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Year: 1878

The campaign is now drawing to Close
we have entered upon the last week Of
the canvass, and the work is well nigh done
Now that the several tickets have been be.
fore the public long enough to give the
people fair opportunity to measure the
respective candidates, we think We fairly
reflect the deliberate judgment of the Re
publicans Of Kansas when We say that the
ticket, taken as a whole, is as good one
as the Republican party of Kansas ever
presented tor the suffrages of the people.
The candidates, State and Congressional,
are all men Of ability, they are men with
acknowledged regulations for honesty and
integrity, and We have come thus far
through the activities of an anima-
ted campaign without being called
upon to record the unpleasant fact
OF single blimish being pointed out
in the reputation of any one ofthem, by the
keen and vigilant campaigners of the opposi-
tion. This is not because the Democrats of
the State have neglected their opportunities,
for their campaign has been conduct
ed by men who are shrewd enough to de-
tcct all the weak spots that exist on the
other ticket, but it is because the Republi-
can State and congressional conventions
have presented for the various offices
which the people are called upon to fill
next Tuesday, men whose character will
stand the test of the closest scrutiny-men
who have come through the severe ordeal
uatarnished, and whose nominations will
be ratified by the people at the polls next
Tuesday. by emphatic majorities.
Year: 1878

The use OF kerosene oil for Illuminating


purposes has unquestionsbly. been OF i'm


mense service to the people of this country
When Its virtues were first discovered, the
| failure OF the whale fisheries was imposing


a restricted use on all artificial ligh's in
| thousands OF households and its introduc-


ton was, therefore, very opportune. But


during the past two or three years a COM


petition in price has had the effect to lessen


the usefulness of kerosene oil by making il


exceedingly dangerous. Not only have re-


tail dealers diluted the oil purchased OF the


manufacturers by adding naptha to it, but


the refners Themselves have put in the


market oils far below the grade which ex-


perience has demonstrated TO be safe one.


Almost all of the Northern States have


passed laws forbidding the sale of kerosene
oil which flashes at a lower temperature


than ll0' Fahrenheit, and though


the observance OF these statutes insures only


a comparative degree .of safety, for the
flash grade should have been set at l400,
yet, as a matter OF fact, the great part OF
the oil sold and burned, would, if tested,
flash considerably under 1lO0 of heat. As
long as lamp is full of oil this unsafe
liquid can be burned with impunity. The
dangerous element in ali the products OF


petroleum is the vapor that is evolved


Thus, a man may plunge lighted match
into barrel filled to the brimfwIth nap
tha with no other consequence than the ex-
tinguishment Of the light, but ii the barrel
was only quarter or an eighth full Sc
we're explosion would be inevitable. Now.
most Of the oil in this city, would, if tested,
be found TO hash between S0' and g0o Fab
renheit, proving that light increase iu
the ordinary temperature was alone needed
to make it Ievolve explosive vapor. Where
kerosene lamp explosions take place it
is often found that the lamp was on IN an
tle-piece over stove where the
temperature was higher than elsewhere in
the room, and hence, when two-thirds OF
the oil in the lamps was used up, its place
was filed by an invisible vapor OF great ex-
plosive power. Any defect in the top OF a
lamp which allowed the vapor to come in
contact with the flame, would, under these
circumstances, produce an explosion; or it
might come about by driving the flame
down into the lamp, through the common
though hazardous practice of blowing out
lamp from the top OF the glass chimney
When kerosene oil is sold at from 10 to -
cents per gallon, those who purchase it
should exercise the utmost caution in Its
use, as there is little probability OF its be
ing safe and reliable article. In all this
there is need os reform, and this should
take the shape of an enforcement of exist
ing laws.
Year: 1878

The following is said to be an extract
from the will OF Peter the Great, OF RTs.
sia, giving directions to his successors as to
the manner in which they should govern
and strengthen their empire. Whether it
is authentic or not, it evidently portrays
the line of conduct that Russia is persuing


