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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03
An Old Story.

nninber Of our exchanges are republishing
an old, old story, that has run, year after year,
since the oden time. II is, in substance: ssyood
wanted at this offiee;- or, sswood taken at this
Office Oh snbseripiion;- or, ''Tl,ose Of our sub
scribrrs who promised to pay their subscriptions
in wood, will greatly oblige us by bringing it
soon.' We are fond Of re-prblishing old stories,
and this one used to be one of our favorifes; but
years ago we discovered that il was fiction not
even founded upon fact, and discarded il from
the catalogue of things ''old, but good The
wood, is twin brother fraud to the one who
promises to pay for his paper after harvest. When
man promises to pay for his paper after harvest,
set down his account as worthless. When man
promises to pay in wood, give him some wood to
remember you by-say an axe-handle, or a mallet,
or roller-core. We have known men to get SO
far behind with their subscription, that even
they feared they would be scratched off, and
have come and promised to ''run load of wood
into us next week. We always consented to
having the load of wood 'srun into u.s. well
knowing that it would not hurt us much, for il
would not come. However, il is good way to
gain time, and get the paper for q few weeks
longer for nothing. Brethren, the man who
promises to pay you wood on subscription, never
will do it, as long as he can sell it to somebody
else, or trade it for "truck :" and these resources
failing, he will bring you green rotten or crook
ed stuff, charge you double price for it, and make
you take it for twice as much as it will measure.
Let that old story die out.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03
CORREsPoNDENcE.
FROM OHIO.
ONO, January, 1881.

ONO, January, 1881.
Mn. CHrEy:-In my Last, noticed a few obscrva-
tons that made while in Chicago the great city Of
the West visited some Of the grain elevators, also
Board Of Trade rooms, and many other places Of in
terest The grain elevators have storage capacity
of % 000, 600 bushels and can handle almost
limited amount think Chicago has got the grain
trade Of the West firmly seated in her lap, that il
cannot be diverted, fear that St. Louise will never
be able to get the grain trade and productions of the
great Valley of the west but the producers of the
Missouri Valley must not gire up the hope of getting
cheaper freghts to tide-water. The railroads have
got the upper hand, at present. but think, in time
can wet them out, by making the proper improve
ments necessary to open the inland navigsble
streams of the West The jetties at the mouths Of
the Mississippi have proven success, and l think
the improvements viii be continued up to St. Louis
this season.
Wen, 1 left Chicago tho 2itl of December, on the
Pittsburg & IT. Wayne Railroad, and arrived in
Goshen, Ind, the same day. Goshen is the County
seat of Elkhart County, Indiana lao miles from Chi
cago, the NJ s. Airline Road. Goshen is situated
on the east bank of the Elkhart River. resided
here from 1855 till 1856 when moved to my present
home in Kansas. l found goood sleighing all the
way from Kansas; and at the present time am in
Northern Ohio, and to-day, lthe I'D of January) it
is showing fast There has been about sixty days of
good sleighing, thus far, this winter. The general
health of the people, in the country have visited is
good.
have got several memorandum in my pass-book,
that know would interest your readers, bnt have
not got the time to put them in shape. l viii say
never saw all the departments Of commerce more
prosperous than Mt the present date. The entire
business of the country is in full blast, and fear
some of the great schemes will burst and take the
confidence out of the capitalists, which will carry
ruin to many happy hearthstone. would say to
all my brother producers to gather up SAIL and get
near shore now, while prosperous times upon us.
The financial ship is too large to be controlled b.
any other theory except demand and supply. More
anon. A. W. WATERS.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03
An Unusual Case.

W. r. ,.,.,v toll of n life insurance case
.L.. s.o;Jad,,. ont of the usual run of
.no,, -. .,d .t,r.t n. a, beinv both original
80 .ons;I',o uanr, CI,v Williams. of topeka.
hro,r.r ~ Arcb;e Williams is in the last stages
~ .or.rmn,ior aud cannot last more than q
,,r,sf time =, fart,,est n, know. it. talks about
:, .ns ,h;io.onhize. or II when in health, he
-. -, - .,,.r+ aud balanced TO the Ex-
."--,,l 49,, 1n-,r,ncs Association. or
:. oa1,od he;no one of those asso-
.;a,as ,vh;.h nav . r,en,,r,;s family specified
amoput u,on his death. 10 be made up by assess-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

