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Nevada; the oct crop Of Kansas vas worth
$7O6, 900 more than Tho gold and silver pro-
duct of Arizona; and the Irish potato crop
of Kansas was worth more than the gold and
silver product of New Mexico.
PROPERTY VALUATIONS.
The property valuations of Kansas have
increased in steady proportion with the
growth of the state in population and pro-
auctions. In 1860 the true valuation Of all
the property in the state was estimated at
$3, 327, 8S1; in 1866 it was estimated at $72,-
252, 18O; in 1870 it had increased to SIS, 892,-
Oh; in 1875 to $242, 555,e62; in 1880 to $751;
7S3, 387; and for 1885 the true valuation, at q
very moderate estimate, was $55O, 100000. !.
The following table presents the assessed
valuation of all the property of the state for
the years mentioned, and also the assessed
valuation of all the real, personal and rail-
road property. It will be seen that the in
crease in the total assessed values from 1856
to 1875 was $85, 434, 344, while from 1875 to
1885 it was $127, 3OO,92&
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Economies of the italian Royal Household.

Economies of the Italian Royal Household.
A correspondent at Rome writes that
he has been informed by high court
official of curious domestic scene at the
Ouirinal palsce. King Humbert was re-
Gently taken with an economic fit, having
become alarmed at the enormous expense
of the royal household. Evidences OF
the most extravagant luxury were found
on all sides. The king was particularly
shocked at discovering his consort, Queen
Marguerite, insisted on having heaping
plate of strawberries every day N the
year, although the fruit can only be OBJ
tanned in the winter at an exorbitant
cost. The king stormed at the queen,
and she retorted by charging him with
many needless acts of extravaganza.
At length the queen offered to compro-
mise by eating strawberries two days
only in each week if the king would order
his cast-off clothing to be sold instead OF
becoming the perquisites of his lackeys,
The king agreed to this, the queen put
herself on short commons as to strawber-
ries, and the lackeys were deprived OF a
considerable portion of their income.
King Humbert also ordered that not
more than seven francs per bottle shall
hereafter be paid for champagne, which
is the usual drink at the royal table.
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In 1861 the amount expended for the sup
port of common schools was only $1,7O,
while the expenditures for the same purpose
during the year 1885, aggregated SCOT, 763.
For the five years ending with 1865, the ex-
penditures for public schools aggregated
S262, 657 81; for the next succeeding five
years they aggregated S2,259. SO; for the
next five, 1852, 1913 for the next five,
81, sos, 1888; and for the five years ending
with 1885 the expenditures for public schools
aggregated 81, 63O, 4SO.64. Thus Kansas
has expended for the support of her common
schools, during the past quarter of CEN
fury, the enormous sum of 50 PA, 2O2. 40.
The table following shows the expendi-
lures each year, from 1861 to 1885, inclusive,
and illustrates not only the growth of Kan
sas, but the general and generous interest of
its citizens in public education:
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rne enr1re u1slncllnation OF the slaves 10 ID
Surrection, or to receive aid Tor that pur
nose, which was there exhibited; the yer!
limited number and peculiar character o,
tbe conspirators. all combine to furnish as
surapce against the most distant probablllt,
of its repetition" It is evident from All the
facts in the case, that this raid not only die
not help. but hindered the republican cause;
causing the rebellion, or the destruction OF
and that it did not have feathers weight IL
slavery in consequence OF II.
