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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-20
INCREASE OF PRODUCTS.

The census returns are repiete with
suggestive and encouraging proofs of
our growth in the last decade. We pre-
sent a few statistics which are 10 the
point: In 1870 the amount of cotton
produced in The United States was .352,
BIT bales; in 1880, more than 6,000, 900
bales. In 1870 the amount OF Indian
corn raised was 7G0, 94O, 594 bushels; in
1880, 1.754, 449, 43J bushels. In 1870 the
wheat crop was 2S7,745, 636 bushels; in
1880 it was 459, 6G7 ,632 bushels. In
1870 the crop of oats reached 2S2, 10T,-
157 bushels; in 1880, 4O7 .S59, 033 bushels.
In 1870 The tobacco crop amounted to
262, 735, 34l pounds; in 1880 it amounted
TO 473, 107,573 pounds. The in
crease of agricultural producls was
nearly 100 per cent. in.these ten years,
and in the last year of this decade, from
1879 to 1880, out of this vast increase OF
our crops and products, our cattle eX-
port rose from $13, 600, 900 to $14, 200, O0e,
corn from $43,OOO,OOO to $4,000, OO0,
wheat from $107 ,60S 900 to $3.50, SAG, 900
flour from $35 100000 to $45, 200, 900,
cotton from $2O0,S52. 900 TO $245 ,534,
900, beef from $1,000 600 to $12, 600. GOO,
lard from $28, 200, OOC to S35 600, 900, and
pork from $5,OO0,OOO to $4,000 an
nually.
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SUGGESTIVE RAILROAD FIG
URES.

Some very suggestive figures are given
in the advance sheets of the Review
for 1884," from Poor's Manual of the
Railroads of the United States for
1882" For example, the extent to which
somebody's money has been, and is, go
ing into railroad building, Is thus set
forth: "The year 1881 has been one of
extraordinary activity in railroad affairs.
Within the year 9,35S miles of railroad
have been built, the greatest number for
any one year. The greatest mileage for
any previous year was 1910 miles, in
1871.
1.-THE cost, at SIS, 900 per mile of the
lines constructed during the yerr, was
$233, 100000. In addition at least $75,-
100000 was expended on lines IN pro-
gress, and $1OO,OOOOOO which is at the
rate of only $1,000 per mile, on old roads
in improving their tracks, in building
new stations and in adding to their
equipments. The total amount expended
in construction the past year was, in
round numbers, 800, 100000.
at now seems probable that the mile
age to be opened in 1882 will equal that
for 1881. Up to the 1st of June, 1882,
3,677 miles of line were opened, against
1,734 for the same period in 1881. The
same rate OF increase will not be main
tanned for the remainder of the year, but
the aggregate for it of new mileage is
not likely to be much short of 10000
miles"
AS to earnings, operating expenses
and tonnage the following statements
are made, from which one may gather
the influence and power of this vast
business:
"The earnings of all the roads in Oper-
alton in the country the past year
equalled $725 1925, 10, being an increase
over the previous year of 100000 900
the rate of increase being very nearly
sixteen per cent The earnings cqualled
$500 per head of our population.
Their net earnings were $2To, 654, 119-
an increase of $21, 5000 over those for
1880. Their current expenses were
$449, 565, 5Tl. The amount of interest
paid during the year on their funded
debts was $12S, 1857, zoe. The amount
paid in dividends was $93.344, 200,
against ST. ,1I5, All for 1880.
THE cost of operating our railroads
for the year was s449, 565.O7l, or sixty
two per cent. of their gross earnings.
The total amount expended in the con-
struction of new lines and IN operating
ndSimprovIng the old ones was over
$4,000, O00-the greater part of this
vastEsum being paid in wages. The mum,
Der of persons employed in operating
them the past year averaged fully twelve
to the mile of operated line, or 200, 600
in all. The number employed in the
construction of our railroads equaled
4O0, 900, increasing the total number of
employees to 100000, or about one thir-
ty second part OF our population, esti-
mated at 5S,200,OO0.
"The tonnage transported on all the
railroads in the country in 1881 cannot
have been less than $500 tons to the
mile, or $50, 100000 tons in the whole.
The exact amount cannot be given from
the want of returns from large num-
Der of companies"
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POOR POLICY.

