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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-22
Never Zoo old 20 ssudy

Cato, at eighty years of age, com
menced to study the Greek Ian
guage. Socrates at an extreme old
age, learned to play on musical in
struments. Platarch, when be-
tween seventy aud eighty, COM
menced the study of Latin. DIR.
johnson applied himself to the
Dutch language but few years be.
fore his death. Ludovico Monaldes-
CO, at the great age of one hundred
and fifteen, wrote the memoirs of
his own time. Ogilby, the transla-
tor of Homer and Virgil, was I'M
acquainted with Latin and Greek
until he was past fifty. Franklin
did not fully commence his phiIo-
sophical pursuits till he had reached
his fiftieth year. Dryden, in his
sixty-eighth year, commenced the
translation of the UiGd, his most
pleasing production. Boccacio was
thirty five vears OF age when he
commenced his studies in polite lit
erature; yet he became one Of the
greatest masters OF the Tuscan dia-
lect, Dante and Petrarch being the
other two. Sir Henry Spellman
neglected the sciences in HE youth,
but commenced the study of them
when he was between fifty and six
~ years of age. After this time he
became a most LEARNED antiquarian
and lawyer.
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.rhe best sheep for Farmers.

Farmers should breed sheep that
produce heavy fieeces, and which are
large, ia ten easily, and sell readily to
the butcher. There are thousands OF
sheep kept in every State in the Union
shat do not shear over four or five
pounds, and coarse at that, while we'll
bred MerinoS will range from ten To
twenty pounds, and CotswoIds often
exceed these figures. There is but one
way to make money in breeding sheep
in these times, and that is Co sell ali
of your scrubs" Co the butcher at any
price he will give, and buy Merinos,
Cotswoids, or S4uthdowns, the latter
being the finest mutton in the world.
A kentucky stock breeder says: :" What
is tue in regard to the improved
breeds of sheep is also true of fine
breeds of cattle, horses, hogs and ponl-
try. In the face of these indisputa BILE
facts the mass of the people should not
handle scrub stock, and entertain an
Ignorant opposition to fine breeds.
There is one supreme reason for this
The mass of people do not read papers
devoted to live stock interests, and are
wholly ignorant of the vast progress
that is being made by the more intelli-
gent ranks of the farmers. There are
sections in Kentucky where the i'm
proved breeds of stock are almost ua-
known. 1t is only small number OF
men who are alive to it, and keep
themselves thoroughly posted in re-
gard to the progress of agricultural
science and the breeding of the best
animal, while the masses remain in the
old ruts, following the custom of a
hundred years ago. If farmers would
elevate their calling and render it
more renumeratiye, they must put
themselves in living connection with
the intellectual spirst OF the age.
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Road Notice.

