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distaste to their Ell
Some things they like Z
lyand when engaged III them hey
show zeal aud energy enough.
but their own common octupa-
ton excites no ambition, rouses
no enthusiasm, awakes NO inter
est. OF course, it Is poorly
done, much OF it. indeed, is pro-
baby left undone, and whats
ever of value creeps into it is
only the result of some Interior
motive, which compels exertion
even against the will.
Probably more OF the badly
executed labor of the world is
due to this cause than to any
other. The school boy, trimming
over with life and undeveloped
power, is intent upon everything
save his regular school work.
He puts all his heart into the
ball match or the skating pond
but his studies he deems dull
and tedious, and only gives them
a halfhearted attention. On
some future day when they are
no longer his daily occupation,
hut the resource OF his leisure
hours, he will look back with
regret and wonder at his former
life. So the laborer in the
field or in the workshop, in the
Office or factory, often feels
tired and impatient OF his own
proper business. He is not idle
or torpid, he enters with spirit
into other things, and magines
that were his occupation some
thing different from what it is
he would perform it with en-
thusiastic a,acrity. As it is. he
contents himself with going
through its routine in a liteless
mechanical way, as the quality
of the work soon attests, when
compared with that into which
intelligent and jealous energy
have been infused.-Philadel-
phia Ledger,
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VEGETINE.
An Excellent Medicine.

SPRINGFIELD, o Feb. IS. 1877.
This is to certify that have uscd
us"d 'rgvtine. manufactured by II. r..
Stevens. Boston, Mass. for Rheumatism
and ien-ral Prostitution of the Nervous
System, with good success. recon-.
mend Vcgetine as An excellent medi-
cine tor such complaints. Y urs. very
truly, c. ". VANDERBILT.
Mr.. VAndrgrift, u the firm of Yande-
Fritt 4 Huffman, is II welLknown bust.
ness man in this place. having one of
the largest stores in Spring teld, o.
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ExPoRr OF EGes AND PouLrRY.
Another new opening has
been made for our surplus pro-
duct; viz. the export TO Europe
efeggs and poultry. One steam
err from Canada recently carried
ont $50 barrels of eggs, and our
own steamers from New York.
have already taken out many
cases of dressed poultry. This
trade will opeu mp an outlet for
mneh Of onr cheap western pro-
duce, and will doubtless greatly
relieve our home markets, which
are often depressed through
superintendent supplies. En-
glandimports sd3, O06, 0O0 worth
OF eggs from the Continent every
year, and yet the market there
Is not fully supplied. A large
portion Of this business will
now doubtless falf into our bands.
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TO FREsHEN OILED FURNITURE.
= A lady sewing machine agent
tells us that the black-walnut
tables of their machine are kept
nice by rubbing them with a
cloth moistened with kerosene
oil. Try it on your oiled cabin
ct organ, or on any other piece
of oiled furniture, and you will
quickly see an improvement,
But keep it off from varnish.
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IT is noted as a remarkable
eoincident that during the war
General Mcclellan and George
il. PendietoD were the Demo
cratic candidates Tor President
and Vice President at the
North. OF course they were
badly beaten. but the principles
they advocated still prevail.
With the excitement of the war
and its preindices passing away,
we see Mcclellan and Pendle-
ton coming to the front. Me
Clellan has recently been elected
Governor OF New Jersey, and
Pendleton Senator from Ohio.
Truth is mighty and will pre-
vail Hdco Eramiaer.
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To DANISH RATs.-Rats can
be banished by covering the
floor near the rat-hole with
thin layer of moist caustic pot
ash. When The rats walk on
this it makes their feet sore.
These they lick with their
tongres, which makes their
mouths sore, and the result is
that they not only shun that
locality. but appear to tell all
the neighboring rats about it.
and eventually the house is en-
tircly abandoned by them.
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SHEEP are the only animals
which do not exhaust the land
upon which the feed, but per
manently improve it. The pecu-
liar nutritiousness of its manure
and the faculty with which it is
distributed, are found to be the
most economical and certain
means of constantly renewing
and improving the productive
ness OF the land.
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Our Minister'S Wife.

