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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

An American girl went over to
Paris with her brother the other
day, and the instant she was left
alone with their companion in the
carriage, middle aged Frenchmau,
he insulted her. She told her roth
err when he returned, and there was
q fearful outburst. The Frenchmau
gave his card, and SAID he was deep
ly sorry and would abide by the de
cision of the other as to the conse-
quences to ensue for the mistake e,
but certainly he never suspected
Mademoiselle was lady, as she was
painted The brother appealed to
the best authorities in Paris in these
matters, to learn what the code was
under these circumstances, aud all
the men of the jockey club told him
that if his sisters eyelashes were
blackened snd her cheeks rouged,
he could have no redress, as these
practices were never followed by
respectable ladies.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05
schools In Kansas.

The annual report of the State
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, which is now being prepared
for publication, shows that there
are, in Kansas, 232, 1851 children of
school age. 1t is usually estimated
that the total population or State
is about three aud a half times the
number of children of school age.
This would give Kansas a popula
ton of S15,OI3. Or, estimating
our total population on basis of
three persons for every one of
school age. the population of
Kansas would be sos, 58S. The
Champion estimated it, some
months ago, at zoo, 900, and several
of our State papers said they
doubted whether it was over 600,-
00O. So the Paola Spirit and a
number of other journals thought
that The Champion was extrava-
CANT when it said that the popula-
ton of the State would be mill
lion in 1880. They have all, since
that time, conceded that our esti-
mate was rather under than above,
the probable population of the
State in 1880. What do they say,
now, to the significant facts shown
by the figures of the State Superin-
tendent?
There are 1875 organized school
districts in the State, 157, 9l9
children enrolled in the public
schools. and 5,303 teachers en-
ployed. The total amount paid as
salaries, during the fiscal year, was
S229,077, and the average salaries
of teachers, per month, were
1920.
Kansas has 4, O0S school houses,
of which 3,O7O are frame, LAG log,
142 brick, 6lS stone, Is sod, and
IA "dug-outs." The estimated
value of the school buildings and
grounds is S3,91I, 2I2; of furniture
1910, 74O; of apparatus, "a, 4s4; and
of libraries, $12,618-a total of 81
337, 654. zs
The invested permanent school
fund, to December 31st, 1877, was
81, 252, 500, and the universal fund,
to the same date, 82,I12-a total
of $l,434,677. Since that time
$145.0O0 have been invested in
U. S. four per cent. bonds.
The dividend of the annual
school fund for March, 1873.
amounted 90 ! total of $I5I. 1859, or
an average Of. 65 cents each pupil
in the State.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05
Corn.

A correspondent OF the Kansas
Farmer has been making some
figures on the cost of producing a
bushel of corn. He gives the fol-
lowing figures:
Let us see about what one acre
of an average prairie field would
yield and cost. Flowing, $1.4O;
narrowing before planting, 40 cts. !;
cultivating, 80 cts; husking and
cribbing 40 bushels at d cts. per
bushel, 81. The above labor ex-
pended yearly on average soil will
no doubt produce over an average
of 40 bushels, but put it at 40, and
we have the cost of $40 per acre,
or IL cents per bushel.
According to this estimate, it
costs eleven cents to produce a
bushel of corn. But these figures
do not include an allowance for in
terest on capital invested, taxes on
land, and interest on fences. How
do the figures given agree with
the experience of our farmer
readers?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

A "NoBLE STATE" = The St.
Louis Post Of Thursday evening
last says of Kansas:
"The immigration into Kansas,
which has set In very early this
year, is reported to be unprece-
denied in numbers and in the ex-
cellence of the class of emigrants.
The trains on the different rail
roads running through the State
are overloaded, and extra cars are
constantly needed. Kansas is a
noble State. Her prairies are the
richest, her sky the clearest, her
streams the most beautiful Of any
State along the Pacific railroads.
She will welcome to her broad
bosom the newcomers, and repay
their labor richly in fiocks and
herds, corn, wheat, fruit and all
the comforts and luxuries of
life"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

There USED to be a man-goue
west DOW, poor fellow-in the Unit
ed States mail service, ran east of
Burlington, whose eyes were so
crooked he could carom with them.
He could hold a postal card out at
arms length before him, read the
address wi b ore eye and look
around the end aud read the mes
sage on the other side with the 9TH
er, and watch man trying to climb
in the car door behind him, all at
the same time. He left the service
because he had always to go to the
door on the other side of the Car to
see the station.-Hawk Eye.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05
Maxims for Business Men.
FRox VIEW roRx nEnoAEzzIr yoUexAz


