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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR.

We once employed for a short time in
ditching, man, who at 81 years of age
was worth some $15, 5000, but who lost
most of it, on the whole, foolishly, and
was compelled, for a time, at least, TO
support his family by working for daily
wages. One night when we paid him,
he said, I'm much obliged both for the
wages and the tuition" We supposed
he referred to instruction in laying tile
drains, but he said, mo, mean instruc-
tion as to the value of money. | never
knew what a dollar was worth before.
But after working all day i'll the ditch
to earn one, I'm not likely to spend %
cents of it for cigar or any other non
sense.''
We could point out scores of city boys
who have become miserable spendthritts
from the lack of just such knowledge.
Their fathers were more or less wealthy,
but the sons were not put into the office,
or mill, or shop, and made fairly to earn
their money by tiresome labor, either
physical or mental. Their fathers said
to themselves: MY sons shall never
have to drudge as / did, and so the
boys did no labor, bore no responsibility
and never learned how money was fairly
and honorably earned, and, of course,
never knew its value or its proper use.
III u al Nll5lilCl VIC hnOn VIC
can count, within a radius OF ten miles,
more than as many young or middle
aged farmers who have since their ma
jority run through from $4,000 TO
$50, 900 each that their Woodworking IA
theirs left them; and all because they
never learned the value of a dollar
One such, on his sudden accession to his
property, thought to impress some of his
young friends at hotel where they had
stopped for dinner, by spreading 800
bill on his slice of bread and butter
and eating it with great ap
parent relish He did sim.
press" the one he might have married
with the belief that she had better not
marry man who was both spendthrift
and fool, and the young man in less than
twenty years saw the time when he was
glad to get the bread and butter, without
the 800 bill for relishi In youth he
had never been taught TO labor, had had
large stock of spending money com
pared with the other farmers sons, and
supposed the only limit TO the amount
was 1.-THE old mans stinginess.''-R Rural
New Yorker.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30

Upon the occasion of Governor st.
Johns recent visit 10 Parkerville he re
ceived letter from well-to-do citizen
of that section, stating that lie had recent
ly come to Kansas with considerable
means, bringing with him his three sons,
and that his principal reason for settling
in the state was the encouraging prospect
for the triumph of the constitutional
amendment to he submitted to the vote
of the people this fall. This is aiorcible
commentary upon the drift of public
sentiment in relation TO the temperance
question, and reflects the views of scores
and hundreds of the best citizens of the
state. The decIcc has gone forth II
Kansas that whisky must go, and ",
predict for the amendment sweeping
victory at the polls in November.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
EXACT JUSTICE.

There is a famous case on the books
of Norman hotel keeper and the custo-
mer who ordered n six-egg omelette pre-
pared, but went away in a hurry without
paving for it, and, when he returned,
fifteen wears later, offered the landlord
six francs, being for the original cost of
the eggs and the interest thereon COM
pounded. The landlord claimed ia
bulous sum alleging that the six eggs
would have produced so many chicks,
from which would have issued so many
hens; that, with the product of these
innumerable fowls, he would have
bought farm, which, in SO many years,
would have yielded so much money
which, being invested, etc, etc. The
court, however, nonsuited the landlord
because the eggs had been broken for
the Omelette, and so could not have
been matched.
This case has been ontdone in an In.
diana court A, b, G and ID buy cotton
in partnership, and store it in a ware
house which is infested with rats. To
discourage these vermin they buy cat
of which each is to own a leg The cal
breaks one of her legs, which is
owned by A, who binds it up with cot
ton soaked in oil The wrappings take
fire, the cat takes refuge in the midst oil
the cotton bales, and the whole property
is destroyed; whereupon Il, G and j
sue A, alleging that IT was his leg which
caused the conflagration. The couri
promptly decides against them with
costs, and orders them to pay A for his
cotton, and bear their own losses, on the
ground that the cat couldn't walk ON the
broken leg, so that il was the three sound
legs which carried her into the cotton.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
HERE AND THERE.

