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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-09-19
About the supply Of stock.


NOW Wneu gOOu Deef animals are DflnS-
ing In the Chicago market $50 per humid
red, at which price there is a good profit in
raising and shipping cattle, the farms are
covered with hogs that are almost unsala-
bic, and beef steers are very scarce. These
extremes are sure to follow each other, and
the wise man remembers this and makes
his stock raising general. In keeping with
the past We shall expect to see the country
alive for while to the cattle business and
neglect the pork raising until they have
gone to the other extreme. and flooded the
market with beef, and allowed the pork
supply TO become in a measure exhausted.
stick 10 One Thing.
journal of Agricultural
Not thousand miles from St. Louis is a
farmer who has made butter for this mar
ket for over twenty years. At this spe-
cialty he accumulated some eight thou
sand dollars. He committed one great
mistake. Some friends persuaded him tn
put his money into a manufacturing enter
prise, and of course he lost it. All would
have been we'll enough il he had stuck.
Now, he is at it again, is reaping the re-
ward OF a renewed constancy. l am in IA
vor of mixed farming, but also of keeping
constantly to some one branch of farming
a. a speciality. Raise corn. wheat, pota-
toes, keep few sheep, bees and poultry,
and good orchard and garden, but be a
special farmer in cows, or sheep. or mules,
or potatoes or wheat, and stick 10 Il. Study
it, experiment in it, read everything about
it, and in this one line, above all Others,
become an expert
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-09-19

The II mocratic delegates were treated
with princely hospitality at Leavenw"''
so they say. Buggies and carriage- were
brought out and they were taken Z" the
Fort and other places of note. Thy we're
toasted and feted and have come away with
the impression that Leavenworth = a NICE
place 10 go tn and To do business Within,
and that it il To be the commercial ani
manufacturing metropolis after all.
rF.yESWoRrH's HOSPITALITY APPRECIA
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-09-19

to the milking are afforded proper help
and conveuiences. They should be pro-
vided with dry and clean place to milk !;
the COWS should be placed; and, where the
distance is great, the milk should be car
ried-everything, in fact, but the actual
milking and manipulation of the milk
should be done by boys or men.
Give the girls fair chance, and restore
to them what fashion or pride has for q
time taken from them-an occupation OF
industry at once pleasant and invigorating,
and one which will bloom to their cheeks
and strength and hath to their system.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

Here would be righteous verdict, often
times: Death by hanging-around the tavern.
1t was a darkey who shouted, as he rose
from his knees at camp meeting Here
raise my ebon-knees, sir"
The use of the editorial 1--WE" prevails in
the South. An exchange says IF We es-
cape the hog cholera there will be a large sur
plus of pork next winter"
A man in Maine applied for two gallons of
rum for mechanical purposes" For what
mechanical purposes 7" asked the agent.
For raising barn, was the reply.
An Irish counsel being questioned by a
Judge to know for whom he was concerned,
replied: Il am concerned my lord, for the
plaintiff, but am employed by the defend
ant"
A correspondent of Harper's Magazine sends
to ''the Drawer copy of an order received
by Broome County dentist, which says:
my mouth is three inches acrost. fve-eight
inches threw the jaw. Sum humoky on the
edge. Shaped like hoss-shew, toe folTard.
If you want me to be more pertikler, shall
have to cum thar"
Mackey, the California millionaire, came to
this country poor Irish boy. Stewart, the
New York millionaire, came to this country
poor Irish boy. We might give other illus
trations, but these two are sufficient to show
that our struggling American youth made n
great mistake by not coming to this country
poor Irish boys s-NOrristOnn Herdh.
Just our luck Here are $12, 900, 600 left
in Holland for the Cronk family in America
and we might have married Cronk girl once
We really intended to, but none of her folks
would consent, and she would not consent,
and rs they seemed TO have private sources
of information ON the subject they finally out
generated us, and there is another fortune
gone. -- Rome SeJ.tiHti.
Painting jugs-"The hand that rocks the
cradle paints jugs. When We began this
We were going to SAY something real mean
and sarcastic about the concentration of all
the womanly intellect and ambition in the
United States upon the labor of painting
vague atrocities on jugs and things, when We
happened to remember how many womens
brothers and husbands we had seen wasting
their brain tissues and devoting long, patient
months to the coloring of a meerschaum pipe
no bigger than cork, and we hastily drop
ped into the lame and harmless conclusion
noted above. burlington HdWkeye.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05
NO. IA.