When business reaches the point he thinks
he cannot spare any time examine financial
and commercial information he may safely conclude that
hs usj1etsis not aUeIL managed.
When business man finds himself in financial situa-
ton so embarrassing that he cannot afford possess
publication that would throw MORE LIGHT upon
his business transactions, he should delay
but ARRANGE AT ONCE with an auetoneer to close
his stock the highest bidder
When q business comes to the conclusion that
cannot afford to expend during the year, in JUDI
CIOUS ADVERTISING, amount equal to ONE HALF,
at least ONE QUARTER of the he pays annual
ly for rent he may VERY SAFELY make up his mind
that it is high time for him MOVE has business
TO CHEAPER quarters.
When a business disburses annually for salaries
and expenses of travellers solicit trade larger
than he pays making his business known the public
through other JUDICIOUS ADVERTISING, he may be
that he ought to reconsider his management.
Statesmen should be ASSISTED 6Hs their NrdOWS
GCOrE by well managed advertising
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05
sheep Raising an Lyon County
EDITORS LAND BUYER:

EDITORS LAND BUYER:
At your request give a few
facts on wool growing in this
county, and answer a few ques'
lions SO often asked. 1t certainly
can require no formal array OF
facts to show that the profits OF
wool growing here must tar ex-
coed those of states farther east,
where land is no better and costs
from three to fifteen times as much.
It not even being necessary to
own much, as there Is plenty
of pasture without buying, for
large tracts of land owned by
spectators lie open and free to all.
1 am often asked how sheep thrive
on prairie grass. After an expert
euce of nearly fifteen years, during
which time my flock has numbered
from hundreds to thousands can
say that il its season it is equal to
tame grass, and when cut early and
properly cured, makes hay that
sheep like better than timothy.
Still 1 would not recommend the
keeping of sheep on hay alone,
where corn and oats can be 80
easily and cheaply grown. 1 am
now sowing bluegrass to pasture
my lambs on at weaving time.
Are sheep subject to disease?
1 have never had any disease to
contend with in my flock except
scab, and that 1 completely cured
and now do not fear it. The greatest
difficulty 1 have to contend with
is dogs, they often causing
greater loss in a single night than
all other causes combined during
an entire season. The hoof all
which causes so much trouble and
loss to eastern wool-growers is
comparatively unknown here. In
deed herding on our dry and
rolling prairie would well-nigh
cure q flock afflicted with it. In
fact, / have known flocks driven
here that were inflicted, and after
being pastured on the prairie one
summer it would never after make
its appearance so as to injure the
sheep. Last summer 1 visited and
examined a number of flocks in
Colorado, and in conversation with
their owners found that many Of
them on account of their severe
losses the past season are coming
into Kansas with their focks the
present summer. My flock has al.
ways done well when properly
cared for, and / do not know of O
single failure when men have used
common sense, and persevered in
the business. The principal CAPT
tai necessary, is a decent knowl
edge of the business, aud energy
enough to persevere in it.
GEO. PLUME.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

This valley is the richest part of
Kansas We passed through, and
cannot be surpassed in the world
for richness of soil and contour OF
surface; and the crop of wheat, al,
ready at that time nearly all bar
vested, would rival the best crops
ever raised in the Genesee valley,
New York. It was better than
gold TO the view, and was a sure
index of the capacity of the soil
and climate to produce the staff of
life. Oats also. looked
fine, and corn was breast high and
beginning to tassel.--Port Madi-
son iowa Democrat
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

Little Mary P's father had gone
to Europe. During his absence she
prayed continually for him, that
God would take care of him and
bless him. Why don't you pray for
father now r asked her mother.
I'VE hsYe got him at home now, and
can take care of him ourseiVesP
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

The "Ring of the Fisherman p
which the Pnpes succ >sively wear,
r. p' eseuts on a surface OF gold ii
d eply e"graven image OF Saint Pc
ter in his boat drawing his nett. L
is used 10 seal all bulls ami Officiai
documents OF Importance.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

A handsomely dressed woman, al
recent performance of Hau.le',
given by Edwin Booth, in tn
Brooklyn academy, turned to her
companion, in the midst of the first
act, and asked audibly, (Which is
Shakespeare p
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

