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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14
A LIBERAL EDUCATION.
| How 20 Become an Heir to the Thought
| Accommodations OF the PRst.

How 60 Become an Heir to the Thought
Accumulation OF the Past.
There Is no royal road to learning; ap-
plication, work, continuity and enthus-
iasm arc its conditions. 1t is true the
dead languages are not in daily use in
the pulpit, the forum or business; that
science, philosophy, bcils-itttres do not
of themselves cure souls or patients,
win causes or coin money. 1t Is true
that modern languages with their ex-
haus:iess stores of priceless learning
ciaiw equal regard and study. But those
better and more safely navigate the
stream who know from source todeita,
and vii csc vision is not bounded by the
territory where they ply their trade.
The languages not only give grace and
accuracy to the expression OF thoughts,
open the treasure-houses of knowledge,
furnish the weapons to overcome error
and prejudice. but through them VIII
kinson wrote the lives Of Pharaohs who
had been forgotten before history was
born, and Layard, Rawlinson and others
have dug from under the tower OF Babel
and deciphered the libraryo Of Nebuchad-
nezzar, and byits testimony overthrow
the spec ulations OF infdelitv, corrobo-
rated the Bible and buttressed the faith
OF Chrisriandom. Science has made
plain the secrets Of animate and mani
mate nature, and philosophy has mapped
the mind. Companionship and famil-
iar!ty with the WORTHLESS, the thoughts,
the achievements and the discoveries OF
other times so influence character, so
enlarge the intellect so increase the
ability TO grasp and sift and find the
truth, thatone so privileged Ii promoted
in his vocation from a soldier to q
knight; his work IL not labor, but love;
and while he adorns and honors his
speciality, HIS manhood adds to the value
ana influence OF his citizenship. We are
the heirs Of all the accommodations Of the
past, but we can not prove our title and
secure our inheritance by the decree of
the surrogate or the awards OF the
courts Of probate; II comes only through
the honest acquisition OF a liberal edu-
cation.-From Mr.. Depew's orationS
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

liver, heart, brains and so on of animals,
when eaten, go directly toward nourish-
ing the corresponding organs in the
eater. A similar doctrine was worked
out in great detail by tho American In
dams, and is, l believe, held by many
othor savage tribes. 1t seems altogether
probable that such beliefs, wherever
found among civilized people, old or
young, are survivals from remote anti
guilty, and that they are closely akin in
their nature and origin to the we'll
known doctrine of signatures which has
played so great part in the systems OF
medicine of primitive peoples.-Mrs
Fanny D. Bergen. in Popular Science
Monthly.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14
MEDICAL SUGGESTIONS.
BeIIofs Tint Seem to DO Survivals From
Remote Antiquity.

Belief Tint Seem to DO SurUvals From
Remote Antiquity.
There is popular supposition Of wide
range, based upon know not what, that
It is very healthful for children to play
with dogs. a weak child. it is thought,
may gain strength By being with dog,
or, II diseased, the child may be cured
by having the animal take the dis
ease"-for example, inaamcd eyes or
any disorder OF the skin. Within year
o college graduate told me, In perfect
good faith. of acquaintances Boston
doctor and his wife, whose little girl
had boon greatly afflicted with some
form OF eczema which they all hoped
would disappear. as the parents had pur-
chased Ene dog TO play with the child.
When dog is teething, the upper in
cisors, according to New England super
stition, must be removed as soon as they
become loose, or hc may swallow them
and have fts." Perhaps oven more gen.
orally received Is the fancied danger OF
allowing q child's milk-tooth alter ex-
traction TO fall into tho possession OF
dog or cat, lest the animal swallow 1t,
and the child have dogs or cats
tooth grow in the place OF the lost
one. Tho MexicaGs and Indians in
Texas say that every animal has brains
enough to tan its OWN skin; and so the
latter, in the case OF tho wolf, panther,
wild cat and some other animals Is
mainly prepared by rubbing into the
flesh side Of it the brains OF its former
wearer. A somowhst common fancy
among children, perhaps too among
adults rs well. is that ''every part
Strengthens partr-that Is. that the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14
A GREAT CALCULATOR.
gome Anecdotes OF Babbage, the Famous
Problem Solver.

