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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
A CONpARIsON OF WAGES

The following is taken from the tele-
graphic report from Washington, and
shows with what utterly poor grace the
disaffected socialist and riotous com
munist are circulating their wild fire
notions, and making their unwarranted
attacks on our American system and in
situations. This is also nourishing food
for the rampant demagoguc, who is
bowling about hard times in the United
States and the Greenbacker who lays it
to the financial policy of the Republican
party, and the Democrat who holds the
Republican party responsible for all the
Ills with which tie body polite and the
people commercially are affected:
Reports from the United States con-
suls IN Europe show that wages in the
United States are double those of Bel
GUM, Denmark, France and England ;
three times those of Germany, Italy and
Spain, and four times those of Neither
lands; that the price of the necessaries
of life are lower in the United Stases
than in Europe; that more misery results
from strikes, drinking, socialism and
communism in England and Germany
than from all other causes combined.
Hard times, including the state debt,
adds to the above. A synopsis of the re-
ports has been prepared for publication.
The following remarks of the reduced
reports reminds us of our naturalized
wOrkingmen who are fierce IN denounc-
ing the condition of affairs in the United
States, of the hopeless condition of that
labor from which they escaped by i'm
migration to this country; and who, if
they would open their eyes anew to the
superior condition of the workingmen
of this country, it would show our ma
tive wOrkingmen the difference between
the labor DISTINGUISHED, impoverished
and hopeless in Europe, and labor free,
independent and honorable, and an
Amnrica
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STRAWBERRIES.
The Best Varieties and Modes of Culture.
BY ROBERT MIIIIKEN.

The Best Varieties and Modes of Culture.
BY ROBERT MILLIKEN.
This subject like many others pertain
ing to fruit-growing is old, and has been
written on and talked about, time after
time, but like that "old, old story" of
which the minister tells us on Sunday it
is ever new.
Much progress has been made in the
improvement of the varieties during the
last few years, and many new ones have
been introduced, possessing merits of
size, flavor, productiveness, or hardihood,
so that one not actually engaged in
growing and handling the fruit, must
be wide awake 10 keep posted on the
many candidates for popular favor.
1 submit the following lists as possess
ing the principal merits of the best
varieties in cultivation:
First, we'll known standard varieties
for general culture are Wilson's Albany,
Charles Downing, Kentucky, Austin,
CaptJack and Green Prolific, named in
the order of their preference. l will
not detain you to discuss the special
merits of each variety, but merely re-
mark in passing, the old we'll known
Wilson possesses more of the qualities
that gu 10 make strawberry valuable
than any other, rs hardness, ability to
Withstand the vicissitudes of climate and
seasons, general productiveness, ability
to fight its way through weeds, hard
soil and other obstacles under the custo-
mary neglect given to strawberry fields.
On the other hand the yield under favor
able conditions is not one third that of
some of the more recent introductions,
the flavor is simply passable, and it
does not endure the hot suns to compare
with the Austin.
For family use where the number of
quarts is of less importance than the
value of the fruit for table use, or its
ability to Withstand rough handling on
long journeys, than the size and flavor,
the following will be found desirable
Downers Prolific, Triumph of Cumber-
land, Boyden's No. so, to which might
be added a number of varieties, the
merits of which have not yet been fully
developed.
The following varieties have not been
long enough before the public to have
become fully established, yet all promise
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BUSINESS ITEMS.