A new song will he issued emit
tied Mother. bake the pancakes
brown The first verse is as follows /:
"Moiher. bake the pancakes brown,
Cook them nice and crisp;
For the pale cakes. they don't go down
No where nigh as brisk"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05
Time Table.
NJ, x. & T. R'Y.
Trains leave Emporia as follows:

Trains leave Emporia as follows:
GONG EozTa-Daily except Sunday.
No. 17-Mail and Express. 9:o6 p. m
GOING soUfa-Daily except Sunday.
No. lS-Aail and Express. ........ SIS .. m
Connects with No. at Parsons Other
Trains leave Parsons.
GOING SoUTH-Daily.
No. 1-Texas Express. $50 3. N /.
GOING NoRTH-DaiiY.
No. Chicago St. Louis Exp II IS D. N
(D0fly except SUzGog)
No. 4-Hannibal q Sc Louis Exp II 20 p. m.
No. has through Sleeping Car from Chicago.
Quincy, Hannibal and st. Louis.
No. 2 has through Sleeping Car to Chicago,
Quincy, Hannibal and St. Louis.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05

The visible supply of grain in
this country on the I'd inst. was IS
follows: Wheat, S,643,O00 bushels /;
corn, 4, 1872 900 bushels; oats, 1885,
600 bushels; barley, 8, AIS, 600 bush
els; rye, 629,OO bushels.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05
The value Of this remedy must not be overlooked
SYMPATHETIC DISEASES,

bronchial Tubes which in many cases acccmpRTy
a severe case of Cutarrh. The intancd and ais
eased condition of the mucous membrane ia the
cause of all these troubles; aud until the system
has been brought properly und"r the inference Of
the RADICAL CURE, perfect freedom from them
cannot be reasonably expected.
IL is but three years since SkNFOPD'S RAD
CAL CURE was placed before The public. Ia j..
that short tnlc it has found It's way from Maine t.
California, and Is everywhere acknowledged by
druggists and physicians to be the most successful
ever compounded. The fact will be deemed OF
more Importance when 1t is coupled with the state
nent that within nye years over go different
remedies for Catarrh have been placed sale, and
to-day. with one or two exceptions, their names
cannot be recalled by the best Informed druggist.
Advertising may succeed in TO- cling few sales.
but, unless the remedy possess undoubte,l specific
medical properties. II is absolutely certain 10 fall
into nlerited obscur4ty.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-05
Il NesC Guide to Te1Gs, KGs-
SGss Gssd the Beautiful
Indian Territory.

FREE 1t ss yO Soa All about OF this r:
Great Southwest. It is full Of beautiful
pictures.
This Guide is sent FREE to everybody. 1t
tells you about the entrance into Texas as its
Gate, the beautiful city OF DENISON; and
this Guide also contains pictures of scenes In
the BEAUTIFUL INDIAN TERRITORY,
also scenes In Texas and Kansas. Et contains
scene at Hannibal, No., showing steamers
on the Mississippi river, and . raiircad train
starting for the beautiful Indian TERRITORY
and Denison, Texas. It tells you where to 70
to raise sheep and cattle.
sa In a15 6e T. GS,d ss e sk1So@6EX &
about the wonderful Neosho Valley Of Kan
sas. and Q trip through it, commencing as
Parsons, Kansas, and where to buy 3 SPLEEN
did farm at very low figures. It also tells
you how and where to get Excursion Tickets
to Chanute. Humboldt. Emporia and juno
ton City, Kansas. It also tells You how to
reach Fort scott, Kansas.
This Guide tells you where to buy lands in
Texas from 25 cents per acre up to i've dollars
per acre. It tells you abous the lands, the
crops, the people, the churches, the schools,
the rivers, etc, and Is fal of beautiful en-
cravings of scenes In the wonderful Indian
KANSAST5ssss adiss for . o onS Te1 y.
mall IL to ANYBODY free of charge Address
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