gome Anecdotes Of Babbage, tho Famous
Problem Solver.
Among the guests at Kenyon's table
whose personality struck me the most
were Walter Savage Lander and Bah
bage. The latter was very interesting
though egotistical talker, but few had
SO good self to talk about To my re-
greet he no longer gave those Saturday
evenings" which had beon SO fashion
able fow years before. One OF three
qualifications were necessary for those
who sought to BIO invited-intellect
beauty or rank-without one Of these
you might be as rich as Cresus and yet
be told you can not enter here. / re-
member his telling me that as long ago
as 1889 he had foretold that steamers
would 20 to America in seven days.
His calculating machine was an end
less subject of monologue. 1t is curious
fact that once learned, not many years
ago, from an old man who had been o
boy at the same class with him at Dart
mouth, that cabbage was the stupidest
boy in the whole school In arithmetic"
/ asked If he remembered any thing re-
markable about the great calculator in
his boyhood. mo, nothing-we used to
call him Barley Cabbage and he didn't
like it." Babbage was very fond of
talking OF Byron's daughter; to him she
was always "Ada," for he had carried
her in his arms as a child, and he was
her friend and counsellor when she was
Lady Lovelace. Kenyon had met her
at Fyno Court, where she was a
frequent guest being intensely in
terested in Mr.. Crosses electrical ex-
perimonts. Kenyon acknowledged Lady
Lovelace to be woman Of
remarkable intellect, but she was too
mathematical for his taste. "Our family
are an alternate qualification OF poetry
and mathematics, Lady Lovelace used
to say. Babbage thought that if he were
blind he could write poetry: land /
should take for my subject the descrip-
ton OF an intellectual inferno" he said.
1t was difficult to associate poetry in any
form with Bsbbage-he was so emin-
emily practical. He told me that he never
| AllOWCu HlulScAA W lOoc dhy IAAhC'
'Before setting out for q walk in the
London streets or drive in an omnibus
] give myself certain problems to think
out"
40 even calculated the effect Of i'm
agination in self-delusion. He found
himself away from home without his
nightcap; he felt certain Of catching
cold, when happily he bethought him
self Of tying a piece Of string round his
head rs q make-believe rightcap 1t
was quite successful, and he slept with
out feeling chilly. Dabbage said he
had told this story to Rogers, whocapped
it. (Kenyon shook his head at the pun,
for he affected to despise puns.) Rogers
declared he had caught a cold through
trick OF his imagination; he thought
he had been sitting with an open win
dow behind him ut q luncheon party at
Lady Corl,'s. in New Burlington street.
and was. IN consequence seized with
violent fit Of sneczing and all tho SEN
satlons Of catarrh, but he discovered
that the window was of plate glass and
perfectly shut.-Temple Bar.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

The Arlington Enterprise says;
Fourteen months ago Mr.. Jake Lay
man of Loda township bought some
cattle for $l54.5O. grazed them till last
fall, since which time he has fed them
600 bushels of corn. He sold them to
Fl. C. Warner for $52l.70, making him
S3G7.2O profit for his grass, hay and
corn. To argue that there is no
money in farming in Kansas will do
10 Tell those who don't know.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

'Globe- Democrat: According TO a
dispatch from London $20,0O0,000
were expended in May in the United
States by a British syndicate in the
purchase Of breweries. This iufor-
nation will not alarm anybody OF
this side of the Atlantic. The more
money which comes here from abroad
the better it will be for the country.
although the contrary opinion was
held a year or two ago, and is held by
many persons who are otherwise SELL
sible aud intelligent even yet.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

The Wamego clothing factory now
employs forty girls and several men.
Twenty machines are running from Z
q. m. to 6 p. m. daily and large
amount of ready made clothing is be-
ing turned out. Girls who know
something of this sort of work can
find steady employment at the factory
at good wages.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

