The Longton Weekly Ledger from Longton, Kansas • 1

Mm HOWARD LONGTON, HOWARD COUNTY, KANSAS MARCH 30, 1871. NUMBER 4. VOLUME I. SELECTED POETRY. District Fair Pursuant to published notice a mpet.

The Franklin Leg it Among the bequests of Benjamin "Yes, sir." "I will take a walk up that way be Stock Raising Compared With Grain Raising. The Kansas Drover furnishes the ing of the citizens of Southern Kansas ti- fore long, and enact the part of spy for OLD TIMES. following comparison between' grain once in my lite. avoraoie 10 me organization ot a Southern Kansas T)i growing and stock raising in this coun BT WILLIAM WISTCI. The steward withdrew.

A few days afterward, on a fhc day, Franklin, when he died in 1790, was a gift to Philadelphia ami Boston of 1,000 each, as a fund for the encouragement of industry and enterprise. The trustees of this fund were instructed to loan in sums varying from lh to 60 per annum, at an in Mechanical and Stock Grower's Asso ciation, met at Long's Hall, in Hum boldt, 6n Thursday, the 9th. G. P. ft in when the air was cool and bracing, Sylvanus buttoned up his long surtoat, put cmitn, oi Alien county, was chosen Chairman, and R.

T. Stoker nf An terest ot hve per cent. the loans to be made to young mechanics "young derson, Secretary of the meeting. -A THE HOWARD COUNTY LEDGER, A. REYNOLDS, Publisher fc Prop'r.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy 1 year, 00 One copy 6 months, ----125 Due copy 1 mouth, 15 Single copy, 1 RATES OP ADVIRTISrSO 3 moa. moe. 12 mm. 1-g column, 10 19 00 115 08 1-4 4" 9 00 lit 00 25 00 )-j is 00 Ss 00 ii 00 i as oo oo sow) Business Curds, per year, $10 00 All Legal and Transient tdvertiscmenti 10 cents per line for the first Insertion and five cents for each additional Insertion. Subscriptions and transient advertisement, to Im paid strictly in advance standing advertisement payable quarterly.

try In tho early agricultural history of this country, and before the Mississippi valley became the great producing section, there was more of a system of mixed husbandry prevailing thati at present. Each farmer raised a little surplus wheat, a few surplus hogs, and annually fattened for market a few head of cattle. Under this system there was no division of our producing area into lec commmee ot live was appointed to draft a series of resolutions expressive married artificers, so the words were written "under the age of twenty-five years, who had served an apprenticeship in Philadelphia or Boston and faithfully fulfilled the conditions required in their indentures." For all the moneys thus lent they were to give bond with double sureties, and on his hat, took his cane, ana saiuen out upon the plain. Farmer Goodwin lived about a mile off. As the million-air started on his rout, he observedan old beggar hobbling on ahead of him.

He saw this man stop at a house aud ask alms. He got nothing there. The beggar stopped at three more places, aud was equally unsuccessful at them all. Sylvanus could see that trite poor man was really suffering for want of food, and made up his mind to give him a trifle as soon as he could overtake him. But now the beggar applies at a small tavern, and the good woman of the house hands him a large crust of stale bread.

The poor man grasps the morsel with aviditv. and sitting down under a tions, each making a speciality of producing grain or stock, as the when the amount bad accrued in a might be. But with the inaugura hundred years, as clear mathematical Rosy hours of youth and farcy H.i; py hours of Age I Ah, the playful, pictured memories Let us catch them as the yellow, Galaxies of b'ue-eyed Marys, With Juiia or a J.me, Or a troop of litt'e Lnuras LiU jh uud and rump aain. Moonlight meetings, evening rambles, When the night was still around, And a sweet voice softly murrauriDg, Or a kiss, the only sound. These remember 1 and remember How the kind stars shone above, In their softened fpiendor, Watch and ward upon our love.

Youth is as a diamond dawninjr Bold It breaks to gorgeous day; Heavenly light of power and beauty Glance and gleam along its way. Far within the mighty future There be solemn voices heard Shaped to many a stately anthem. Floats the music of a word. Rut th.it music, iu tiia present, Softly droops with pad decay, Tiil its echo in the spirit Fa'nts and falls a id dies away. Green be then the tender memory Of the Past, forever sped That our youth may be immrrtal, Though its days and dreams are dead I reasoning and computation demonstra tion of the system of husbandry now practiced in the West, and with the settlement of the Northwestern States ted it necessarily would, to something over a half million of dollars, a part of and Territories, together with, the in it was to be used to bring water into the city from the clear and beautiful Wissahickon, a stream about nine miles north of Philadelphia.