Approach As near as possible to Cons,anti-
nople and India. To rule these is TO rule the
world. To this end, excite continual wars,
at one time in Turkey, at another in Persia I;
establish timber yards in the Black Sea !;
take possession by degrees of this sea, as well
as of the Baltic, both being necessary for our
ultimate success hasten the decay of Persia
and penetrate as far as the Persian Gulf; re-
establish, If possible, by way of Syria, the
old trade of the Levant, and advance as far
as India, which is the emporium of the
world. Once in India, no more need of the
gold of England
Year: 1878

Speaker Randall explains that he never
sent a cipher dispatch. He wrote what he
had to say in English, and another fellow
put it in cipher and sent it. He does no,
deny that the dispatch as published, is cor
rect, put says the meaning has been per-
verted- The Later OcsGn thinks that a queer
thing about all these Democratic explana-
tions is that they do not explain. Another
queer thing thing is that all the explainers
virtually admit that the dispatches are
genuine, and haue been correctly transla-
Year: 1878

school house in the interest of tie Green
back cause. The Governor said it would
take one hundred years to reconstrucf the
country, and compared the present recon-
struction with Heaven and He'll all mixed
up together. He ca led the Democrats en-
emies OF the country, and went for that
party with all the force OF his Anthony na-


ture. His ideas differed materially from
Bro. Jaquin's about the..unity of the Repub-
lican and Democratic party. He he'd up
the Bible in o-e lind, and tie bloody shirt
in the other; as political speaker, although
a man Of rare ability, he is not success,
on account OF his wild flights of oratory
which are founded more by fancy than res-
son. He was doubtless told to give the
Democracy hi and he did his best to fill
the bill, but as that party is small and con-
fined entirely to few good natured gentle
men living on Grant Creek, We think there
was large amount OF wasted ammunition.
Year: 1878

expenses of the Normal School.


The fire which caused the de-truciion,
originated in the coal cellar. The State
House, and as we understand the State
University authorities, keep their supply oi
fuel in the basement, and We shall not he
surprised TO have to record further destruc-
tion from this cause. The supply of fuel
for our public buildings and institutions
should be kept in place disconnected from
the building. Will the proper authorities
look to this matter at once?
Year: 1878

lEXcnange.l


Harness should never be kept in the sta
bic where manure is constantly generating
large quantities of ammonia this ammonia
is rapidly absorbed by the leather, and the
effect upon the leather il about the same a.
would result from saturating it with strong
lye. In a word, ammonia rots leather, and
hence keeping harne . in the stable Is sure
to result in their damage, more or less.
Year: 1878

As the pastures begin to fail, stock, to
keep them up to thriving condition, must
have q little grain. For milk COWS pump
kins make an excellent feed at this season
Of the year. Give calves special attention,
a. the change from green to dry food il par
ticularly trying to young animals. Give
them . lick Of meal daily and keep them
up 10 the growing point. A cheek in thsif
growth i Injurious to al young sock and >
1oD b ths ovnE.
Year: 1878

When you gather your herbs dry them
and rub the leaves through sieve and
bottle them tightly till you need them. Tie
the stalks together and save them till you
want to make what the French call a bou-
quet for a soup or stew. A bouquet OF
herbs is made by tying together few sprigs
of parsley, thyme and two bay leaves.
These can all be bought at any drug store.
Year: 1878

A good dairyman gives his experience
that bran is an excellent food for cows at
any time when extra food is required. He
has generally been able to get from it more
milk than from an equal cost of any other
ground feed. 1t is better suited to warm
weather than meal. As the weather be-
comes cool, if COWS are at all thin, meal
may be proftably added. At any rate he
advises that feed enough of some kind
should be given TO keep up both milk and
strength all the fall. One of the worst er-
rors a dairyman ever commits is TO let
COW 60 into winter quarters dropping.
Year: 1878