"The very man OF all others aohO has the
deepest interest IN q sound currency, and
tuho suffers most By nischieuous legislation in
money matters, is the man aoh0 earns his dai-
ly bread By his daily toll. a deprecated cur
rency, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling betaueen morning and noon, and fal-
ling still lo,uer bet,veen noon and night, these
things constitute the uery harvest time Of spec
ulators, and Of the ,ohole race of those aoho are
at once idle and crafty. X a disor-
dered currency Is one of the greatest political
euils. 1t Hundermines the uirtues necessary for
the support Of the social system, and encoar-
ages prOpensities destructive to its hnppikess
1t ,odrs against industry, trugalty and econ
omy, and it fosters the eoil spirits Of e1trao-
agance and speculation. Of all the contri-
uances for cheating the ldboring classes Of
mankind, none has been more efectual than
that ohich deludes them with paper money.
This Is the most efectual Of intentions to fer
tilize the rich man s fields By the s,ceat Of the
poor mans bro,o. Ordinary tyranny, oppres-
sion, ercessire taxation, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared ,oith
fraudulent currencies and the robberies COM
mitted by deprecated paper."-Daniel
Webster
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

AMONG the many complimentary notices
of our representative in Congress which are
found in papers from all parts of the nation
is the following from the Congregationalist
to which we commend our readers attention: !:
Hon. Thomas B. Reed, who has made such
an epviaEle reputation for himself during his
two years in Congress, and especially since the
commencement of che Potter Investigation,
IS a young politician of whom Maine may
well be proud. He is emphatically a self
made man, having helped himself TO an ed
ucaton, to the largest law practice in he
State of Maine, and now to a prominent pl ce
in the eyes Of the nation. He was elected At
torney General of the State when younger than
any other man who ever held that Office He
is the son-in-law of the late Rev. Mr.. Merrill
of Portlan d, and brother-in-law of prominent
clergyman of our denomination in Lowell.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

THE lately published conversations of Sc
nior give M. Thiers' notions of party warfare.
The French statesman insisted that political
parties are necessary in free government,
but complained that Frenchmen did not
know how to carry them on. For the sake
of weakening government they hated they
would aid foreign nations, and the enemies
of their country. They would in fact COM
NIT the error the Democracy fell into during
the Southern rebellion, Theirs said: ''Par-
ties are necessarily incident to freedom. But
until we have learned the rules of party war
fare our freedom will never be safe, or even
useful" and he cynically adds: "These rules
take to be that may call my opponent a
villain, though l know him to be honest !;
that / may abuse his measures though
know them to be useful; that may deny
his facts, though 1 know them to be true |;
that may attack his arguments with sophis-
try and even with falsehood." NJ. Theirs
must have bad a prophetic knowledge of the
coming of the Neao Era.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16
REPUBLICAN
State Convention for 1878.

The Republicans of Maine, and all Independent
voters who are in favor of preserving the credit Of
the National Government, and sound currency for
the people-equyalent to coin and redeemabe in
con-are requested to send delegates to State Con-
vention to be held in the
City Hall at Portland, Tuesday, July 30,
1878, at N O'Clock A. WI.
for the purpose of nominating candidate for Gov
enor, and transacting any other business that may
properly come before the Convention.
The basis of representation will be as follows
Each city, town and plantation is entitled to one
delegate, and one additional delegate for every 70
votes given for the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor in 1876. A fraction of forty votes over the
number which is entitled to one delegate, will be
accorded delegate.
The State Committee will be in session the evening
preceding and at o'clock the morning of the Con.
vention and will receive credentials of delegates.
JAMES G. BLAINE. KENNEBEc, Chairman.
GEORGE G. WING, AndroscoggiD.
LEWIS b. JOHNSON, Areostook.
FRED N. DOW, Cumberland.
d. G. BEAN, Franklin.
S. X. WHITING, Hancock.
ID. N. MORTLAND, Knox.
ANDREW LACY, Lincoln.
A. III. WALKER, Oxford,
G. A. BOUTELLE, Penobscot.
Q. A. PACKARD. Piscataquis.
JOHN S. ELLIOTT, Sagadaboc.
SD LINDSEY, Somerset.
w. H. FOGLER. Waldo.
ID. CORTHELL, Washington.
JAMES M ANDREWS, York.
j. o. SMITH, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

SECRETARY SHERMAN is doubtful as to
his right to redeem greenbacks before Jauu-
ary, but is sure that he can pay out his spe-
Gle for current expenses, and thinks he will
begin in August. He has $221 100000 of
gold coin, and that is all he wants. He will
sell no more bonds to get more gold. He
says: "The only use for gold at present is to
buy silver with which to pay customs duties.
This will be done away with when the treas
ury begins to deal out silver, and the present
slight premium on gold will then disappear.
The silver so paid out will return to the
treasury in the form of duties, and so will
not interfere with the course of trade or
change essentially the character of the gene
raj volume of currency"
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