--..-boUIsvItI.E. NY. Feb. 10, 1877.
MIR. R. II. STEVENS:
DEAR SIR-Thre years ago | was
suffering terribly with Infiammatory
Rheumatism. Our minister's wife adj
visetl me to take Veg. tine. After tax.
ing one bottle, was entirely relieved.
This year. feeling return of the dis
ease. again commenced taking it, and
am being benz fitted greatly. 1t also
greatly improves my digestion. Re,
spectlu, v, MRS. A. BALLARD.
10l1 West Jefferson Street.
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FARMERS write for the BANNER
draw forth the experience of
others by giving your own. Do
not take trouble to re-write and
fix up"-we viii attend to that.
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FREE BILLIARDS a Hirsch-
bergs.
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Transient and ~
inserted At $50 a squsg4
first insertion. and seventy 49,.
square for each insertion thcreaffsl
all quarterly and yearly advertisaS
r.sass must he paid quarterly in advance
Marriage aud Obituary notices exceed
ing eight lines, charged as advertise
: meuts. Editorial notices of q purely
business character, such as remarks up
on business houses; the reception of
gsois, etc, win be charged at 25 cents
n line. each insertion. No such notice
asserted for less than One Dollar.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
win be inserted at the following rates
State and District offices, $500 |;
County, $1,000; Precinct $500 The
money to accompany the announce
! nest in each and every instance
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" THE TREE IS Known BY ITS FRUIT"

thI fhcG - y UMM o. ITO ThuIt'
TUFTS Pills are worth their weight in gold."
REV. .. r. SIMPSON, leuisviIIs, Ky.
"Tutt's Pills arc special blessing Of the
nineteenth century"
REV. +. B. osGoop, New York.
at have used Tuu's Pills for torpor OF the
liver. They ars superior to any medicine for
hillary disorders ever made"
p. CARR, Attorney II Law, Aususf,, Ga.
al have used Tu,t's Pills i've years in my fam
lily They are unequaled for costiveness and bill.
sousness"-F. R.WlLS0N, Georgetown, Texas.
81 have used iuti's Medicine with great
benefit. "-W. w. MANN, Editor Mobile Register.
1--WE sell fifty boxes TUFTS Pills TO FIVE of
all others-"-SAyRE & CO., cartersville, Ga.
"Tutt's Pills have only to be tried TO es-
tahiish their merits. They work like magic"
w. n. BARRON, IS Summer ST., Boston.
There IS no medicine so well adapted TO the
cure OF bilious disorders rs TUFTS Pills.
JOS. BRummEl, Richmond, Virginia.
AND A THOUSAND MORE.
Sold by druggists. e5 cents a Dor. Office
Is Murray Street, Netc York.
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Hyspertics, Bilious
lever and Agne-
eafh NJ how they
fhl spirits and
pa tel you by
Regulator.
I'd best family
For Dyspepsia,
knnus attacks.
Depression of
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AT TIL s
Oak Hill Nurseries.

Located within corporate limits of. the
city Of Brenham. Washington county
Texas, is to be found the most extensive,
complete and reliable assortment of
home grown Fruit Trees in the State.
camprisipg-
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06
Sedgwick County Statistics.

Annually the EAGLE has attempted to give
a table OF the principal productions of Sedg-
wick county by townships, the assessed value
of lands and property and the population, as
returned By the assessors. Mr.. Ed. A.. Dor
sey, our efficient County Clerk, furnishes us
with table for 1878, which will be found in
teresting and for which he is entitled to thanks
as it represents tedious and pains-taking
work. Many Of the productions of mere NIL
nor importance are not given, but all the lead
ing crops are correctly tabulated. The COM
pilation is an interesting one from several
standpoints 1t shows a wonderful develop
ment for q seven-year-old county-probabiy
an unparalleled one in the history OF this or
any other State. 1t shows what energy and
enterprise, in spite of limited capital, can ac-
complish ia propitious climate on an exeep-
tionably fine soil. 1t shows in county OF
Gas, l2o acres OF land, that 17I.2oo have been
put under the plow 10 seven years, or over
one-.earth of the entire area, or leaving out
the river beds and timber fully one-third. BY
1t it will be seen that we have So, 1927 acres Of
wheat now being harvested. An estimated
average oil ~ Dusneis 10 lne acre Wouid give
US !, 7l2 $50 bushels, or more than any county
in the State of Kansas.
Many interesting comparisons of the vari-
GUS townships can be made-more in number
than we can find room for, but which can be
seen at glance by our readers. Grant town.
ship Is the banner township in the nGmber oil
acres under cultivation, Waco following next
and then Gypsum and Illinois. In wheat
Waco takes the lead, beating Rockford Is
acres only, Attiea coming close on to their
heels. In corn, Grant again takes the lead.
In oats, Minnesota counts the highest, follow
ed by Salem. In hogs, Grant is hoggish ana
in horses pulls the strongest. Eagle has the
greatest number of cattle, and SO on and SO
on. The table speaks for itself, requiring no
exnlanation at our hands.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06
The Arkansas City Steamboat.