| noticed a recipe for making q cheap tele-
phone, given by Prof. Barrett in a recent lee
ture ON that instrument. In making his in
strument you use bar magnet, and have TO
go to considerable trouble for all of which
you can only talk distance of about hum
dred yards. Now l can give recipe much
more simple and when the instrument is fin
ished you can converse at n distance Of near
ly five hundred yards. Take two half gallon
Cor quartz tin fruit cans and take the bottoms
out of them Now take a couple Of half cigar
boxes, tack down the lids and cut hole
through the bottom and lid of each, so you
can fit in your cans, first bringing the ends
level with the lid or bottom. Now stretch
wet rawhide, parchment or bladder over the
other end and tie tight and let it dry, and
your speaking tubes are finished. Now take
two-ply of shoe thread and wax it well. max
ing it as long as you wish it. Punch a hole
in the centre of the parchment head, poke
the end of the string through and put knot
on it to keep it from pulling back Then put
up your string like a telegraph wire, but
don't let it touch wood. Where you wish to
support it or make a turn, run it through a
loop of the same kind of string, but don't put
the supporting loops closer together than is
necessary to keep it up and leave the string
pretty loose TO allow for contraction when
wet Fasten up your speaking tubes at each
end Of the route, and you are ready to gabble
away. You can bore large gimlet holes in
your window sash to run the line out through
keeping it from touching the sash with a
loop, as described. The signal call is to drum
on the parchment end of the can with your
fingers, or better, pick the string like a harp
about foot from the head. They are very
useful and interesting. detroit Free Press.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

Her eyes shone so, and her whole face was
so glorified with intensity of feeling, that /
could scarce keep from crying out Mt her
beauty
"rut, tut Mary" said Mansfield, "you
can't reasonably blame n man for not wanting
to saddle himself with hulk like me, and a
horde of half-grown boys. You cant blame
MacMurray. Pm miserable wreck. and the
boys are none Of them out of the way. You
couldn't expect, Bruce, irrational man, howcv-
er he might love a woman to marry her under
these circumstances"
Not rational man, perhaps" / said, and
my blood was all in glow, the words slipped
TO my tongue without any yolition of my
own-'not rational man. perhaps; but sup
pose madman should offer to do such Il
thing and hc must be a madman to hope for
the felicity suppose / was fool enough to
think that Mary would marry me under any
circumstances suppose that had worship
ped her for years, and that she was dearor
than ever to me now in her devotion to You
and the boys and suppose that whether she
marries me or not, she is but the one woman
in the whole world for me-"
God bless my soul :" cried Mansfield, lean
ing forward and casping his hands together
'can this be possbley Mary, Mary, don't
speak Just now, child. Take time to consid-
or this noble proposal Of our friend to whom
] am under unlimited obligatiOns-a man in
a thousand Mary the tip of his fnger-nail
worth the whole miserable body Of such n
reptile as MocMuray. Take time, Mary
take n week"
Take year" | implored; and as I went
over TO her, and got down on my knees be-
side her low chair, trembled like n man up
on the scaifold. The needle shook in her fin
gers the muslin fluttercd out Of her hands
upon the floor. MARY. Mary | begged,
like the coward that | was don't take from
me the sweet uncertainty let me wait an
eternity. In the mean time, I'll take Jamie, -
I added, for he was awake and whmpering
Poor Mansfield fell back upon his pillow, aud
lifting the child to my heart, ! sat down by
the bedside. Suddenly two soft arms stole
around my neck outside of Jamic's Mary Is
warm cheek was pressed to mine
Take us all, she whispered every one
of u.s. please" And did, God helping me.
Mansfield began miraculously to mend from
that moment, and took the head of his depart
ment in less than year. One Of the boys is
in the countng-room already, and another
one will be among the goods as soon rs he
can leave school Mary and will never have
a child dearer to us than little Jamie. Every
thing prospers with us and the only thing
that troubles us just now is how to properly
heat the house we are building up in West
chester county. What l wanted to say was,
that if any body knows of heater that will
do the business thoroughly without explod-
ing I'd like to communicate with him.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