At the end of the second century the be tree, prepared to eat the first meal, probably, that he had had in twenty-four hours, But iust as he raised the morsel to 5 quest would amount to something more than twenty millions of dollars, which was to be divided equally between the oi the sense oi the meeting upon the matter of organizatioa with regard to the territory designed to be included ia tbe Association, BiSOLCTlOSS. Hesolved, That we deem it expe dient and in harmony with the best interests of Southern Kansas, composed of the counties of Franklin, Anderson, Osage, Coffey, Woodson, Wilson, Montgomery, Labette, Cherokee, Crawford, Bourbon, Linn, Miami, Allen, Butler, Howard, Neosho' Chase, Marion, Sedgwick, Sumner, and Cowley, to organize an Agricultural, Mechanical and Stock Growers' Association, with Constitution and By Laws, liberal in their provisions, and providing for opening its exhibitions to competition from the State at large and adjoining States and Territories. 2 That this meeting appoint a committee consisting of fiye delegates, as a committee of conference to attend the meeting at Fort Scot on the 23d aud solicit the orgonization formed, there on the 4th to meet delegates from the counties herein before named at Osage Mission, on Wednesday, the 12th day of April, 1871, for the purpose of organizing a Southern Kansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Stock Growers' Association, with exhibitions to bo held alternately at some access ible point of the lines of railway communication, in Southern Kansas, as There cannot be the slightest reason to doubt that there is to be an immense immigration to Kansas this spring. We can believe this, and still discredit the biggest half of tho Kansas Tribune's story to the effect that three thousand emigrants for Kansas landed in Kansas City, in twenty-four hours. From an article in the Criterion of the 17th it may be inferred that the enterprising people of Thayer have taken another and entirely new tack on railroad questions.

"In either direction south or south-west vast num his lips a poor woman and barefooted City of Philadelphia and the state of girl appearu.irom around the corner. Famine was visable in their pale and Pennsylvania. This was a plesant, attractive scheme worthv of the fertile and beneficent wasted cheeks, and the little girl looked troduction of agricultural machinery, the farmers on the prairies of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin began to devote their, attention exclusively to wheat raising. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to a considerable extent began to make a similar speciality of feeding stock for tho great Eastern markets. The demand for cattle for city slaughtering, and for packed and cured meats for shipment, grew with great rapidity, and much faster than the demand for brcadstuffs.

This resulted from the fact that as Europe began to look more and more to this country for a large proportion of its supplies of meats and breadstuffs, a competitor in tho production of cereals rapidly developed in tho rich intervales of the Danube and the vast steppes of Southern Russia, while no section of Europe enterod the lists in wistfully at tbe beggar's crust. The poor man sighed, looked thoughtfully and sadlv at his morsel of bread, MISCELLANEOUS, and then calling the little girl, present brain of Franklin. It was calculated with patience andiccuracy, and by every law of interest, computation and mathematical calculation the le gacy should now be at least a half a million of dollars. But while money will ac ed the greater part ot it to her, reserving but a mouthful for himself, "Thou haet done better than them Crust. The Beggar's 1 crue upon interest, some one must be all," cried Sylvanus, greatly to the as found who will borrow the money and pay the interest.

In this case tbe tonishment ot the poor beggar, who had not perceived that he was watched. "Rise, old man, and follow me." The Door man could not at first be competition with us in the rearing and fattening of hogs and cattle. We lieve that the man of wealth had any money was not always borrowed, and when borrowed the principle and interest were not always paid. It is now within twenty years of the close of the first century, when the legacy was to be at least half a million of dollars. And wc fiud it to be not more than therefore fiud that whilo the prico of wheat in the bins of our farmors de irieimly intentions towards him.

liut when he saw the former present a sum of money to the poor woman, ho doubted him no longer. The beggar proved, on inquiry to be a very honest man, who had been reduced by losses to his present pends entirely upon the condition of the crop in the producing section of Europe the staple that we have named fifty thousand dollars. There has not been as much demand for tbe money He became the happy recipient of has not beea subject to any such influences. Tho United States is to-day tic practical meat market of tho world. The 6tock-raiRing branch of American agricultural industry is the beat paying and by far most reliable of all as Franklin anticipated.