The Arkansas Traveller the new stesm-
boat now plying between Arkansas City and
the mouth of the Walnut river, and UP and
down Whereabouts, received cargo of -four
the other day for the Pawnee Agency, which
we believe was promptly delivered as per bills
of lading, in good con ditioD. The Arkansas
City paper, unfortunately. fails to state the
number of tons, barrels, sacks or pounds COM
prising the shipment. The Traveller is
not a screw-propeller, nor a side-wheeler.
she is propelled by the operation OF ar abatt-
revolver. The motive power, loco and fsco,
is supplied by a portable threshing-
engine, which is attached to the wheel behind
before mentioned. and both of which are ia
ken right along when the boat goes anywhere
which is quite often, If not frequently. There
is no such word as .behind" in the bright
lie xicon OF this unique Traveller. When its
before part runs on to a sandbar, which it Is
liable to do, it makes its behind its before,
reverses the motion OF its revolver before
mentioned. and craw-ishes off. Tie steam is
generated on board, from water, an ample
supply of which Latter is furnished by the Ar :
kansas, except in droutny spells. The style
OF the craft is OF the fiat-bottom variety,
pattern as best conforms to the tlat-bottom OF
the river. and also 10 the bottoms upon either
side in the judgment of experienced nayiga-
tors OF this region. The reason why the new
and elegant steamer did not come up to Wich-
ita as advertised by her masters, is net attrib-
utable to distractions deposited by unthins-
ing catfish in the main channel. as many sup
posed, so much as 10 weli-grounded appre-
heusion Tat such feat would tend to prove
in,mical to the passage OF Ryan's bill. These
few feeble remarks are in answer to many let
tiers OF inquiry frem all parts as to what days
the aforesaid steamboat would arrive at and
depart from the Wichita wharf For freight
or passage apply to Tim Lane.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06
SEWING MACHINES
At Half Price.


Realizing the fact that Sewing Machines
will have to be kept by Dry Goods Houses, we
have taken great pains to secure a machine
that has the latest Improvements. After ex-
aiming the different machines we found
TEE NEW DAYS
to be the best machine in the market, as it is
the most simple. durable and the lightest run
ming shuttle machine i'm the market. One OF
the main beauties of this machine Is in its be-
ing an upper feed which no other sewing ma
chine has or can obtain as the patent has SIX
years yet to run. No wonder the sewing
machine men who keep other machines howl
against it, for once admitting this enc point,
goodbye to their selling any machines. One
thing is sure it enables us to do work that no
other machine can do. Ladies think of this :
With your under feed machine II you take
two strips of cotton each four yards long to
simply sew together without basting, if you
do not bold the under piece back, when you
get to the end enc is two or three inches lon
ger than the other. You have no such diff
Guilty with The New Davis. We purchase
these machines for cash and sell them as we
do dry Goods, thus saving you the expense
that an agent is put to OF keeping an Office
and team. Machines that used to DE sold for
fifty dollars without the extra attachments,
we will sell you for twenty-five dollars and
give you the extras Don't fail to call and
examine them at
9-2t GEO. Y. SMITH g. Co.
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The new Rocky Mountain Tourist, just from
the press, is indeed an artistic gem. In point
OF engrayipgs, printing and descriptive, it is,
beyond all question, the handsomest publica-
ton OF the character ever issued in the United
States. There are in this work no less than
sixteen OF Thomas Moran's exquisite draw
ings, and among them his famous reproduc-
ton OF the Mount of the Holy Cross. or Mo-
rams other matchless drawings are those of
Grand, Glen, Marble, Knabb and Boulder
Canyons, Twin Lakes, Teocali Mountain. etc,
Joseph Beard is represented by charact eris,lc
hunting sketches; Lancelot by spirited draw
ings Of the remarkable rock-sculpture Or
White River, and Henry Worrall by full pake
views at yeta Pass and Wagon Wheel Gap,
as well as a large number OF other very timely
executed sketches in different portions of the
western country, The engravings are for the
most part large, the full quarto pages OF the
Tourist, enabling the showing to the finest
advantage OF plates seven by ten inches. The
book comprises sixty-four pages, exclusive OF
the cover, and printed as It's upon SUPERSEDED
and caleEdered paper Of the richest finish, the
effect throughout is superb. While a very
model Of typographical beauty, the Tourist is
noae the less practical in ifs range of inform
alton, time, distances, railroad and stage fares,
hotel and livery rates being with uniform ac-
curacy and in so easy and pleasing q manner
as to entirely reisye the work Of everything
approaching the tedious detail Of the average
guide book. Containing no advertisements
Of whatever character, the new Rocky Noun
tain Tourist is a fit companion to Picturesque
America in any gentleman's library. speci-
men copy may be had without cost by address
ing w. +. White, Topeka, Kansas.
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Personal Mention.

