finding him not
pursuing with savage intent, or some
times the respectable bearded patriarch
would take them by the shoulders, and
n spite of their affected resistance,
push them all out again into the yard,
calling jokingly to me at the same time,
in some incomprehensible gibberish,
probably, to seat them all up" fiat
ter myself, however, that was not
sufficiently frightful to alarm them
much, with a stout wall between, and
the whole village within call,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21
CLEVELAND, TENN, JUNE q, 1877.

Judging him by another" she cried,
impetuOusly. "NO, | am not bound to
this man. He, the honorable, noble
hearted gentleman, whom all his friends
believe never made mistake IN his
life, broke the bond after two years
engagement, saying he was mistaken
in believing he loved me; and you,
though you have scarcely seen me for
twenty-four hours, are willing to take
me altogether on trust"
every willing, and very eager, too.
There, you shall tell me no more, now.
Only promise you will be my wife, and
| am satisfied. Afterwards will listen
to any confidence you wish TO bestow
upon me, and will make it my earnest
care to keep trouble, MS faras my power
extends, away from you"
"But | hope you don't think me a
saint?" she said, still afraid.
"a saint" he replied, with a smile.
"NO, little one, know you are only Il
woman. / wouldn't care TO wed a
saint, but | want you very much, for l
love you, and believe you are true,
noble woman. OF course believe you
have faults, but love you well enough
to bear with them. Do You still hesi-
tate? What more, darling, can | say? -
Nothing. 1 have many faults, !
know, but / never yet deceived any one
who was generous enough to trust me.
| will be your wife whenever you de-
sire. And more-though you have not
asked me, though you have as yet been
satisfied with avowing your love for
me alone, without urging me, before l
scarcely knew, to say loved you-you
are far dearer to me this moment than
ever John Easton was in the full tide of
my first devotion to him."
lie clasped her still more closely.
"My darling" he said, "you are one
after my own heart. There may be a
life of trial before us-we cannot tell.
But of this | am sure-you shall never
regret that offered myself to you the
first evening ever knew you, and you
had faith enough to take me in the
morning"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21
Declarations of War.

1t is, for many reasons exceedingly
desirable that the precise date at which
actual war shall be taken to have begun
between the parties to it should be ac-
curately and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for this circumstance may materially
affect the definition of the relative po-
sition of the belligerents before hostil-
tiles commenced, and also the settlement
of the quarrel after the war is over.
An English international writer writes
to the Pail Mall Gazette that, as long as
primitive tradition held sway, and war
was regarded, at first in fact and then
in form, in half religious, half judi
cious light, the steps needful to be
taken for the regular beginning of it
were elaborate and ceremonious. Every
body will remember the Greek knUpkeS
and the Latin .fetialeS, with their official
insignia, their reiterated demands for
redress, and their verbal and symbolic
denunciations. In the ages of chivalry,
too, something of the same solemnlty,
though not of the same sanctity, clung
round the constituted
METHODS OF DECLARING WAR.
The heralds, the attendants of the
constables, and marshals of the medie-
val armies and military courts, were
the legitimate representatives, perhaps
the intentional limitations, of their
classical prototypes. Through them
the sovereigns of Europe exchanged
glanccs and defiances which were per-
onallyannouncedanddeliveredby them.
The books of the Herald's College record
many ofsuch hostile missions performed
by the Garter, Clarencieux and Norroy
Kings of Arms. But this practice de-
clined with the system with which it
was associated, and the last occasion on
which England adhered to it was in
1867, when Queen Mary, to use the
words of Holnshed's Chronicles, sent a
defiance to the French King by Claren-
cleux King Of Arms, who, coming to
the citei of Remes, where the said king
then laie, declared the same unto him
the seventh of June, being the Mondaie
in Whitsun.weeke." On the Continent,
however, instances Of war being de-
clared through heralds are to be found
for century later. Louis XIII. de-
spatched a French herald to Brussels to
declare war against Spain in 1886, and
in 1857 a Swedish herald was sent by
Charles X. to Copenhagen to declare
war against Denmark, But such modes
of challenge and defiance had been by
that period generally superseded by the
despatch from one to the other of the
disputant Powers of State papers an
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21
A Singular Tradition.