IE1SII AMI L1EhG.
General Burnside Indignantly denies
the story that he was the inventor of
mutton-chop whiskers.
A wooden shoe factory has been start
cd in Illinois. II will use up Il great
many feet of lumber.
Any circus which puts more on the
wall than it can perform under canvass
will run a chance OF being struck by
lightning.
Shakespeare was familiar with the sew
en- ages of man, but no one even in his
dotc-agc ever seriously tackled the age
of woman.
Dan. Rice has quit lecturing on tem-
perance. When man talks one way
and his breath smells the other climax
is certain TO come at NO distant day.
Eve, at one time, was the handsomest
woman in the world, yet she never en-
joyed the pleasure Of undressing the
pert mink who has 4 pew near the altar.
4 Kansas City woman, with a very
pathetic appreciation of the woes of suff-
ering humanity, sent hale dozen palm
leaf fans TO the tempest tossed survivors
of the Marshfield cyclone.
Now for Kallochi California has at
last discovered good use TO put Kear-
ney to, but justice will not be satisfied
until the reverend reprobate is also shut
up To earn an honest living.
The eloquence of Wisconsin divine
on the iniquity of any money dealings on
Sabbath had such Il telling effect on his
enthralled audience that not cent APP
pcared in the collection plate.
The amendment is going to sweep
Kansas with a moral cyclone that will
tear up the saloons and make Marsh
fields out of the VIII sky strongholds.
The salooniAts may as well cut this out
and paste it in their hats.
IN be switched if l agree with Ben
Hill when he says that he'd rather fight
the devil and all the politicians COM
bined than one woman. Now I'm as old
as the senator from Georgia, and I'd
swap OFF John Kelly for Jessie Raymond
any days.. J. Tilden.
Mary Anderson, the beautiful young
actress, realized $4,000 as the net pro-
ceeds Of her profession last year. This
is u palpable violation of the law of
compensation. That Income should
have fallen to the lot of some plain
Young woman with red hair and Wart
on the side of her nose.
A Chicago woman came all the way
from her home to Topeka to hunt her
husband When woman has an oppor-
tunity of nursing her wrath during "A
trip of that length we feel perfectly safe
in putting premium upon the bald
head of her recreant lord, providing she
ever gets her hands ON him.
When Professor Tice predicts Il tor
nado and cyclone for certain date,
there is nothing 80 disgusts him as to
see IA whole delegation of Kansas far
mcrs striking out to mill, and their
wives putting out washings that would
reach clear across township.
The earnings OF the Santa Fe road and
its branches for the last week in March
reached $167, 800. The corresponding
week in 1879 was $15O,S42. The earn
reached $66S, 900, while the correspond
ing month of last year footed up $685.
COZ
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
TILnEN AND TANIMANY.

The determined and hard-fistcd CO.
horts OF John Kelly have met, resolved
and adjourned, only to renew their
strength preparatory To resuming the ir-
repressiblc conflict AT Cincinnati. The
watchmen on the Tammany towers have
given no uncertain sound, and as the
platform of the anti-Tilden convention
Is war to the knife, and the knife To the
hilt, It becomes matter of perpleXing
interest To determine how the great be
frauded" will grapple with the very
stubborn situation which stares HIM in
the face. 1t is Enthusiastically apparent
that Kelly knows no such word as sur
render, and that class of prophets who
reckoned upon his capitulation at the
last moment, have evidently mistaken
the metal of his Celtic pasture. 1t is very
evident that, under NO circumstances will
he ever support 'rilden, and 1t is just as
certain that the latter gentleman, with
his large and influential following, will
never yield tn the dictatioa of Tammaiy.
This very pronounced and interesting
condition of affairs in New York makes
her at present the great focal point in the
political world, and is not unlikely To
render her the private state in the pres
idential campaign of 1880. Upon the
electoral vote of New York rests the en-
tire fabric of Democratic success in the
approaching struggle, and tins fact being
fully recognized by the party leaders, no
effort will be left untried and no means
will remain unemployed to compass this
essential condition. But how shall il bt
done with the relentless clutches of two
remorseless foes fastened upon the throat
OF the political organization through
whose agency the work must be accom-
plished? Let the Democracy vindicat6
Tilden, and Tammany will rise in hel
avenging might and slaughter him OF
the very threshold of his fancied success
Let the party bow 10 the dictation of the
boilers, and throw over the reform candi
date of 1876, and the outraged and dis
appointed man who has been protent Il
direct the destinies of the party for thu
past four years, will show the migrate
full Democracy how sweet II thing is re
venge, when u delusive ambition has dc
frauded hope, and the trusting man hai
been wounded in the house of hi
friends.
Meanwhile, the Republicans can stant
afar of, and from their safe watches
gaze upon the portentOus storms which
are gathering thick over the Democrat
ic camp, with calm complacency. TIT
result of the storm can only be to spees
our wheel with wind and water and rem
der doubly sure the triumph Of the par
~ Of great moral ideas in 1880.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
VOL. %.
THE SHOTGUN IMPLICATED.