As very important source of strength
and security, cherish public credit. One
method of preserving il is to nse il as
sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions
of expense by cultivating peace, but re-
membering also that timely disbursements
10 prepare for danger frequently prevent
much greater disbursements 10 repeI il
avoiding likewise the accumulation of
debt, not only by stunning occasions of
expense, but by vigorous exertions i'm time
of peace 10 discharge the debts which nm
avoidabIe wars may have occasioned, not
unSenerousiy throwing upon pOsterity the
burden which we ourselves ought 10 bear.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16
Fifth District Convention.

The Republicans of the Fifth Congressional Dis
trct are requested to send delegates to Congress
sional Convention to be held at Belfast, on TUES
DAY, August 9th, 1878, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, to
nominate candidate for Representative to Congress-
and attend to any other business that may come
before the convention.
Basis,each city. town plantation is entitled to
one delegate, and additional delegate for every
seventy-fve votes given for the Republican candi-
date for Governor in 1876, and additional dele
gate for fraction of forty votes so cast.
JAMES A. MILLIKEN,
A. ID. BEAN,
ORREN LEARNED,
A. M. HOPKINS,
JAMES NJ BLAISDELL,
DAVIS TILSON,
Congressional Committee.
July 4, 1878.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16
The French Government has lately pub

THE French Government has lately pub
lished colored map showing the progress of
primary education in France since 1882.
33 to SO in hundred, are black; from 25 to
33 red; from 10 to 25 blue; from TO 10
yellow; from 1 to white. The progress is
marked. In 1882 the country was under a
black shadow. But nine districts were red,
three blue, one white. Now nearly all the
east of France is white. The black districts
are the intensely Catholic ones. The white
districts are those that give the Republican
majority to the Assembly.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16
aTrMp1EroN,, writes of General Horac

'TEMPLEToN" writes of General Horace
Binney Sargent of Massachusetts, who has
become Greenbacker: "He is man Of tai
ent, but he is not at all man Of the people.
He has never had influence in politics, and
he las had neither experience nor sagacity
as a leader. His interest in having more
money comes not little, it is thought, from
the fact that he has large real estate invest
ments, greatly deprecated on his hands, and
for which flush times, he hopes, would fur
nish Market" Oddly enough it is surmised
that some of our Greenback leaders in Maine
are moved by like interest.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

"The loss achich Anaerica has sustained, since
the peace, from the pestilential effects of IRE
deenaable paper money! on the necessary conf
dence betaoeen men, on the necessary confidence in
thepablic councils, on the industry and morals of
the people and on the character of republican qoy-
ernnaent, constitute an enormous debt against the
States chdrgeable With this aleadvaSed measure,
aubach mast remain uasatisfed, or rather IL is an
accumulation otguit aoltich can be erpiated no
otherwise than By yoluntary sacrifice on the al
ar of Justice of the poaoer aohich has been the ia-
straupent cf it.-Jdanes Madison.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

ga return to specie payments mt the earli-
est possible period compatible with due re-
gard TO all interests concerned, should ever
be kept i'm view. Fluctuations i'm the value
of cprrency are always injurious, and to
reduce these fluctuations 10 the lowest pos
sibIe point will always be a leading pur-
pose i'm wise legislation. Convertibiiify,
prompt and certain converfibilify into
coin is acknowledged 10 be the best and
surCsI safeguard against them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16
JAMES BUCHANAN.

'Such a medium (irredeemable paper mon
ey,) has always been liable to fuctuation. Its
value is constantly changing; and these
changes, often great and sudden, expose in
dividuals to great loss, are the source of ruin
GUS speculations, and destroy all confidence
between man and man."-Chief Justice Mar
shall
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

1t (paper money! tends to aggrauate the
inequality Of fortunes; to maize the rich richer
and the poor poorer, to multiply nabobs and
paupers, and to deepen and ,oiden the gulf
achich separated Diues from Lazmus.-Thona-
as Fl. Benton,
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY l6.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used. -.
The Portland daily press., 1878-07-16

Paper emissions by the government ARE
of a nature so Liable to abuse, Il may say
SO certain 10 be abused, shas thc visa Om #
the government will be shown by never
trusting itself w ih SO seducing and dam
gerous power''
ALEXANDER HAMILTON,