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Tired Mother. A little elbow leant npon your knee, Vour tirid knee that has so much to bear, A ehilil'a dear eye are looking; lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair, remaps yeu do not hcod the Tel Tet toueb Ol warm, mout fingers, lolding yours M You do not prize this blessing overmuch, You are almost too tired to pray to-nigrbt. But it is a blessing t A year ago I did not see it as I do to-day, We are so dull and thankless; and too slow To catch the sunshine till its slips away; And now it seems urnrisins' strange to me. That while I wore the badge of motherhood 1 i in not kiss more oft and tenderly Tbe child that brought me only ood. A" if some night, n hen yon sit down to rest Yu ml the elbow Iroio your tired knee: ln rntles, curling bead from off yonr This I taping tongue that chatters constantly. If from jour own toe dimpled hands have olipped, nd ne'er would nestle In your palm again if tt.r h te fuet luto their grave bail tripped, 1 :ould not blame you lor your heart acne iut;u. I w nder so that mothers never fret At little children clinging to their gown. Or that the footprint, when tbedaysare wet. Are ever black enough to make them frown. If I could find a lilt'e muddy boot. Or cap, or Jacket, on ray chamber floor; If I could kis a roy, restless loot. And hear it patter In my home once more. If I could mend a broken cart to-dav. To-morrow make a kite to reach the sky. There is no woman in Ood's world could say hhe was more liliHsltilly content than I. I J nt ah I the dainty pillow next my own In nevi:r rumpled with a shining bead; My singing binding from Its ncstha flown, The little boy 1 ute to kiss is dead. True Nobility. How It was Illustrated by s Sweet Young Lady Uraduate. It wan conceded by all who heard it that Mis W'oodby'a ewssay was an excel lent production, and at the graduation exercirttj there were a great many listen era attentive listeners, too, with the power of discrimination in such mat ters. Miss WtKxlby honestly earned the credit. In preparing the essay she had worked conscientiously and hard, and under difficulties the public could not have appreciated. Fortunately we are In possession of the facts in this connection that we now propose to lay before our readers that they may judge for themselves of the numlxT of thorns which not only lay in Miss Woodby's road, but which beset every path to true excellence. Miss Woodby having devoted a week to revolving over in her mind the variety of subjects presenting themselves with a view to the selection of a suitable topic chose under the head of moral improve ment. On a Monday morning she re sol veil to begin the work that day, as soon as she reached home from school. The title selected was "True Nobility." Having a few minutes to spare at noon, she got the paper, and wrote down the head, with some pretty flourishes be neath it. It was an unpropitious day for the beginning, being washing day, and the house in consequent disorder at tendant thereon. The washer-woman's child, never at the best a rugged child, was to-day suffering from the excessive heat, and its little btnly was broken out with blotches, and its little voice piped forth in pitiful protest. The washerwo man wus herself more or less influenced by the sutlering of her child and the ef fect of the heat upon her own body. She was a noble little woman, with a thin face, from which had apparently been wrun every hopeful expectation, as though it had passed through a great moral wringer, and had come out in a condition most complimentary to the thoroughness of the process. It was a waiting luce with the shadow of a cross resting constantly upon it. The crying of ihe child was a decided annoyance, especially to one striving to get her mind into im even frame for thought. To Miss Woodby the sounds were most irritating. She said to her mother: "What on earth is the matter with that imp to-tluy ?" Her mother having her own hands full, vouchsafed no explanation. "I declare," she ejaculated a moment later, "if I had a brat like that I would choke it." And she hurried away to school to get out of the sound of the noise, leaving her mother to attend to the dinner dishes. In the afternoon she brought out her paper, found a cool place in an ojen window for her desk and began: TUCE KOniLlTY. - "There is the nobility of blood, and the nobility of life. The former is but an accident of birth ; the latter is the re sult of development. The former is but for the few; the latter is for the many. True nobility is a life nobly lived. It comes neither from birth nor from cir cumstances. It springs alone from the heart. Money cannot purchase it; edu cation cannot bring it; talent will not produce it. It is a treasure which every man may possess, and yet its price is aoove ruoies." At this juncture Miss Woodby was obliged to take a long pause to re-ar range her thoughts, and while thus en gaged, her little brother appeared at the door. Miss Woodby looked up impa tiently. "Don't come in here," she commanded "But I want my hat." "Well, get it and leave at once." "You needn't be so cross," he said. "If you don't leave at once I'll make you." He got his hat with all the speed pos sible, out on leaving bait the satisfaction of screaming out : "Mean thing!" And slamming the door with all his might. It was fully fifteen minutes be fore Miss Woodby was sufficiently com posed to renew her work. Then she wrote: "it is a jewel wnose luster grows "brighter with every day of its use. It is a possession that .time cannot wear that misfortune cannot diminish, that no combination of circumstances can rob us of. The hardest battle is the tight against self. The grandest victory is the triumph over self. There can be no true education where self denial is not accomplished. Self degrades " Just here Miss Woodby's mother came to the room to tell her to put away her I ... 1 , .1. .. 1 1 t - t I viuiucg iiiut iiou j list ueeu ironeu. "I can't bother about that now," said Miss Woodby. "But they are in my way." "Gracious! how can I write or do any thing if I've got to be jumping up every minute ?" demanded the young author ess in a tone of a very ppouer resentment Mrs. Woodby withdrew her tired body ana went tmcK to her work with a sisru. "I don't see what makes ma act so con trary," murmured Miss , Woodby to her self. "She could have put away those things herself. If she cared to be anyway accommodating." Then she bent her mind again to the task of composition - Before she could get in order to commit matter to the page, tea was announced. After tea her motitcr asked her to clear the table and wash the dishes, but she had to think and could not do this. She inquired, with considerable reason, if she was expected to do everything on earth and get an essay ready too ? She went out and Bat under a tree until the table was cleared and then she brought out ner manuscript anu continued : "Self deadens the better instincts, and makes him who yields thereto a torture to himself and a burden to those about him. True nobility is to care for others. to give up self, to lose your own will in tne win oi those depending upon you He who is .without self will be patient la trouble; calm in trial, trusting in ad. versity, temperate in prosperity. His heart is ever open to the cry of the bur. -dencd his hand ever 'ready to minister to the afflicted. No thought of himself, no care for his own advancement, is ever allowed to stand in the way or others. "In honor preferring one another," is the motto of his life, the guide to every act." At this juncture the baby sister of Miss Woodby climbed upon a chair at the table to see what she was doing. The child was affected by the heat, she had no amusement, and no company, and .she climbed up to see what was going on. The white paper and moving pen interested her. More than that, they ab. iKKi iicr very mui. - -,. - -ju i sne exciaimea, in a paroxysm -of excitement. "What are you doing up here? explo sively cried Miss Woodby. ."Get down irum mat table this instant and- take .yourself out of sight," The great round eyes filled with tears, and the lin of the rlrl bahv tnmi,M Miss Woodby could have cried with TCIHUOO. ...... -wnau iot Dirr'g sake. rn k thinking of to let yod come here to both er, the life out of me t Go away this mia- ""wiiiHiipyour ... ue cniid scrambled down and tod Jled away to find her mother, crying yOL. 21. aloud with the pain of disappointment. The mother being out on the front