The violent opposition IN INC senate
To any amendment of the army appro-
priaiion bill, which would increase lis
efficiency in The protection Of American
citizens IN the free exercise OF the ballot,
gives unmistakalIle evidence of the de-
voiion of the Democracy to the prOscTip-
tive policy of the south, and plainly in
dicates that the shot gun still holds ia
vOr in the Bourbon mind as a potent and
expedient political agency. The preg-
nant lessons OF the extra session, coupled
with the convincing logic Of the negro
exodus, have apparently failed to make
wiser the party, which, with the blind
faulty of those whom the gods have
made mad TO the end of their own de
struction, are pushing their suicidal
policy to the ditch which yawns TO re
ceive them. II is well that dn organiza-
ton so antagonistic to the peace and Sc
surity of the country as the Democratic
party should be so heavily charged with
the elements of its own destruction.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
A CURIOSITY.

Recently we were assured by Messrs
Autry s. Edwards, well borers, that on
the day before, that while boring well
on the farm of Mr. Sherwood Wise. some
four or five miles from Athens, and just
beyond Middle Osonoe river, they took
out from the middle of as hard blue
granite rock as they encountered, forty
six feet under the ground, a complete
iron wedge, such as is generally used in
splitting rails or wood The iron wedge
is in the possession of the gentleman who
took it from the rock, and it is appar.
entity but little worn This certainly a
most remarkable incident, and one well
calculated to puzzle our scientists, geOl-
ogists and mineralogists. This extrae
ton of solid iron wedge, in perfect
keeping, fromsa hard blue granite rock
forty-six feet under the ground, Is truly
u wonder Of the age. II has attracted 8
good deal of curiosity and comment
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
BUSINESS ITEMS.

During the four years, from 1915 10
1879, the balance of trade IN favor of the
United States aggregated more than
seven hundred million dollars.
a tow boat left St Louis for New Or
leans ON the 18th with 100000 bushels of
corn in bulk, one of her barges having
100000 bushels on board. The freight
amounted to $4,000.
Ii is stated that San Francisco has
within the past few years invested $685.
OOO,OOO in mines by the assessment pro-
ceIved as dividends.
The report of the bureau of statistics
for the month of February shows that
for the first time in nearly four years the
imports into the United States exceeded
the experts by $4,297 $40, and the indi-
cations are that the adverse balance in
March was still greater; but this cannot
be definitely known. until the official re-
turns are made up.
Out of total revenue of $40 900
for dock charges at Liverpool from yes
sells from all parts of the world, 81 &C.,
600 were received from those trading
with the United States. One dock
yielded revenue of $55,000 upon IA ton
mage of 775 1913 tons. The total tonnage
! accommodated IL the port for the twelve
| of 9,034 ,356 tons.
With regard 10 the migration of Eu-
ropean men and woman to America, a
startling document was quite recently
presented to the German parliament,
! from which it appears that last year be
tween thirty-three and thirty-four thOus-
| and Germans, two-thlrds of them males,
and nearly all bound for America took
ship at four of the northern continental
ports, and that by no means represents
the entire loss of subjects annually suf-
fered by the empire. In 1872 and 1873,
Immediately after the war, the numbers
were 125,040 and 103,63S respectively.
Germany with Il population of 42,000,-
| 000 has 10000 and an attendance of s.
| 100000 pupils. Great Britain and Ire
land, with Il population of 81 900, has
| $4,000 schools and 100000 pupils Aus
ria-Hungary, with a population of 81
O0O,O 900, has 10000 schools and 5000, 900
pupils. France, with a population of
81 100000, has II 900 schools and 7,40O,-
900 pupils Spain, with population of
II 1000, 900, has 10000 schools and 800
| 600 pupils. Italy, with a population of
28, 100000 has 1900 schools and 1900
600 pupils. Russia, with population
of "A, 900,0 900, has $4,000 schools and / :
100000 pupils.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30