AI Office IS hereby given: That petition
IN has been presented to the Board Of Ceun-
" Commissioners Of Lyon county, Kansas
Tor the location Of 8 County road as follows
TO wit: Commencing at the southeast corner
OF section three, township eighteen and range
counties; thence north, to where said line
crosses Mud creek thence by the most prac--
tleable route across said creek. thence north
on line between sections thirty-f0ur aud thfr-
e five, 70 where said line intersectS the Ma
rails Ges Cygnes river; thence by the most
practicable route across said river; thence
Rorfh on line between sections twenSyssix
and tWenty-seyen. to where said lire later
sects the above named river, thence by the
most practicable route to the northeast cor
ner or section tWenty-segen, township seven
teen and range thiFteens thence west on see
ton lire As near As practicable. 70 the south
west corner Of section tEenty-tWos thence
north On section lIne- between sections TWEEN
ty-ozae and TWENTY-FIVE. to where said line in
tezsects he A9arafs ties Cygnes river: thence
" the most pRactleaoIe route ACROSS said rfv-
err thence north Ga section line fstWeen eee-
tons fifteen and sixteen, 70 the northwest
corner 01 the southwest quarter Of section
n3Eeens thence east on quar9er line as near
IS pEac4A1aDls, g the southeast corner or the
1oztn vest quarter thence north on quarter
line % 1ae northeast corner Of the northwest
garter q section fifteen, township ssvea-
taan and range thirteen 70 the place q term
l1aElen And that Efszea = Holmes Oliver
sbzll1p5 anG Ehenas Gordon. zeers anBofstfed
ala Ordered - meet on the ID day Of April.
1SfeA ~ 70 a. m, st lAe house Of Il. seNery n
AE<ezlla tqFEneEztps Usage county. IN coafefTrlz
CrH1r 1lsstoneEs Of said county 70 view iorsfe
and n SIFe 20 81 parties 5 heas-Htt
= y ezEtex Of the Board q Co Comm eeforn4.a
4ses% WI II Et5 1a47< Co. CzeFs
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THE MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY - A
young stranger called on DIR. NC
- one evening, while he was q
pastor in New York city, to engage
his services 10 the perfor nance of q
nuptiai ceremoney.
81 wish TO maze bargain with
Won, Doctor" said the young man.
81 think the girl [ am going to mar
~ will make q first-rate wife. If
you will wait year for your fee,
and she turns out as think she will
III then give you fifty dollars"
They agreed, the young couple
were married. and the incident pass
ed from the doctors mind. At the
end of q year, at the same time in
the evening, the yonug man called
again. The doctor did not recog-
nize him at first.
"DO you not remember the bar
gain we made when you married
me year ago 20
ooh yes." replied the doctor.
"Well," said tie young an, t'sbe
ia twice "a good as though she was.
There's one hundred dollars for
you.v.
Exactly the opposite of this is the
following
A clergyman in one OF the Hnd-
son river towns united 8 German
couple in marriage. When the knoi
WAS tied, the bridegroom said
ADominie, I've got no monish, bat
I'll sesd you Won leetle pig L
wes doue, and the circumstance was
sforgotfen BY the Clergyman. Two
wears afferwasd he met the German
in another town, for the first tins
since the marriage ceremony wa
performed.
Dominic. said the German, ayoS
remembers you married me, and
gave you Won leetle pig p
ss7es.
ssYe,I, If you'll upmarry me, I YfI
give you va leetle pigs. Editor
i Drawer, IN Harper's for April.
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much before. They bad some nice
hogs and many OF them had from
ten to sixty peach trees, and most of
them were growing finely. Some
OF them had bloom buds on, and the
orchard of nearly 1000 trees / set
out near the Mission was growing
finely and will bear many peaches
his season ii it is a good peach
year. Two of the Indians had hew-
ID The logs and put themselves up
houses to the square and l wanted
10 help them to finish them Up but
here was no lumber or nails on
hand to work with, so that after
spending eight days among them,
whiting nearly all of them, both full
blood and half breeds, and the
schools and all of the workers, con-
Guided TO return home. 1 find the
Kaws are still decreasing in nu m
bers. They now number nearly 400
White at the Kaw station 1 at
tended a temperance meeting whore
several signed the pledge and there
was quite an interest taken and an
other meeting was appointed for the
next week. They had also an anti
tobacco meeting where some had
conc uded to quit the use of it.
On my way home l came by way
of Arkansas City, Augusta and Ell
dorado, calling on friends along the
way, and visiting some. AT Eldora-
do, L visited DIR. White and found
him and family well and he wished
his best respects given to his friends.
1 took the cars at Eldorado and was
soon at home and found all well
which was cause for thankfulness to
the Great GiYer of all good.
In looking over my journey 1
may say that / found nearly all in
health and feeling in good spirits.
The wheat mostly looked we'll and
a very large amount has been sown,
it is thought more than ever before
in Cowley county.
In regard to Indian matters from
what / can learn some are passing
through rather a trying ordeal.
Respectfully, yours,
T. II. STANLEY.
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10 Breal. Or Bad Mab.t..