Chase, old citizens Who have been here
throughout the fever, we're stricken Mon.
day night. The wife of Captain Tom
Caldwell, who returned from Glasgow,
KY last Wednesday. and had not been
Rear the fever, is also down with it. We,
who remained through the epidemic Of
1873 and Of the present year, and have
felt the fierce fever coursing through our
veins like melted lead, know what it is.
We have always given warning and
words Of safe counsel, ard feel that we
do 80 now in advising our absent friends
not to make undue haste in coming
home. They had better stay away a
week too long than come home a day
tCo soon,
Year: 1878

We congratulate our morning cotem


poraries, the Appeal and Avalanche, on
their superb enterprise and nerve in
resuming the issue Of full size, double
sheets SO early as Sunday, the 9th
The news, editorial aud advertising
columns OF both papers are well filed
and we hope that this indicates On early
return Of life and prosperity to
Memphis, aad tie more liberal patronage
and recognition of the press. The
LEDGER would have resumed double
sheet on Monday last but for the absence
ofso many of our old compositors and
members OF the editorial staff. Those who
have remained aud survived desire TO
share their arduous labors with fresher
aud stronger men, under the auspices OF
less danger aud trial Of body and mird
than have attended the period known as
the plague. Before the epidemic was
heraldsd we had made arrangements to
bring the LEDGER out on the first of las {
September in a new dress. The type
and other material was already in the
office ready to be laid, but the change
was postponed until more convenient
season, and it will, therefore, be made
next Monday, the fourth OF November
The LEDGER of that day and from that
time on will be one of the neatest, newsi
est and most complete papers ever is
sued in the South, and we hope will
continue to receive the liberal support
of the reading public. The papers of
Memphis have teen kept running for the
last ten weeks at fearful rick and loss,
not only Of money, bat life itself. Near.
ly all OF its conductors aud attaches
could have gone away easier than
the great maj Gritty who went. They
chose to stay not ouly from professional
PRIDE but from q sense Of duty TO suffer
ing humanity, and how many fell let the
records tell. But for the reliable re.
ports and the words OF encourage meut
in the daily press, all sbse9tees would
have been 10 state of indiscrbable
suspense, while scenes OF eoniusioi ,
would have reigned here supreme. We
feel that we have done cur duty to those
who were away and to all who remained
or came here. Bidding adieu to the
etrucSles, the suffering aud sad scenes Of
the past, we have now to enter upon the
discharge Of less painful dnues and
gradually resume the ordinary ways of
business, and of conducting the af
fairs of lie. Memphis will have
a tremendous rush of business
for the next four or Eve months during
which soue OF our pecuuiary losses may
be repaired The LEDGER, even now, as
a half sheet, enjoys larger circulatiol
than for many years. and this will be so
largely increased when the absentees
all get home that it will reach the entire
reading community of the city and aur.
rounding country. We can therefore
make It to the interest of all who
wish their business made known and
kept before the public 10 use the LEDGER
as medium for advertising or making
their wants known. We feel that the
press of Memphis has strong claims
upon the business community, asd that
these will be recognized.
Year: 1878

While we are heart-sick to see
our absent friends, the warm weather
OF yesterday and to-day causes a
feeling Of apprehension that some
may return too soon. The black
frost, the thin ice and the cool, bracing
air Of Monday morning filled every
heart with JOY and hope, for all knew
that the worst was over. But We have
seen so much Of sickness and death and
desolation in the last two months that
we recoil at the thought OF o single per


son being unnecessarily sacrificed. There
is still a lingering germ OF the disease
here, and therefore remnant of danger.


The epidemic is over, but not quite so
with the fever. Colonel NJ. Magevney,
jr. Major +. 7, Bowen and Mr.. Will J.
Year: 1878