Instead of soing into Imsincss iu crowded Philadelphia, young artificers have preferred to go into the fresh, open and inviting fields of the west, where money was of. mvre Ynlia-- Theft many Vbo bor the legacy. Tlve Wlky She Cured Him, may be determined by a majority of the members of the Association. 8. That each of tho counties herein before named be invited to send deli-gates to the meeting at Osage Mission on the Pith of April next, and that the Secretaries of this meeting be instructed to correspond with the counties hereinbefore named, Bolciting the appointmeut of two delegates from each county to Baid mooting.

4. That a copy of these resolutions and the proceedings of this meeting be published in tho Humboldt and Fort Scott papcr9, and that every other in the counties named bo requested to copy tho same Tho resolutions were all adopted but there was considerable discussion between the Fort Scott and Humboldt delegations, but was finally decide that all interests be united and an effort made to make the Undertaking result rowed did nob pay, interest and prin "What brings you here, Mary said cipal alike going to the bad. Inen Truesdall to his wife, as she entered we have no linger tho old system of the liquor shop. branches, exnopt, perhaps, the dairy business, and this is confined to the Eastern and Middle States. We have not time or space in the present article' to discuss fully the reason why the cattle and hog-raising branch of farming is not only the most prohtablo now, but also the causes that conspire to give this fact permanency and reliability.

In another we shall speak at some legnt i of the development of tho stock raising industry in the great ranges of the Southwest, and its probable influence upon the general market. The forty-second Congress, as it is now constituted, stands in the Sen successfully. On motion tho meeting adjourned to meet at Osago Mission, on Wednesday the 12th dav of April. 1871. at which tima and place it is cxnected there I will be a full reprenentation from all the counties of Southern Kansas.

ate, 67 Republicans, 15 Democrats South'. i ii KansNt Fair. Ma. Editor You see from the resolutions of the meeting at Hum and 2 vacancies in the House ot Kcp-resentatives, 131 Republican's, 915 Democrats and 1G vacancies. The lower Home stood in the last Congress, 117 Republicans and 72 Democrats.

When the vacancies are all supplied the Republican numbers will undoubtedly be increased much more than Ihe Democratic The States Connecticut, boldt, that 1, as Secretary ot that meeting, was instructed to request? each county named in the resolut ions to tend two delegate's to the convention to be "It is very lonesome at home, and your business seldom allows yon to be there," replied the meek but resolute wife. "To me there is no company like yours, and as you cannot come home to me I come to you. I have a right to share your pleasures as well as your "But to come to such a place as this expostulated Tom. "Noplace can be inipr.oper where my husband is," said poor Mary, "Whom God hac joined togather, let no man put asunder." "Surely you are not going to drink that stuff," cried Tom as she was taking up the glass of liquor. "Why not? You say that you drink to forget sorrow, and surely I have sorrow to forget." "woman woman 1 you are not going to give that stuff to the children cried Tom, as she was passing the glass of liquor to them.

"Why not 1 Can children bavo a better example set them than their father's Is not. what is good for him good for them alsj It win put llieni to sleep, and they will forget they are cold and hungry. Drink, my children this is fire, and bed, and food, and clothing. Drink see how much good it does your father. With some reluctance Mary suffered her husband to lead her home, and that night ho p'rayed long and earnestly that God would help him to break an evil habit, and keep a new-formed but firm resolution.

His reformation was thorough, and Mrs Truesdall is now one of the happiest of women, -and remembers with a melanoholly pleasure her first and laBt visit to the dram shop. bers of flint hills are to be blasted through." This is not true, and if it were what of it A few rocks and hills do not deter men from building railroads, as evidence of which fact we lave only to cite Mont Cenis and the Iloosic tunnels In Illinois, near Elgin, a family by the name of Walter were found dead in their beds one morning a letter was found stating that the parents had poisoned their children with laudanum and then taken it themselves. They were firm believers in Spiritualism and were in a hurry to get to spirit land. If the doctrine works in this manner we will soon have no more spiritualists people will avoid them as a they would a deadly pestilence. Some Republican journals take grnt pleasure in announcing that tlio Republican party is dead, or just upor.

tbe point of dying. And now comes the Cowley County Censor with a long sensation editorial headed "A Death Rattle," in which the, editor attempts to prove that removing Charles Sumner from the committee on foreign relations in the Senate has killed the party. Now, while we have considerable faith in Mr. Sumner, as a statesman ami a republican, we at the same time disbelieve in the theory that the life or death of the party depends upon the 'uprise or downfall of any one man. If tbe party can't stand the removal of Mr.

