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The Republican journal., 1892-02-18

HERE is 4 NEW PROBLEM FOR SOLUTION.
To THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL: Being a
reader OF your very interesting paper |
learned many of its readers We're much in
terested in the land problem, and through
your permission | would be pleased to sub
NIT a similar problem for solution. Will
give field notes as they were handed to me-
Commencing at an iron stake which marked
one corner of said field thence n, So LIE, w
10 rods; thence n. u 81 W, ) rods thence
n, 30 1-2o W, IA rods: thence n, IL, w, II
rods: thence n, :6o, w, 9 ID rods thence n .
So, w, II rods; thence S, = w, ~ rods and
p links; thence y, So, E. IS rods to place of
beginning.
First l wish to know the area of said field
and | also wish to divide said field in two
equal parts. Commencing at the most
southerly corner, what is the length of
dividing lineo And which one of the
northerly sides will the dividing line inter
sect? And at what point on that said north
erly side will the dividing line intersect :?
Hoping have stated this problem perfectly
plain so there can be no misunderstanding
shall notice with interest the multiplicity of
solutions. G.
The Republican journal., 1892-02-18
Educational Problems.

In Fall River, Mass, an animated dis
cussion has grown out of petition pre-
sented by the most influential citizens
Among other things the petition says:
We think too many studies are given in
grammar schools, and that too much is
thereby expected of children ranging from
10 to IA and - years Of age. 1t is much
better that our children should come out
of school at the end of their school course
with fair amount of learning and good,
healthy bodies and minds, than that they
should graduate with minds crammed
with knowledge, but nerves unstrung.
The system in vogue is faulty, and tends
to discourage, rather than encourage, a
healthy interest in studies.
The petition was referred to sub COM
mittee that has recently been at work try
ing to change the curriculum
THE Greatest Need of College Girls
is the theme of paper in the January
Atlantic by Annie Payson Call. She points
out that while the woman college proper
has been modelled after the traditional
and existing college for men, the former
has failed lamentably in one fundamental
department. physical culture. While the
authorities that be of our great men 5 col
leges have all they can do to restrain stu
dents from over indulgence i'll athletics.
the gymnasium of Nassar, Of Smith, and
of Wellesley, are Unattended, inadequate
IN,
The Republican journal., 1892-02-18

There are 466 sawmills running in the
State of Washington, with total daily
cutting capacity of 8, 421 900 feet.
The Republican journal., 1892-02-18
TAX NOTICE.

THE following list of taxes real estate of non
L reSidenr owners in the town of Liberty for the
year 1880, in bills committed to A. A. Brown col
lector COR constable) of said on the 18th day
of September, 1851, has been returned by him to
me as remaining unpaid on the 18th day OF Sep
tember 1891, by his certificate of that date, and
now remain unpaid; and notice is hereby given
that if the said taxes and interest and charges are
not paid into the treasury of said town within
eighteen months from the date of the commitment
OF said bills, so much of the real estate taxed as
Will be sufficient to pay the amount due therefor,
including interest and charges, will, without
further notice, be sold at public auction at the
Post once in said town, on the Goth day of Fehru
ary at l o'clock z. NJ:
Property of Julia Brown.
S. I. YOUNG, Treasurer.
Liberty, Me-, Jan. 26, 1S92.-3w5
The Republican journal., 1892-02-18

In Massachusetts, as might be expect
ed, new educational ideas are taking root
Winchester claims to have been the first
town in the State to introduce French.
Latin and Geometry in its grammar school
course. Some of the ideas brought out at
recent meeting at the Winchester town
hall are thus summarized by the Boston
Evening Record:
/. Time is now wasted over useless
legation, reduction descending - four
titths OF the big arithmetic.
?. Geometry and algebra are Of much
more value in teaching reasoning
3. School Biographies are loaded with
useless surplusage OF words and facts.
Read one if you don t believe it.
i. Geography is much better taught by
local application than by palrotish mem
orizing OF names, etc
). Too much recitation may become a
positive evil. Many pupils need only
steering.
&. \ large number of studies does not
mean crowding Crowding more often re-
suits from forcing and hammerng on one
study.
:. Keeping a bright pupil tied down to
dull one limit eventually takes ambi-
ton out OF the bright one.
s. The grammar school programme
needs enliching in manual training, in
music. in reading and writing Compost
tion.)
The Republican journal., 1892-02-18
70 BE LET,