stoop to caicn a Dreatn or iresh air. beard the cry and hurried to meet and comfort the child, in her wearied lap she took the baby, and listened to its story, and kiss ed it back to quiet, broken only by half suppresseu sous irom its quivering lips. Miss Woodby. beinir left uninterniDt- eu, siarteu ner pen "J o storm can reach him. He stands immovable from every onslaught from the world. True to himself true to his God, true to every prompting of duty, his inner life is like the mountain lake in the sunshine of a midsummer day reflecting within its' pure unruffled bos om the bright heaven above." This was a very fine passage, and Miss Woodby was nearly an hour perfecting it, including the interruption of getting a light, as her mother was not D resent to get it for her. She was reading this par agraph over for the fourth time, with unbounded satisfaction, when her broth er, with a neighboring boy, came troop ing iu. iik urougui m uie oiner uoy to show him a book that had been given him. He approached the table with the enthusiasm peculiar to youth, and with : i i i uuiy uuspitaiity ooserveu: "Brine up a chair. Bill, and look at the pictures." "Charles!" exclaimed his sister, al most paralyzed by the audacity of this movement, "don't you see I'm writing?" "What of that?" he surlily demand. ed. "I ain't a touching vou. am I?" "But you bother me and I won't stand it. Now you lust take vour book awav." This was very pleasant for 'Bill.' who had come in to spend the even in cr and uiprove his mind. "I guess I'll show Bill this book if I want to," sputtered Charles. "You won't show it in here, I can tell you." But we won't make a bit of noise. will we Bill ?" he cried to the great dis tress of Bill, who was quite overwhelm ed by the reference to himself. 1 tell you I won't have vou here, any way," retorted his sister, growing white with passion. "Are you eoine to leave. or shall I help you?" There was such an ominous expression to both voice and face that 'Bill' involuntarily shrank to the door, while the angered Charley none the less impressed with the advisability of departing, threw down the book with a slap on the table, requested his sister. with great feeling, to go to blazes, and escaped . with his companion. A mo ment later she was restored to compo sure, by the sublimity of her theme. She wrote : "True nobility is a life consecrated to the weal of others. There can come no true nobility without this consecration. And that, to be effective, must lean on a higher power. Without His help it is iniiossible to overcome self. Set the mark as high as we may, human weak ness will prevent its attainment. Only in Him and throutrh Him can we rise to this nobility." Hereupon, rinding that it was getting late. Miss Woodby put up her writinir and retired to bed. Immediately after eatinsr her break fast the next morning, she hurried to her room and began again. Her mother told her she would want her help in clearing off the breakfast table, but she felt she could not spare the time, and took ad vantage of her parent's absence from the table to get away. She wrote : "liut we ourselves must strive. He will not make this a better life for us. but if we are determined to reach it He will help us. The secret of success is care for little things, the attending con scientiously to the performance ot the smallest duties. That duty which comes first, whatever it may lie, is the one to be performed. That claim which is the first presented upon us is the one to honor." At this point in the essay the door opened, and her brother presented him self. He had not forgotten the episode of the night before. He surlily olserved : Jla wants you to comb my hair and tie my bow. so I can cet ready for school." 'It ain't time for you to go to school yet, in an hour, and you know it," she impatiently replied. Well, don't 1 want to go out in the streets?" he demanded. "You don't s'pose I'm going to stay in the house all uie time r "I don't care where vou stay or what you do. I am not going to leave my work to bother with you, and if you want to go out to play you can go as you are, or stay in aoors till 1 get ready to attend to you." "1 won't stay in." "Then let ma comb it. I'll comb it with a chair if you don't get out of sight. 1 on are enough to drive a saint mad." W nether this encomium to his ouau ities was all that he desired is not known. but he left, and reported to his mother the result of his errand, and pestered her until she dropped her work and made him ready for the street "1 wish your sister's essay was in the nrc, sne was driven to say. Before Miss Woodby could commence again a fellow pupil called, and the time till school was taken up in conversation upon graduation toilets. in the afternoon she cot down to work at Uia sitting room window. "Lookinsr alar on to the accomplish ment of some great service, while little, helpful things at our hand are left un done, is not the way to seek a true no bility. Every day should be set apart to duty. It should be entered upon with a firm determination to slight nothing, to avail ourselves of everything that will tend to make those about us happier and better, liius determined and with an unoroKen reliance on irovidence, suc cess must come." "A sudden movement in the vard be- ucaiu uia wiuuuw aiiracieu ner atten . I- ,1.. ! 1 .... J , .. tion, bhe looked out and beheld her brother and two other boys plavine on the grass. A dark frown settled on her face. "Charles," she cried, "sro awav from mere witn your noise." "uo way?" he repeated. "What are we doing to you ?' - x ou disturb me in my writing. Go on the other side of the house." "But the sun is there." "I don't care if it is; it won't hurt you." "Why don't you go somewhere else to write V he saucily inquired. "Don't you be impudent to me, young man, or I'll go out there and pull your ears ior you. uo away at once, i tell you." "Uome on. boys." he suddenly cried. jumping up, "let's go away from the cross old stick, we dont ask any odds i, ... oi uer. And they trooped off. Miss Woodby could have almost cried at uie ungenerous speech, she was so vexed. "The selfish imp," she whispered to uer wounueu heart, reierrlng to her rude urvuier, . . .-, I hen she resumed her place at the writing and continued : . "Is it not worth the battle? Is not triumph which shall bring ourselves in to subjection to the better Impulses of our nature, and Dring sunshine into the lives of those with whom we come in contact something to be proud of and rejoice over? How debasing is the selfish life in comparison to this? - Un-at insig nificant and unworthy appear the thing oi uie worm la contrast to uie pure, un- einsn generous me. xiow can any one content himself to live only for the ad vancement of self T To grovel in the dust rather than to mount to the clouds ? Dear mend, would vou be happy, would f'ou be honored by others, would you be ifted God-ward t Then commence to night seeking the welfare of others rath er man yourseir, and thus reach True Nobility.'' Everybody at the exercises was pleas- eu wiin tne essay; ana many a young man of noble impulse looked npon the fair authoress and 'wished in the very depths of his heart that he might have such a one for a life companion. Miss woodoy is going into the country with a fellow pup J, next week, to spend the ueawa lerni oeneain tne cool trees and beside the running brooks. - Her mother will often be cheered amid her unUy ASV-ika hv kfum 4aam -J - V V . " "J ww nvKu wiisuui aOUOl, Ikr The Question of Contraction. The Chicago Tribune submits a table on the currency based upon tlic treasury estimates, and showing the amount of paper money outstanding in various years since I860, and its value in coin. In 1803, for instance, it places the cir culation at $983,318,G86, the value of which in coin is stated to be $692,256, 355. In 1878 it states the amount ot pa per at $088,597,275, the coin value of which is $684,408,692. There are some mistakes in the figures as compared with the treasury exhibit, but they are minor ones and amount to but a few dollars. We give the correct amount below, how ever, even to the fraction of a dollar. In the above estimate three vital con siderations are left entirely out of view increase of population, increase of busi ness, and increase of area over which cir culation takes place all of which have been large factors in the problem of con traction since the war. Two of these el ements became very active and potential during the fiscal year 1800, in conse quence of the flow of paper money into the south, to operate the exchanges in many states, and among millions of peo ple, where the whole of the circulating medium in use during the rebellion had become worthless. That process with drew a considerable volume of currency from the north, and amounted to great and rapid contraction there. But taking the value of currency in gold, each year, as officially given, be ginning with its climax in 1865, and dis tributing it numerically, and consider ing in the estimate the increase of popu lation, we shall have the following re sult: Population June 1 in Cur. per Value of cur July 1 in reney in gold. 1SU6 pMi 35tf.854.77 1H 5s8,657.0!.13 eacn y r. capita S4.B1U.581 85,587,148 86,19,602 81,016,W 87.779,800 88.658,871 89,750.073 40.978,607 42,245,110 43,550,75 44.816,745 41,44,844 47,714 829 $19.88 10 OB 16 85 13 64 18 60 15 55 16 07 15.77 15 85 16.83 15.08 14.98 13 86 13.91 1SO J DU2,UUb,7ttt 07 1S68 605,009.234.52 ino 0111,000,301.01 1870 590,521,769.95 1X71 688,909,418.44 1872 646,249,640.58 1873 648,053 8S6.76 1874... 