st. Stephens day, in the Isle of Man,
is given over, among great part of the
population, to cruel custom, that of
hunting wrens with sticks and stones /;
and, when they succeed in capturing
one, it is tied to the end of long pole,
and carried around the country. The
custom arises from asuperstitiOn, dating
far into the past, Of fairy so beautiful
that all the youths of the island went to
look at her, and then she would sing
such wondrous songs that they followed
where she chose to lead them, which
was into the sea; for she was cruel and
wicked, and led them, one after all
other, to their death, until at length
scarce a young man was left, and trOu-
bic was in every mans home for the
brother or son that was missing. Al
length there came knight, who, vow
ing vengeance, laid deep plot for the
destruction of this wicked lady. He
seized her by her long hair, but as he
stood over her with his drawn sword,
she suddenly changed into a tiny wren,
flying away from under his very
fingers, and so escaped with mocking
song of triumph; but by some power
greater than her own, the wicked lady
fairy was compelled once in every year
to reappear in the island in her assumed
form; and this is on st. Stephens day,
when the young men of the supersti-
tious island hunt after her with vivid
memory of their ancient wrongs.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21

"When the wind is high, move your
tent to the outside of the hedges /. e.,
change your side according to the cir
cumstanCes.
Never buy handkerchief or choose
wife by candlelight.
Nice reeds make nice baskets.
It's like kiss good for nothing unless
divided between two.
Don't ask for thing when you can
get it.
1t is always the largest fish that falls
back into the water.
There may be adversity in a large
house as we'll as in a small one.
Keep 1t a secret in your own heart
and nobody will know it.
Clean water never comes from dirty
place.
Behind bad luck comes good luck.
There is sweet peace ut the end of a
long road.
Wait till the moon rises.
An ass that carries you is better than
horse that throws you off.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21
The Best Room.

The care with which the "best ROOM
was kept from use by our ancestors,
and indeed is now by some Of the good
country wives of the present genera
tion, was illustrated by good old lady
who in her last illness was visited by
her pastor. Being asked If she was re-
signed, she responded:
81 am perfectly happy, Brother B.
l have made my peace with the Lord,
an got the key o. the keepin'-room
under my pillow. ."--Com. Bulletin.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21
SLEIGH BELLS.


Jingle, Jingle, jingle, jingle,
How they make the pulses tingle,
As they echo, clear and sweet,
Through the cold air Of the street.
What ringing, joyous chorus,
As they rush along before us,
They send throbbing everywhere,
Driving far all thought of care.
Brighter the snow-spsrkles glisten,
And the sparrows stop TO listen,
And dream OF spring-time coming,
And bees mid clover humming.
Soon comes April with its showers
May and June all bright with flowers
Jingle, jingle, minutes fly
Quick as they hurry by.
Snow fades soon, and bells outwelling,
It's sweet requiem is knelling
Jingle, jingle, here we CO.
Spring will stop our song you know.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21

Alcohol, in some of its numerous
forms, claims Its victims by thousands,
and In its terrible work Of ruin, ranks
first In the estimation Of the devil.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21

Marriages and obituary notices over one
square, charged for at half regular rates.
All local notices 10 cents q line for each
insertion.
No notices inserted for less than dfiy
eents
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-21

Brave actions are the substance of
life, and good sayings the ornaments OF
II.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-04-11
GEN scnENcK GROSS nx .tmfNrD.
Uis Financial Operntiop. while Minister 60
the Court Of ~. James.

