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IX. MANHATTAN, KANSAS, SATURDAY, DECE'mBEIVS, 1883. No, 17. The Sword. KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Its Early History and Characteristic Changes In Modern Times. The sword was, as the ancient chroni cler said, "the oldest, the most universal, CALENDAR. the most varied of arms, the only one which has lived through time. All peo ple knew it. It was everywhere regarded 1883-4.

Fall Term. September 13th to December 21st. Winter Term. January 8th to March 28th. Spring Term.

March 81st to June 11th. as the support of courage, as the enemy newspapers of to-day are incomparably better than they were twenty-five or thitv ty years ago, when I first began to know them well. They are more varied in their contents; there is more information in them. They are far more solid, and of greater utility to their readers. There is less froth in them and more substance.

American newspapers as compared with English journals have far less conventionality and much more freedom. They have a much firmer grasp on the living inter, ests of society. There is in England a much larger class of men of education, men familiar with literature, who have no special sphere of intellectual activity and they fall naturally into journalism. The English newspapers are, therefore, much more scholarly, but not so vigorous in though and not so vital as the Ameri-can." of perfidy, as the mark of commandment, as the companion of authority as the emblem of sovereignty, of power, of force, of conquest, of fidelity, and ot punishment." And all this has steel abandoned to be come rails! Look at what it was and the officials who stamp them, and all distinction continues to bo set aside so long as thoy are in charge of the postofflce. But as soon as they pass out of its custody, the distinctions are again set up; for on receipt, some are ignominiously cast aside or carelessly thrust into the pocket of some shabby coat, and called on when occasion requires to do service in lighting a tobacco pipe Others are carried into the parlor on a silver salver by a trim waiting-maid; and after being read over ever so many times, are laid carefully by as a piece of valued treasure, and long cherished as a memorial of some absent loved one and of some deliciously happy-time.

From Chamber's Journal. A Neiv IntiiiMtrial Room. If all the signs of the times may be be-lieved, the next industrial boom is to be in sugar and sugar machinery. The practicability of the production of sorghum sugar in the United States as a commercial success is already demonstrated, and in three different locations widely separated in latitude and longitude the industry is already established. Rio Grande, N.

made 350,000 pounds of sugar last year, and will this year double the propuct. At Champaign, 111., there was a product of 160,000 pounds last year, which will what it is. -Its aspect was brilliant; its habits were punctilious; its manners were courtly; its connections were patrician; BOARD OF REGENTS. Hon. F.

D. Cobukn, Wyandotte. President. Hon. Chas.

E. Giffoud, Clay Center. Vice-President. Hon. J.

T. Ellicott, Manhattan, Treasurer. Hon. H. C.

Kellehman, Burlington. Rev. Philip Krohn, Atchison. Hon. C.

A. Leland, El Dorado. Pres't Geo. T. Fairchild ex officio), Secretary.

J. B. Giffoud, Land Agent. tMnnhflttnn J. T.

Ellioott, Ian Commissioner, its functions" were solemn; its contract was ennobling; even its very vices were glittering, tor most of them were simply defects of its superb qualities. It is true that it was sometimes cruel, and that its process of action was distinctly sanguinary; but those reproaches apply to all other weapons too. Throughout the ages it grandly held up its head and haughtily bore its name. It lost no caste when it allied itself with lance and dagger, with battle-ax and helm, for they were of its natural kindred; and even when, in latter days, it stopped, to generate such lowly as razors, lancets, knives and FACULTY. GEORGE T.

FAIRCIIILD, A. President Professor of Logic and Political Economy. EDWARD M. 8IIELTON, M. Professor of Agriculture, Superintendent of Farm.

GEORGE II. PAILYER, M. Professor of Chemistry and Physics. EDWIN A. POPENOE, A.

Professor of Horticulture and Entomology, Superintendent of Orchards and Gardens. ALBERT TODD, A. Lieut. 1st. U.