711,156.733 71 1875 674,610,947.43 1876 660,846,999.62 1877 661,189.978.54 1878 684.466.69169 4a,lsa,6i5 NOTS. The Der c&Dita. euirencv is within the fraction of less than half a cent in every case. It is useless for anybody, in the pres ence of these figures, to deny contraction. On J une 30, 1878, the per capita of the circulating medium, measured by gold, was f less than it was on J une 3U, 1805. Is there, any suitable name for that diflerence except contraction ? No intelligent mind will be so foolhardy as j to claim that a fixed volume of currency, I even though at par with gold, would be ample for thirteen years to operate the exchanges of a rapidly increasing popu lation. For example, if $692,250,a54.77 of coin-purchasing power was j ust enough for 34,819,581 people in 1805, then $084, 405.691.63 would be insufficient for 49, 189,535 people in 1878 ; and the discrep ancy would be still greater if, as has been the case, there had been excluded from the former sum such elements of curren cy as the 7.30 notes and some other pa per issues by the government. Below is a statement which shows what the gold value of the currency, based on the treas ury figures, would have been in each year, had the amount been maintained throughout at $19.88 per capita. The amount per capita required to be added each year is given, and the total amount of currency necessary to fill out the de ficit of the treasury totals : Cur- Ain't Val of cur- rency per Total July 1 n'cy iugoUl. per cap. amn'c added capita. aU'd. each year. 1865 . t02,S56 854 77 1B.K8 1800 . 706,640.424.09 19 .88 S3 89 tll7.9S3.831 M I86f.. 720 988.lll.13 19.68 8.53 128,031.849 06 1868.. 785.994.996 28 19.88 6 24 2H0.9K5.761 .76 I860.. 751,085,475 61 18 88 6 38 341.035.124 00 1870.. 766,479,516. 38 19 88 4 83 166.957.746.43 1871.. 790.857.196 6f 19 88 8 81 151,477,778.18 1872 . 814.671.U15 85 19.88 4 11 168,422,074 77 1873 . 39,424.235.08 19.88 4.63 191,870,348.30 1874 . 860,761,917.61 19.88 8 55 154,605 183 80 1875.. 892,3ti9.160 67 19 88 4.85 217,749,218 25 1876.. 920,039.326.(4 19.88 5.60 259.192.326 4U 1877.. 948.4.13,243 12 19 88 6 02 287.243 270 68 1878.. 798,197,155.87 19 88 6 97 293.661.464 20 Here we find that the contraction, meas ured per capita, amounted to nearly two hundred and ninety-four millions of- dol lars in 1878, as compared with 1865 ; con sequently, with the paper dollar reckon- .. . 1 .,n . . 1. Annii A - - i i . , - , m a wuiui ii.wi. iu goiu, me nominal yew.ijia.oeo.'fo ot currency in 1805 would be scarcely sufficient for present number, because that sum. reduced to eauivalent fold at that rate, would amount to only 977,418,773.65, or to $708,382.22 less than tne above table calls lor. The trouble has been that the Repub lican partv, like many another nervous and impatient debtor, has been trying to do too much. It has erred, but it has erred on the side of honesty. It has tried to rid the country of the great incubus of ueoi, ana though this has been done at the expense of prosperity, in a measure, and at the cost of much financial embar rassment, it must be confessed that the exhibit, where nearly one-third of the debt is shown to have been paid, and where thirty odd millions of interest is saved annually, is some compensation for the hardships which have followed an unexampled effort to pay our debts. This question ought to cut no figure in the pending political contests, except as an interesting subject for study. It is a matter which should be correctly stated, however, in order that, knowing the truth and the effects of our past policy. may gamer wisuom irom our experi ence Chicago Inter-Ocean. A President's Muscle. Uncoln'a Giaat Strenth He Outlifts Some Powerful Sailors. Few were aware of the physical strength possessed by Mr. Lincoln. In muscular power he was one in a thousand. One morning; while he was sitting on deck. he saw an ax in a socket on the bul warks, and taking it up, held it at arm's length at the extremity of the helve with his thumb and fore finger, continuing to uoiu mere ior a numoer ot minutes. The most powerful sailor on board tried in vain to imitate him. Mr. Lincoln -1 , , , , ... . baiu uo couiu uo mis wnen he was eighteen years of age, and had never seen a aay since that time when he could not. It occurred to me, when reading I? m.M,iio me piui uttfc termi nated in the death of the President, that nis aoauction, which .was at one time Ero posed by the conspirators, would ave resulted very disastrously to those who should have the temerity to under take it. The plan proposed was to wsv. lay the president at night during one of uia irequem visits to tne war depart ment, where he was in the habit of go ing to read the telegraphic dispatches during the time of important military movements, and where he would often remain until a very late hour, returning alone through the grounds of the White House. A half-dozen men were to seize and carry him off; but, had they attempt ed it, they would probably have found that they had met their match, for he had the strength of a giant. Judge bwett, or Chicago, who was an intimate friend of his, says that he has seen him dash into a crowd where two powerful men were fighting, and, taking each by the collar, hold them out at arms length in the most helpless and ridiculous posi tion. general v leie in ocnbner. Too Meax to Lite. It has been sup posed that the meanest man in the United States resided in Boston, but the dis patches from New Orleans show that he lives there, and his name is Schil linger. He had a nurse who, though unacclimat ed, nursed her employer's children suc cessfully through the fever, when she was taken down herself. At the risk of the poor woman's life the brute hustled ner uno an open wagon, day Delore yes- Kriuay, sou nent ner to me nospitai in tne midst or a drenching rain, remark- : . v. .. . v - . j , . , 1 jug uui ue uau iuu irouoie enough in his house with the fever. New Orleans win eonier a favor on northern .people and insure new and large contributions if they will throw Mr. Schillinger into the Mississippi river. Chicago Inter- ucean. Ohio Wesleyan University opened the 18th ult. One hundred and eighty stu dents have matriculated, and the list is not yet complete. .Fully one-third of those applying are uaies.t . EMPORIA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1878. Women Teachers. How They hare Superseded tSjmm in the Public fechooja. Woman has won her present position in the public schools from beginnings as small as a grain of mustard seed. In Barnard's Rhode Island report for 1845, he says that in all the schools he visited, or from which returns were received, out of Providence, (and excepting the pri mary departments of a few central dis tricts), he found only six female teach ers, and that, with the above exceptions, there could not have been more than twice the number employed in the whole state. His successor, who visited the same schools in 1801, found more than 200 female teachers ; but he thought two thirds of those taught by men, even then, would have been better taught and dis ciplined by women. In 1837 there were in Massachusetts 2,591 female teachers, and in 1848 their number had swelled to 5,510. This increase Horace Mann con sidered a great reform, believing women much better adapted to the work. In 1800, according to the census, about 74 per cent, of all the teachers in the United States were women. In New England the