At City Point, Belfast, Maine.
THE store, store houses and wharves formerly
occupied by SAMUEL OTIS Il co. The loca-
ton s suitable for country store, for shipment of
produce by rail or water, and for manu- featuring
business. The works of the Granite Company ad-
join the premises. Also dwelling house at CITY
Point, with about rs acres of land. Excellent
spring water piped TO the house. Inquire on the
premises, or Of
A. B. OTIS, Upper Bridge.
The Republican journal., 1892-02-18

In the Normal College, New Y ork, the
girls are taught how to handle saws.
knives and jack planes, and to make use
full things This is called the Sloid class.
1t is a carefully graded system of manual
training educational carpentering'' one
might call it. BY it pupils are taught
how to use their hands skilfully and use
fully and how to make measurements by
the eye. Incidentally too. it inclllcates
thoroughness, care, industry and perse-
verance, by means of which only can the
highest success be achieved. The Slojd idea
was conceived in Sweden, and has proven
wonderfully successful there. In fact, so
enthusiastic are the Swedes as to the ben
efits to be derived from a course in Slojd
that a wealthy gentleman named Abra-
hanson has devoted his own charming
villa and estate at Mas, near Gottenburg,
to be used as a Slojd seminary. Teachers
from points as far separated us Holland,
Iceland, Chilli and the United States here
meet during the summer months to learn
for themselves OF the merits of the system.
Among the first to 90 from New York city
in 1887, and at her own expense. was Dr.
Emily Ida Conant, professor of pedagogy
at the Normal College. After course Of
six weeks, during which she worked for
six hours every day at the bench and lis
tened to lectures on the theory, she re-
turned to America thoroughly imbued
with the merits of the Sloid system as an
educational factor in the development of
children. Another trip to Sweden con-
tirmed the first impression, and after sew
eral conferences with a committee from
the Board of Education it was decided to
establish such a class in the Normal Col
lege for such of the graduates as could Sc
cure scholarship. The New York Herald
gives an interesting account of the girls at
work at the bench, from which they adj
jOurn to the kitchen for a cooking lesson.
The Herald concludes
Verify the world moves. Here were
girls who, besides absorbing more or less
valuable knowledge concerning all the ed
ucational ''ologies'' and ''isms,'' were ac-
tually learning how to do useful work with
their hands-and cook.
Won't some of them make regular Jew
els of wives some day?
The Republican journal., 1892-02-18

The American people like President
with brains and a backbone. Benjamin
Harrison has both.
The Republican journal., 1892-02-18


the Rio Cuareim to the bar of the Chuy on
the Atlantic coast. The Rio Negro and its
big atfluent the vi, intersects the country
diagonally; and there are numerous other
great local Importance.
The old placer washings, from which
the Jesuits and the Viceroys of Spain used
to get such fabulous quantities of gold
and silver, were all long since exhausted,
or their localities have been obliterated
and forgotten. During hundred years
of almost continuous warfare including
the long struggle for independence and
subsequent revolutions, the people were
mercilessly robbed of their wealth, and
many poor wretches, who We're suspected
of knowing where gold OF silver might be
obtained, were prosecuted until they re-
vealed the secret or died to conceal it: and
SO much pains were taken to hide all
trace of natures store-houses, that in
many cases, after the lapse of few years,
the descendants of the original owners
could not find them Within the last
quarter century, however, new mineral
deposits of extraordinary richness have
been discovered, and the report of a re-
cent Geological Commission, appointed
by the government to examine these
resources, reads like a tale of the Arab
ian Nights.
Within the last decade the population
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-31