S. Art'y, Professor of Military Science and Tactics. WILLIAM A. KELLERMAN, Ph. Professor of Botany and Zoology.

BENJAMIN P. III ART, A. Professor of Mechanics and Engineering. DAVID E. LANTZ, Professor of Mathematics.

JOHN D. WALTERS, M. Sc. Instructor in Industrial Drawing. WILLIAM II.

COWLES, A. Instructor in English and History. IRA D. GRAHAM, B. Sc.

Superintendent of Telegraphy, Secretary. GEORGE F. THOMPSON, Superintendent of Printing, Mrs. NELLIE S. KEDZIE, M.

Teacher of Household Economy and Hygiene, Superintendent of Sewing. TIMOTHY T. IIAWKES, Superintendent of the Workshops. WILLIAM L. II OFER.

Teacher of Instrumental Music. JULIUS T. WILLARD. B. Assistant in Chemistry.

4 needles, the world saw no real abasement in the act, for the chivalrous blade was still the image which represented steel to man. But now its whole character has changed; now it has thrown aside its gallantry, its grace, its glory; now it has foresworn its pride for profit, its pomp for popular-ity. Steel is now bursting coarsely on the earth at the rate of thousands of tons a month. It is positively being made into steam engines and cannons and ships, and all sorts of vulgar, heavy, uncomely, useful, objects. Worse than all, it is becoming cheap Steel cheap The steel of old, the steel of legend and of story, the steel of palladin and the chevaliers, the steel of the noble and the brave, the steel of honor and of might, the steel that was above price, that knew not money and cared naught for profit, that steel is no more.

It has been driven contem pt-ously out of sight by metal lurgic persons called Bessemer and Krupp and others; and these destructive creators have put into its place a nineteenth century substance exactly fitted to a mercantile period, but possessing no title whatever with time or fume. Leavenworth Times. this year be doubled. At Hutchison and Sterling, Kansas, there are factories which have already demonstrated the practicability of the industry as well; and there is nothing to prevent the establishment of one thousand sugar plants during the next ten years, and the production of worth of sugar. This is no visionarv matter; the product may quite likely be $50,000,000 in that time, and the value of machinery and capital employed fully $150,000,000, even if in that time we are not producing the entire $100,000,000 worth of1 sugar now im ported.

Boston Commercial Reporter. Classical Studies. And now let us observe how this thorough-going system is characterized by one who has had the best possible opportunities for observing and knowing its results. In a lecture delivered before the Royal Institute of Great Britian, by the Rev. F.

W. Farrar, a distinguished author and philologist, and who was one of the masters of Harrow School, and for thirteen years a classical teacher, we have the following estimate of the present value of the system. Canon Farrar says: "I must, then, avow my own deliberate opinion, arrived at in the teeth of the strongest possible bias and the prejudice in the opposite direction arrived at with the fullest possible knowledge of every single argument which may be urged on the other -I must avow 1 my distinct conviction, that our present system of exclusively classical education, as a whole and carried out as we do carry it out, is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong words, but not without having considered them well; and I say it because that system has been weighed in the balance and found wanting It is no epigram, but a simple fact, to say that classical education neglects all the powers Our Exchanges. A farmer near Lane turned up fourteen; curious eggs while plowing, and put them under a setting hen.

He was amazed to find that the hen had hatched out fourteen little snakes. Ottawa Republican. The farmers of Rush county have resolved to ask our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use their influence to procure an appropriation from the general government to sink a test artesian well in that county. Kinsley sportsmen are making a wholesale slaughter of wild geese this fell. It, is getting so that if one of the nimrods comes home with much less than a dozen of the birds, he doesn't think it worthy of mention.

Kinsley Graphic. One of Mr. Waterman's steers, an animal weighing about twelve hundred pounds, got its head entangled in a tree, or rather between two trees, Monday night, and was so badly injured when found that it had to be killed. Marion Co. Record.