The estimates of the wheat crop of
Minnesota, after making allowance for
all drawbacks, vary from 100000 to
A. 100000.
The japanese seem to be in no dan
ger of over-bullding in the way of rail-
roads. Since 1869, when the railroad
from Yeddo to Yokohama was begun,
only sixty-six and half miles have been
completed.
Japan has abolished export duties on
cotton and silk manufactures, silk and
cotton mixtures, made dresses, porcelain,
precious stones, lacquered wares, bronx
es, manufactured copper, paper fans and
umbrellas.
Tonnage and tolls on the state canals
are increasing. The auditor of New
York reports, for the week ending July
18th, 191, 1856 tons and $35, 619 tolls, a.
gainst 126, 175 tons and $40, 955 tolls for
the corresponding week last year. The
gain is principally in boards, wheat,
corn, oats, iron and coal.
Our Canadian neighbors must be not a
little disappointed at the result of their
efforts to raise more revenue by enacting
a protective tariff. Their receipts for
April. May and June have been $780,
600 less than under the old tariff for the
same period last year. Their exports
have also fallen off.
A San Francisco correspondent esti.
mates the product of gold and silver in
the United States for the current year at
$67 100000, of which $32, 100000 is
gold. Putting this with the figures of
production from 1870 to 1879, inclusive,
gives 1881, 405, 900 in gold and $500, 49,
600 in silver. This does not look exact
ly like silver becoming plenty as paving
stones while gold is among our lost
products.
The Sacramento Bee, of June 18th,
says: "The honey crop this year through
out the state is a failure, and many apiar-
lists are moving the busy bees TO more
favored localities, where they can gather
food enough to last through the winter.
The cold spring and cool summer have
prevented the white sage from blooming
well, and the. few blossoms produced
contained no honey"
For business that has not yet reached
the second decade of its history, the de-
velopements connected with Petroleum
exceed anything in the history of COM
mercial movements. In the early years
of its history there was popular theory
that the supply would prove transitory,
and fortunes were staked, and lost upon
that superstition; but events have COM
pletely upset this theory, the supply hav-
ing steadily increased till it now reaches
55, 200 to 10000 barrels of crude oil dali
ly, and the price has fallen from up
wards of 81 per gallonPto 65@70 cents
per Dbl. For some years foreign mar
kets were able tn take our surplus, but of
late the production has been so large
that even that source of ABSORPTION has
failed to relieve the home market, which
explains the extreme low price, forty
two gallons ofcrude oil at the source of
supply being worth only about half as
much as the empty barrel into which it
is placed. The low price, however, is
opening new markets especially in the
countries of the far east, and the prOba-
bility is that the lowest depth of depres-
sion has been reached-S Shipping List.
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class of persons are brought here for pur.
poses in violation of the statutes of the
United States, this government considers
1t has right to protest The act of
Congress prohibiting polygamy having
been contested by the Mormon influence,
and decided constitutional by the Su-
preme Court of the United States, the
government has no other course than to
insist upon its Enforcement, and has,
therefore, instructed the District Attor-
ney at Utah to carry it into effect. The
followers of this delusion will now be
made to understand that there is such q
crime as bigamy. The Administration
feels that the first effectual step has been
taken to wipe out Mormonism within
the limits Of the United States. With
the importation of Mormon female con.
verts from abroad cut off and the relent-
less prosecution that will follow the
offenders, the evil of this system will
soon be under control.
Foreign NOtes.-Panama Canal Shares.
PARIS. August 9.-The Panama canal
shares are quoted at five francs per share.
Public buyers are scarce.
A Narrow Escape.
MADRID, August 9.-Full accounts of
the accident to King Alfonso, on the way
from Escurial to LaGranja, returning
from the funeral of his sister, Marie Del
Pillar, show that he and the princess of
Asturias had an exceedingly narrow es-
cape. The axles of the carriage broke
while passing a precipice. The postillion
continued to swerve the vehicle to oppO-
site sides of the road, thus avoiding q fall
by which the whole family must have
been killed.
Chief In India.
LONDON, August 9.-The United Ser
vice Gazette says that Sir Garnet Wool
sley will be next Chief in
India.
Germany on Silver.
LONDON, August "a Berlin special
says that notwithstanding the repeated
rumors to the contrary, the German Gov
eminent persists in denying it contem-
plates any change of policy relative to
the silver question.
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THE scouRaE IN OTHER DAYS.
Former Ravagcs Of the DIsease-Its Ma
ture and PeculIarities Of its Progress.