Understand the reasons and all
the reasons, why the habit is iDiu-
rious. Study the subject until there
Is no lingering doubt in ysur mind.
Avoid the places, the persons, and
the thoughts that lead 20 the temp
tatiOn. Frequent the places, asso-
ciate with the persons, indulge in
the thoughts that lead away from
temptation. Keep busy. Idleness
is the strength of bad habits. Do
not give up the struggle when you
have broken your resolution once,
twice, thrice-a thousand times.
That only shows how much need
there is for you to strive. When
you have broken your resolutions,
Just think the matter over and en-
deaYOr TO understand how it is you
failed, SO that you may be on yonr
guard against recurrence of the
same circumstances. Do not think
Il AZ easy thing that you have un-
dertaken. 1t is folly to expect TO
break OF q bad habit ia day
which has been gathering for long
years.
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bounded. There was no more jibing
nor snickering. Every body was Toms
friend as once. The next day Milli-
ken picked up some of Toms manu-
script, and redectively, stroked his
long beard. Il never saw such pretty
copy, he said. tHe's as'good an opor-
atOr as ever met.
"At the close of the first nights
work, Toms friend Adams took him
home with him. The first question
asked was: "What kind of a man is
this Miliiken? Do you think hell let
me experiment in the Office when I'm
not on duty p Adams replied that
Milliken himself was something of an
inventor, and he thought that he
would not only let Tom experiment as
much as he pleased, but that he would
also take personal interest in his ex-
pefiments. The very first trial was
The duplex dispatches that give Tom
the reputation of iunatic in Mem
phis, aud caused him TO lose his sitaa-
ton. MiIliken unlike Coleman enter
ed into the spirit of the thing and in
a short time Tom had so far perfected
it that he worked iE successfully be-
tween New York and Boston. But to
accomplish this he spent every dollar
he earned Tor material for expert
ments, and when the grand secret
Was discovered had not money enough
to pay Tor filling caveaC for a pat
enG.'
Stewart says that many persons wit
messed TOMS experiments. Among
others he mentions James q. Stearns,
then President of the Franklin Tele-
graph Company. He appears to have
dropped on Toms secret, and he had
money enough to carry out Toms
ideas. At ali eve It's he got a patent
ahead of Tom, and reaped large pro-
portion of the benefits. To-day his
instrument is used extensively in this
country and in Europe, and he is worth
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tom,
however, got full credit for the inven-
ton of the duplex system through the
news and editorial columns OF the
Telegrapher, newspaper devoted to
electric science, edited by j. NJ. ASH
ley, now of the Journal of Telsgraphy.
It was Toms first newspaper notorie-
ty, and he was greatly efated. He
tiourished dozen copies of the paper
over his head, and announced his in
tention of mailing them to Coleman,
''to show him that the damned fool
had actually succeeded in sending
messages both ways at the same time
on the same wire.''
But Tom jumped from one inYen-
ton TO another, apparently utterly re-
gardless of their pecuniary value. Il
was while he was in the Boston Office
that he invented the gold and stock
telegraph indicator now in such gener-
al use. In this case he pursued the
experiment privately, and had money
enough TO get his invention patented
To-day it returns him a handsome
| rnv..iry
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LAWYERS FEES The Erie Rail-
way Company paid for lawyers
bills from May 1875, to February l,
1873, an amount of money which
would start!e some who do not
know the cost of this luxury of go
ing to law. The ledger of the Erie
Company shows that the sum paid
by that corporation for lawyers
fees, within the period named above,
amounted to not far from S407 600 I
The largest amount paid to any sin
gle party was $95, 976 IL, this being
to the law firm of Shipman, Bar
low, Larocque & MacfarIand. The
next larg ct payment was $3j,400 0S
Another law party received $29 40 ;
stilI another 50 ',400.S7; and yet an
other $24,l53.64, while there are
many Others receiving 5000 and
upwards. Stockholders aud pro-
ducers should hardly expedite have
any thing left after they have paid
their lawyers fees and ia lerest bills.
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VEGE.TINE
PuriileS the Blood, RenOTates
and InVigOrates the
Whole System.
IT'S MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE
AEterGtiVe, Tonic, Solvent and
DiWrettc.
RELIABLE EVIDENCE.

Mr.. H. R. STENENs.
Dear Sir:-I will most cheer
fully add my testimony to the
great nunber you have al
ready received in favor of
your great and good Vege-
tine, for I do not think
enough can be said in its
praise; for / was troubled
over 50 years with that dread
full disease Catarrh, and had
such bad coughing spells that
lt would seem as though /
never could b n at b e any
more, and Vegetine has cur
ed me; and / do feel to thank
God all the time that there is
so good q me icine as Vege-
tine. and l also think it one
of the best medicines for
coughs, and weak, sinking
feelings at the stomach, and
advise every body to take the
Vegetine, for l can assure
them it is one of the best
medicines that ever was.
MRS. L. GORE,
Cor. Magazine & Walnut ats.
Cambridge, Mass.
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A Cheap Fence.