whom I have gotten up new story
But what the people want is the truth.
Having thus shown where l stand on
the question of veracity l will proceed
with my simple story of how Maude
changed cars at Utica. Maude was 60
ing up to GraUesville in the northern
part of this state for a two weeks visit.
She was to take the four o'clock train
from the Grand Central depot. She
was to be accompanied by very dear
friend whom l will call Jennie, and by
her brand new nickel-plated bicycle
which was to aStonish the natives of
Gravesville. Maude planned it all out
to have Jennie and the bicycle and me
at the depot on time. She can't bear to
be hurried at the last minute when she
is to make a journey. | offered to bet
her the price of two weeks board in
GAINESVILLE that if any one of US four
was late at the depot it would not be
Jennie nor me nor the bicycle, but she
declined to rob me on so easy wager.
The janitor's boy, Tom, was to ride
the bicycle to the depot; was to come
up from the Office, and Jennie was to
come over from Brooklyn. Tom and 1
arrived at $50: Jennie appeared at 3:55;
and Maude was not there at 3:5S. This
did not surprised me at all. Every deep
student of human nature must have OBJ
served that when a woman carefully
guards against the commission of blum
der by somebody else, it is only for the
purpose of leaving herself free field
wherein to execute that very blunder
in a thorough and satisfactory manner.
I had urged Maude to let me have her
ticket because that bit of cardboard
would be necessary in order to secure
permission of the railroad people to put
the bicycle into the baggage car. Maude
had replied that the idea of trusting
me with anything so important might
enter the heads of strangers, but never
that of my wife. When Maude arrived
at 3:59}5 the door of the baggage car
had been locked so securely that could
not open it with a two-dollar note.
1t seemed necessary to send the
bicycle to GAINESVILLE by express, but
after / had put her aboard the
train she put her head out of
window and told me that she had
learned from the porter that there was
a train an hour later which overlook
hers at Utica. If l could get the bicycle
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is to get off at the next station and
wait for your car to come along"
Perhaps this scene is too painful to
describe. The idea Of woman being
borne away from large portion of her
| clothing at the rate of fifty miles an
hour in the middle of the night is
enough to move any heart to pity. Let
us return to Jennie. She had vainly
endeavored to induce Maude to wait for
her, and, failing, had dressed herself
and gone out upon the platform. While
she was there the car began to move. 1t
was being transferred to the other train,
but she supposed it was continuing it's
journey.
''Oh, goodness gracious exclaimed
Jennie, ''Maude will be left without the
waist of her dress"
She rushed back to the berth, piled
all their belongings-as she thought
together in miscellaneous pile, and
fed TO the door. The porter tried to
stop her and explain, but she brushed
him aside. How she ever got of the
car without breaking her neck do not
know. 1t wasn't going very fast, and
she managed it safely. Then she began
frantic search for Maude; but that I'M
happy young woman was already speed
ing away. as has been related. Finally
she got back to where the sleeping-car
had been, but the train had gone on,
and she was informed that no person
answering Maudes description had
boarded il.
Meanwhile Maude waited in dreadful
suspense for the arrival of that sleeping
car. When ii came. after what seemed
an age but wasn't more than twenty
minutes, she fled to il as a haven of ref
uge. Her feelings when she discovered
the absence of Jennie and the garments
must have been too deep for tears. She
was carried on to the next station,
where she secured carriage and went
to hotel.
Early the next afternoon went up
the road to straighten things out in re-
Spouse to three kilograms, as follows:
UTICA. July -
Maude missing. Come at once JENNIE
RIGGsvILLE, July ~
Jennie missing with all my clothes Gene a,
once and bring ny other trunk MAUDk
GRAvESvULE, July -
Received yours asking me 10 look ont for
girls and bicycle Nothing arrived on the train
bat pair OF light blue corsetsl Do not know
what has got the resi- Of tie party. Gene 81
once USxs BILLY
had always been sverse to allowing
women to travel unaccanpanied by
men, but If they can get as much Joy as
this out of a little run OF three hundred
miles perhaps il is as well to let them
so IL alone HOWARD FIELDING.
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Ieft.HaneA dad Sayn1ea.

The FIJI islanders and the Terra del
Fuegans are both observation-disclosures is,
they possess equal powers with both
hands. Stone-throwing from both hands
is an accomplishment they learn from
their earliest years, and one in which
they arrive at a high degree of perfec-
ton. In times of war they throw the
spear and other missiles with either
hand with unerring aim. 1t is a strange
fact that the use of the right hand in
stead of the left has kept pace with the
that the least intelligent. OF human
kind, when describing a circle Of any
similar movement, always work from
the right to the left. A child will also
work in this fashion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-31