Former Ravagcs Of the DIsease-Its Ma
ture and Peculiarities OF its Progress.
New York Tribune.
Now that yellow fever is attracting
much attention in the city it may be in.
:eresting to trace its history in this coun-
try. The record of its outbreaks are
imperfect until 1898. At that time, af.
ter spreading through nearly every
southern town, it reached Phila-
delphia, extending as far north as Que
bee. The fever continued to be epidem-
ic until 1905. In 1917 it appeared again
in the Gulf towns and then in several
following years attacked several south
ern towns along the Gulf and Southern
Atlantic, reaching New York in the ter
rible epidemic of 1922 An interval then
occurred in the ravages until 1850. Start
ing in January of that year at Rio de
Janeiro, it moved gradually nOrthward
until it reached Mobile in 1853, and
Philadelphia and New York in 1856.
From April to October of that wear sew
enty- mine vessels infected with yellow fe-
yer were quarantined at New York.
The fever, however, was successfully con.
fined to Governors Island and the Long
Island shore. 1870 was the next year in
which the fever made itself severely felt
On August ID of that year it was discov-
cred on Governors Island. From that
time until the 26th of the following Oc-
tober It remained in around New York
159 cases were reported, SO of which
proved fatal. Most of these occurred on
Governors Island. In the city there
were only II deaths. The next and most
severe visitation of this scourge was last
year. This is too recent to need mention
here.
1t is said to be curious fact about
yellow fever that it does not appear to
be contagious disease. DR.. Janeway
and many prominent physicians are of
this opinion. They say that it is of
germInal growth; that yellow fever it
self is living organism. 1t thus forms
a boundary line between contagious and
diseases; its poison is
not generated in the human system, but
externally. 1t not only attacks persons
exposed to the infected place, but under
circumstances may be trans
ported in vessels, trunks, railroad cars,
ETC., from point to point, and turned loose
to propagate. Like cholera, it occasion
ally assumes migratory character,
over great extent of country,
and not unfrequently breaking through
the most rigid quarantine. In these mi
grations it seems to have a prescribed
course along which it pays no attention
to any impediments placed in its way.
A singular fact in the history of yellow
fever in this country is that it is of older
date in northern seaports than in New
Orleans
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THAT ONE MILL TAX.

OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE,
TOPEKA, Kansas, Aug. l, 1879.
DEAR SIR: To enable me to answer
promptly questions relating to the ap-
portionment of tax of zone mill on the
dollar for the support of the common
schools of the state" herewith submit
a copy of the communication of the
State Board of Equalization to the At
torney General, ana his answer thereto
Yours respectfully,
P. l. BONEBRAKE,
Auditor of State
TOPEKA, Kansas, July %, 1879.
Hon. Willard Dd1iS, attorney General,
Topeka:
DEAR SIR: Section 4 of chapter 149,
session laws of 1876, reads as follows:
SECTION 4. That the state annual
school fund shall consist of the annual
income derived from the interest and
rents of the perpetual school fund, as
provided in the constitution of the state"
Section 8 of the same act reads as fol-
lows:
SECTION 5. That section rs of
chapter 81 of the general statutes
of Kansas be and the same is hereby
repealed"
The substance of section 16, chapter
90, general statutes, and that portion ev-
identity intended to be repealed, was re-
enacted in 1876. (See section /, article
Is, chapter 122, session laws of 1867
Is section of article 16, chapter 122,
session laws of 1876, repealed bv impli-
cation by the enacting of section of
chapter 149, session laws of 1879?
Is it the duty of the state board of
to appOrtion with other
taxes, one mill school tax as levied by
section 1, article 10, chapter 122, laws of
1876, to the several counties as provided
by section 10, article II, chapter 1874, SEES
sion laws of 1876?
estly requested by the state board of
ut as early day as posi-
BILE. Very respectfully yours,
JOHN FRANCIS, President.
L. |. BONEBRAKE,
Sec'y State Board of Equalization.
TOPEKA, Kansas, July %, 1879.
Hons. u. I. BOne6rG&e and John Fran
CTS, State Board IF Egudsizdtion:
GENTS: To your letter of the 22d inst,
l have to say, that section 1 of article 10,
chapter 122, laws of 1876, is not repealed
by Implication by section 4, chapter 149,
laws of 1879. 1t is not repealed by said
section f. even ifsection is constitutional
and its cOnstitutiOnality is seriously
doubted. Chapter 149 is not an act to de-
fine the school fund, but from its title is
an act to raise revenue, etc, etc.
YOu ask, us it the duty of the state
board of equalization to appOrtion with
other taxes the One-mill school tax as
levied by section 1, article 16, chapter
l22, laws of 1876, to the several counties
as provided by section 80, article ~,
chapter 134, laws of 1862" To this l
answer, yes. Very respectfully yours,
WILLARD DAVIS, Atty Gen'l.
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LITTLE JOHNNY,s FABLE.
San Francisco Argonaut.