A STORY OF VIcToR EMANUEL. time
ago Victor Emanuel and a citizen of Rome
happened outside the gates of the Eternal
City, to simultaneously shoot at and kill a
hare. Naturally each sportsman claimed poor
puss's corpse, and, losing their tempers over
the question, resorted, manlike, to fisticuffs.
The Fates, being evidently of an aristocratic
turn of mind, decided the combat in favor of
royalty and the plebian adversary, suddenly
remembering that discretion is the better part
of valor, retreated hastily from the field. The
King sent secretly to ascertain the beaten
mans address, when it was discovered that he
was a cabinet maker, who lived near the Por-
to del Popolo. One day, soon after the fight
over the hare, n royal carriage drew up at the
worthy citizens door, and he was informed
that his attendance Mt the Quirinal was desir-
ed. He went, wondering what on earth he
could be wanted for, and upon being ushered
into the royal presence recognized in the
King the rival with whom he had had the un-
pleasant encounter. Thereupon the poor cab
met maker felt highly uncomfortable, but the
bluff soldier King by his cordial manner, i'm
mediately put the other at his ease, and fur
ther said that, as he had found in the hare
some strange shot, he had in consequence ar
rived at the conclusion that the only fair thing
to be done was to send for his brother sports
man in order that they might eat the meal be-
tween them. Cabinet maker and King ac-
cordingly dined together quite jollily.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05
Miscellany.


Ay, better burn them what does II avail
To treasure the dumb words so dear to us9
Like dead leaves tossed before the autumnal gale
VIII be each written page cherish thus
When Times great wind has swept them all away
The smiles, loves, tears and hatreds Of to-day
Living, We hoard our letters holding them
Sacred and safe as almost sentient things;
SO strong the ytarnng tide Of grief to stem,
So true when doubt creeps in or treason stiues;
Parting may smile, such golden bridge between;
Chance cannot come, where such stamped faith has
been.
Dying, we leave them TO our chdreu's care,
Our well-prized soaCe, records Of the time
When life lay spread before us. rich aud fair,
And love and hope spoke prophecies sublime;
Lore slowly gathered through laborious hours
wits playful flashes, sweet poetic flowers.
All these to us, to us-and for awhile
our loved will guard the casket where they lie,
Glancng them over with fearful smile,
Touching their yeloWng fuldings tendery;
little while; but Life and Time strong
Our dearest cannot Keep such yigils long.
And by-and-by the cold bright eyes of youth,
Lighting on such old hotsam Of the past
The shattered spars Of trust and hope aud truth
on the blank shore Of Times great ocean cast
VIII read and judge, with naught Of soft behooyiuF
Dissecting, sneering anything but loving
SO let us burn them ali-the tottering words
The guided baby fingers wrote us first,
The schoOl-boy scribble lines the man affords
To the old eyes that watched old hands that nurs0d
The girls sweet nonsense, confidence Of friend,
And these, our own, ours only, till the end.
Heap them together; one last fervent kiss
Then let them turn ere do, into dust,
Ashes to ashes. Well and wise 1t is
To meet the end that comes as come it must,
And leave no relics to grow gray and rotten,
Waiting the certain doom Of the forgotten.
HWDer's Bt-or.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