The Rock Island has besn selected by
the Kansas and Oklahoma department as
the Official route 20 Washington. D. c.
for all comrades and their friends over
which they VIII travel enrou;e 10 attend
the National Eucam pment 70 be bel! IA
Washington. ID. T., during the third week
IN SeptenIber. special train Will leave
Wichita, Saturday. sept. Il, and rua
through 70 Washington without change
OF cars This viii te the fines. train shAt
ever left the state HauGsoule.Y decCrsted
The train viii he compos.d Of Pullman
Palace sleeping ears Pa.
tourist cars and he csis-
bTated Rock Island dniag cars Parties
contemplating this tyip cen sesEre what
ever accommodations they Essh sad rssaia
such accommodations taFougA 10 WASH
iBgJon, the rate vii 40. De higher than
So - FOR the Vouad Trip. BE- procuring
your tickets via tue oifseisl rcgs= ySa ~tIl
De allowed Stop-oge- privileges o1 sour
ticket. ETeTy b1ziy - we3casfss - 20 Va
this ruats On the ossciai ifA4E. Yea are
invited 20 leave your names ~ thu koek
Island Isckes ofiice ard secure Eour acc7sn
EooarlosS early and void the r1sa. OF
tee l10. corner MAiU and Douglas
" Il WEsHAEE
City Iseks1 AID Pas@r Agt.
Correspondence so44c-.sa- 6es 70.
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Hunt up half hundred forceful and in
cisive adjectives, suitable for description
of sublime and inspiring scenery; then
take u tip to the Grand Canon of the Col
orado, and you will throw them aside as
being inadequate.
The worlds greatest wonder is the Grand
Canon of the Colorado river, in Arizona.
Yellowstone Park and Yosemite take sec
ond place; Niagara Falls is dwarfed; and
the Adirondacks seem like mere hills,
compared with the stupendous chasms
and heights of the Grand Canon.
This hitherto inaccessible region has
just been opened for tourists by stage line
from Flagstaff, A r., on the transconti-
mental highway of the A. 7. S. +. r. r.
The round trip can be made comfortably,
quickly, and at reasonable expense.
Nearest agent of Santa Fe route will
quote excursion rates. on application. An
illustrated pamphlet is in preparation,
fully describing the many beauties and
wonders of the Grand Canon. Write to
G. r. Nicholson, g. p. & T. a, A. T. e. S.
f. r. r.. Topeka, Kan, or j. j. Byrne
Asst Pass. Traffic Mgr, Chicago, for free
copy, which will be mailed when ready for
distribution. 40 If
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ME decided to sit up till they got to
Utica. in order TO be ready to look out
for the bicycle Having SO decided, of
course they went to bed at ten o'clock.
II they had only firmly resolved to 60
to bed the chances are that they would
have sat up. Since woman is certain
to change her mind. why can't she learn
to make it up dead wrong in the first
place?
1t was hot night. and the girls very
sensibly laid aside a considerable por-
ton of their clothing when they re-
tired. | have not obtained bill OF
particulars from Maude, but drew my
own differences from the fact that when
the conductor of the car, about one
o'clock in the morning, called Utica"
outside the curtains of Maude's berth
she exclaimed to Jennie: "Oh, dear;
shall never be able to dress in time.
Don't my hair look perfectly horrid?"
She began to dress in feverish haste,
but before she had made much head
way the engine bell rang, and she was
nearly driven wild with the notion
noticed that there is always some en-
ploye of railroad on hand TO ring a
bell at the most unfortunate moment
Many time / have swallowed the lat
ter half of a leaden sandwich, and fed
from the lunch room with my mouth
full of hot slumgullion only to sit ten
minutes in the train before it started,
thinking of the amount of dyspepsia 1
might have contracted if had known
how long we were to stay.
The bell scared Maude just that way.
She seized long waterproof cloak,
which entirely covered her, and left
good many things which she ordinarily
regards as essential behind her in the
car. By a stroke of good luck she
found the bicycle, and by stroke of
bad luck she had it put into the wrong
baggage car, and it went on its way to
GAINESVILLE, o.
Just as this feat was accomplished
Maude saw, to her horror, that the
train was starting. At the imminent
risk of her life she swung herself upon
the nearest platform, and then made
her way toward the rear of the train in
search of her sleeping car. She reached
the last platform and did not find that
car. Then she went forward to the
door of the smoker and she still failed
TO find that sleeper. But she found the
conductor, and confided to him in
voice full of hysteria that her sleeper
was lost.
THAT sleeper don't go on with this
train" said he; ''it's switched on the
other one at Utica"
Well, almost anybody can understand
how Maude felt when she heard this
piece Of news She simply fell on her
knees at the conductors feet and i'm
plored him to stop the train and let her
walk back.
Cant do it, miss" said he. "And,
besides, we're four miles out of Utica
You couldn't get back, any
way. The only thing that you can do
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-31
DEATH ON GRAssHoPPERs.
A Small Western Lizard That Makes Food
Of the Insects