The total number of employees of
railways in Kansas is 65,757 and the
annual aggregate of wages received
by them is $54, 2S9,l5l. There are 500
general officers and their average dali
" pay is $776. The general office
clerks are paid $l.97 per day. There
are 2,935 Of them. The pay of shop
men averages $l.65 per day and 7,71O
men are employed in this department.
The average daily pay of day laborers
is $l.77.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

An original package house was
opened at Fort Scott a few days ago
and ran thirty minutes, when 1t was
closed by the marshal.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

The protracled negotiations between
the senate and house respecting the
differences arising from conflicting
amendments to the pension bill were
brought TO a successful conclusion
Tuesday by the final agreement of the
conterrees. BY the terms of the
agreement the senate recedes from its
insistence upon the dependent features
and the house agrees to drop the SER
vice pension provision, leaving the
bill disa biliiy pension hill.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

Congressman Mckinley thinks that
congress will not adjourn before the
latter part of August.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

Pittsburg threatens to mob the first
man who tries to open an original
package house there.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

The decrease of the public debt
during the month Of May was $6,66l,
ST., and in the eleven months which
have ended of the fiscal year nearly
$6S,0O0000.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

In the Chicago Farmers Reviews
first report of the corn crop Kansas
leads the country-as usual.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

According to James F. Legate'
Kansas farmers will save in the mat
Ter of transportation about $4OOO0,OOO
a year by deep water harbor on the
gulf.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

Atchison county assessors have got
the disease pretty bad. They show a
decrease in property of 81, 100000, or
more than one-third.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

The census enumeration is expected
10 know about as much, upon inquiry,
MS the average juror.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-03-07

AND GOODRICH,
md if you want any other variety we will
get them for you.
We have also just received fresh lot ot
johnson s. Stokes reliable Garden Seeds,
and have some new varistles. Call and ex-
anime them.
We have in stock full line Of S'aple
and Fancy Graceries, such as Flour, Meal
Bacon, Lard, Hams, Sugar. Coffee, Grits,
Salts Syrups, Condensed Milk, Chocolate
Cocoas, Desicated Coccanui, Flavoring Ex-
tracts and full line Of Canned Goods. -
Call and get prices. ~
Feb 21 3 ny
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-03-07

fresdenr, . so's .<oo.rosS
Treasurer, We. Burnett.
Attorney, j. b. Cleveland.
DIRECTORS.
Joseph Walker. J. b. Cleveland.
W. s. Manning. Geo. w. Nichols.
d. Z. Converse. w. Z. Burnett.
T. G. Duncan. George Co6eld.
Interest allowed on deposits at the rate of
four per cent. per annum, and added TO
accounts semi-annually.
July 10 20 1y
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-03-07
State of South Carolina.
COUNTY OF SpARTANBURG.
In the Court Of Probate.

Thomas r. TRIMMER, C,erk of the Courtaf
Common-P " I1zzl61sS coSa'y =, IS
q Administrator Of the personal estate Of
Victoria Stone, Plaintiff,
against
j. II. Williams, rs Administrator of Ulysses
Williams, with his will annexed, and in
his own right, Gordon Williams, Frances
j. Vaughn, Monroe l.. Williams and Eu-
genia Hooper, DEFENDANTS.
To J. H. Williams, rs Administrator, aud in
his own right, Gordon Williams, Frances
j. Vaughn, Monroe L. Williams, Eugenia
Hooper, Defendants in this action.
VOU are hereby summoned and required
l. to answer the complaint in this action I,
q copy Of which is herewith served upon
you, and to serve copy of your answer 10
said complaint on the subscribers at their
Office, at Spartanburg, s. c., within twenty
days after the service hereof, exclusive Of
the day Of such service, and if you fail to
answer the complaint within the time afore-
said, the plaintiff in this action will apply to
the Court for the relief demanded in the
complaint.
w. s. THOMSON.
DAVID JOHNSON, Jr.
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
To Frances J.sVaughn and Eugenia Hooper,
defendants. Take notice that the COM
plant in this action, together with the
summons, Of which the foregoing is
copy, was filed in the Probate court for
Union county, at Union G. H., on the 1lth
day of February, 1890.
w. S...THOMASON,
DAVID JOHNSON, JR.,
Plaintiffs Attorneys,
Spartanburg, s. G.
Feb IA Ct.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
FlimSy Charges.
From the Bradford Opinion