His BOWELS MovE.-Caldwell, Of the Beloit
Courier who is laboring under the hallucina-
tion that he was q candidate for State Printer,
at the recent election by the Legislature, is eI-
ceedingly wroth; and empties his capacious bow
els at us, because of remarks made by us concern
ing certain alleged candidates for that Office.
He takes the appellation of "patent outside
dauber' to himself. If he takes our remarks to
himself, he is welcome to them. Some editors,
for "gag," proposed Caldwell for State Printer.
He bit, and Others helped it along. The shallow
pated noodle actually spent several weeks at To-
peka before and at the commencement of the ses-
sion, "working up his chances" He roped in
some ten or n dozen members from the region in
which he holds forth, who felt that they could
better afford to humor his whim than to incur
his enmity and abuse. He floundered around
there, the laughing-stock of all; but in the end,
he discovered that he did not hold the balance
Of power and that there was no need for any
candidate to buy him off. He has had his troub-
lie and expense for nothing, and is a good subject
to laugh at, for the next four years. Whenever
he feels a looseness again, he has our permission
to turn this way. But it will be as well for him
to bear in mind that George W. Martin does not
swrite or dictate our editorials. We are solely
responsible for them.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

"BOTH.'-Our name is not Richard Grant
White, but we want to protest against the abuse
of the poor little word ''both," by large num-
Der of editors and even by the electric telegraph.
We always supposed that both was a word used
in speaking of two persons or things, and two
only. We still think we are right. Yet not .
day passes but wee see in some newspaper allu-
sions to 'both Smith, Brown and Jonnes,r or
both Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky" But now
comes the telegraph, pretending to give Prof.
Riley's predictions about the seventeen-year To-
Gusts, but really containing deadly assault up
on little ''both, in the words following to wit:
''rhe seventeen-yesr pests will be particularly
plentiful both in Wisconsin, North Carolina,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and
Virginia"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

TEMPERANCE LEGIsLATIoS.-The wild Texas
steers of the temperance elements are more likely
ep defeat all temperance Legislation than to effect
aiX. They want to overdo it, and make laws SO
stringent as to be imperative, or render them
unconstitutional even under the amendment.
One proposes law to prevent persons from as
sociating to purchase liquor to be brought into
the State. Another proposes to make il q crime
TO drink liquor. Another proposes to compel a
physician to make affidavit to every prescription
he gives for liquor, swearing that it is for medi
cinal purposes. There is a strong common sense
feeling in the Legislature, even among temper
ance members, who are not in favor of running
the thing into the ground; and unless the wild
steers agree to something within the bounds of
reason, the chances are that there will be no
laws passed on the subject, and St. John will be
left with a naked amendment on his hands. The
Constitutional amendment prohibits the man-
ufaeture or sale of liquor in the State. The Su-
preme Court would be pretty apt to sit down on
any law prohibiting men from bringing it from
other States for their own use, or from drinking
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03
Mo-c Grcrs,u.x-

Some Of the greetings ON our ~; ne. roach
:. ~ wa va N-'s ~ e'. NJ ie'e
acknoxled, ,e ali aIit, va mis-, Oh. s,,l,,virz.
- ., " - - ''.' '''.o
9 sENAfs CiANnhk' IofEKt, jan -. 1881.
sol nitLss-hy pear Sr: notice IN the cAap,,
Pscs N article touching You, that leads me to send
yoo TINS seongratniatory line With host OF friends
ts9oiee ina, time Is dealing so gently with yon-thaf
- mueh res, contentment your lot No more use
tor oi the Ghe May the good Father above still be
yor TREND and grlde-giving II 20 you in the coming
years 70 see your influence for good widening on ey
e1 sae and your oidt,me faith in the final triumph
OF all that makes men better brighter and clearer
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03
H...ier Ise. .r. Di.s.rb..ee.