Oou cHouCISSO AI6OAauIs
There was dog and there was a cat,
and there was an OK. The dog sed TO
the OK, the dog did:
''Thats nifty long tail you got there,
mister, with nice tossel to the end, but
you can't waggle it when you meet your
master"
Then the cat said to the OK, too:
mo, indeed, and you can't blow it up
like bloom when you are mad"
Then the lamb sed:
"You amt able for to twinkle it, eth
er, when you think ofsomething funny"
The OK, he thought awhile, and bime
by he spoke up, and sed his Ownself:
II plade hOOky when was a little
boy so much that / didn't learn them
vain accomplishments, that's fack, but
got tolably good business edecashum,
and guess mebbe you fellers wud have
to come to me for to hellop you out if
you had to fill order for OK tail SOUP"
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a special telegram shows how democ-
racy is maintained at the south. Mr..
Henry NJ. Dickson, reputable citizen
of YazOo county, Miss, was imprudent
enough to announce himself a republi-
can candidate for sheriff. Promptly the
democracy organized in their usual man.
ner, called upon him with shot guns and
announced to him that he must quit the
cancGss, LeGre the cOUIstry or dier" He at
first declined, but finally yielded to
friends and withdrew from the contest.
The Vicksburg Herald, the Democratic
organ, thereupOn announced: "The
Democratic flag now waves over this
glorious old county uncontaminated and
unchallenged, and long may it wavep
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1t now looks as though the Mormon
has long demanded. The war is to be
opened in two directions. The district
attorney at Utah is to enforce the act of
congress prohibiting bigamy, which has
been decided entirely constitutional, and
Secretary Evarts is about to insist on the
enforcement of the treaties with foreign
countries, which do not allow that class
of immigration which favors the growth
of Mormonism.
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The north pole is now more than ever
an object of much solicitation. She
must soon pine for the secrecy she has
long maintained as to her immediate
dwelling place. Holland, Austria, Den
mark, Sweden and the United States, all
have vessels searching for the great un-
known. Furthermore, England is just
about to start fleet of three vessels to
seek the northwest passage and the pole
of all poles.
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So Spotted Tail thinks he has "his
belly full" Well, if he will only carry
out his good intentions and go to farm
ing the good country he inhabits, he will
save himself and his great father an i'm
mense amount of trouble and expense,
even if lie does take the bread and but
ter with the silver knife) out of the In
dim agents hands.
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The agreement between the German
government and the Vatican, by which
the Catholic bishops and priests are per-
mitted to return to their sees and parishes,
will be accepted with qualification by all
Christendom. The condition of return
is simply that they obey the constitution
and common law of the realm. 1t is
highly probable that Bismark overreach-
ed himself in this matter. Aside from
the matter of religious intolerance in
volved tine chancellor doubtless discov.
cred that he needed the aid of the Catholic
clergy to repress Socialism, which has
assumed such threatening forms in his
empire. Catholicism is the unrelenting
opponent Of Socialism.
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Recent dispatches from New York
show that in spite of jealousy, and in the
face of strong opposition, our foreign
cattle trade shows a marked increase.
Five European steamers recently cleared
from New York with S51 head of
live cattle, besides 427 tons of dressed
beef and 453 carcasses of sheep in refrig-
Grating compartments. Since the 10Th
of July one firm has shipped $500 head
of cattle. The argument of hunger
outweighs the apprehension of pleuro-
pneumonia, and Us American beef is bet
ter and cheaper than foreign, the nations
must have it. Our foreign trade in live
cattle and fresh meat is an assured fact.
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According to testimony before the Gin
cinnati investigating committee it takes
from $4,000 to $1,000 for an Ohio con-
gresham to conduct the campaign. What
becomes of the poor, but worthy" 1t
looks as though he might be counted out.
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The book in the Peabody library, pub
lished 1890, is venerable volume, but
there are more than fifty volumes in the
Kansas State library which are older,
one of them being printed in 1649, and is
two hundred and thirty years old, being
forty years older than the Peabody
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Mr.. o. Waggoner, prominent Demo
crat of Toledo, Ohio, has Joined Re
publican club, and announces his inten-
tion to act with the Republican party.
The Blade says there are 500 Democrats
who will do quietly what Mr.. Waggoner
had the nerve to do openly.
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The bankers, too, recognize the fact
that the "sOlid west is coming to the
front. At the Saratoga convention they
had the grace TO remark, western men
should also be considered, for from the
west comes power"
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II seems that the magnificent cen
tennial building is TO be thing
of the past in two years hence.
The Paramount park authorities are dis
gusted with the use of the building by
opera troupes and Sunday concerts.
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The Montreal banks are endeavoring
To weather the storm of hard run upon
them. Some are succumbing to the
pressure, and others have converted an
immense amount of securities into bills
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THE HIRE SYsTEM.-Board schoolbov
docking at LYceum Bill in window.
H'Ere's lark, Bill BLESSED if Won can't
ire q am like q pianner'' Second bow /:
What d'yr mean ~ Board schoolboy !:
'em how much for the fust our
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What is the reason there are so many
suicides in the neighbOrhood of Denver ?
Is it because disappointed gold hunters
do not find the precious metals as album.
dant as they supposedg
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Renewed Confidence.