Sumner or any other man from any committee whatsoever, all we can say is, just let her "rattle." The Kansas Farmer is one of the best farm journals in the country and will, we doubt not, under the management of tbe proprietor, G. T. Anthony soon become standard authority among periodicals of its clas3. We have ceived the three first numbers of the current volume and wc pronounce them perfect beauties. Each number has its cover embellished with an engraving of some prominent agriculturist, and one of the numbers before us contains a splendid, life-like likenees of the people's favorite, Gov.

James M. Harvey. No farmer in Kansas can afford to do the Kama Farmer. Pub- lished monthly at Leavenworth Kansas. Price one dollar per year.

While wo are neither a masonic nor anti-masonio champion, it is impossible for us not to endorse the following, which we find in The Mys'ic Star, a masonic, magazine coming from Chicago: "Ibe black drapery and solemn ceremonials, prayers and preaching, with all the dark surroundings, aro all out of place, and such would tlio released spirit declare if it could tuako itself heard to sensuous cars. That Free Ma-eons should adopt, in this ago of progressive enlightenment, the unmeaning and ridiculous performances of crcedal sectarianism, and seriously give their time and attention to the silly, puerile ceremonials observed on funeral occasions, is a march backward into the past centuries held at Osago Mission, on tho 12th BY WILLIAM C0MST0CK. Sylvanus had been fortunate in all his speculations. lie had succeeded both at home and abroad, lie owned houses and lands, whole villages in fact and being satisfied with his gains, he retired from active business, and took up his residence in a pretty villa on the banks of a pretty silvery stream, famed in song for its beauty. Sylvanus had not long been retired from the busy mart, when a female relative died and left him between four and five thousand dollars.

"Rivers run to the said the millionaire to his steward "but this time we will try to change the course of the aud let it go where it is more needed." The steward's eyes brightened. We ire prone to imagine' that good. fortune ould never be better bestowed than when it is conferred upon ourselves. I want yon to seak out some deserving man," continued Sylvanus "some man who is particularly note-worthy of his good induct or his generous deeds and this tailing legacy wliich I reaij do not want shall be handed over Three weeks elapsed, ami the steward was summoned to appear before his "Have you yet found a man worthy of that legacy? demanded Sylvanus, slowly. "I have three or answered the steward but for my life I cannot decide which of them ought to have the money they are all good men in their way.

"Perhaps I can assist replied the man of wealth. "Let us hear who and what they are. "Firstly," said the steward," is Richard Pardon "What 1 do you mean to Insult me, sir! that drunken beast who spends nearly all his time in soaking up bad whisky." "Pardon me, sir( said tho steward. He baa been a reformed man for the last five months, and he now works steadily, and earns his two or three dollars per day." "Is that so answered the million-air. "I am rejoiced to hear it.

Let him continue his labor till he has become confirmed in good habits. It would be a pity to tempt him with a large sura of money until he has given full evidence that there is no danger of a relapse into his former habits. Name another," "Farmer Goodwin, sir." A very industrions man, I bolieve. what of him said Sylvanus. "All the oountry round he is praised for, that, when the poor came into his field to glean at harvest time, ho loft about one-third of the wheat oehind for their benefit.

It did a great deal of good "Worthy man 1" cried Sylvanus, warmly. 'But who else have you on your list 't "The other, sir," answorod tho stow-ard, is Bill Barton, the young sailor, who ran up a ladder the other night, aud rescued Lucy Darling from tho flames, though, the roof of the burning house foil in a few moments afterward. "A noble act no doubt," said Sylvanus but as Lucy Darling was hi darling, and as sho will soon reward Bill with herself, and as her father is a rich man, who will, I understand, do well by his brave son-in-law, I care not to interfere. Your Farmer Goodwin, I think, livei up by the Four Corneri" California, and Texas are yet to elect Representatives. Out of 22 Senators newly elected, only 5 were re-elected from tho old congress, all of whom were Republicans.

Ideal Useless Until KiclUt il. Jones invents some small article cf day of April next, for permanent organization. And as thero would be considerable writing to do, and many counties would fail to receivo lotters in time, I defiire your several exchanges in tho district, above mentioned, to take notice by this letter, which authorizes each county to send two delegates. I would also say to each county that it it very necessary for prompt action iu this matter, and ind county should fail to bo represented'. Yours Truly, R.

T. Stokjjs, Sec of Humboldt convention; great valuo and makes money out. of it. v. i i apprenticeship.

Boys are men very early now, and break from the trammels cf indentures and apprenticeship. Furthermore, the sum set apart by Franklin is not enough to establish any ono in business, however humble the beginning may be. So there are no demands for the legacy. Iho Legislature is called upon to amend the will. The spirit of the will will) 1 considerd, not the letter.