II is announced that the railroads run
ming from Missouri river points cast
have decided to put up the freight tariff
on grain five cents ON the hundred
pounds. This simply takes that much
from the price of grain-reduces the
price which the producer should receive
and places it in the pockets of railroad
owners. SIfted 10 the bottom, there is,
we presume, but one reason for this ac-
ton, and that is that the producers can
not help themselves. That's the long
and short OF the matter. Our views on
railroad management may be of little
value, but we believe that in making
this material increase in freighfs the
railroads are pursuing a policy which
will finally end in putting it beyond
their power to take such undue advan-
tages of the public. AS one of the
shrewdest railroad men in the state once
driving nails in their own collins
every time they do an act of
public injustice from merely sell
fish motives. This rise in freight at this
time cannot be considered in any other
light than that of the exercise of pow
er simply to enrich the owners of the
railroads because they can do it, and can
SIT back la Boss Tweed and ask tie
people what they are going to do about
IT," The people west of the Missouri
are lucky enough this year to have good
crops, which has not been the rule for a
few years. 1t would be reasonable to
suppose when there is so large an in
crease of business for the railroads, they
would be inclined to cheaper the price
of freight rather than to raise il. That
is the rule which governs in the conduct
of most other branches OF business. The
larger the contract, the smaller the pro-
portionate price. Not SO with rail-
roads. They have q chance to exercise
their porkish propensities, and they
do not propose to let it slip. They will
keep on in this sort Of practices till they
arouse storm of public sentiment in
this country which will put
an end to the power OF
the few to make unjust and unfair de-
mands against the many. There is no
power in this country like that of
public sentiment. Nothing can resist
1t or Withstand it. Railroad managers
ought to see this, but they do not or at
least they act like a set of short-sighted
idiots if they all see it.
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Some idea of the rapid growth of the
coffee trade of the world may be OBJ
tanned from the fact tina: the total pro-
duction, which was 675,O00,0 900 pounds
in 1859, has now risen to l 300, 900 900
pounds. or nearly doubled. In Europe
alone the consumption of coffee is said
to have increased 100000 pounds in
the single year 1879. As for the pro-
ducing countries, it seems that Brazil
now holds the first place with total of
560,O00,O00 pounds. against $4,000, GOO
in 1870. The emancipation of the
slaves is, however, expected to lead to Il
falling off in thecrop. unless the China
men and coolies imported from Asia
should prove Unexpectedly well suited
for the work of cultivation. Next on
the list come the Dutch Indian posses
sions, which export about 10000, 900
pounds, the British East Indies. now
exporting over 14O,0OO,O00, and Ven
ezuela, producing about 100000, 900.
On the other hand, the Antilles Islands
have long been declining in the scale.
Jamaica does not supply half as much
coffee as in 1906; Martinique has fallen
still more entirely ont of the race, and
the Reunion coffee, which was once
highly esteemed and is still declared to
be of excellent quality, finds no longer
any market in Europe owing to the I'M
fashionable bitterness of its taste.
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indianapolis Sentinel: The New
York Tribune has what it calls Fresh
Air Fund" The purpose for which the
fund is created and applied is to give 10
certain poor children Of the city of New
York the benefit Of some days of fresh
air In the country. A few days since
462 children were sent out and distribut-
ed among the villages on the western
shore OF Lake Champlain. The tene-
ment house districts, from which the
children are selected, are tombs where
thousands Of helpless human beings are
buried alive. To take from them the
children and transport them to the
country, where they can enjoy the de-
lights OF country life, see the sunshine
and breathe fresh air, is certainly mobile
charity full Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
through and through There may be a
great deal Of wickedness In New York,
Q great deal of rich hard-heartedness,
but there IL also an active, far reaching
benevolence which struggles forever to
zmprove the condition OF the unfortu-
nate, and this fact the Fresh Air Fund
Of the Tribune demonstrates beyond all
cavil. It II pleasant to read OF such
noble charities They glorify human
nature. The fund on the 14th had
saAched eA.O7z.71.
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THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