MONTREAL, August 9.-After nights
rest and reflection, confidence is renewed
in the stability of the banks. This had
the effect of keeping open the City and
District savings bank till a late hour
last night, until every one in attendance
was paid. This morning at nine O'Clock,
an hour before the usual time, about
fifty people were in waiting, and their
demands were promptly met. The run
continued in modified form until eleven
O'Clock, when there were not more than
a dozen persons at the counter, most of
whom were returning to the bank the
money they had Withdrawn yesterday
The aggregate amount disbursed to de-
positors up to the closing hour last night
was two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. There is a much better feeling
all round, and only the banks which had
for considerable time lost public con-
fidence, have succumbed. Business,
which was comparatively suspended
Yesterday, has been resumed
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S'''' Hi.so.1a., ss.,...
MIGHTY MEN OF MIGHTY MINDS.

MIGHTY MEN OF MIGHTY MINDS.
Ewing
Is brewing
Mighty games OF chance;
Mystic schemes.
ilifeSt dreams.
In domain hnan.e.
TiLlen
is buil,iin'
M:gh-y hopes on him;
In white house
lie you'd browse,
Should friend Ewing win.
Thurman
Is SquirInin'
- ith 4 mighty fear,
Lest This plan
should win. AMI
He'd be left to T. ar.
Carey
Has nary
Mighty thing in view,
Just anything.
Lord Everything
He ready stands to do
Wilmington, .. +.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice..

trict court of said county. In the matter of
the application OF Erwin l.. Bugbee 70 have
the rights of atOrisV conferred upon him.
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may
concern, that Erwin L. Bugbee, . resident of
said county and state, will, on the I'd day Of
september, A ID. 1873, at the opening of the
September term of said district court or as
soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, make
application in open court to have the rights
and that his petition tor said purpose will be
on file in the ONCE OF the Clerk Of said court
ON and after the Esd day of August, A. ID.
1879. ERWIN L. BUGBEE,
By A.W. Rugbee, his next friend.
Buck q kellogg, attorneys W32t3
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THE WISE MAN AT LEADv1LLE.

The man who is wise in his genera
ton buys a six shooter and a quiet Gem
etery lot as soon as he gets to LeadviIle.
and then things begin TO seem home
like and comfortable. -Philadelphia
RadOrd
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The man who writes from the far east
TO know if the wind don't blow awfully
hard, is referred to the hurricane reports
from New Brunswick and other points
not west of the Mississippi.
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The Republicans of Ohio will start the
ball rolling on the Goth, and it's going to
roll up Republican majority that will
give the Democrats lesson in cause and
effect
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This month dividends TO the amount
of $2,OOO.OOO will drop into tills of Phil
adelphia.
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The fall politician begins to agitate
the waters, especially the "reformer"
who wants the Office ITO seek the man."
He is around "fixin' things so the office
will know which man to seek.