LUNAcY LEGIsLATIoN.-The great difficulty
of the whole question of lunacy legislation
arises from the endeavor rightly TO distinguish
between and care for two rival interests. So
ciety has its rights; the insane have theirs.
Families and the public generally must be
guarded against the discomfort, misery or
actual violence caused by lunatics. Force,
deprival of liberty, sequestration, loss of civil
rights, follow as inevitable consequences.
Then comes the danger of the improper inva-
sion on individual liberty, and the necessity
of legislation to prevent the abuse of legti-
mate power of coercing and confning the per-
son. In the interests of the patient every
sufficient means ought to be taken to prevent
improper committal to an asylum, and to in
sure prompt discharge when recovery has
taken place. In the interests of the public,
such tests of confinable insanity ought not to
be required as to make it so difficult to procure
restraint that the misery of household from
an insane member goes on from month to
month and year to year unrelieyed, involving
domestic feuds and loss of property; or, that
the safety of the community is endangered by
the elimination of mental unsoundness in n
fit of homicidal mania.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

HUXLEY on COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS. .-
Above all things, let my imaginary pupil have
preserved the freshness and vigor of youth in
his mind as well as his body. The education
al abomination of desolation of the present
day is the stimulation of young people TO
work at high pressure by incessant cOmpeti-
tive examinations Some wise man (who was
probably not an early riser) has said of early
rsers in general that they are conceited all
the forenoon and stupid all the afternoon.
Now whether this is true of early risers in
the common acceptation of the word or not
will not pretend to say but it is too often
true OF the unhappy children who are forced
to rise too early in their classes. They are
conceited AL the forenoon of life and stupid
all its afternoon. The vigor and freshness
which should have been stored up for the pur-
poses of the hard struggle for existence in
practical life, have been washed out of them
by precocious mental debauchery-by book
gluttony and lesson-bibbing. Their faculties
are worn out by the strain put upon their
callow brains, and they are demoralized by
worthless childish triumphs before the real
work of life begins l have no compassion
for sloth but youth has more need for intel
lectual rest than age and the cheerfulness,
the tenacity of purpose the power of work,
which make many successful man what he
is. must often be placed TO the credit, not of
his hours of industry, but to that Of his hours
of idleness, in boyhood. Even the hardest
worker of us ALL if he has to deal with any
thing above mere details, will do well, now
and again, TO let his brain lie fallow for h
space The next crop of thought will certain
ly be all the fuller in the ear and the weeds
fewer I PODuL1T Science MORthlg.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

LINCOLN was simple in all his tastes liked
old songs and old poetry. He was always
neatly, rnically dressed. He disliked gloves,
and once l saw him extract seven or eight
pairs of gloves from an overcoat pocket,
where they had accumulated after having
been furnished him by Mrs. Lincoln. Usual
ly. he drank tea and coffee at the table. but
he preferred milk, or cold water. Wine was
never on the table at the White House, ex-
cept when visitors, or other than familiar
friends, were present The presidents glass
was always filed, and he usually touched it to
his lips Sometimes he drank a few swal-
lows. but never "A whole glass probably. He
was cordial and afIable. aud his simple heart
ed manners made strong impression upon
those who met him for the first time. have
known impressionable women, touched by
his sad face and his gentle bearing to go
away in tears. Once l found him sitting in
his chair so collapsed and weary that he did
not look up or speak when l addressed him.
He put out his hand mechanically, as if to
shake hands. when | told him that l had
come at his bidding. 1t was several minutes
before he was reused enough to say that he
had had mighty hard day" Once. too, at
a reception in the White House, joined the
queue" of people, shook hands with him,
received the usual Glad to see you, sir, ," and
he declared that he had not seen me before,
and explained his preoccupation of manner
while the people We're shaking hands with
him 10y saying that he was thinking of man
down South" 1t aferward came out that
1.-THE man down South was Sherman. Once,
when a visitor used profane language in his
presence, he rose and said, Il thought Sena-
tor C. had sent me gentleman. was mis-
taken. There is the door, and l wish you
good might At another time delegation
from distant State waited on him with a
written protest against certain appointments.
The paper contained some reflections upon
the character of Senator Baker, Lincoln's old
and beloved friend With great dignity the
president said, This is my paper which you
have given me z" Assured that it was, he ad-
ded, ITO do with as please 2" Certainly,
Mr.. President" Lincoln stopped to the fire
place behind him. laid it on the burning Goals,
turned and said, "Good-day, gentlemen. -
Noah Brooks in ScJibaer's
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