The mind if Franklin, an intelligent, far-seeing mind, and eminently practial and open to the lessonos of advancement' will bo considered, and a law prssed which will give life and activity to a bequest which is to all intents and pnrposes a dead letter. fountry Girl. Mcta Victoria Fuller, in a sisterly way, thus, talks to country girls "The farmer's daughters are soon to be country girls "The farmer's daugters are soon to be the life as well as tho pride of this country a glorious race of women which no other land can show. I seek not to Hatter them, for before they can become this, they will have to mak an earnest effort of ono or two kinds. There are some who deprecate their condition, and who have a falso pride in it, because they demand moro consideration than they merit.

A want of intelligence upon all the subjects of tho day and of refined education, is no moro excusable in a oountry than in a town-bred girl, in these days of many books and newspapers. Many girls feol discouraged because they cannot be sent away from homo to boarding schools but men of snper-ior minds and knowledgo of tho world would rather have for wives, women well and properly educated at homci And this education can be had whenever tho desire is not wanted. A taste for reading does wonders and a thirst after knowledge is almost certain to attain a sweet draught from the 'Perian There is a farmer whose daughter in this very room in which I am writing a beautiful, refined, and intelligent woman in whoso girlhood, books were not so plenty as now, and who obtained her fine 'education under difficulties wliich would have dis-couragod any but one who had a true love for study, Tho annual consumption of spirits in the country is estimated at eighty millions of gallons, or moro than two gallons for every man, woman and child. An enraged father' in Michigan oaught his littlo boy by thg ear, and whirled him around with such force as to wrench that useful organ from his heed lJrown gets up a new itnng in advertising and finds it a mine of wealth. Robinson, though really much astonish-edat these results, merely says aimnle anv one miffbt have done that." Yet Robinson plods on as ii usual tnese "penecuy simpie thinfg aro loft untried, and people soon begin to think that R.

himself is perfectly simple, as aro moBt men who con tinue to bo lett always out in tne com. Thero are thousands of new and un-(rind methods of iudicious advcrtisinc: there are thousands of novel methods of attracting the attention of the public to your article convincing them that 1 it is the bost. Doubtless ideas, with money in them, occur daily to seven out of ton of those who read this para graph. The "something wanting seems to bo a power or renuza ion. infonnallon Wanted.

Mr. John Thornton, of Erie, Neoshd county, Kansas, desires information of hia'son. Perry Thornton, who formerly residod in Carrol county, Ark.i pii Crooked creek, and was conscripted by the rebel General Adams, and dcSortea to the Federal army at the battlo ot Prairie Grove, joining company of tho 2d Colorado Infantry, from which time no trace of him has been found; He is now, if living, about thirty ond years of age, of low stature; light han't bluo eyes, and weighed, when last seehi 170 pounds. Should this meet the eyi of any ono who Way know aught of his whereabouts, a great fa7or will bo conferred by sending information, to his father, to the above address. A Green Mountain youth advcrfriseS forawifo in this style: "Any gal wl at's got a cow, a good, feather bed with comfortable fix "ins, $600 iii hard pewter ono that's had the measles and understands tending children-can find a customer for life by writing a billy dux, addressed to Zj and Btickiu' it in a crack of uncle Ebene er's barn, back Bide, jinin the hotf The old "recipe fur removing doubt and difficulty is Oange Trust Lands.

A Washington correspondent of the Lawrence Journal writes iu regard to the matter of a postponement of payment for these lands as follows "Some weeks ago Senator Pomcroy Becured the passage of a bill in the Senate allowing a postponement of payment on the Osage trust lands until one year from July next. This would hnve been a great relief to settlers. But the bill has not passed tho House, and I hardly think it can pass this session. Senator Ross will try and tack substantially thesamo proposition on to the miscellaneous appropriation bill, and it may go through in this way. If it fails, as I fear it will, a strong effort will bo mado by Senators Caldwell and Pomcroy and Representative Lowo to pass a bill in tho extra session." Cincinnati has built twenty-eight steamers daring tho past year.

1. Get all the ta yon can. 2. Remove extraneous ideas. 3.

Calculato the probabilities. 1. Allow a wide margin for accidents, Ct'i f). Then put on Btcani and Advkktisk until people call yod insane; then keep on advertising and the fickle goddess will smile. American Ntiwxpuier Reporter.

Neaf San Francisco, Californio water nines are made of paper, combinod ith phalium..