British Medical Jourpal,l


One of the most curious facts
connected with madness is the ut
ter absence of tears amid the in
sane. Whatever the form of mad
ness, tears are conspicuous by their
absence, as much in the depression
Of melancholia, or the excitement
of mania, as in the utter apathy of
dementia. II a patient in the lu-
natic asylum be discovered in tears,
it will bo found that it is either a
patient beginning to recover or an
emotional outbreak in an epileptic
who is scarcely truly insane, while
actually insane patients appear to
have lost the power of weeping; it
is only returning reason which can
once more unloose the fountain Of
their tears. Even when lunatic
is telling one in fervid language
how she has been deprived Of her
children, or the outrages that have
been perpetrated upon herself, her
eye is never even moist. The ready
gush Of tears which accompanies
the complaint Of the sane woman
contrasts with the dry-eyed appeal of
the lunatic. 1t would, indeed, seem
that tears give relief which, when
pent up, lead to madness. 1t is
one of the privileges Of reason to be
able to weep. Amid all the misery
Of the insane they can find no relief
in tears.
Year: 1878

Samuel of the third writes to Washing
ton that be is ssnguine Of his re. election.
He is certainly talking in a very san.
z linary way, as If there was q good deal
of blood Sheddeu to be done.
Year: 1878

Hot CREEK, Wy, August a.
The south bound coach was again
stopped four miles south of Jenny's
Stockade about five o'clock yester-
day afternoon by six armed men.
AS the coach was empty they did
not attempt any interference but
enquired of the driver as to the
movements of the treasure coach
which they were evidently waiting
for.
Year: 1878

wanted better game, and that much easier 10 be
caught IN their eyes. We must not forget one woman
saw the man as nc was crouching beside The BILLINGS
fence


The speaker here became too much exhausted TO
continue for the day. and the Court adjourned until
Monday.
Year: 1878

They still live. In these days of green
backs and things, it is refreshing to know
that the Patrons of Husbandry are still
alive. Yesterday the county grange held .
meeting at Good lemplars' hall in this city.
Now if we could only be assured that our
granger friends contemplate entering the
political arena once more and giving another
hoist to the embattled monopoly-but no,
no, their day and generation seems
to have passed. and Donnelly is
once more fighting the battles
of Democracy, and fastening along the era
of greenbacks and sound financial. policy!
Tbs GLOBE could not learn what this last
Year: 1878

reserve of agricul,urists talked about in the
meeting yesterday, but probably it was about
tho price of wheat. At any rate they were
not surrounded by politicians and office
seekers, as they would have been four years
ago in the halcyon granger days.
Year: 1878

BURGLARY. This morning when
O. McCallister went to his store he
found the back window up and the
blind open. An Investigation show
ed that box containing 4 pounds
of chewing tobacco, worth about
$50, was missing. The empty box
was found in the rear of the store.
Some person or persons had pried
the staple out of the blind and after
cutting the putty from on corner of
window had broken the glass and
reaching in, had drawn the window
catch. Nothing but the tobacco
was missed. About one ~dollar in
charge was left in the money drawer
last night, and although the drawer
bad been opened. the money had
not been disturbed.


D1ED.--We are panied to learn that
the wife of Judge Haskell. of Snohom-
ish. died yesterday, of typhoid fever.
after an illness of ten days. She was
an estimable lady. aud will be sadly
missed by her family and the entire
community.
Year: 1878

We are glad to know that we, the
people, have social rights which the
White House is, bound to respect;
that we are no longer to be frozen
out of those exalted precincts by icy
formality, ceremony, etiquette, and
hauteur as under the late imperial
regime we we're. What a work it
was then, to be sure, to gain admit
tance into that most select and re-
cherche circle! What q scramble
fer tickets-which had to be bought,
the proceeds going TO the Grant ci-
gar fund-and what an expense for
court costumes and carriages, as
none but kerridge people" could
gain entrance within the gates!-
What an awesome time we had in
getting into the blue room, through
a double line of liveried lackeys, and
hearing our names miscalled by the
grand ushers of the black and white
rods, and what another time in back
ing out of the presence! And how
hard on the cabinet officers having
to be on hand betimes in the presi-
dental dressing room, to assist at
the grand toilet of the president,
their wives little later taking their
turns in bearing the train of the
presidentess, while senator's and
their wives we're expected to do
Dent-duty and perform Sharp-ser-
vlce!-Grdce Greenwood.
Year: 1878

Not that this was the dear, good wo
mans name, but Uncle Jakeway called
her so in mild derision; for she made his
life almost miserable by being too smart
in certain ways which much affected his
comfort-and hers too.