The Woodbury. organs of the State
have opened the campaign of 1890 by
slandering one of its worthiest citi-
zens. First, by circulating the story
that Carroll S. Page fed to Canada
during the Rebellion. Second, that
he is responsible for the low price of
calf skins AS the first has already
been refuted to the satisfaction of all
fairminded people, we will endeavor
to dispose of the second. If the sec
ond charge could be sustained by a
fair balance of evidence, not only the
friends of Mr.. Page, but also his OPP
ponentS as we'll have every reason in
the world to be proud that the old
Green Mountain State has such a dis
tinguished citizen. If the people of
the State would s,,ten=a-moment and
think, they would at once see how
foolish such assertions are. When it
would be necessary for one man to
almost corner the markets of the
world in order to have such a monop-
oily, to prove this it would be neces-
sary for the opponents of Mr.. Page
to show that the State of Vermont is
the axis upon which the calf skin in
dustry revolves. If the farmers of
Vermont were obliged to sell calf
skins to Mr.. Page, then there would
be some ground to work on. But as
they are not, and only sell to him be-
cause his prices are higher than any
other dealer, as is shown by statistics
in another column, we maintain that
this standing by itself is a sufficient
answer to their charge. But seeing
that our opponents have started out
with the principle which some of our
Democratic friends would call SWAY
ing the bloody SHIRT" it would be well
enough to give them a parallel case
to consider, For many years the
present Lieutenant-Governor has been
an extensive dealer in lumber, would
it be any more foolish to maintain
that he is responsible for the low
price of lumber at present prevailing
than that Mr.. Page is responsible for
a decline in hides? Such charges
are too fimsy, and will not deceive
the people.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Page the Farmers Friend.
From the Iandmarl-

Would not farmers throughout the
State do we'll to ask themselves which
has been the more closely identified
with them and their interests, Page
or Woodbury.? Take the market for
calf skins, concerning which this I'M
reasonable and foolish charge against
Page is made, has he not for years
bought them from farmers at the best
prices he could afford to give What
about his profits? He offers to " es-
tablish to the satisfaction of anyone
who wishes to investigate that the
net profit on the calf skins handled
by him in the last ten years has not
averaged three cents per skim" and
"that in no year since 1879 have his
net profits been as high as five cents
per skin" Had it not been for his
extensive business in that line the
farmers would have had comparative
ly no purchasers at all of these skins.
For every dollar they have received
from Page have they in any way
whatsoever received a single cent
from Woodbury.? Again, who when
in public Office showed more plainly
principles of economy in public ex-
penditures than did Page? Who Of
tlcially protested against undue in
vestments by our savings banks in
Western mortgages? Page And
men who deemed him over cautious
then, now acknowledge his sagacity
on that point.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Vaulting Ambition.
From thp Elir Houon Fro

1t would seem as though the vault
ing ambition of the people of Bur
llngton might some day be satisfied,
but that day is ff,rsT;zt, for there is
scarcely an Office m the gift of the
nation or State, but that they aspire
to. While not disposed to disparage
this ambition, it would certainly APP
pear more seeming if they were not
SO grasping and more easily satisfied.
Were they, other sections of the State
would be the more easily pleased, and
could be the better handled in emer-
gencies such as the present when it is
so necessary to the success of the
candidate to have the whole State in
accord. 1t is this lack of unity that
will prove strong element in the
present campaign, and do more than
anything else to secure the defeat of
Burlington's leading candidate.
There is such thing as overreach-
ing ones self, and this is the thing
Burlington is doing. Burlington has
sought and secured too much, and
when she attempts to grasp the entire
State and use it for her own and her
citizens ACKNOWLEDGMENT, she must be
taught by the voice of the people that
she has attempted to bite off more
than she can chew. The people of
Vermont owe it to themselves to teach
her this lesson, and we think they
will not be slow in doing it in the
campaign that is SO nearly upon US.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
THE GOVERNOR QUESTION.
The CaIf-Skin Canard.