W C. Woodman went to Eldorado on bust
ness Monday.
Albert Law was up from Ell Paso on Mon
day. He says that township has the biggest
crop OF wheat and the best quality ever raised
before. But one case OF small pox, that of the
colored man, has been reported to date.
Mrs. j. q. Harvey and her daughter Nellie
have gone to Dayton, Ohio, on visit.
Charlie Davidson has returned from school
for vacation. Charlie was highly comph-
mented by the press ofLawrence for the abil-
ity and proficiency shown at the closing exer-
cises of the State University.
Tuesday morning party of ladies and gen.
tlemen, consisting OF Col. Sol. Kohn, Msjsr
Dunscomb and Col. lines, Miss Hattie Rus
sell. Miss susie Barnes and Miss Annie Stamp
er, left the city on picniciEg and fishing
excursion to Clearwater, en- the Minnesota,
where Major Dunscomb owns large farm.
NJ. Heller and wife, accompanied By Mrs.
Jennings, Miss Joe Pittingcr. Mrs, Lawrence,
DR.. Owens and family, Ed: Wright and G, Il.
Miller, all were off on Monday morning for
Anthony, Harper county, for the purpose Of
rusticating and to see for themselves the land
that we hear so much about OF late ''fiowing
with milk and honey
Ii. C. Sluss, Esq, is absent attending the U.
5. court at Leavenworth.
MIR. f. A. Sewers and Mr.. w. B. Hutchin-
son, the two pioneer editors and publishers
of this valley, who, as partners, established
the Wichita Fidette, Il spicy paper ofspicy days
and lively times, are both in the harness again
writing in the interest of the same people, the
one on the Herald and the other on the Beacon
Either might with appropriateness be termed
Genius Loci. both Gems de Lettres. Capt. White
of the Beacon, is off filling the roll Of a U. S.
juryman at Leayenworth, where he will be
detained two or three weeks.
Uncle Joe Hamme rs was up Tuesday from
Clearwater. and reports everything flourish
ing and everybody happy.
Il. J. Harding, who mas been engaged in
one of the commercial houses of this city for
some time, has gone to Boston, his home, for
a short time.
S. e. Slade and g. w. Albright, Of Michi-
gan, relatives of j. W. Eldrdge, are in the
city.
0. p. A. Myers. of Woodford county. lii
nois. has spent several days in this valley, Sc
curing location for a cattle ranch for son.
He bought in Harper.
Miss Jennie Dean, OF Seymour, Indiana,
sister to Mrs. c. Z. Persons, is coming out TO
spend her vacation in Wichita. She was ex-
pected by last nights train. We can almost
guaranty Miss d. pleasant season.
Jesse Hammers, OF Woodtord county. Hill
nois, gentleman seyenty-ive years of age.
with two sons arrived in Wichita few days
ago in quest OF land to locate them on.
James Balm, of Woodford county, Illinois,
an old resident of that State, one Of the mem
bers of the Illinois Constitutional Convention.
is looking after locations for his sons-in-law.
They viii locate on Spotted Tail.
Ell. W. Wright was up saturday from An
theny. Business is reported as quite lively in
the new metropolis.
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The New Mail Lettings.

in cur last weeks mention of the many new
mail routes secured by Hon. rhos. Ryan in
this portion OF the State in the face Of made
qua'e appropriations. we 10, got to state that
after July list Wichita viii be linked to Fl Sill
by daily mall and that after that time the A.
T. S. + railroad will connect with the
Leayenworth. Lawrenes and Galveston rail-
road by daily line from Wichita 10 Indepen-
denee, wa Wisteid, Dexter, cedarvale and
Sam hsaa has indeed been more than
tuccessfuI.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06

In noticing the subject OF Rev. John Kir-
by's discourse for last Sabbath the types made
us say ''Bslshazzar." We wrote it .Belte-
shazzar," as that was the name o. the distin-
guished individual who interpreted the dreams
OF Neoachadnezzfr, the name OF whose hope
ful son instead CT Daniels being given. And,
by the way, the sermon was one ia which good
anc evil were graphically eontrasted, and the
ranscendant greatness. purity, the truthful
ness OF Christ's system over the religions of
the world most eIoquenty and logically estab-
ifghat
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06
Took too Much Poison.