We always took good deal of stock
in Henry c. Sluss, of Wichita, and
would have rejoiced had he been the
choice of the late congressional conven.
ton as one of the candidates for con-
gressmen-at-large. Under all the cir.
cumstance he made q most excellent
run, and one which he and his friends
ought to feel and doubtless do feel was
q compliment. Sluss is young man
and can afford to "bide his time"for pro-
motion, which we believe will come in
the near future. On returning home he
was invited to attend the ratification
meeting which Judge Peters friends
held at his home-Newton, and wrote the
following manly letter in reply. 1t is
characteristic of the man, and reads as
follows:
Hon. S. r. PETERs-DEAR FRIEND:
Il regret that it is impossible for me to
remain and participate with your neigh.
bors and fellow citizens of Newton, in
extending to you congratulations upon
your splendid endorsement and tri-
umphant nomination by our state con-
vention on yesterday. l congratulate
you and the people of Harvey county,
as we'll as the people Of the state upon
your nomination. / cheerfully acQui-
esce in the result, and will join you
heart and hand in carrying forward the
great work of our splendid party, and in
securing for you u triumphant election,
without the loss of single Republican
vote in November next.
With assurance OF my highest regard,
] am, yours to command, Fl. G. SLUss.
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The following good story of one of
the poor children sent into the country
by the Tribune "fresh air fund" is told
by the Plattsburg Telegram: "One of
the little girls was quartered with a
kind family in Morrisonville. The lit
tic one met one OF her companions the
day after she arrived, and in giving an
account of her experience said. The
first thing when we got there the horn
blew and we had breakfast, lots of good
things TO eat. Then we went out TO
play, and before long the horn blew
again and We had a nice dinner. We
went out again after dinner, and in &
little while the horn blew again and we
had supper. Alter supper we went out
to play again, and pretty soon the horn
blew again. We went in, and the lady
said it was 8 o'clock and time TO go to
bed; but before we went she gave us a
bowl of splendid bread and milk. When
went up stairs was just as sleepy as
I could be, and wanted to go to bed
right away, but 1 told them If that horn
blew again to be sure and wake me
up"
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HOW THE WAR WILL BENEFIT THE
EGYPTIANS.
New York Times.

The present crisis in Egypt, end how
it may, will have ut least one good result,
viz, that of giving such publicity to
the condition of the country and its
people as TO make a relapse into the old
system of government, or even n con-
tinuance of the present one, all but i'm
possible. The world is beginning to
discover that the valley of the Nile has
population of its own, and that that
population has as good right to exist
as the citizens of any European state.
Whatever form of rule may be establish
ed in Egypt, the "fellaheen" can not
possibly be worse off under it than they
have been under their own native rulers,
or as badly off as they still are under
their own native overseers. In the
whole world there is not more cruel
and remorseless tyrant than an Egyptian
Arab set in authority over his former COM
rades. Half century ago Mehemet
Ali Pasha thought fit to make canal
between Cairo aud Alexandria. The
fellaheen were hunted out from their
cellars in the city AID their mud bur-
rows IN the fields and forced to dig the
canal, not only without pay, but even
without food, except what they could
pick up for themselves. The only thing
in which the government was liberal was
fiogging, the whips of rhinoceros hide
being never idle till the work was CON-
pleted, at cost of 10000 fsome say 3d.
000) lives. The present writer witnessed
a similar scene on the road from Cairo
to GuiZen in 1870, the whole population
of The district being at forced labor on
the repair of the Nile embankment- One
old man fell from sheer exhaustion, but
the merciless lashes ofsthe whips forced
him TO rise and stagger q few PAGES in
his agony only TO fall once more. II
this be government, one may well pray
for a change
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The office of Flowers.
kansas City Journal

The flower is the spiritual manifesto
ton of nature-all that is sweet in per-
fume, pleasant in color, beautiful in tint
and suggestive of a living principle
above materiality, is typifed by the
howers-it is the sign of the soul in ma
ture. And we employ it, without
thought, without any process of logic or
Intellectual perception of the fitness to
typify the immortality of humanity.
As the flower follows the death of ma
ture and its new birth of life, so it re-
spends to the new life of the soul after the
winter of death. We employ it as the
medium of affection and remembrance,
because its spiritual beauty and attrib-
utes alone Of all things best expresses
that feeling that follows the dead be.
yond the boundary of sense.
There Is something in the wondrous
beauty and subtle chemistry of the
flower, its delicate expression of every
thing conceivable in sweetness and sensi-
bility, that makes it the emblem of the
immortal and the gift of the spirit forces
that minister to US both here and hereaf-
ter. Every one can feel the inspiration
and all obey it as duty laid upon them
by power they cannot discover or I'M
derstand. It is this unspoken kinship
between the life here and hereafter and
the bond between them that exists in ma
ture, that employs the flower in the of
fees to the dead-the promise of the
beauty.and radiant happiness that blooms
in the gardens beyond the river.
It is then no idle ceremony, no mere
forced Observance of some order of as
sociated numbers that is observed, but it
is the obedience of our higher nature to
the promptings of the spiritual that feels
in the act the unity between the living
and the dead and the union which
blooms forever for humanity.
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From u Book Written
by the Oueen of ReumaHia.