From the MOnJpelleT waterman.
1t is true that the farmers of Yer
mont have somehow and to some eX-
tent been made to believe that Mr..
Page controls the calfskin market,
and that by means of this alleged
monopoly prices have been crowded
down to existing quotations. I'm
questiOnably, a large number who
have not stopped to consider the alb
surdity of the thing have been pur-
suaded that this explanation ac-
counts for the small sum of money
now paid for this article of farm
products, when in factit is a sly cam
paign trick, an imposition upon the
intelligence of the farmers, devised
and circulated solely for political eff
feet. Every product and by-product
of the animal-fesh, butter, hide,
hoof and hOrns-has shared the same
fate. Mr.. Page is as much RESPONSE
BILE for the drop in the article he buys
as the drover for the ruinously low
price of beef cattle-nO more, no less ;
as responsible as the butter-buyer for
the price of butter-nO more, no less.
Tanners and leather-dealers in this
vicinity all confirm this view of the
matter Mr.. Page, they say, pays a
higher price for calf, and especially
dairy-skins, than they can afford to
pay. They cannot afford to tan
these skins, but find it more profit
able to sell them to Mr.. Page, Beef
hides which a few years ago were
worth from So to 81 will bring now
only from $3.50 to So Mr. Page
does not buy this class of skins, but
he is responsible for this shrinkage in
value to the same extent as for that
of dairy-skins-no more, no less The
fact that dairy-skins are worth any
thing at all is due to the further fact
that Mr. Pages enterprise has Gre
ated a new market for these skins
since their practical supersedure for
boot and shoe making by goat, kan
CARGO, buff leather, etc. Mr. Page
has no monopoly of the business in
green calf-skins. The business is
worldwide and trade in hides is free.
To corner the market he must con-
troll a trade that is as universal as
cattle-raising, that amounts annual
ly to about one hundred million dol
lars. 1t will readily occur to any
thinking person that to corner a
market of this extent and a trade of
this amount would be something OF
a feat for a Vermont boy in a little
town up among the Green Noun
tains, away from the great trade cen
ters. Men who are believing this tale
are unconsciously paying Mr. Pages
business ability a colossal compli-
ment, and politicians who are bank
ing, in respect of this calfskin canard,
upon the credulity of the Vermont
farmer will find too late that they
have been reckoning without their
host.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
A Suggestion to the Farmers.


There is much discussion in Yer
mont just now in regard to the Gov
ernor question, and the friends of the
two leading candidates are eXtOlling
the character and fitness of those two
men for the exalted position to which
they aspire. The farmers of the State
do the most ofthe voting and are most
interested in the policy which the
next Governor will pursue; but in all
this discussion we have seen no allu-
sion as to which man would best
serve the interests of the farming
population. The farmers have for
many years been asking for legisla
ton in certain directions. In some
points they have been successful, in
others they have failed; especially is
this true of railroad legislation. The
farmers candidate for Governor
should be Il man who will regard the
prosperity of the agricultural inter
ests of the State of paramount i'm
portance and at the same time be
just to all other interests; but no
man can be the servant of the rail
roads and the friend of the farmers.
Railroad influences have largely dom
mated Vermont politics for many
years, and we have heard it whispered
that they propose to take a promi
nent part in the present canvass and
that their forces are already in the
field If the farmers of the State ex-
pect even-handed justice from the
next Legislature they should open
their eyes before it is too late, and
not be led by side issues to the sup
port of men and measures which will
be opposed to their interests.