Let us reverse the picture for moment
Suppose, instead of free state slave state
had been secured in Kansas with the power
to extend the institution at will, into all the
territories, Suppose, as consequence, the
Kansas struggle had not ''made" victorious
republican party in 1860, but had secured the
election of Breckenridge, the southern candl-
date for president, would the south have
then seeded, and would slavery have been
abolished? And would either event have
trauspired in consequence of the Harpers
cry RAID, or five hundred such raids? COOK
aad been at Harper's Ferry some twelve
months, and Brown and his followers four or
i've months, and yet nota slave had been en-
listed for the crusade by either. How much
,ession or the abolition of slavery, with
Kansas and the federal government in the
secure possessionof the south?
No, no; the food tide of slavery extension
received its first permanent check in Kansas,
Il was the refuent wave from her borders
that carried Abraham Lincoln into the white
mouse. drove the south into rebellion and
buried slavery so deep that for it there can
De no resurrection. Not only is the state of
Kansas thus indebted to the territory,
out the late slave states that con-
tended so earnestly to extend their peculiar
institution. are doubly indebted. These
states have not only been redeemed from
olighting curse, but have been prospered IN
every way as never before in their history.
So general and widespread is their prosper
ity that so far as known not citizen can be
found in the eutire south who would re-
establish slavery if he could. But the bless
ings resulting from the territorial struggle
10 not stop here, for the nation itself has
been born again, with that birth which
brings with it 'peace on earth, and good
will to men," The old contentious, bitter
ness and irrepress;ble conflict between the
north and the south have given place to mu-
Lual respect, love anG good will. The United
States now constitute a Union in reality, as
well as in name, with like institutions, like as
pirations, and common destiny. Our Union
thus cemented, has become the envoy of all
nations, and terror to all enemies. The
freest, happiest and most prosperous people
on the globe, we have become a place of
refuge for the oppressed of all nations. Such
being the result of the territorial conflict,
well may the contestants embrace each other
on the 18th birthday of this wonderful state,
and henceforth dwell together in unity, I'M
der a government that knows no north, no
south, no east, no west, but that Is zone and
nseparable now and forever"
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The value of the farm products of Kansas,
from 1876 to 1880, inclusive, aggrega
ted 1856, 557 SOP, while their value from 1881
10 1885, inclusive. aggregated the enormous
sum of S73S, 676,912.
TAXABLE ACRES.
The steady development of the state is fur
Their illustrated by the figures showing the
increase of taxable acres. In 1860 only l.
IT'S, 400 acres were subject to taxation: in 1865
this area had been enlarged to 3,5OO,OOO
acres: in 1870 to S, 4SO, $50 acres; in 1875 to
1852, 1877 acres: in 1880 to 22,3S6, 435 acres;
and in 1855 to q, ,9S1 acres.
LIVE STOCK.
In the number and value of its live stock.
Kansas ranked, in 1880, as the eighth state
of the Union. In 1860 the live stock of Kan
sas aggregated in value only little over
$3,OOO,OOO; in 1865 it Aggregated over S7,OOO,-
600: in 1870, over 3,OOO,O 600; in 1873, r. arly
$4,000, COO; in 1880, over SCI, 100000 and In
1856. nearly S11s,OOO,OOO. The following
table gives the number of horses, mules,
cows, cattle sheep and swine, and their aggre--
gate value. for the years 1861 and 1865 and
every year thereafter to and including 1885:
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Partly estimated.
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.

TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
The transportation facilities of Kansas are
unsurpassed, Only seven states of the
Union, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Hi
nois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri, have with
in their borders more miles of completed
railway than has Kansas. For fully 200
miles west of our eastern border, every
county excel ne is traversed by from one
to six lines Q silway. There are eighty six
organized an. leven unorganized counties
in the state, and of these all except fourteen
organized and seven unorganized counties
have railways within their limits. In 1864
Kansas had not a mile of completed rail
road. In 1870 we had 1,2S3 miles; in 1875
over 1887 miles; in 1880 an aggregate of
3.1O4 miles, and there are now $50 miles OF
completed railway in Kansas.
THE SCHOOLS OF KANSAS.
Education has gone hand IN hand with the
material growth of Kansas. It has been the
boast of our people, for twenty years asst,
that the best building in every city, tcSn or
hamlet in the state was the school house.
The census of 1850 revealed the fact that only
%, SOB inhabitants of Kansas, over 10 years
of age, were unable to read. The growth OF
our school system is shown by the following
figures:
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COMPARATIVE VALUES.

In speaking of the value of the farm crops
and farm products of Kansas, l can present
Il clearer idea of the wealth our farmers have
dug out of the earth by some comparisons.
In 1881 the products of all the gold and sill
yer mines of the United States aggregated
only ST., 100000; for 1882 they aggregated
s79. 800 coo; for 1883 S76. 2CO, coo: and for S4S
$4,000, O0O-making total, for those four
years, of S312, 100000. The value of the
field crops of Kansas for the same years,
aggregated S411, O92. 49S. and the farm prod
ucts of the state for the same period, aggre-
gated in value 1896, 033, 894-or very nearly
double the aggregate of all the gold and
silver products of all the mines of the
country.
The gold and silver products of the world
average about sos, 000, 900 per annum. The
farm products of Kansas for 1885 aggregated
s143, 81, O1S, or nearly three fourths the
value of the gold and silver products of the
world.
For the past four years the farm products
of Kansas have aggregated in value each
year more than double the annual yield of
all the gold and silver mines of the United
States.
The gold and silver products. of Colorado,
for 1888, aggregated only $50. 25O, 600: those
of California, S16, Zoo: of Nevada, &c.
10000: of Montana, $9,170OOO; of Utah,
Sc, go. 900; of Arizona, $5.5D,O 600; and OF
New Mexico, $500, O0C. The corn crop Of
Kansas for the same year was alone worth
more money than the combined gold and
silver products Of Colorado, California and
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THE WEALTH OF AN AGRICULTURAL STATE.

Kansas is an agricultural state. It has no
cold or silver, no iron, and just coal enough
to furnish fuel. It is TIE farmers and
stockmen's state. Its development simply
shows what good old Mother Earth, when in
her happiest vein, can do. agriculture,
saws Cotton, ''is the most certain source OF
strength, wealth and Independence; com
merce, in all emergencies, looks to agrlcul-
ture both for defense and for supply" The
growth and prosperity of Kansas afford a
striking illustration of what intelligent
farmers, with productive soil and genial
climate for their workshop, can accomplish
what wealth they can create, what enter
prise they can stimulate.
1t is difficult, however, to comprehend
what the figures l have given, showing the
amounts and values of Kansas products,
really represent. When we read that Kan
sas produced, last year, 1874, 1000 bushels
of corn, the nine figures set down do not
convey any adequate idea of the bulk and
weight of this crop. But when 1t Is stated
that the corn crop of Kansas for 1885 would
fill 485,OOO freight cars, and load a tram
2,S47 miles long-reaching from Ogden,
Utah, to Boston-we begin to comprehend
what the figures stand for.
The wheatcrop of the state last year, was
called a failure. 1t was, for Kansas. And
yet it would fill 81 ,939 grain cars and load a
train 1S3 miles in length. The oats crop OF
the state, for the same year, would fill A.
33335 cars, and load train 26O miles long;
while the hay crop would load 76S,54 cars,
making train 1910 miles long.
These four crops of Kansas, for 1856, would
fill 1,329. SOS grain cars, and load train
1904 miles in length. In other words, the
corn. wheat, oats and hay produced in Kansas
last year would load train reaching from
Boston to San Francisco by the Union Pacific
route, and back again from San Francisco
to Boston by the Atchison, Topeka d Santa
Fa route.
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The Emigrating Negroes.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.

Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
The truth is, there are many sections
in these southern states where the guam
tity of available labor far exceeds the
quantity of available capital. In nearly
all sections is to be found largo nom
producing negro population, working on
part time, or working not at all, and Nv
ing ON the labor of kindred or by food
surreptitiously obtained. AS general
thing it is this population that, charmed
by the promise Of big wages and hffls
labor elsewhere, suffers itself to be bur
RED away. The country is better Ion
their absence-their kin and nengnoor-
ing cribs, fields and hog pens especially.
Unfortunately the majority Dim back N
course Of TINA
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JOHN BROWN.
BIZ HON. EUGENE =. WARE.