Mt: yERxoS, ND. January 2i.-During the Christ.
mas festival of the country churches, in Of
the rural Townships Of this iPoseyl County, had a
Christmas tree, and a large eruwd was assembled TO
witness the ceremony Of disposng of the presents to
the good Sunday School boys and girls Two Of
these good beys--bo;h young men-raised royal
old row, and rImpus and knocked things endways
in the church. Last week the grand jury inyestiga-
ted the case. Two young men were taken before the
jury to testify. The prosecutor asked: Didn't G..
raise a disturbance at the Miller Church, Christ
masr "No." the witness replied, '.there was no
disturbance at the church, that night that disturbed
any Of the worshipeu-- Didn't the stove tumble
down and. if 80. what caused il to fallr asked the
prosecuting attorney "Well. yes; c. did kick the
stove over and then took joint Of pipe and pound
ed the store with it, and shouted, hnrrny for HI;
but he didn't disturb anybody The other witness
testified: IAN J. did was to get up in the pulpit
and swear he could whip any red-haired = Of q
= that put that bread-pan on the Christmas tree
for him, and then he threw the pan across the
against the wall. and knocked of come Of the plas-
tering. but he didn't disturb anybody The grand
jury, however, thought different, and returned in
dictmenfs against both Of the good Sunday School
boys The Township in which Miller chnrch is To-
Gated is nearly sody Democratic ofcourse-Spcciaf Of
30 Re CiaeinAaG Commercial
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03
Hi..erie.I sseie,y Ce.iriI.iie...

Among the recent donations to the State Historical
Society the following:
By Rev. S. NJ. Irwin, Of Highland an elementary
book of the Iowa language, with an Engsh transls-
ton
By Rev. William Hamilton and Rev. S. NJ Irwin.
printed the Iowa and Sac Mission, Indian Reser-
walton, now Doniphan County, Kansas in 1913; al
80 manuscript meteorological tables kept at the
Iowa Mission during the years 1919 and $50.
BY Col. Frank n. Tracy, Of st. Joseph No., reb-
el flag captured at Iatan, Missouri june 3. 1851 by
membsrs of the Elwood Guards, First kanaas Regf-
ment photo portrait Of Major S. ID. Smith, Surgeon
of First Kansas Regiment, who dressed the wounds
Of the boys who wounded in capturing the aag:
remnants of roll Of bandage from the battlefield Of
Wilson's Crock, fought August 10th, 1851. Colonel
Tracy received two wounds in this battle one hall
having passed through hls lungs; this remnant was
lef after the dressings Of his wounds Copy of Tke
First Kaasas,- Vol l. No. l. issued by the mcmbers
Of the regiment, at Chilacothe, Missouri October l6
1851 canister shot, from second battle feld Cor,
inth, Miss fought October 3 1862, fired by the Con-
federates; fatteacd minnie ball. fired at the same
battle, from the Union side. and which killed Con-
federate soldier. The ball struck the man in the
thigh shattered the bone, and dropped out the man
bleeding to death from the wound. The fatteued
bel Is pitted with little holes in which were frar-
ments Of bone, when picked up
By Hon Sol Miller. of Troy, Kansas, portrait of
the Sac Indian Chief White Cloud, tAa-hush- -kah.-
Topeku ComasoHroafh-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

1SDIaSAroLIs, ND, January l9.-Jesse ID. Bright.
who was expelled from the United States Senate, in
1851 died, to-day, at his residence in this city. In
his day Mr. Bright was of the ablest lawyers in
the State, and belonged to that galaxy of brilliant
IndiaIians of which the Hon. Joseph q. Marshall
stood at the head. But sixteen years ago Mr. Bright
was stricken with paralysis, in New York City, and
has been an almost helpless invalid since. Last
Sunday he was seized with the final attack, which
caused his death, this morning. Mr.. Bright was
born in Norwich, y. j., january l6 lSD3 and first
came west with his father, in 1871 but returned to
New York to complete his college course, after
which he returned TO Madison, Ind and entered up
on the practice of the law In 1923, he married Miss
Brorksteele of Shelbyville, Ky., who survives him.
The fftieth anniversary Of their marriage was cele-
brated In this city, about two years ago. He was
active in politics. being chosen several times the
Legislature, and acted for time State Agent.
He was also member Of the Constitutional Conyen-
ton of 1851. He retired from the active practice Of
the law, when something fifty years Of ge,cnd
twelve years ago removed 20 this city, after Sres
dence in Madison Of over forty years Among his
surviving children is T. J. Bright. Sergeant-atArms
Of the United States Senate.-Ckicago Tribune.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03
Dousnhun NexSs