excess of women teachers over men is very great, but in most of the western and also in the southern states there is a smaller percentage. ' In Maine the pro portion in summer is about 97 per cent., and in winter only 55 per cent. In Ver mont nearly 90 per cent, of the teachers are women throughout the year, and in New York about 66 per cent. In New York city more than 90 per cent, of the teachers are women, and in other large cities the preponderance of women over men is very great. No doubt the econ omy of employing women as teachers goes far to explain their rapid increase, but their wages as well as their numbers have also steadily increased. It is re corded that Polly Hovev, one of the first female teachers in Maine, was paid, in 1792, $1.50 per week. In Iowa, at one time, two women tanght for $4.29 a month, though the average salary of wo men teachers in that state was $7.64 per month. Even men were not very liber ally paid in old times, for in Watertown, Mass., in 1650, a schoolmaster was hired for one year for $30, and allowed "two shillings a head for keeping the dry herd." It is mentioned in one of the Massachusetts normal school reports that one of the young men graduates re ceived, when he entered upon his career. $13 a month, and "boarded round." By the way the custom of boarding round is generally supposed to have died out; but it is still in vogue in many places, and in at least one district in Pennsylvania all the teachers receive $15 a month and board in this manner. Who but the vic tim himself can describe the miseries of boardiner round" in ramblin? country villages of living for a week or month on tea and pie, and then only exchang ing the billot fare for rie and tea: of sleeping under leaky roofs, upon pillows which the rains anil snows ot heaven be dew; of shivering in breakfast rooms, where, lr a drop ot water fall upon the table-cloth, though the stove be in close proximity, it is instantly frozen ? And yet the physical discomforts are often the least of the homeless teacher's trials. To return to wages, certain male gradu ates of the Bridgewater Normal school. who "began with $35 or $30 a month, in eluding board, now receive $3,200 a year, anu a iew 4,uou; ana salaries oi women graduates have increased in the same proportion. To be sure, there is too of ten a lamentable diflerence between the sexes in respect to wages, but women, at least those employed in cities, undoubt edly earn more than they could obtain in other occupations, probably tew clerks or operatives earn, as do 900 teachers in Boston, $15.J9 every week in the year, including ten weeks in vacation. In Massachusetts the average salary per month of men for 1875 was $88.37 ; of women, $85.35. in Maine, men, $37 ; women $18. In Pennsylvania, men, $41.07; women, $34.09. In Ohio, men, $00; women, $44. In Michigan, men, $51.29; women, $28.19. But in some states, as in Iowa, the rule is becoming general to pay men and women the same salary tor the same grade ot work. In the city of St. Louis no distinction is made between the sexes in fixing the teachers' salaries; and the California legislature in 1873 enacted that the fe male teachers in the public schools should in all cases receive the same com pensation as men for like services. A few of the southern states, which employ more men than women, pay the same salary for the same work to both sexes ? and Idaho, Nevada and Arizona report tne same custom. Nevada, which supports but few schools. pays her teachers $100.56 per month, and in Arizona, where the schools are all of a primary grade, and the larger portion of the children of Mexican birth, teach ers are paid from $100 to $125 per month. ui late the hard times have caused a re duction in teachers' salaries, and this seems to many unjust. One indignant superintendent cries : w hy should re trenchment begin at teachers salaries when fashion laughs at panics ?" Har per's magazine. No Time for Hating. Begone with fend) away with strife; Our human hearts niimating: Iet us be friends again I This life Is far too short for hating I So dull the day, so dim the way. So ronjfh the road we're farinsr Far better wend, with faithful friend Than stalk along, uncaring. The barren fig, with withered vine, Are types of delflsn living; But souls that have, like thine and mine, Renew their life by giving. While Cypress waves o'er early graves, On all the way we're going. Far better plant, where seed is scant, Than tread on fruit that's growing. Away with scorn I Since die we must And rest on one low pillow: . There are no rivals in the dust Mo foes beneatii the willow. So dry the bowers, so few the flowers, Our earthly way discloses, Far better stoop, where daisies droop, Than tramp o'er broken roses 1 O I what are all the joy we hold. Compared to joys above as? And what are rank and power and gold, Compared to hearts that love ns? So fleet our years, so full of tears, Ho closely death is waiting God give us space for loving grace But leaves no time for hating. Edison's Wall Papek. It is very difficult to keep pace with Edison and his inventions. Just when you think you have heard of the last, out comes another. A. ssew York paper be- iore us is literally lull ol him. We read of his telemachon, an apparatus for transmitting power over a conductor by eiectricuy ; anu men oi nis electric burn er, which solves the problem as to the subdivision of light, and proves that the electric light is to be the lisrht of the fu ture. But he has even a later invention, as unique and suggestive as its prede cessors. It is a new kind of wall paper, that absorbs light all day and gives it all night. At present the work is not quite perfected, but already the paper will mase a room perfectly light for about tour hours after dark. It is not going to be difficult to make it operate irom sunset to sunrise, he says, so we ean already count on things as done and proceed to file our orders for new mate rial. Its operation is perfectly natural the paper merely gives back what it gets and goes on eo long as the sun shall shine. The eflect upon the world can be imagined. Gas will, of course, cease to be of any use ; oil will serve only in its doubtful purpose of lubrication; the whale, unsought by men, will resume the population ot the ocean, which before long will swarm with the reconstructed monsters of the lost ages ; crime, which fiourisheft in rlflricrwaa will i4iannM.. reading will be extended over the entire twenty-four hours: everlasting sunshine will encircle us all the while; and the becoming colored spectacles will grow to be an article of universal nse. When it J is desired to darken a room atnicht. pen. I ill .1 -a ... , - - pies wm ui row open me Diinasand lower me paper Hangings, and let the darkness in, and the natural philosophies will be made to read: What is lightt Wall ns. per. it ust ia uatsjiRB r .. wnite waUL or the absence of wall paper. Before we finish with Edison he will have to give ns a new dictionary, to tell what he has uone. My IP , Educational The Yale faculty have decided to drop into the next lower elass any upper class men found guilty of hazing fresh-men. Miss Mary W. Holdbrook, of Hold brook, M ass., has endowed a chair in the O berlin, Theological Seminary, by a do nation of $25,000. Prof. Sue M. D. Fry, A. M., of Illinois Weslevan University, recently instructed and -delighted a large audience on Old Town Circuit, Ills., Conference, with her lecture on "Rome and Southern Italy." The fine old University of St. Andrew now grants degrees to women. Its "Lit erate of Arts Degree Certificate," which is now at their disposal, is equivalent in honor and in the stringency of the pre vious examinations to the M. A. degree for men. The subjects for examination are for the most part those taught in the University itself, but to these have been added history and the French, German and Italian languages, with their litera tures. The Senate of the Univesity of Lon don has taken the necessary official ac tion in reference to the admission of wo men to degrees. Female-candidates will be admitted forthwith to the matricu lation examination; and all such as have already passed the general examin ation for women will be considered as having matriculated, and will be admis sible (after the required interval) to the first degree examination in either of the faculties.' ' Japan at present can boast of one uni versity, at Tokio, the capital, and about a dozen colleges throughout the empire, devoted to agriculture, law, medicine, etc. A