Wild geese are reported in the sorghum patches in large numbers, eating up the sorghum seed, much to the displeasure of the farmers. One man expressed a belief that they had consumed one hundred and fifty bushels of his seed. Uodye City Times. 9 At the Kansas Academy of Science the other day, Gov. Glick said that the of Kansas this year were after providing for the wants of the peo-pie, to give them $80 apiece every man, woman and child or, in other words, a gain of $80,000,000 in a single year; for he must mean a net gaiu, and there are in round numbers 1,000,000 people in this State.

Now, in 1880 the assessed valuation of Kansas was in round numbers Let us call it $320,000,000, as no doubt the property was assessed much below its value. The gain this year is a profit of 25 per cent on ail they have invested. This is an enormous profit, and was never before realized in agriculture. Junction City Union. Mr.

Hughes, of North Atchison, has an experience of thirty years as a tree-grower in Kansas. Nine years ago, he planted a lot of walnuts on his place in Doniphan county, and now they are large, vigorous and handsome trees. For the first two years their progress was slow, but after that they grew as rapidly as cotton woods. He picked half a bushel of nuts from each tree in the seventh year, and the same summer they afforded a grateful shade. Mr.

Hughes is satisfied that a walnut planted in the fall of 1883 will make a better tree in 1889 than a soft maple of the ordinary plantingsize set out at the same time. The best walnuts to plant are those picked up in the woods with the hulls on, and they should be planted in the fall. Mr. Hughes has made experiments which convince him that trees grow during the winter, fall and early spring, and believes that a year may be gained by fall planting. Howard COLLEGE BUSINESS.

Loans upon school-district bonds are to be obtained from the Loan Commissioner. College Lands and all business connected with their sale are in charge of the Land Agent. Bills against the College should be presented monthly, and, when audited, are paid from the office of the Treasurer, in Manhattan. All Payments of principal and interest on account of bonds or land contracts must be mado to the State Treasurer, at Topeka. a The Industrialist may be addressed through Prof.

E. M. Shelton, Managing Editor. Subscriptions are received by Hupt. Geo.

F. Thompson. Donations for the Library or Museums should bo sent to the Librarian, or to Prof. Kellerman, Chairman of committee on Museums. Questions, scientific or practical, concerning the different departments of study or work, may be addressed to the several Professors and Superintendents.

General 'information concerning the College and its. examinations, grades, boarding places, etc. may be obtained at the office of tne President. of some minds, and some of the powers of Letter and As we have said, let the form of our salutation be in keeping with the tenor of the letter we have to write; and let the letter take its form from the circumstances that call it forth. If it be a business one, let it be brief.

If it be a begging one, let it be characterized by humility. If it be a friendly one, let it be free and ingenuous. If it be a love effusion, let us, while we are writing it, have our mind's eye fixed on the possibility of an action being raised for breach of promise. Having completed our imaginary letter, it follows, of course, that we should post it. As it falls from our hands, we cannot help reflecting that the postoffice is much like the grave a terrible leveller.

Here the rich and the poor meet together the servant and his master lie side by side. Here the godly and the profane are brought into contact the learned and the illiterate mingle freely. Here is the lovely pink, profusely perfumed love letter, just dropped from the hands of some beautiful and accomplished young lady; and here is the dirty, fire-browned epistle of some unsoaped denizen of the alleys, sealed with cobbler's resin and the application of thimble or key. All jostle each other in the general inelee, all are favored with the same knocks on the head by all minds. In the case of the few it has a value which, being partial, is unsatisfactory; in the case of the vast multitude, it ends in utter and irremediable waste." From Editor's Table, in Popular Science Monthly, for November.

American Journalism. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, while in San Francisco a few days ago, was asked by an interviewer to give his views of American journalism and its distinguishing features. The veteran cov-ered'the ground in the following concentrated philosophy "American journalism is, above all things, progressive. The RAILROAD TIME-TABLES union pacific railway.

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