Take nnsharpened rails, make the
fence three rails high, as follows: Let
one end OF each rail- rest on che ground,
raising the other ends a. high as you
" aEE the fence. The first rail Is se-
cured 10 It's place by the stakes driven
in the ground in the form ofan x. The
next rail Is placed some feet behind che
one ssaked, so that when two stakes
are driven into the ground and rest
ing on the rail already in posi- ton,
shey will support the second rail at tht.
proper height, aud thus the fe1ce IS
continued, the stakes supporting the
upper rail, and also holding the nexs
cross
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Electric rinne nAeepEng

Imagine piece of iron (called the
g armature'') suspended in every tele-
graph station between a plate of SON
Orous metal and coil OF wire, the coil
being q continuation of the telegraph
wire outside, which conducts the cleo
trio current into the building through
the coil, round an iron core, out, aud
on again to the next station.
While the current is passing through
the coil it exercises that very "mag-
netic virtue" the early speculator
dreamed of, the 'sarmauuFe" being at
tracted and held as firmly TO it as by
common magnet. If the wire on the
telegraph poles were cut, and tho sew
eral ends separated by so much as the
hundredth of an inch, the current
would cease all along the line at once !;
at once every ttarmature'' would be set
free, and, falling back against the re-
sonane metal behind iE, produce a
sound distinctly and simultaneously
heard at every station. When the
wires are Joined, the current leaps In a
fraction OF second through thousands
of miles, the coils regain their attrac-
tive power as suddenly as they lost it,
the armatures move again, 20 tall back
and sound once more when the next
interruption comes, and 50 on, withous
end, so long as the 'scircuit" is broken,
and the distant battery, which sends
the impulse, Is fed with its zinc and
acid fuel.
At q certain hour in every day, in
any. one of the principal offices of the
raiiroad-at Jersey City or at Phfiidei-
phia, FOR instanee-thers Is q moments
pause ia the rattle of Geographic in
Ir1mentss and then in one of them we
see and hear the arma1ure moving
back and forth, not with the irregular
motion Impressed upon Is By the opsr-
ator's finger, but with q uniform beat
every second. Ii sounds like a clock
licking, but the clock Is many hum
dreds OF miles away, and il is marking
Of minutes and seconds in this man
ner, at one and the same moment, 10
hundi els OF points, in distant cities,
are scattered along some thousands OF
miles of msin or branch roahs.-P ROT
5, p Langley, In Harper's for April.
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STATE GOVERNMENT
COUNTY oFFIoERs.

Judge District Court-E B. Peyton
Clerk District Ccurt-9. w. Frederick
SheriR-Hiram Conner.
Attorney-T. n Sedgwick.
Treasurer-Jos. Ernst.
Clerk. s. Craig.
Register of Deeds-F. r. Page
Supt. Pub. Instruction-O. B. Wharton.
surveyor-Harry Hibben.
Probate Judge-E. W. Cunningham.
Ccroner-DR. X. IL. CHITTENDKN.
ID. 8. GILMORE,
Commissioners II. A. TAYLOR,
IL. A. WoOn.
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The temperance work in Yankton,
Dakota, m"ves grandly on. About
four hundred are enrolled in the RED
Ribbon" army. sine Women's Tenn
perance Uuion," ''The Temperance
Alliance and @The Reformed Mems
ed by over three hundred ladies was
presented, asking that ali saloons in
the city be closed on Sunday, and at
eleven o'clock p. M, on week days.
1t was referred to the city marshal
with instructions to enforce the ordi-
nances referred to.
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GIVE s
Health, Strength
AND APPETITE

My daughter has received
great benefit from the use of
Veg etine. Her declining
health was a source of great
anxiety to all her friends.
A few bottles of Vegetine re-
stored her health, strength,
and appetite.
n. II. TILDEN,
Insurance and Real Estate
Agent, No. 40 Sears Building,
Boston. Mass.
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4. L. A.

EMPoRIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION,
Ia Rooms over Emporia National Bank.
Open every afternoon from to 6; every even
ing except Friday, from to 8. Life member
ship $25. Annual membership s. Reading
room free, d. c. McAUKTRIE, Pres't.
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a HHEVIs not easily earned in these
-, N ~ IA times, but st can be made IN
~ III ~ three months by any one OF
either sex, in any part Of the
country. who Is willing to work steadily At
the employment that We furnish. Sc per
week IN your own town. You need net be
away from homo over night. You caa give
your whole time 70 the work, or only your
spare moments. We have agents who are
making ever 80 per day. All who engage at
once can make money fast. 1t the present
time money cannot be made 50 easily and
rapidly at any othsr business. e costs n0zh-
lag to try the business. Terms and IS outfit
ls 81 .I Ha 8 ~ CO. Portland. he.
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CHANGE.

EMPORIA GRANGE, No 6i3, p. OH
Meets at Grange hall Saturday evening, Oct.
7th, and every two weeks thereafter. Pat
rons in good anding are cordially invited
to attend. f. STRATTOE, MAsTREz.
Macy STRAFToH. Sec'y.
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tits said that lbs Reading Coal
and Iron Company viii exhibit
limp Of coal weighing 1850 lbs.
ak lbs Pagze Expozt ten.
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LEGAL NOTICES,
FgsaaL Noffce.

NOTICE is hereby given: That the under
IN signed wilt, on April 1ss, 1875 at the Of
ice of the Probate Judge of Lyon county.
ksns as, in the city of EmpoTia, make final
settlement of the estate Of 81. II. Archer de-
ceased ed re HlAdw wIn,s.s....
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FIRST PREsBYTERIAN-Co Sd, Ave-
nue. and Commercial street. Preaching ak If
a. m. and ~ p. M every Sunday. Sunday
school at 9K q. m. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening. j. a. CLARE, Pastor.
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SECOND PRESBYTERIAN, (Welsh1-Co.-
ner Market street and 4th Avenue. Preach
ing every Sunday st ~ and 81 D. m; SUM
day school at 10 a. m JOHN JoAEs Pastor.
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Kn1anra OLE PrrHIAs

DAMASCUS LODGE meets in Odd Eel
II lows hall every Monday evening.
Members ia good standing are cordially i'm
vfted TO attend. N RYNO. O. C.
w. MoCARTT, K. h 8.
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CHRISTIAN-Corner Exchange street and
It'll Avenue. Services every Sunday ct the
usual hours. Sabbath School at o'clock D. "a.
ali are invited.
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FIRST coEGREG ATIoEAI-Afarket 81.
corner sth Avenue. Services every sunday sc
the usual hours.
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GOOD rEnfPLARs.

i Meets Wednesday nights of each week e
Grange hall REV. H. CLARK, W..
w. KINEAN, Recording SecSy.
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CHURCH DIRECTOEY.
oara. q .al. srseso,:y % az. q llns per psa ,
CHURCHES.

EPISCOPAL.-St. Andrews Church. cor
ner OF 9th avenue and Commercial street.
service on the first and third Sundays Of each
montn, at IL q. m. and X D. m. Sunday
school every sunday at ~ p. m.
REV. A. BEATTY. REoToR.
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Oregon. with 3 population of but
136 CO. this year produced eai ;
plus 100000 bushels of grain aid
1000 000 poands Of Keol.
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SECOND CONGREGATIONAL. (WeIsh,-
Merchants street, between I'd and I'd Avenues
Preaching at 10k .. m. Sunday school at n
n. and preaching At 81 p. m. HENRx RKEsE.
Pastor.
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CITY OFFICERS

MMayor -John watson
Treasurer ................,... Howard Dunlan
Police Judge. ...............C. B Bacheller
City Attorney ............... ay Buck
City Clerk ................... E. MsForce
Marshal ......-..---...-.....Th os. FIemming
Counciimen-1st Ward, A. a. Baker, /. l..
Perley. I'd Ward, II. Il. Lowe, j. II. Davis.
3D. Ward, John Henson, ohm Warneke. 9TH
Ward, Ed. Borton, G. p. Thies.
Board of Education-1st w ard, J. Jay Buck,
W. T. McCarty. I'd Ward, Van Mccullough,
\. =. Nix. Sd Ward, II. W. McCune, L. L.
Halieck 4th Ward, A.Moore, L. b. Kef-
Eastman.
Justice of the Peace-C. B. Bachelor. N.
Sanders.
COnstables-T. johnson. H. W. Gilchriest.
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j. J. WRIGHT, n. De-,
OFFICE over First National Bank.
" Residence on West street.