The wild ass of the desert here step
ped 10 Tie front end reared his voice for
hr. De La Matyr, of Indiana. amid the
aeaStCleSt enthusiasm and loud hooiirss
Throughout the tent
Tile elephant winked at The cages with
merry twinkle in his eye That's
right, my brave cactus-eatcr,'' he said
you are naturally and properly one OF
Mr.. De La Martyrs followers. Brays
him up to the skies il you want To. Ne
potism is fashionable in this country
now. Next yOter:'
The Mickey timidly said that if he
were allowed TO vote, he would vote
for"
Proctor Knotti' roared the whole
Ioenageric, but the elephant said sternly
There. nav; enough of that; no in,
timidaliOn at the polls. No one else
Oyer, Dyes! The polls are closed, and
the judges viii now proceed To count
ballot"
Then he announced The result of the
vote as follows: Grant, "a
But" inquired the animals, "hOw
does that Gomez
Well" answered the elephant, Iii
comes all the same, and don't you forget
Don't ! weigh more than all this me
nagerie put together> What do you ami,
mails know about politics, anyhow p
And the animals were well pleased 10
think they were allowed to vote anyhow
and they were delighted that the election
was over and their man elected, SO they
gave three cheers for Grant, and rolled
around in the straw to dress for the
evenings performance.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
POLITICAL POINTS.

Amid the crash of booms and the
wreck of presidential candidates, it is
comforting To know thpt Alaska still
holds the fort for Charles Francis Adams.
The prediction vouchsaied by many of
our exchanges that Tom Ryan will have
walk-away at Newton, is regarded by
Judge Muse rs very sweeping and
reckless assertion.
Tammany declares that the nomina-
ton of Tildcn would prove the death
knell of the Democracy. Are not pre-
parations for very large and imposing
funeral in order?
If what either half of the Democratic
party in New York says of the other half
is only half true, both conventions at
Syracuse and the constituencies they re-
present must be an uncommonly bad
OF
The rumor is prevalent that Mr.. Til
den has 10 he fed with aspoon, but when
il comes To snaiching IA state delegation,
the public have not observed anysprom
Uncut weakness in his methods of manip-
ulation.
Messrs. j. b. Chambers and Stephen
Dillaye, the national standard bearers of
the Grcenback Labor party, are quieter
men than Grant or Tilden, The still
hunt seems TO he the popular method of
conducting campaigns this year.
The recent visit of Secretary Sherman
TO Ohio promises To bear satisfactory
fruit in the way of united Buckeye
delegation To Chicago for the great tinan-
cier. 1t was only TO be expected that
Johns frigid presence would exert =
solidIfying effect.
The Blaine boom is still rolling on
with encouraging momentum in Illinois.
Do the game laws of the Stacker state
contemplate no redress in cases where
aliens to the commonwealth light down
and poach upon the preserves of regu
larry qualified citizens of the state?
1t is admitted that John Sherman ia
possessed of those frigid qualifications
that would prove invaluable in solidify
ing the north, but as the Democracy
could meet the icy canvass at every point
by the nomination of Charles Francis
Adams, it would probably be as well &c
think OF some other candidate.
The thrilling announcement by the
Newton Republican, that Jim Steele, Of
Wichita, is developing considerable
strength as candidate for governor, in
the southwest, will doubtless cause Gov
st. John the keenest mental anguish
and suggest to him the expediency o.
promptly looking after the condition Of
his fences in that precarious section.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30
LIME IN AGRICULTURE.

The Journal of Forestry briefly sums
up many of the uses of lime when ap.
piled to the soil. The effects of lime, as
will be seen, are in part mechanical and
in part chemical.
l. Upon deep alluvial and clay soil il
increases the crop of potatoes, and rem
ders them less waXy. Sprinkled over
potatoes in stOre-head itpreserves them,
and when riddled over the oat sets ii
wonderfully increases their fertility.
2. Lime eradicates the finger-and-toe
disease in turnips, and give greater sound
ness to the bulbs.
3. 1t gives, when applied to meadow
land, IA larger produce of more nutritious
grasses. 1t also eXterminates coarse and
sour grasses, destroys couch grass. and
acts powerfully upon rye grasses.
4. Upon arabic land it destroys weeds
of various kinds.
3. 1t rapidly decOmpOses vegetable
matter, producing large amount of
food for plants in the form of carbonic
acid gas.
6. 1t destroys or neutralizcs the acids
III the soils; hence its adaptabilIty TO
sour soils.
Z. 1t acts powerfully upon some of the
inorganic parts of the soil, especially on
the sulphate of magnesia and alumnia.
8. II proves fatal to worms and slugs,
and the larvae of injurious insects
though favorable to the growth OF shell
bearers.
0. Stacked lime added TO vegetable
matter causes it TO give off Its nitrogen
in the form of ammonia. Upon soils in
which ammonia is combined with acids,
it sets free the ammonia, which is seized
upon by the plants.
10. Its solubility in water causes it to
sink into and ameliorate the subsoil
When the soil contains fragments OF
granite or trap rocks, lime hastens theiI
decomposition and liberatcs the silicates
IL. IT'S combination with the acids in
the soil produces saline compounds, such
as potash, soda, etc.
II. Strewed over your plants, it de
stroys or drives away the turnip fly.
Is. Worked in with grass seeds, the
beneficial effects of lime, chalk, mari
and shellsand have been visible for thir
ty days.
IA. Applied to the rot heap, lime eff
fectually destroys the seeds of the weeds
To sum its advantages: When pro
perly applied to the soil it purifies and
stimulates its action, thereby promoting
the growth of healthy vegetation of all
kinds.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30