by lhe Queen OF Reumania.
ILondon Daily Ne~s.I
= ."Life is too short for all the good one
wishes he could do"
''Sleep is generous thief, who bestows
upon strength all that he steals from
time"
eff you could give as aims to those who
could employ it we'll the time you waste
how many opulent beggars there would
be-"
"White locks are the foam that covers
the sea where the tempest has ragged"
"One is never pardOned for his talent,
his success, his friends, his joys-nothing
is forgiven save ones death. And notal
ways that"
"The fallen woman sees in her virtu-
Gus sister only the mirror that glasses her
own deformities, and in her rage would
break it."
"a Souvenir stuffed singing bird"
Everybody does not talk SANDER, but
everybody lets it be talked"
'"There are a few women that love,
more that think they love, but most of
them merely feel bored"
off women were witty enough not to
have hearts, the position of men would
no longer be tenable."
"Man is moved by his senses, woman
by her imagination; hence absence con-
ducts him imperceptibly to forgetting,
while it exalts her passion to idolatry."
Facility is not talent, but there is no
real talent without facility
"To praise extravagantly an artists
work before another is to exhibit stupidi-
ty or malice.
at is mistake to judge of the excel
lence of your work by the trouble it has
cost you"
"To pretend to the possession of many
good friends is the gentle illusion of folk
who fancy they merit the affection of
their fellows"
"There might possibly exist in art
fixed method to dazzle and astonish-
but never one to charm. You can cas-
lily tell a man whose life is aimless and
who is without real interest iii anything
by the exaggerated Importance which he
attaches to everyday trifies."
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Atchison Champion: The estimate of
the state board of agriculture concern
Ing the average winter wheat yield of
the state will have to be revised. twill
reach fully twenty-five bushels, instead
OF twenty-five, per acre. We have not
heard Of u crop that has been threshed
where the yield runs less than twenty
two bushels per acre, and reports arc
numerous of yields averaging twenty
Ave. thirty. thirty-flve and even as high
a. forty bushels per acre. These reports
Justify the statement that the average
yield for the state will reach fully twen-
t1-five bushels to the acre, or q total for
che Lag, 736 acres planted in winter
wheat, OF SO 500. 400 bushels. Add the
product Of the $4,000 acres sOwn in
spring wheat which will average fifteen
bushels per acre, or a total of 1875, 800
bushels, and the total wheat crop of
Kansas for the year 1882 will aggregate
SS,443, 400 bushels.
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Inter Ocean: The appointment and
confirmation of j. w. Robbins to the
position of surveyor general of Arizona
will crafty the many journalistic
friends of that gentleman, not only in
Ohio and Illinois, but also in Nebraska,
Iowa and kansas. The condition of
Mr.. Robbins health has been such that
he was compelled to give up journalism
and his northern home some months
ago 1t is believed that the climate of
Arizona will entirely restore him. Pres
ident Arthur in this appointment grace
fully recognized the lamentcd Garficld's
wishes. Mr.. Robbins was one OF Gar
fields favoritc pupils, and in whose sue
cess he had always taken an earnest in
terest, and but for the fatal bullet Of
July2 ., Robbins would have received his
appointment from Garfield. We believe
this is the Robbins who formerly pub
lished paper at Wichita. lie Is son-in-
law OF Rev. Werter r. Davis, OF Bald
win City. He has been connected with
the Inter Ocean for some years. We
congratulate him upon his success.
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RESOLUTIONS Of Respect.