States are not great
Except as men may make then
Men not great except they do and care.
But states, like men.
Have destinies that take them
That bear them on, not knowing why or where.
The WHY repels
The phllosophic searcher-
The WHY and WHERE all inquiries defy.
Far back in youthful nurture,
Prophetic facts that constitute the WEI.
All merit comes
From daring the unequal.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Fame loves the stale
Tha re- kiess Of the sequel.
Fights long and well, though 1t may nee OF wiz
Than in our state
No illustr alton aptsr
Is seen or found Of faith, and hope. and wM.
Take up her story.
Every leaf aud chapter
Contains u record that conveys Thrill
And there ts one
whose faith whose fight whose failing.
Fame yet shall placaId on the walls OF Time
He dared begin
De pie thu unavailing.
He dared begin, when failure vas Q crime.
When over Africa
Some future Cycle
Shall sweep the lake-gemmed uplands with ~
surge;
When as with trumpet
OF Arch-angel Michael
Culture shall bid q colored race emerge,
When busy cities
There In consultations.
Shall CLEAN with spires and palaces and donea
With marts wherein
Are heai d the noise Of nations;
With summer groves surrounding stately housA
There, future orators
To cultured freemen,
half till oP valoP recount With Draf0ok
| Stories of XaDsas,
Ard of LacedBmon.
Cradles of freedom, then Of ancient days.
From boulevards
Overlooking both Nyanzas,
| The rtaS ured bronze shall glitter IN the sum-
With rugged iettertng:-
'.JoHN BROWN: OF KANSAS,
He DARED BEGIN.
| He LOST.
| But, LOSING. WON"
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*Census of March, 1885.
TOWNS AND CITIES.


In 1860 there were only ten towns and cit
les in Kansas having a population in excess
of 800 each; only three having over LOO
each; and only one having over 5000 lnhab
itants. In $780, ninety-nine towns each had
population in excess of 800; fifty five towns
and cities had each over LOCO inhabitants:
SIX had each over 5000; and three had over
1900 each. In 1885, each of 14 towns had
over $50 population: ninety-One towns and
cities had each over 1000: twelve had each
over 5000: six had each over 10000; four
had each over L. 1000; and two had each more
than 10000.
THE MATERIAL RESOURCES OF KANSAS.
The growth of our state in population has
not, however, euualled the development Of
its material resources. The United States
census of 1880 shows that while Kansas at
that date, ranked as the twentieth state in
population, it was the eighth state in the
number and value of its livestock, the seven
teenth in farm products, the fourteenth In
value of farm products per capita, the TWEEN
tieth in wealth, the thirteenth in education,
the seventeenth in the amount of Its lndebt-
edness, state and municipal, and the TWEEN
ty-fourth in manufactures. Only one state,
Nebraska, shows smaller proportion OF per-
sons unable to read and write. And IN tWen-
ty-eight of the forty-seven states and terri
tories, taxation, per capita, was greater than
it is in Kansas.
In 1880 Kansas was the sixth corn-produc-
ing state of the Union. Only Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri, Indiana and Ohio then produced
larger crops of this cereal. But the corn
product of Kansas that year was only 1O1,
| 421. us bushels, while for the year 1885 it
was 1874, 100, S14 bushels, or nearly double the
| crop of 1880.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
In the following table the aggregate Of the
corn. wheat, oats, potato and hay products
of Kansas. for the years 1860 and 1865, and
for each year thereafter, is given. The fig
ures. prior to 1876, are compiled from the re-
ports of the United States department OF
agriculture; those following, from the re-
ports of the secretary of our own state board
] agriculture:
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In presenting these figures it is worthy of
note that while, as already stated, the U. S
census reports for 1880 show that Kansas
ranked as the twentieth state in population
and the sixth in its corn product. it was also
the eleventh wheat producing state of the
union, the eleventh in its oats product, six
teenth in barley, tenth in rye, eighth in hay,
and seventeenth in potatoes. Thus the rank
of Kansas, in agricultural products, was far
ahead of her rank in population.
THE AREA OF KANSAS.
The total area of Kansas is g, 268, 600 acres
In 1866 only 243 712 acres of this vast terri
tory were under cultivation: IN 1870 the ares
aggregated 1,360, 600 acres; in 1875, 1880
acres; in 1880, 6I068, 66l acres; and IN 1876
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KANSAS MANUFACTURES.

Kansas is not a manufacturing state. Its
prosperity is based upon the pillow. 1t has,
however, coal deposits equal to the needs
of its population, valuable lead mines in the
southeast, and salt and gypsum in abund-
ance But the manufacturing establishments
of the state are steadily increasing in import
ance as well as in number. In its Touring
and grist mills Kansas ranked, in 1880, as
the thirteenth state of the Union: in meat
packing, as the twelfth; and in cheese pro-
ducts as the fourteenth.
In the following table the number of man.
featuring establishments, including mines
and railroad shops, their capital, products,
ETC., is given for the years named:
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TdluR of
crops.
VALUE OF FARM CROPS.