permanent fund of $8,000,000 has been established for the purpose of education. The total income for the public schools is about $6,500,000 per year, arising from interest on the perm anent fund, local taxation, private dona tions, etc. The fall conferences are following the noble example of the spring conferences in generously aiding in the endowment of the Janes Memorial Professorship in the Drew Theological Seminary. The Central New York conference has given $1,110, the Pittsburg conference, $1,086; and the East Ohio,- $1,220, making a to tal of $3,416 from the three conferences. The total amount of the subscriptions of Methodist preachers to this great monu ment to the memory of Bishop Janes is, we understand, nearly $24,000. There is excellent good sense in this paragraph from the Philadelphia Press: "The great end of education is not infor mation, but personal vigor and charac ter. What makes the practical man is pot the well-informed man, but the alert, disciplined, self-commanded man. There have been highly trained and accom plished men in days when a knowledge of geography hardly went beyound the islands and mainland of the Levant. There were powerful English writers long before Lindley Murray . wrote his Latinized English grammar. What should be understood thoroughly is, that cramming is not education. It is a mis take to cover too much ground, and to seek to make youth conversant simply with the largest number of studies. Let them learn a few things and learn them well. Let the personal influence of the teacher be relied upon rather than books and elaborated methods." Western Eloquence. The following is the report of a speech made by Judge Eli Gilbert, of Larned, Kansas, formerly register of the U. S. land office there, before. J. W. Adams, justice of the peace, in reply to speeches made by Brigham, Adams and Waters, in a railroad case where the plaintiff sued to recover the value of a lot of second hand tools lost by the railroad in trans portation. He said : "May it please the court. I agree with my erudite and learned ad versaries that Redfield is the best author ity, in mixed or complicated railroad matters, on this green universe of ours. But when the gentlemen with a rigidity of ear, that might become the chaste icicle that hung in Diana's temple, in momentuous remarks unparalleled in this court, asserts that my client has un equivocated on the matter of four chisels, he does me, perhaps pardonably, an in tentional paroxism of injustice that would better become a sleuth hound of antiquity or an ancle worm of a feted and semi-barbarious civilization, so to speak. With a proboscis that is too ele vated to discern the common things of pie bean me, on the iron tiers ot the con fines of the great American desert, these hired myrmidons of a broad gauge road to a finite hell have seen proper to as severate in an unctuous and dispassion ate way that my client has lied.. Am I only a lamp-post ot perdition that mv client should be thus maligned. Coagu lated do me blood in my veins before such an act q turpitude shall be impos ed on a iansas court. And this, too, from the paid and toothless representa tives of an effete and deliberate railroad monopoly! Onlv four chisels! Great God Almighty! Four ! Four poor, puny second-hand chisels, that have erst now. assisted the horny handed yeoman 1 have the honor to represent in this case to eventuate a livelihood for himself and family! Has not the evidence of the plaintiff shown as clear as the effulsrence of the noon day sun when the miasms of early morn nave siunKen pack, to their various and respective sinks of the most damnable ingenuity? Kedneld may be good authority, but I apprehend that here in the high noon or me nineteenth century, a bald-headed and . bifurcated railroad mat has with outstretched arms sought the destruction of all our boasted prerogatives, it is too late tor it to say that they were not worth the price set by my client ! Scatter it broad cast or drill it in, if you want to, my client stands here pure and chaste as the icicle on (ahem) firm as the green and verduous hills, or me.adaman tine mountains, rock ribbed and ancient as the sun. A kick ing up all this fuss over four chisels ! My God ! What will be the agony and tribulation of this giant corporation when it shall be brought to limerick for tne loss of a whole consignment of hard ware T Yes, there he stands as imper turbable as the unconscious fortress that bulwarks the aegis of mundane liberty in the dark and perad venturous slopes that lie beyond infinitude, can be discern ed the angel of truth, eternal truth at that. May it please the court, with wide spread opinions, a fluttering and a flop ping his approval of my client, and still beyond him is the Great Almighty He is unimpeached ! He is unimpeacha ble, and 1 apprehend that beyond the hallucination of a respectable doubt be tween me nether confines or heaven's high court of chancery, down to the deep and damnable mud sills of hell's deepest depths will not be found a cher ubim or angel with nickel-plated wings, getting aown on all four, and a going scooping round to slander and villify my client as the opposing counsel have seen fit to engage in, in this action 1 But as this is an argument of a demurrer to the evidence, 1 suppose I will have to stick to the record, or I" would extenu ate my remarks to the animadversions of my opponents, even although all the huckleberries of hell should point the 8neericr. sneering finger of scorn at me. and were to greet t with a vertebra ted chorus around mv auricular appendage! Is this cause to jog along in this single gaited trot or evanescent way until our rights, as proud and aborigjnous Ameri cans, is elevated at an ailitude in the at- mosperic circumambient, ethereal air. may it pleasy the court, beyond I do not Irish to be interrupted, Mr. Adams beyond the visual organs of our eye sight? And I say, in conclusion, beyond the peradventure of a hallucination of a doubt, that you might just as well try to stop Mount " Vesuvius from vomiting when she has one of her spells of sum mer complaint on, by the administra tion of a dose of three cross-eyed canary bird seed, as to deny and refute all or singular the fundamental maxims of law I have enunciated. - I am done." ' Mr. Gilbert's client obtained judgment iui a ui.u, : .; ., ., .... .. Princess Bismarck. The wife of Prince Bismarck, Johanna vim rntkuumer, ot tax old and noble Pomerania family, was born in 1824. He made her acquaintance at the marriage of one of his friends, where she acted as bridesmaid, and two years later in 1847 he asked her to become his wife. Her family was not at first disposed to accept his proposals. At that time Herr Von Bismarck enjoyed a rather curious repu tation. He was surnamed "der toile Bis marck" (mad Bismarck,) and had earned this title by his numerous duels, hisdar- inr teats ot hosemanship. and some widely spread anecdotes concerning his attitude generally toward professors, burgomasters, and other respectable members of what German students call "Philistine society." But more espec ially, he owed his surname to the very noisy revels be used to hold with a num ber oi exceedingly loud young men at Kniephof and at Schoenhausen. To quiet respectable people like the Putkammers, he did not appear a very eligible suitor for an only and beloved child. Bismarck, however, settled the question at once. He walked up to Miss Johanna, and hav ing ascertained by a look that she sided with him, he folded her in his arms and said, turning to her astonished relatives, "What (jrotl has united.no man shall put asunder." Princess Bismarck has pre served all the simplicity of her youth. She is a perfect specimen, in. the bent sense of the word, or the German "haus frau" (housewife.) She is very quiet. bears her honors as the most natural thing in the world, holds fast by the old friends of humbler days, and has but one great object in life to make her hus band and children happy. She cares for mem in a peaceful, motherly way. and her serenity and patience, which have al ways secured for Bismarck a quiet home, have certainly contributed to his suc cess through life. "She it is," he once said to a friend, "who has made me what 1 am." Dunning a Printer. A Herald printer once bought of a tailor in in the Bowery a fine suit of clothes on credit. When the bill was handed him by a collector, his pocket book was empty. He looked at the bill, and at the $G0: charged in apparent sur