Con Schcnck was cross-cxamincd by Mr.
Stou,hton Yesterday. in the United States Cir
cut Court. The General testified that the qucs-
ton Of validity of the title TO the nine was "A
subject Ol mu IN anxiety Ia the company With
reference to the ? $500 tons Of orc worth SIS OOO
rcprcs nth tO bo cn rcuJs to En- Gland ut tho
date OF the prospectus. the General had no dis
tinct recollection. Tho with - remembered the
discrepancy between the $500 tons as stated in
Prof. Sillimans report and another report max
ing ID only 800 tons. Remembered that Trcnor
". Park made the statutory declaration required
10y the laws of ENGLAND as n guarantee to the
company After this declaration was made. tho
great concern Of the witness was to h, satisfied
that the prospectus was. at least. substantially
correct Witness had no distinct recO ,ction Of
any other d scrcpanry than the 900 TINS irforc
mentioned. which. il was understood. Park WIS
to make COOL In one shape or other. Witness
dad not rerollrit that pHrk said that "a non-pay-
ment of DIVIDENDS would be fatal 10 the com
many and that he would be- rcspOuS ihir for The.
amount. dil rrcollrf. however. that an assur-
an WAS given IN snnn way that there should
he a dividend pud ON tn sto'k. The first diyl-
drnd WIS paid on the iir-t ui December. 1871
and the last ON th first ot u 'crmber. 1873 The
dividends wcre paid regularly at the rate "
one nnd "a hail per cont per month. ~ witness
suupnssd. out oi money ia the hands of the COM
mny from sales or from other money applicable
to that purpose.
chasrd SEQ shares md pendent of his Original
pur has. but that. HAVING ~ time T. nu m to
The inv stmcut he utrusi"d 1t to - Mr.. Fisher.
Part of tn was sold at an advance for their
luut b'nciit. and stimulHt"d bv this. I sh"r pre-
pared h. 40 into the purchase OF 500 shares.
The W .tnnss reluctantly consent "a and. unfor-
tunatnN Fisher bought when the market wss
at the HIGHEST. namely. in May. 1872. They had
T. pay c3l per SHARE. and sold out ~ u loss.
VIII. ~ holds no shares now. except his ori.I-
nal rs. Witness had nm accounting with Park
as to profits ON stock transn ton Tor lont ac-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-04-11
mo MIcniEn coNNoLLr's WILL
Why the Joiiy Justice did not Like his SON
m-iaw The Contest over his Money.

Witnesses were callet in the Surrogatc's
Court yesterday 10 clear the reputation Of the
late Justice Michael Connolly from the aspor-
sions east upon II 10y the contestants VI his will.
Justice Connolly left an estate valued now at
about $1,000. lie disliked his son-n-law.
John Hcaly. because Healy was accused Of de-
sorting woman with whom he had lived many
years in order to marry the Justices daughter.
an accusation which Hralv did not disprove to
Hruly COn" ON the witness stand IN
tmr trial 10 r'p"l amy ..of tho charges
To- his laughter Mrs. Hralv In his will an in-
com" ~ $1,000 % ycnr ant the us" of a house.
vi-nd or pcqurathrd. Ia - to the dau.hirrs
hers. Louisa is sichy woman. AMI the jus
u'"s relatives expect that she will die childlr~s
az no distant date. ami that IN" properly will b"
divided among them. Apart from this cNpoc-
tii.n. they feel an interest in having the JUS
The ,vld,n - tor the contestant Mrs. Healy
was prineiphlly 10 the enc tuat.l ustlc. Cunuol-
~. Tor several years previous a. hls DEATH was
"a hah tual irunkard and subject to deiusions.
lN'i-e Commissioner Murphy & tltlei. yes
ttlHY, iNn th' Justice drank ule saiu' as uril-
nary punli men that he mover saw him intONi-
c.ud ana always found hun Intelligent aud
broker. II never SAW him under the innuen. 'r
"i liquor but once though intimately acquainted
Patrick Cassidy Of College Point had known
tn" judge for thirty years. and. for ten years
prior 10 his death had b-s'n an intimate terms
with him. The Justice 90 Hrinnully took % I'll -
~ punch or brandy and W.T.. q. lut VS. uNtH
drunkrrl. and was always cl'ar-hoaded and
lniHlilsrnt
John Savage. Deputy Register had known
N" Justice since lS5n. Hat seen MIN th"wor-t
tor liquor. hut never So a~ NOT to h' 'iour-
headed. He lStvi-,l went arouui w IA Just .'r
Connolly election '"rng until 3 or urlp X IN
tiir ~ rnine, AMI t"y would drnk .rrpu nty.
hui the Judge would MT Boz affected hy the
dr nk-. H"tnou ,ht that Il required much in-
f'Nlg"n' r ana t1 Z "a manns" fhn large political
and personal following of Connolly.