AT meeting Of railway ticket agents,
held at Chicago on Thursday it was
agreed To make rates from Council Bluffs,
AtchisOn, LeavenwOrih. st. Joseph and
Kansas City TO Chicago, during the Re
publican convention, at $50 for the
round trip. For the Democratic con
vention at Cincinnati, the rates were fix
ed at $2G.50 from Council Bluffs and
Nebraska, aud ut $50 from Leavenwor,h,
Kansas City, ST. Joseph and Atchison.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30

subject, he presents the conclusion bat
oxidation of the organic matter of sew
age takes place very rapidly in running
water, and such Impurities are by this
means entirely corrected during a flow of
"A few miles, provided the pure water of
the stream is in quantity to sufficiently
dilute the sewage matter. He decides
further that, whatever may be the actual
cause of certain maladies, the disease
matter" which finds its way into the
river is destroyed along with the organic
imDurity.
Fish Commissioner Green notes Gu
rious instance of insect strategy. One
day he observed mud wasp alight near
spiders nest. Creeping cautiously
around toward the entrance 10 the nest.
the wasp stopped little short of it, and
for IA moment remained perfectly quiet.
Then reaching out one of his antennae,
lac wriggled it before the opening and
withdrew it. This overture produced
the desired effect, for Il large spider
quickly ran out TO investigate the cause
of the disturbance. AS the spider reach
ed the most favorable point for attack,
the wasp quickly sprang forward and
dispatched his foe with a single thrust
of his sting. The wasp then repeated
his feint until apparently satisfied that his
assault would be met with no further
opposition, when he entered the nest and
slaughtered the young spiders, which he
afterwards carried away.
Tulare lake is probably the most mys-
FERROUS spot on The continent. 1t is To-
Gated on u great plain three hundred
miles south of San Francisco At dis
lance the water appears to be higher
than the land. A mile or more before
reaching the water, the dry land of the
plain gives place 10 Il damp soil, and
when at last the margin of the lake is
found one may wade into it for more
than a mile before finding it knee-deep.
The lake is about forty miles long. The
bottom is formed of clam-shells, and
there are hundreds of small islands and
punches of tules. The islands are tenant
ed by millions of white birds of the
gull kind, and upon one of them four
teen human skulls ranged IN circle
were lately found, no other bones lying
near Mounds have been discovered
along the shore, and it is expected that
the whole bottom of the lake will reveal
traces OF u submerged city.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
Congressional summary.

WASHINGTON, ID. C., April 22.-SEN.
ATE-T'he morning hour was consumed
by miscellaneous business after which
the army appropriation bill was taken
up.
Section two provides that no money
.lt,i 'I1'I,a.anea ao,';n,non' - pau Ioi
ton or compensation of any portion of
the army TO be used as police force to
keep the peace at the polls at any election
within any state Provided thatnothIne
in this provision shall be construed to
prevent troops protecting against d0mes
tic violence in each of the states, on ap-
plication of the legislature or executive
thereof
A motion offered by Mr.. Blame r.
strike out the section was rejected.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-30

The Topeka Daily Capital celebrated
its first birthday on the 2lst, having at.
tanned the mature age of one year We
take pleasure in noting its vigorous
growth, and the fact that it has voice
which is making it self heard on the
moral and political questions of the day.
Yips In Canital