prise, and then said : "This is a devil of a mistake! Moses &,Son have cot me down for a whole suit of clothes. All I ever had oT them was a coat at $30. Tell them so and I'll call up and settle." The collector did as requested ; but the printer failing to keep his word, he was dunned again. Once more he was amaz ed. "Moses & Son must have a queer book-keeper. He charges me with suit of clothes, when I bought only a pair of trowsers, price $10. I'll drop in in a day or two and pay for them. Mention the error, please." A third time the collector appeared. Then the compositor vowed lie had bought nothing but a waistcoat, which was $5, promising to discharge the debt me next oay. The bill having been presented the fourth time, the creditor expressed irri tation, declaring the $00 should be CO cents for a pair of socks. "They've put the figures in the dollar instead ot the cent colum, the stupid fellows! Call in to-morrow." Several weeks after, bavins: been asain dunned, he asked, in a rage, "Who are Moses & Son, No. Bowery Never was in their shop never heard before of the swindling Jews. Tell them to go to the devil !" New York Times. He Was. An elderly gentleman of benign appearance has of late been dis tributing religious tracts in the street cars, and yesterday at least one case of quickened, conscience was brought to the public notice. A voung man entered the ear, paid his nickel, and was handed a tract headed: "Are you a sinner?" He turned pale at once, read a few lines, and suddenly called out : "Yes, I am ! I put a bad nickel in the fare box, but now I'll begin a new life by being honest. nere, driver, change this half dollar and I'll pay my lare over again." The change was given him and he paid, but after riding a block or so he left the car to see a man on the walk. The passengers thought it a wonderful case, and all were deeply interested, when the driver suddenly called out : "Hang me if this 'ere half dollar isn't bogus." Det. Free Press. Crowded by the Clergy. After considering the question all winter we come to the conclusion every spring that the circus is immoral ; but then the bill poster comes along with the big pictures ana our mina changes. As we gaze at the lions, tigers, and monkeys, and think that nature made all of them, we are not so sure. And when we look at the beau tiful young lady, with nothing on but a blue ribbon round her waist, with one leg pointing to six o'clock and the other to high moon, and think that nature made her, too, lust as she was. except the ribbon, we begin to lean up to the circus.- But when the brass band begins to play and the elephants go round, we rush for a front seat to get in ahead of the ministers, who always wear stove pipe hats and won't sit down in front. Marshall, la., Statesman. Will the periodical visitation of the Asiatic cholera be the world's next great irouoie? The united States surgeon general at Washington, in his weekly re port, announces the ravages of real Asia- anc cnoiera at Biequinez and ez, cities of Morocco, in Northern Africa. In the former place, the epidemic, at the last accounts, was carrying off from twenty io uiiny victims uanv. som towns nave been exceedingly filthy. For the week ending July 20. at Calcutta. India, nine deaths from Asiatic cholera are report ed, ana ior me weyK ending July 30, at oomuay.-uiiny aeatns. me surest pre ventive against epidemics of this char acter is thorough drainage and complete cieaniiness or towns ana individuals. Hb Boards Elsewhere. One of the hottest days last week a Danbury man brought home a small paper bagfull of sand for his landlady's canary. He play fully rested ' ItTSh her shoulder while he was telling her where he got it. Presently she uttered a scream. : "What are you putting down my back T" she cried. He had put nothing down her back. but there was a break in the bag and a thin stream of sand was trickling down her spine. She "had to change every rag" she told the woman next door, while the preparation had mingled with the sand antljformed a delicate coat of concrete over her back. He boards m another place. Danbury News. Greenbacks to Order. John Han cock before he left for his cranberry marsh joined the Green backers. The oth er day he sent down to the other mem bers of the Hancock Cranberry Company for money to pay pickers with. C W. Felker and II. B. II area w bv war of a joke sent back $150 in the following torm, with instructions to carry out his greenback doctrines: $1 ON THIS IS . $1 E DOLLAR. Hahcock, Cbakbkbbt Co. A New England scene: Grand old hills, pine clad and scarred, towering to the clouds in their majesty; gurgling brooks, winding through green mead ows; fields of com, with the breeze wav ing and rustling their ripening heaps and floating streamers ; winding around through Jhese a stretch of yellow road, silent in the glare of the sun ; on the road a solitary potato bug, toiling la boriously eastward. Danbury News. The new governor of Cyprus, Sir Gar net Wolseley, is a total abstainer, and ten years ago published a little manual, entitled "The Soldier's Pocket Book," in which he strongly advises the prac tice to soldiers. MISCELLANEOUS. Veg-etine REV. J. P. LUDLOW, WRITES: TO Baltic tttKErr, Bbookltn, n. T.J November 14th 1874. t H. R. STKVINH : Dear Sir rmm iwrnutml benefit received by its nse, as well as from personal knowledge ot tbose wbose cases thereby have seemed almost miruuiloiiL T can most heartily and sincerely recommend the V emetine lor the complaints which it is claimed to enre. Jambs P. Lgplov. Late Pastor Calvary Baptist Church, Sacramento, Cal. Vegetine. SHE RESTS WELL. 80PTH POLAND, M, Oct 11. 1876. MB. H. R. 6TXVKNS; Dear Sir 1 hint han sick two years with the liver complaint, and during that time have taken a arreat many different medicines, but none of tbem did me any good. I waa restless nights, and had no appetite. Since taking the Negetine I rest well and relish my food. Can recommend the v egetine ior wnat tt nas acme for me. i ours respectlully, Mas. A I.R1BT RlCKKR. Witness or the above: MR. GXORGB M. V AUOHAK, Medford. Mass. Vegetine. GOOD FOR THE CHILDREN. Boero IIOMS, 14 TTLBa 8nnr,l . Boston, April, 187. ( ' the children in oar home have been greatly benefited by the Vegetine you have so kindly given us from time to time, especially those troubled with the bcrolula. w itn respect, Ala. N. Wobmjcll, Matron. Vegetine REV. O. T. WALKER, SAYS: PbovIDBHCB. II. I., 164 Transit St. H. B. Stbvkns, Esq.: I feel bound to ex press with my signature the hign value I place upon your egetine. My family have used it lor the last tva vfxra I upranns debility it is invaluable, and I recommend it w an wno may need an invigorating, reno vating tonio. O. T. WALKEIt, rormerij pastor of Bowdom-square Church, Boston. Vegetine. NOTHING EQUAL TO IT. South Salkm. Mass . Nov. l irtb Mb. H. it. Stevens: Bear Sir I have been troubled with scrofula, canker and liver oom ulaint for three vears. Nothinir ever diil ma any good until I commenced using the Veg- enis. i am now getting along first-rate and Still Being Tearetine. I consider thnra la nothing equal to it for such tom plaints. Can ueoruty reeouuuenu it to every uoay . SSKM. .LiIZZIX Bl. PACKABD. No. M Lagrange St. South Salem, Mass. Vegetine. RECOMMENp IT HEARTILY. finnm Rnapnn MB. STEVENS: Dear Sir: I have c&ken tutv. eral bottles of vonr Veratinn vinced it is a valuable remedy for Dyspepria, iviuney uuupiainc ana ueneral Debility of all sufferers from the above complaints. wo sv!,M3iii. x can neartuv recommena i tn xuurs respecuuuy, Mas. M0MBOK PaBKKB. VEGETINE. Prepared by II. It. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. TO PRINTERS ! CHEAP" TYPE FOR SALE. We have lor sale cheap for cash or bankable Baper, two full cases of lone; primer, three of ourgeois. and aimut ten fonts display type, IU BUU IV gUlKI CllUUlllOn. BXO'iXER Jfc GRAHAM. . LOWE, Central Liyery, Feed and Me Mies The most Extensive Establishment in southikk Kansas. Double and single teams, with the best and nicest carriages and buggies in the city, ready at all times. Also,: saddle horses for ladies and gentlemen. Buys and sells horses, buggies and car-ji riages. F Especial attention given to boarding horses! the week. LEGAL NOTICES. Sheriff's Sale Notice is hereby given, that pursuant to an alias execution issued out of the District Court of Morris County, State of Kansas, on a judgment in said eotirt in favor of Elijah T. Kelghtley and against Solomon H. bodge, an.1 to me directed, I will on Monday, the 4th day of November. A. D. 1878, at the hour ot 11 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, offer for sale at tne front door or the Court House in the city of Emporia, in the county of Lyon, and State of Kansas, and sell to the highest bidder, forcaah in hand, all the right, title and interest of said Solomon H . Dodge in and to the north half of south-west quarter of Section No. Si, Township IS, Range 13, Lyon County, Kansas, which has been levied upon to eatisly said execution and others now in my nands against said Solomon H. Dodge. Said property is appraised at PjoO. H.B. LOWE, 6w - Sheriff of Lyon County. Sheriffs Sale. In Lyon county, Kansas, District Court. John Wiggam vs. J. G. Travior, Adra'r. By virtue of an order of sale issued out of the District Court of Lyon county, Kansas, in the above entitled cause, I will, on Tues day, October 15th, 1878, at ten o'clock a. m , at the front door of the court house in Em poria, Lyon county, Kansas, offer lor sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, to-wit: The undivided half of southeast quarter sec tion sixteen, and north half nortbeast quar ter, and northeast quarter northwest quarter section twenty-one, all in township nineteen, range twelve. Also, east half section twenty-three and southeast quarter section twenty-two, both in township twenty-one, range twelve. Also northeast quarter and east half northwest quarter section twenty-four, town ship twenty, range twelve, all in Lyon coun ty, Kansas. Said real estate to be sold as the Sroperty of said delendant to satisfy said or er of sale. H. B. LOWE, Sheriff 87-5t Lyon county, Kansas. Delinquent Tax List. Notice is hereby given : That so much of each tract of land or town lot, described in the following list, and situated in the county of Lyon, and State of Kansas, as may be nec essary for that purpose, will, on the 38th day of October, A. D , 1878, commencing at nine o'clock in the morning and continuing until sold, be sold at public auction, at the county Treasurer's office in the court house in Em poria, Lyon county, Kansas, for the taxes and charges thereon ; the same being the delin quent taxes and charges thereon for the year 1877: JOSEfU EUNST, Co. Treas'r. nortjtion- 8. T. B. SXofne x 2i 19 10 8 w X 1 18 U Xofie X 25 17 10 EX of e a 82 1 10 EXofnejf Ki i io n w X 83 10 io EXoff wV S So 10 WxofnwX-. ,.-1 5 10 8 w X 7 SO 10 ExofnwX 8 90 10 Sex. 1 10 EXofawX 0 20 10 Lot 1 in I. N. Lewis' addition to Emporia. S X of a X of lot 2 ia Mrs. Lewis' addition to Emporia. - 88-4t To Bridge Builders. Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the county clerk ot Lyon county, Kansas, In the city of Emporia, until boob Monday, October 21st. 1878 , to build and place in position the superstructu re of a combina tion wood and iron truss bridge across the Kara is des Cygne river upon the county line between Osage and Lyon ceunties; said bridge to include one span f 110 feet. Bid ders must furnish plans and specifications of their work, and be prepared to close the con tract en the day of letting, and give bonds t fulfil the same. Payment will be made in such funds as the said Osage and Lvon coun ties may have on hand to tbe a mount of $2,000. Any overplus exceeding said S2,Gu0 to be paid by the townships of Heading, in Lvon county, and Barclay, in Osage county, respectively. No payment will be made nntil the comple tion and acceptance of said bridge. MASONRY. At the same time and place as above, sealed proposals will be received for the necessary piers to support said bridge. There are two piers fully set forth in the plans on file in the county clerk's office in t,vo porta. Said piers to be irailt in first elass pitch face work, laid in courses, each alternate course a header hammered dreed to a proper bed with no joints more than- three-fourths of an inch thick, and no course less than 8 inehea thir.k With ton course reaching entirnlv &r.rna tn- pier, and to project 6 inches entirely around The piers to be laid np dry. The stone to be nsed must not be less (in face of piers) than a feet long and feet wide, and every stone most be f times as long and IX times a wide as the same is thick . l'be stone nsed for in side lilng nsBSt be of the same thickness as corresponding outside eonne. The right to reject any and ail bids is rev served by commissioners. Dated September SL 1878. - : L. SE VERY, Com'r. appointed to contract said bridge ; Attest: D. 8. GiLMOKE, Chr'B). Cemrs. LyonCo. Attest: : G.S.BEOCK- S9-3t r Chrm. Cotnrs. Osage Ccv NO. 41. NEW ADVERTISEMESTS. TRAVIS' STABLES, ; , JAMES H. DAVIS, - - Pbopmetob Fourth Avenne, near Court Hense, Only First-class Rigs. EMPORIA, KAS. piRANK McCAIS, Plain and Ornamental Plasterer! Emporia, Kaxsas. Materials furnished and work done on short notice in the best manner. . "CI W. SPENCER, . DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST, Council Grove, Kansas. PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES At stoderate Prices. rjHE BEST BBICKI I have now on hand and for sale 150,000 brick, the best ever made in Lyon county. Cheap for. Cash! Also, a large supply of No. 1 pressed brick, cheap for cash. Appiy at tne oia Dries: vara, or address A. S. POL. LARD. jpHix. j. heidXan, SlANUrACTtTBEB OF SADDLES AND HARNESS I A Good Stock always on hand at Iwest . races.- - Repairing Done Neatly and Cheap. Q P. THEIS, Boot . and Shoe Maker. All kinds of Foot Wear made n nnlar in the best style. Repairing promptly attended to. Shop on west side of Commercial St.. a few doors south of 5th avenue, EMPORIA, KANSAS. QIEAM POWER WOOD WORKING FACTORY Plans and specifications for all kinds of buildings furnished. 1 ship in my lumber, ana can give low figures on all contracts. Factorv and shoo on lmm.n.iftl AtmAfc Just north ol Seventh Avenue, Emporia. dive me a cau. - a. jr. urSAGUS. TT C. SPENCER, CARPENTER AND BUILDER Shop on Sixth avenue, near the old Madison Iiouse, . " EMPORIA, KANSAS. All kinds of wood work done on short no tice and at reasonable rates. Call and see me whenever you want anything done in the way vjt csriwaiier wun anu Duumng. jgRICK. GOOD BRICK CHEAP FOR CASH1 We have bow on hand over one hundred and nrty thousand FIRST-CLASS BRICK. and till makinsr thousands mora. We offer them for sale as cheap as good brick can be oougm any w nere. Brick work done in good shape, CHEAP, CCHANZES SHOP. Having? emploved the best horse shoer in Kansas, and moved my blacksmith shop to me Diuiuing taieiy occupied ny amuei Jones, OJf SIXTH AVENCE. I have the best Blacksmith and Wagon shop in cmponu. Ail worm, aone in tne very oest manner. Horse shoeing a specialty. Give me a call. 84-tf JOHN SCIIANZE T. McCUIiOlGH CO, DEA1 BBS IN Staple and Fancy Groceries! COUNTRY PRODUCE of all kinds taken In exchange for goods. COMMERCIAL STREET, two doors above the Post Office, EMPORIA, KANSAS. JTTAN & CONNER, EMPORIA CARRIAGE FACTORY! Horseshoeing and Repairing. Mechanics St., bet. 6th and 7th Av. Emporia, Ksvn. Carriasres and wasrons made to order. All kinds of repairing and lobbing done in the best manner bv skillful workmen. Prices very reasonable. We invite an inspection of our woix ana guarantee satisiaction . tjeme and see ats. RTAN A CONNER. BOSTON, KJjlAL. ESTATE AGENT Emporia, Kansas. Pays Taxes, redeests lands sold for taxes wm notify parties sumouns oi tax aue in time to saw penalty. Send New York exchange or P. O. order. Tax Bjcckiptb sswt bt Ravce Man. ev RZCKIFT OF HOKtr. Enclose stamp, description of lands and post omce aaureas. Real Estate bought and Sold on Commission. Call on or address E. BOBTON, Emporia, Lyon Co., Kansas. "YJTEAVEB A BILL, Successors to Ilelwlg St Lane. WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS EMPORIA, KAN. Cor. Commercial St. and 4tli Ave. xxxr a full BurrLT or winks, uquoas. AMU eittAKB. OLD COPPER DISTILLED ., Kentucky . Bourbon and Rye Whiskies. Will duplicate all Leavenworth, Kans City, St. Louis, or Chicago bills. WE A V 1M11B. AVER & BILL . H. BREINER, M. D. PALACE DRUG STORE DEALER IN PURE DRUGS, Medicines, Chemicals PAI2TS, OILS, TARSUS RX8, Soaps, Brushes, Combs, and Kotiom, PEKTUMEBT, WEfDOW GLASS AND PU1TT Atfe?"" Phyidon' Prescriptions mrtfully -JJ"EW DEPASTURE! , Prices Lower than Ever J. I. JDAVISON . Has opened a complete stock of t CROCKERY AIID GLASSWARE . in connection with his Grocery Store. E"b' ftl to ean suad sndM bis stock srlaesMtver ros want swjtaAns; In his line. - - COMMERCIAL STv ' Between 6th aht 7t Atbekvxs.: EMPOBIA Barrings Bank. TRANSACTS A CKKEBAX. . ', 1 BANKLXG ' BUSINESS. lute! AIM 02 test --'-' JVJATBirCK, President, , : . . H. J517SLAP, Cashier, i , - XOBJECTOKS; i 3. JAV BCCE, , filBAM CONlrXB," ' -J.J. WslSHf, J. W. TKUBVOaTHT. ' ' " Howard Dvlaf. 