sudden changes Oh weather are causing some siek
nesS
a. .. Meyer' oil severance was visiting friendi
mere, last sunday
f. W. sm'h Is studying medicine ana surgery un
DER the Instructions oil Dr brownlee.
w. Ii. Dorcas mas opened out harness anu SAD
die repair shop. lie repairs boots anu shoes also.
Miss Amanda Bender, OF Atchison, is visiting pa
rents and friends here.
Additional shelving is beng placed IN the Phil
br1ck store Tor an extra STOCK oil dry goods boot'
and Shoes etc. A. Hall is clerk, and does an hon
est business
Prof. Z. huehl, OF Atehison, called, during the
week
Mrs Waddens condition seems to be unchanged
Extensive preparations are being made Tor the
dramatic entertainment nj brenners Hail. FEBRUARY
I'd.
Some OF our citizens are putting up large quaint
ties oil ice.
Our schools are under the successful management
oil ID. ID. Rose, as principal and Charles Floyd teach
er in the intermediate.
Milton Curtis, who recently returned from Coiora'
do, is now employed In the Touring mills
Hon. B. oDnseaii is setting up his business, and
otherwise preparing to leave here. When he does
go, We viii lose good CITIZEN good neishbor, and
an honest man. We VIII miss Barney.
Mrs. Charles Angel is selling out her household
goods, and getting ready to go to her husband, who
is conductor on some railroad leading into Denver
City, Col
Nursery men are making us visits, to sell spring
settings OF plants
Married, at the residence of Charles Floyd, in
Doniphan, Monday evening, january 18th, ut
O'Clock, by Rev. ID. waddell, Mr.. Albert Floyd to
Miss Eliza Hudnall- The contracting parties were
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03
THE FATE OF THE COUNTRY PRESS.

A1,,os. .very week. we find additional papers
.h., h.v. ,dentas, the ssnateut outsider and pat
-, s,.-.otxna bloek svstem of printing the pa
ners There are nov but few country papers in
r.ns.s or 4, N. entire West. for that matter,
that arr not run upou a sspatentv system of some
sort Tn . nerSop who reads but one or two pa
ners. tbi. il all well enough; but to one who re-
s.;vss from, ,iftr tn one hundred weekly. IL is a
great bore. whenever n paper adopts this sys-
Ter, n lo.es ;ts energy AZ. Life. and becomes
n,oJdiny spiritIess concern. All the care of
r.,d;rg and .electing il taken from the publish
or and he coufes himself to gathering up a few
locals and advertisements. The editor of pat
en-, outs;de almost loses his identity. Much of
the labor of thinking is taken from him, and
simply mechanical duties engage his attention.
There are several causes for the decay of the
couutrv presa- The greatest is the the superior
facilities and the immense subscription lists of
the large city weeklies, by which large sheets,
containing vast amounts of reading matter, are
sent for 81 to 81 so year; and this is aided by
the subscribers to country papers. Not day
passes, but the publisher of the country paper is
badcered and importuned to let his paper go for
81 or 81 so year, because such and such big city
paper, containing three or four times as much
reading. is sent for that price. Those subscrib-
ers do not consider that the country publisher
has to depend solely upon his earnings from
week to week, while the city paper, owned by
wealthy stock companies, printed by steam, and
possessing all the best advantages, can afford
the paper, all the matter in which has already
been paid for in daily paper, ut very low fig
ure. The same overwhelming power of capital
has crushed out the country halter, the tailor,
and almost crushed out the shoemaker, the cabi-
net maker, and many other trades 1t is crush
ing out the farmer in England and Ireland, and
will do it in America in course of time. The
farmer who attempts to beat down the prices of
a country publisher, does not reflect that the
same thing is fast coming home to him. He is al
ready helpless in the matter of transportation,
and will SOON be in the matter of production.
When the country printer is forced down to the
prices of the wealthy city papers, he first tries
to stand it, by such make-shifts as patents
but in brief time goes to the wall. Then, ev-
cry little town must have it's newspaper The
patronage is divided up, and ''patentsv are again
resorted to, to make up for insufficient patron
age, and all starve out by slow degrees.
The thing that every citizen Of a County is
most deeply interested in, is the affairs of his
own County. The cheap city paper gives him
nothing of this, but the only place to find it is
in the County paper If they break down the
County paper by forcing it into competition
with the city paper, whose matter has been
printed over and over, and paid for several times
hefore II goes ;uto the weetlev how are tbav tn
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