CHICAGO. July "a Springfield, Illi
nois, special says: The officers of the ex.
ecutive and Judicial departments of the
state have adopted the following:
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mary Lincoln is dead,
a woman who possessed the name and
love of one of the most distinguished
citizens of our state, and shared
with him the highest honors
that be conferred by the people
of this country and had q Wife's part in
one of the nOblest names in history,
and
WHEREAS, in life she participated
in the distinguished hOnOrs conferred
upon her noble husband, 30 in death she
will be with him in peace, marked
with nations admiration
and peoples gratitude, and
WHEREAS, During the many years
since her cruel bereavement her life has
been one OF continual sufferings and
trials, and the sympathy of the Ameri-
can people has gone out to her from
their inmost hearts, therefore,
ResOLped, That we, as q mark Of our
regard for her memory and In esteem
for her womAnly virtues, offer this trib-
ute of respect and extend 10 her dis
tinguished son. Robert Lincoln, and
other surviving relations that full meas
ure Of our sympathy in their sad be-
resvement.
ResoEocd, That We close our respec-
tive offices and attend the funeral IN q
bOdV
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UNCOMPLIMENTARY.
st. LOUIS GIobc-Democrat.-

The tariff commission is to sit at
Long Branch this summer, and the
comments upon the program of bus
mess are not very favorable TO the COM
mission. 4 western senator said today {:
We may expect some happy sugges-
tions from them upon the duty now
imposed upon soft shell crabs, lobster
salads, Little Neck CLAIMS, Goldfish balls,
mint juleps, spring chickens, green peas
and bathing suits, but this will be as
far as their investigations will extend, if
that is where they are going. Ii eX-
vice president Wheeler had known that
the tariff investigation was going to be
such picnic as that he would have
certainly put off marrying until the
weather gets cooler, for the discussion
of the intricacies Of the tariff over n
mint juIep on the beach at Long Branch
beats getting married when the Their
mometer registers away up in the nine,
ties. You may say for me that l expect
some startling developments from that
commission-over the left.
Another senator expresses similar
opinions: 81 really believe that they
will not be prepared To report before
December, 1888, and that the report will
not be acted upon until after the presi-
DENTAL campaign IN 1894. 1t is intend.
ed to make another presidential issue on
the tariff, and this commission knows it,
and, of course, while those fellows
have a good enough thing in this job
they are not going to rush themselves.
Not much. That is one reason why they
all kicked for private secretaries. They
are mostly business men, and if they
each had secretary to keep up their pri-
vate business correspondence, don't you
see, they would not care how long it
runs. This business ought TO be done
just like they were ON their own private
business, and not ON picnic at the ex-
pense of somebody else. Why don't
they set up in Pittsburg, New York,
Chicago, st. Paul, st. Louis, Omaha, or
some other manufacturing or CONNER
cial city? They are to visit these
classes of cities, and they could find eli
mates sufficiently cool. They are very
leisurely, too. l am in favor of raising
the tariff. but am not in favor of mon
kcying around three or foU years at it;
and am sure tire commission is laying
its ropes for a long trip. These com
missions. as a general thing, are frauds,
any way"
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IndIRnaas Iaraalftaa.

CINCINNATI, July 1.-THE arrival of
$50 Jewish Russian refugees on Satur.
day, sent here In a starving condition
and without . word Of notice TO the Jew
ish relief committee, has created consid-
eFabIe Indignation among the Israelites
here. They have cabled the relief COM
mittee in London and Hamburg To send
no more here. In the meantime most
vigorous measures have been taken TO
relieve the immediate necessities of the
refugees and TO obtain for them perma-
nent homes and employment Two
thousand dollars cash has been already
subscribed and soliciting committee
appointed 10 collect more.
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rha GraenhacLar

ALBANY, N. Y, July 19-The Nation
tional Greenback Labor state convention
reassenIbled this morning. 1t reaffirmed
the platform of the Chicago convention
of June 9th, 1880, adopted anti-monopo-
lY resolutions and nominated Epenelus
Howe for governor. Geo. o. Jones was
placed in nomination for governor but
declined to be candidate. The rcsolu-
tons denouncc the penal code and de.
clare that civil service demands that all
officials be elected instead of appointed.
The balance of the ticket is as follows
James Allen, Brooklyn, lieutenant gov
ernor; J. NJ. McParien, chief justice
court of appeals; l.. G. Mcdonald, con-
gressman-atlarge. Il resolution was
adopted extending the sympathy of the
convention to labOrers struggling for
just and fair wages, and especially To
the freight handlers in New York.