From Doctor Reatz we learn that Mr.. Emil
Pleiffer did last night from the effects OF
laudunum which he took tor the purpose Of
self,destruction, as is supposed, as an empty
four ounce phial was found in his bed. Mr.,
Pleif1er lived at Severn Greaser's, twelve miles
north OF Wichita, No reason is known for
the
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06

Commonwealth Gentlemen from Wichita
inform the Commonwealth that in CowIey
county there are 10000 acres of wheat, and
il now being cut. The expected average is
twenty bushels. This Will be l. SOC, 900 bushels
OF wheat. Can it be beaten in any other State?
No, it probably cannot be beaten in any 9TH
er, but it can in this State. Sedgwick county
has s5,e27 acres, the average yield of which
viii be-well, We'll tell you when the people
become better able to stand startling truths.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06

Mr.. Ed. Massey, brother to Deputy Sheriff
Tence Massey, was thrown from fractious
horse yesterday, the horse falling en- him,
nearly killing him. For two hours all life
seemed to have fled, but ne afterwards re-
vived and this morning is dong well. The
accident occurred out at the home of his father.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06

Our City Council are agitaiins the question
OF better and more efficient fire apparatus.
which in turn involves the question of water
supply, etc. We learn that 4 large fire CON-
pany has been organized, the members OF
which announce their readiness to take charge
OF anything ia the engine line that the council
may be able 20 furnish.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-06

Ours is the cry ''City of Roses" and will
probably be known by that delightfully."- sug-
gestiye speculation in the future, IL our active
and immense business does oyershadow su eh
name. Our warm, sandy soil Is extremely
well adapted to the growth and perfection of
the rose, and can be seen everywhere in
endltss variety. Squire Mitchell threatens
US with libel suit for what we said last week
he has thlrty-5ye varieties, twenty-four OF
Which were in bloom at one time. Judge NJ i.
S. Adams has many famous varieties and a
few very rare specimens. Among the pecu-
llar eolored ones is /, deep green rose, which is
truly an oddity.
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Rey.I. T. Davis,

We are really sorry that we have to an
nounce that Rev. L, f. Davis, who has preach.
ed so acceptably for the year last past to the
Baptist society Of thi. place, has determined
TO accept call to a Colorado church. Mr.. d.
preached year at Boalder City, and he likes
the mountains. We know we but express
the sentiments of the entire community in re-
GREETING his conclusion.
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County Surveyors Notice.

All persons wishing surveying done will
please send in written orders, stating the Sec
ton, township, range and quarter. Also state
whether the parties living in the same Sec
ton or sections want their land surveyed. If
they 90, have them sign the order. IT they
do not, give their names that may send them
due notice when the work will be Gcse.
L. l.. NIXON,
5-tf County Surveyor, Lock Box 8.
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reported for the EAGLE
WEATHER TABLE.
Division of Reports fos the Benefit Of Com
mercs and Agriculture.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
SIGNAL SERVICE u. ). ARM


WAR DEPARTMENT,
SIGNAL SERVICE u. ). ARMY.
DODGE CITY STATION.
Table showing daily and monthly means of
barometer and thermometer, total movement
of wind, and amount of rainfall, with the pre-
yailing direction OF wind, tc., fer the month
Of May. 1875:
Monthly mean barometer, - Us; mean Their
mometer, 50 90; mean humidity. sl7.
May 9-Higbest barometer, - il.
May 1I-Lowest barometer. > SO.
Monthly range OF baro meter, ..i)j.
May 30-highest temp erature. - degrees.
May l2-Lowest temp erature, - degrees.
Monthly range OF TEN perature, 81 degrees.
May 5-Greatest daily range of tempera-
ture, A degrees.
May l3-Lswest daily range of temperature,
Z degrees.
Mean OF maximum temperatures, 742.
Mean of minimum temperatures. 40.
Mean daily range oftcmperature, 25.2.
Total rainfall or melted snow, 1853 inches.
Prevailing wind, shuth aud northeast.
TOTAL movement OF wind, T0,064 miles
Maximum velocity o. wind and direction, A
miles per hour. north and south, on the It'll.
Total number of days on viii ID rain or snow
fell, ten.
W. II. CLENDENON,
Sergeant, Signal Service, U. ). A.