"Punctuality," says the dictionaries, is
adherence to the exact time of an ap-
pointment (punctus, Lat, point)"


Mrs Jakeway was never punctual ac-
cording to the dictionary, for she was al
ways half an hour, at least, too early. If
she was going away on the seven o'clock
train she would get up at four a m to
prepare breakfast, having made every
thing ready the night before, even to
slicing potatoes and chopping meat.


The family had their smoking hot
meal before five o'clock; on the stroke of
six she started out, and in five minutes
reached the station, there 10 spend almost
an hour in the pleasant atmosphere conf
mon to railway stations.


If a stage journey to the little village
where her old mother lived-beyond the
reach of railways-was to be made, Mrs
Jakeway sat with all her "things" on for
an uncertain length of time, till the
creaky vehicle appeared, running to and
from the front door so often that she was
tired out before she started.


Sundays beheld her ystaid and starched,
arrayed in her very best, bolt upright in
chair, but fidgeting, as her husband
expressed it, like buckwheat on a hot
shovel" till she heard the rumble of
wheels coming to the door. She was
always first in the meeting house, and
had heard all the news of the week before
the minister thought of appearing.


This might have explaind her eager
desire to be early at church, had that
been the only day in the week that she
showed such eagerness; but a longing
for news showed itself in her daily life.


She made her sponge for bread before
dark, when it would have been better to
have left it till nine o'clock; for, as bread
is an imperative substance, she had to
get up before light to knead it and then
Mr. Jakeway must be reused to kindle
brisk fire in the oven, lest the leaves
should become sour before the oven was
ready to bake them.


Thanksgiving Day began with her the
week before; and sometimes, within her
husbands painfully excellent memory,
the turkey, 50 early killed and prepared
for that occasion, had been spoiled by
sudden spells of weather." for even No
vember is capricious in this climate, and
VIII have fine warm days now and then.


Ihe clothes for Mondays wash were
always put 'in soak" Saturday highland
consequently would sometimes mildew,
Year: 1878

original color, aoith the gloss and
freshness of youth. Thin hair is
thickened, falling hair checked, and
badness often, though not always,
cured by its use. Nothing can re-
store the hair where the follicles are
destroyed, or the glands atrophied
and decayed. But such as remain
can be saved for usefulness by this
application. Instead of fouling the
hair with a pasty sediment, it will
keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off,
and consequently prevent badness.
Free from those deleterious sub
stances which make some prepara-
tions dangerous and injurious to
the hair, the Vigor can only benefit
but not harm it. If wanted merely
for q
Year: 1878

1 find nothing in physiology which in
dicates that the woman's intellect is
organically inferior to the mans intel
lect. 1t has simply drifted, without the
highest self-control and direction; yet
there is no manifest deficiency of vol
untary power.I In morals and in the
practical conductof life the self-guiding
tendency has been ever greater in women
than in men.-Antoinette B. Blackwell.


Alas it is not till time with reckless
hand has torn out half the leaves from
the book of human life, that man begins
to see that the leaves which remain are
few in number; and to remember,
family at first and then more clearly,
that upon the early pages of that book
was written story which he would fain
read over again.-Longtello'o.


1t is very easy to pick holes in others
work, but it is far more profitable to dc
better yourself. Is there fool in all
the world that cannot criticise? Those
who can themselves do good services
are but as one to a thousand compared
with those who can see faults in the
labor of others.


To put ourselves in a passion, in con.
sequence of the misconduct of others
is unquestionably very weak behavior
but it has also something generous about
it; for we are very clearly annoying
and Furnishing ourselves, when the of
tenders only ought to have been the suf
ferers.


We both read and hear bitter com
plants about the uncertainty of hu
name affairs; and yet it is that uncer
tainty alone that gives life its relish, fo
novelty is the real and radical cause o
all our enjoyment.