Of the Insects
There is small reptile out west, says
the Washington Star, known as the
fence lizard, which catches and eats a
great many grasshoppers- The species
IS very common in the infested regions.
Skunks are most active enemies of the
insect and have been known to ascend
trees for the purpose of catching them.
For obvious reasons it will hardly be
practicable to encourage these particu-
lar mammals, but no such objections
would apply to toads, which are apt to
swarm wherever the ''hoppers" are,
gobbling the latter greedily. Many
planters in California employ focks Of
turkeys for the purpose of freeing their
orchards and vineyardsof grasshoppers.
One turkey will destroy al almost in
credible number in single day. Incl
dentally the birds are fattened at the
cheapest possible rate. They are so
fond of such food that sometimes they
devour too many and die of indiges-
ton.
Common barnyard fowls are likewise
very efficient destroyers of grasshop-
pers. In one case referred to by a
special agent of the department of ag-
ricuiture an almond orchard containing
three hundred and sixty acres was at
tackled by migrating swarms last year.
The house and barn were situated in
the middle of the orchard, and the
chickens browsed around them over an
area of six or eight acres, which, by Au-
gust, looked like green oasis in the
desert, the trees everywhere else hav-
ing been stripped of their leaves by the
voraci GUS insects.
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Are You Going to Washing on

If so lend me your ear for minute.
The Santa E'e holds out inducements
such as no other line will offer you. For
instance superbly equipped special train
will leave Oklahoma and Kansas on Fri
day, Sept. 10th and land you in Chicago
Saturday morning. Cincinnati Sunday
morning, Washington Monday morning in
time for the great doings on Monday after
noon. You can take your choice OF routes
from Chicago, but this special train has
been selected by so many of the old COM
rades and their friends to 90 by the big
Four" and Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
that cars will run through without Change
over these three lines
Garfield post of Wichita, with their
colors and handsomely decorated cars.
go by this through train, and they have
cordially invited the comrades and friends
all along the line 10 help swell the process
sion. Don't forget that the return trip
includes Fortress Monroe, Richmond and
Lynchburg. You can secure your berths
now. either in tourist sleeper at a ridicu-
lousy low rate or in a standard sleeper at
the usual price. Round trip tickets, with
stop-over privileges, at less than one cent
per mile.
Don't forget that by this route you see
the worlds fair, going and coming, and
the grandest scenery In the Old Dominion
by daylight.
For further particulars inquire of any
Santa Ee agent, or
W. ID. MURDOCH, ID. P. A,
30 tt Wichita, Kansas.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

FURNISHED by Apologize & Mallory,
Abstractersl
The records in the register of deeds office
show the following buyers:
J Parking, wd lots 50 81 Ida ave Nc
Cormicks add. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $500
Z NJ Mccoy, wd lots 50 81 Ida ave
McCormicks add Observation-Disclosures. 1900
A III Wood, wd lots IS So Byers ave
clearwater. Observation-Disclosures. 20
II Kraft. tract 25X237 fit com % it S
sc cor 18th and Main. 1900
Topeka Investment company, Sc or
sec 10 % 2e &c d.................. l
w Davis W lots 3 ) Ave Il, Carpen-
tiers add to Valley Center. ..... 1850
w r Baker lots 80 A Water st, 81 80
Market st As AZ Market st, 46 4S
Main st, Garland-B Brook add ..... l
a III Ayers lots sc IS, and 10 # lot
40, MHynes add wd. .............. 1000
J. w Sect lots and 4 and hf NV
or sec 29-26-1 W wd $500
j. w Scott lot of sec % 26-1 W wd.. 800
Kos Harris blk 10 lots u IA and 1924
blk ); lots y Is IA blk 8; lots 10 II,
blk Q; lots 1921 blk y; lots % 80
and IL AZ blk -; lot blk j.; lots 4
y and Is blk 10; lots 10 50 blk 3, all
in Colwich Kan qcd. 2l0
y q Rafferty, sw or of sw or sec 24-29
2wwd ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900
Mortgage releases. .............-...S3 946 30