An EVIDENCE OF HoNEsTY.-Some newspa-
per has recently suggested as an amendment
to the old saying that AN honest man is the
most lonesome work of the Creator" Per
haps it would be well for the press to cite in
stances of honesty that the rising generation
may not come to believe that the above
amendment is literally true. Instance No. :;
A gentleman once bought two lottery tickets,
one for himself and one by the request of a
friend who was absent In the course of q
few months the lottery was drawn and the
friend for whom he had bought the second
ticket. and who had not been called upon to
pay for it, received a note that he had drawn
500, 600. "But how did you know which
ticket was mine and which was your own ?"
The honest man replied: 81 bought two
tickets and placed them in my bureau draw
err, but thinking that there might be some
question / marked the one intended for you
with cross, and find it was your ticket that
had drawn the prize" Match this who can
as an instance of downright honesty.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

The HIGHEST VILLAGE IN EURoPE.-The
highest village in Europe is Cresta, in the
Ferrara-Avers, a large valley of about IL
leagues in length, commencing on the side of
a south-westerly direction to the Burgell
Cresta is only accessible by mountain tracks.
The population which is widely scattered
consists of about 27O persons, those in the
lower part of the village being of Latin origin,
while their companions higher up are of Ger
man descent, and retain their ancient dialect
and customs in all their purity. This little
colony is intelligent and hospitable; the peo-
pie are tall, slim, and of light complexion,
and are thoroughly hardened to all the ia
tigues and severity of winter of eight
months duration.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

More than few distinguished men in the
world owe much of their success in life to
their wives. Mrs. Ben Wade was her busy
husbands secretary, assistant, reader, and II
may almost be said right hand Mr.. Wade
had an almost invincible antipathy to putting
pen TO paper He had an almost equal dis
inclination to search books. This drudgery
Mrs Wade cheerfully assumed. When her
husband had speech in hand it was his wife
who furnished him with the materials, which
he afterward arranged, assmilated and sys-
tematized. Great things are told of her skill
in this respect-of her tact, industry and pa
tience.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

A number of American women sent to
Worth the Partisan modiste, asking him
"What costume can be DEVISED that will be
perfectly healthy and at the same time beauti-
full ?" He replied: Il have to make the
same answer to you that have made TO the
women of Europe. The costume of the Per-
sian women is the handsOmest upon the face
of the earth. 1t consists of loose waist,
short skirt, and trousers not too loose. have
made this costume beautifully and hung it up
in Paris, but the women will not wear it. /
can do nothing more. They must suffer I'M
Ill they are willing TO adopt it"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

well Colonel, you dined with the Cover
nor, yesterday was there Z" said a Ken
lucky gentleman to another Kentuckian.
"wen, SIR" replied the colonel, throwing
back his head, digging his hands deep in his
trousers-pockets and spreading wide his legs,
there was me, sir, and besides myself there
were four other high-toned, elegant gentle
men f.oL Kentucky, gentleman from Vir-
ginia, two mel fro a Ohio, fellow from New
York and son of gun from Boston, sir.
viii you take a drink, sir 2"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

c. L. THOMPSON & CO., willistou's Stone Block.
WOOD MARSHALL, Exchange Block, Main st.
b. A. CLARK, Tyer's Block.