The CHOICE OF BooKs.-A very elegant little vol
ume with the above title, by Charles +. Richardson,
is just issued by the American Book Exchange Tri-
bune Building, New York, at tho very low price of
. cents also cheap paper edition at the nominal
cost of five cents. II will delight all who love good
books, and in its wise suggestions will be greatly
helpful to all who want help in choosing the best
books In its various chapters it treats of The No
tive of Reading, The Reading Habit What Books to
Read, The Best Time to Read. How Much to Read
Remembering what One Reads, The Use of Note
Books, The Cultivation of Taste Poetry The Art of
Skipping, The Use of Translations How TO Read
Periodicals, Reading Aloud and Reading Clubs,
What Books to Own, The Use Of Public Libraries,
The True Service of Reading The volume is re-
marknbly rich in striking quotations from the worlds
most famous authors and thinkers from Aristotle to
Emerson. including such names Addison, Bacon,
Burns Cato, Carlyle, Dsraeli Fenelon, Gibbon,
Hugo, Keats, Lamb. Locke, Luther Milton, Ruskin,
Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Thoreau. Ii is real
literary treasure house.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

3- The Topeka Commonwealth says that Col.
A. c. Dawes says that the Kansas Legislature,
as fine and intellectual set of men, will CON-
pare favorably with any similar body he even
saw. Col. Dawes is a clever man. He is a rail.
road manager, and his business is to look in up.
on various Legislative bodies, and convince them
that they should not enact laws to protect the
people against railroad extortions. Hence thi,
"taffy.r viii it fool the Kansas Legisiaturef
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

II A Democratic paper howls that Carpet
bagger has been elected United States Senator
from Nebraska. As the Constitution requires
that Senator shall be not under thirty years of
age, it would be hard to find a native Nebraska
an eligible for the Office, unless he were taken
from one of the Indian tribes
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

IL We are informed that, in Washington
Township, on Tuesday, the cry was made against
the principal candidates one of the tickets,
that they were being run by the "Cy. Leland
and Jack Selover Ring" Those candidates were
elected. This cry has been used so often as
scare by ,mall-fry shysters, to accomplish their
ends that the people have got tired of it, and it
has lost its effect
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

A CHANGE NEEDED.-of all the persistent,
dogged, intense electioneering, that for Road
0verseers in this Township beats all the State
or National elections we ever saw. candidate
for Road overseer, as a rule, would sell his soul
or betray Christ for votes Instead Of throwing
these Township elections back with the State
and County elections, the Legislature shonld
separate the election Of Road 0verseers even
from the Township elections. The law cortem-
plates or intends that persons shall vote for
Road Overseers only for the District in which
they live. But such a contest is usually got up
in two three Districts, that half the voters Of
the Township become interested, and vote for the
candidates of those Districts. A separate day
should be fixed for the election Of Road Overseers
to be held at some school-house in the District !;
this would prevent any but residents of the Dis
trict voting, and the people could decide their
own contest, without interference from outside.
Or, still better, the County Commissioners or
other certain County officers should be empower
ed to appoint Road 0verseers In this way, the
most competent and honest men would hold the
Office. The struggle for this little Office creates
the suspicion that there is fat job in it. Such
is doubtless the case; for we learn that one Road
ove-seer, at the last meeting of the Township
Board, drew warrants for over $500, for services
on the roads, Let us have change.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-02-03

OBITUARY POETRY Obituary poetry is usu-
ally the very worst stuff that can be written,
and is the very hardest to refuse to publish. A
majority of people who lose friends by death,
seem to be in q manner soothed and consOled
if few verses are composed and published to
the memory of the deceased and it is very
unpleasant matter to refuse so slight favor as
publishing such verses, although well knowing
that they will be subjected to ridicule and to
rude remarks. 1t is getting to be SO common,
that some rural poet writes verses to the memory
of almost every one that dies, old OF young. We
are actually ashamed of much of the stuff of this
kind that we publish. and only wonder that the
friends of the dead do not feel the same way. A
gentleman once requested us not to publish po-
EN- that had been sent in on the death of mem-
Der of his family. We admired his good sense,
and complied with his request, although greatly
to the disappointment of the well-meaning poet.
These verses are usually some poem which the
writer has seen or heard, and has been altered
to suit the occasion, and to make il read non
sensieal and ridiculous. wehavel long been on the
point either of rejecting all such contributions,
or charging an advertising fee for the inhiction.
We hope the practice will be abandoned, except
in rare and peculiar cases. 1t is no compliment
to the dead.