4.(m....- . ryly ' PUETJSHED EVERT FRIDAY AT "' '- EMPORIA, LYON COUNTY, KAN.- i BY ST0TLEE GRAHAM. , Terms $3.0O per Year, In Advance. ATTORNEYS. Jay buci. u b. uuoea, BTJCK A KELLOGO, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Emporia, Kansas. Office in News block. ALMiini enxrrT. b. m. jroB&s. - - - GILLETT 4 F0RDE, - ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Emporia, Kansas. Office front room la Eskridge building. - . - f. P. PAYNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office, corner of Commercial St. and Fourth Ave. B.U6GLES, SCOTT 1YNN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice la all the-Scate and Federal Courts. C B. BACHALBB. b. m. bachelleb. BACUELLER A BACHELLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW . Over First Hi. tional Bank. Emporia, Kas. 0. X, 8TEBBT. T. W. SEDflWICK. - STERRY ft SEDGWICK, . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Emporia, Kansas. will practice) in the several Couna ot Lvnn. , Oaaa, Coffey, Greenwood. Chase, Harvey. . Marion, and Morris eountiee,Kaasasi in tiie Supreme Court of the State, and in the Fed-' eral Courts for the District ot Kansas. E. W. CUNNINGHAM. V.T. H'OAUI. CUNM.NOHAM A MeCAETY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Emporia, Kansas. Will oractice in all the State mud tadnnl Courts. OAioe is Nm blvck.. . PHYSICIANS. DR. W. W. H1BBEN, OFFICE Over Dunlap Co'a. Bank. J. W." TRUEWOBTHY, at. D, PHYSICIAN AND BlTRCKflV )'mnn.l. Kansas. J. J. WEIGHT, X. D., OFFICE over First National Bank. Best, denca on West street. JOHN A. MOORE, PHYSICIAN AND BTTRftKOX. OflM at htsDruK Store, No. ISO Commercial St. SUBGEOXS A HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAKS. DRS. N ELLIS A SHERRTTRN- IM (kim. mercial street, west side, between 4t and 6th avenues. L. D. JACOBS, H. Dn OTT1CB In Perley Ryder's drug stow. DR. T. Z. NEDDEN, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN- rradnat of Berlin, Prussia. Office, over L X. Fox Go's, bookstore. Commercial St. Entranoe to stairway between Lutx's hardware store and Butler & CCs. grocery store. Treats all acute and chronic diseases, and makes a spe cialty of eye and ear diseases ; also, asthma and throat troubles, and all diseases Incident to women and children. C W. LEK, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Offine aver Clapp's boot and shoe store in Union block. Aiuituna. uooms as oniee. - m u it -aim DRS. LAWRENCE ft LAWRENCE, b. . a. l AwaxMOa. I na. tinkii a. lawbxmok Oculist and Aurlst Obstetrics and Disease of Women . 8-tf W. E. K0UP, I . PHYSICIAN AY 9 OBSTETRICIAN. Head. ing, Lyon Co., Kas. Omce 1st door 8. of post oi&ce. W ill attend-eaHs day or ni ght. is-tf MISCELLANEOUS, BAEWICK'8 LIVERY STABLE, ON Seventh ave.. first stables east of Com. mercial St. Charges moderate. L. H. ANDERS0X, auwii iiALjitit, witn nail, watte A co. Instruction given on piano and organ. - PHOTOGRAPHIC. PAGE makes all kinds and sizes ot Pln- tures, and also will go any distance to make Sictures of residences, landscapes, teams, Ao. ntrance to gallery first door south of Wicks St Bennett's grocery. HOTEL DIRECTORY. Pabx Plaob Hotil-W. B. Luther, uro- prietor. Three story brick hotel, near the A., T. A S. F. depot, with excellent accommo dations. Transient rates, $3.00 per day. MKBCBAXTS IIOTBL II. II. Innes. nmnrln. tor. corner Merchants street and 4th avenue, one block north of the A., T. A 8. F. depot. cxceiiem accommouatioLS. Three, sample rooms. Transient rates, t U0 per day. WLMDBOB IIOTKI K. Emerson, nmnrlitnr. This is a large frame hotel, near the A T. A a. m. uepoi. uow aocommounuons . Aran sient rates, $1M per day. Kmfobia Hodsb C C Hinman, proprietor. New frame hotel, on Commercial street, a lew rods south of the A.. T. A tt. tf. railroad. Good accommodations . transient rates, $1.00 per day.- SHEKXAJf Housk Capt. San ford. Drourie- tor. Two story brick hotel, on Commercial street, a few rods north of the A, T. 8. E. railroad. Good accommodations. Transient rates. $1 .00 per day . Fifth Avihcb Hotel W. B. Powell. proprietor. Large frame hotel on 6th ave nue, a few rods east of Commercial street, and close to the business center of the city. Good accommodations. Transient rates, SX.Ou per day. Indiana Hocss Van HcCullous-h. nronrie. tor. Two story frame hotel, on Union street. a few rods south of the A.. T. A B. railroad. Good accommodations. Transient rates, f 1.00 per day. FTllxb House A. Fuller, nronrietor. A large frame hotel, at the Emporia Junction of the A., T. A U. F. and K. A. T. railroads. Good accommodations. Transient rates, 11.00 per usy. Wixson'b Hotil W. B. Wixson. proprie tor. This is a new frame hotel at Rmuoria junction. Fair accommodations. Transient races, f l uu per oay. National Hotel. This is a frame hotel at the Al ., R. AT. depot. Fair accommoda tions. Transient rate, $L00 per day. BESTAUBAHT DIRECTOR!. Feknch's Rest aub ant P. J.French, pro prietor. Commercial street, neary opposite the postofflce. Meals, S cents ; table board at moderate rates. - ice cream and oysters in their seasons. Stomb'b Rest ads ant -Wm. Stone.proprle. tor. Corner Commercial street and 1th ave nue, one block north of the poktofnee. Meal, 35 cents; table board at deduced rates, ice cream and oysters in their season . barber shop directory. Habbt Leibfkied's Babbeb Shot and Bath Rooms. West side Commercial street, between 4th and 6th avenues. Shave 10 cents, haipreiittuig, 35 cents. Hot and ooM baths to order. HxrsTAs Babbkb Shop. West side Com mercial stcees, pear corner of 5th avenue. Shaves, JO cents; Jb air-cutting, 85 cents. - BArSBLBB'a Babbbb shop and Bath Rooms IM Commercial street, east side, be tween 5th and 6th avenues. Shaves, 10 cents: aair-entting, 16 cents. New chairs.. Hot and cold soit-Water baths to order. Stappobd's Basbbb Shop. Cornnr Com mercial street and 6th avenue, bbavn X9 cunts; hair retting, 86 cents. REAL ESTATE DIRECTORY The News Rbsl Estate Agevct Stotlcr A Graham, over the Postoflloe, Emporia, Ly on county, Kansas . Io a general real estate business, Onr list comprises forty tnoesaad seres of good an Improved land in Lyon coun ty, a large number of Improved Farms, from 10 to 800 acres each, and all kinds of city and suburban property. The only complete and accurrate plats or Lyon county are at our of fice. Land buyers furnished all Information in tsar power and cordially invited to call or write. The Land Buyer, our real estate pa per, sent free to any address. . sTsi rti n a week In yonr own town. S3 GO ViZ L UL outfit free. o risk. Reader, if UJlIII yon want a business at which X persons of either sex ean make great pay aU stoe time they work, write ior particulars te H. u allett A Co., t-ly Portland. Maine. TYEO MKBJWAN, , , Dealers in Meats of all Kinds! Tb0 Best and Cheapest Meat Rwkct in Auuporla. Have sow on hand and for sale cheap a large amount of Pork, Ham, Shoulder and Bacon, thoroughly salted, cured and smoked, ana eoual to the very best that ean be found any where. They have also a large quantity ef lard, by the barrel or pound. Call and see it. All orders receive prompt attention, and dealers are particularly requested to give ns a call. - The beet of Beef. Mutton and VeaL as usual, kept at our market, on west side of Commercial strset, opposite P. O., Emporia. Kansas. - ATYEO A HERMAN. Chicago Screw Haehow SOMETHING NEW FOR FARMERS. ( teve secure l the agency for the sale of ta elebrated Chicago Screw Harrow ; for Lpeav, Chase, Greenwood, Osage, and Morris It r21 sow grain, roll land, eut eors-stalks. alveraiMi ground, from one to six inches deep. Each caacbine will make two corn cultiva tors, and it ean easily be adjusted to do any kind oi work named. , It will pay for itself every year ia the in creased yield of grain. It is the tost machine for the) farmer ever invented. . : 4 Persons in any of the above counties want ing further inormauon ran have it by call ing on or addrtMuag . T. 1'. HAi.ll i Emporia, Kas. Also agent (or the Chicago scraper. p can snake mow? Im- n r a' work for us a 1 than atanj tlnn? -ini not re- J quired; e t - I ' t.i per day at home mailc ! i- u ir.oos. Men, women, boys and girl u. nury-chere to work ferns. Sow b iiinc Costly outfit and term suree. Address - 0-1 y . . laox Co., AugnUa, italae.