VALUE OF FARM CROPS.
The value of the farm crops of Kansas for
the five years ending with 1870 aggregated
SIS, 298, 414: for the next succeeding five years
their value was $135, 95S, PA; for the next five
years, S264, 334 .S24; and for the five years
ending with 1885 the farm crops of Kansas
aggregated in value sos, 4S5, 316. Thus during
the past twenty wears the farmers of Kansas
have produced crops whose aggregate value
reached the enormous sum of 63.O76, 76o.
FARMS AND FARM PRODUCTS.
The increase in the value of farms, of farm
implements and of farm products-includ-
ing farm crops, products of live stock and
market garden, apiarian and horticultural
products-is shown in the following table.
1t will be seen that these values have gen.
orally doubled every five years:
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1882 15 acres. In the following tabls /
have compiled figures showing the area nm
der cultivation, and the value of the crops
produced in Kansas each year, from 1865 to
1885, inclusive:
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Total
CHURCHES AND NEWSPAPERS.

Churches have multiplied and newspapers
increased as have the schools. In 1860 there
were only 81 church buildings in Kansas, and
they had cost only $143,95O. In 1870 the
number of churches had increased to 301,
valued at 81, 722, 700, and in 1880 they num-
bered 2,514, costing an aggregate of 3d.
491, $50.
There were only q newspapers published
in Kansas in 1860, and of these only three
were dailies In 1870 the number had in
creased to 81, of which il were dailies. In
1880 there were 3f7 newspapers, including 20
dafiies. During the year just closed 81 jour
mails. of which 81 were dalies, were published
in Kansas. The aggregate circulation of our
newspapers, in 1860, was 21,92O, while for
1885 their circulation aggregated 395, 400.
Every organized county has one or more
newspapers, and, rs rule, our journals are
creditable to their publishers and to the
| state.
WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
| And now. having sketched the growth OF
Kansas during the past quarter of a century:
| it is proper to ask. what of the future? !
answer, with confidence, that Kansas is yet
| in the dawn Of her development, and that
the growth, prosperity and triumphs of the
next decade will surpass any We have yet
known. Less than ons-ffth Of the ARA d
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during the decade beginning in 1875, than
during the two previous decades. No cltl-
zen of Kansas, from that day to this. has ev
er written letter, made speech, or talked
at home or abroad, with his fellow citizens
or strangers, without exalting the resources
and clarifying the greatness of the state. No
legislature, since that time, has ever doubted
the ability of the state to do anything 1t
pleased to do.
A new Kansas has been developed during
that period. The youth Of 1875 has grown
to the full stature and strength of confident
and intelligent manhood. The people have
forgotten to talk of drouths, which are no
more incident to Kansas than to Ohio or
Illinois. They no longer watch the clouds
when rain has not fallen for two weeks. The
newspapers no longer chronicle rains as If
they were uncommon visitations. A great
many things. besides the saloons, have gone,
and gone to stay. The bone hunter and the
buffalo hunter of the plains, the Indian and
his reservations, the jayhawker and the Wild
| Bills. the Texas steer and the cowboy, the
buffalo grass and the dug-outs, the lonell-
ness and immensely of the unpeopled pral-
ries the infinite stretching of the plains,
unbroken by tree or shrub, by fence or
house-all these have vanished, or are rapidly
vanishing. In their stead has come. and
come to stay, an aggressive, energetic, Gull
| cured, sober, law-reSpectlng civilization.
| Labor saving machines sweep majestically
through fields of golden wheat or sprouting
corn: blooded stock lazily feed in meadows
of blue stem, timothy or clover: comfortable
houses dot every hill top and valley; forests,
orchards and hedge rows diversity the love
illness of the Landscapes: and where isolation
and wildness brooded, the majestic lyric OF
prosperous industry is echoing over SIC
square miles of the loveliest and most fertile
country that the sun, in his daily journey
lights and warns. The voiceless sphynx Of
! thirty years ago has become the WHISPERING
gallery of the continent. The Oppressed
territory of 1856, the beegared state of 1874
tho world with opul1t haxvests.