The Valley Echo from Peace, Kansas • 4

THE VALLEY ECHO- RICE CO. KANSAS. NO. 3. AUGUST, 1875.

Clean Caltnr. OUR SCRAP BOOK. About C-lldrwa. Children are children as kittens are kitten. A sober, old cat, that sits purring before the fire, does not trouble herself because her kitten is hurrying nd dashing here and there, in a fever of excitement to catch iU own tail.

She aits still Loareylty lnwin. Every farmer knows, the importance of clean cultivation where the growth of weeds interferes directly with the yield of crops: yet many farmers, who as a rule secure good crojM at considerable expense, allow weeds of TOWN PRIDE. AtoMMCh-BplM. We don't know who wrote the following. But it embodies as much tmving 'common sense as was ever liefore crowded into an article of la The average longevity of lawyer, It generally conceded by the statistics, la greater than that of any other profession or class.

and purrs on. People ahould do the same The New York World gives iorciuie lnatan- with children, une ot the airacuiues 01 equal length. Couldn't II MlnflTed. A couple of horseman, coming into the city the other day from the Interior, overtook an old man and his wife seated in the bottom of a mule-cart. Feeling in high spirits, one of the men called out "Hello, uncle, how much will you take for your wife, cash down "Oh, I dunno," he slowly replied.

"Well, name your price." "How much'll ve give he asked, "Ten dollars." "Take her!" The horseman didn't know what te say, and was gathering up the reins, when the old woman jumped to the ground and exclaimed "Pass over the ducats, mister! I like the ail kinds to trespass upon ground used as turning rows, fence cornners, etc, which scatter their seeds in every direction, requiring the farmer each year to expend additional labor above what otherwise would be required to hold hia own with them. As the land grows older the danger dPthis It ought to be read and ce i which are extant of home education is the impossibility of mak tosses "jirJzg. out of their affection, all watch and worry- re-read, until jscommnwu Unnected with eminent "IsocraUa Memoir of C. Dilke. ory, by every citizen of America, it iivea more a hundred years.

Cicero ought to be cut out and pasted in your dwells delightfuly upon the old barristers rwt-book. SO that of hia time, telling how Cethegua was study- How Kara a Living-. We are constantly in the receipt of letters whose writers want to be told how they can VUVJ VI JVM 1 1. nn.l I a 'Ml. a Ping orUvO Hkoiguijr, buu- you can keep it constantly in mina.

Ana tne civil Jaw at te Ba nje age. The increases, unless great care is exercised in keeping up the fertility of the soil and in destroying weeds in whatever quarter they may present themselves. Along hedges large enough to be bevond the need of culti if the neoDle of this city will act upon it French Chancellor Tellier studied logic in earn a living. In stating what they are willing to do to earn a living, the writers usu lionHtantlv nrafi'tiea the advice it em order to carry on burlesque controversies in Barbara with his grandchildren. Brougham, ally omit to state that they are willing to vation, and other fences too, a strip wide old man, and he likes me.

but we 'ar a fam- i flnlriA tlAuin tA Mtt I li urn umrlrwwtsft. that. I .1 one ot the chancellors oiiMigianu, was ninety-1 Jr enough ior a 'turning row should be ae voted uy which can't be bluffed by no man on four when he died; Lord Eldon and Mn. tog" Ialhwwaythe dirt in plowing horseback I anv arwmint urn a mr bv anvbndv. I .1 ipe by ierald.

neia Dotn touoiieu ninety; auu, 11 we uuniiijus 1 --v '1 it. lm" uo mrownirom tne ience as oiten as in 1 lne "biuners got out 01 the sen not, Berrey did so too. In this country, An work must be done as work and the oposite direction without difficulty, and I riding off at full 1 John Adams aurvivee to be ninety-one, Kent wurKw iuu noi ue not only adds wonderfully to the conve.i- ws eighty-four, John Pickering eighty-four, derstood that it is work, and that he is do- ience but the artistic appearance of the 7 Jefferson eighth-three, Madiaon, eighty five, he has to do it in order to get Md Mark Twain in the August Atlantic, Jhn Jav eiSht v-four. John Ouincv Adams hying. No one can earn an honest living A11 theM unBjhtir Dfttchea often over the diminished length of the Missi mourns isippi 9 I 1 A 1 a I 1 in tit mo Uw I till IH.1MH I11HHM Ullta UCttiL B11U I 1 A 1 1 1U blllB Dual I.

much daniagi (who should not class among lawye I MaxVMV tWI IU UV1HK DU 111 14VU URIUIIKO CaU4 I so Therefore the MissisHinni between Cairo mind are in his work, it is not apt to be suc bodies Atchison will continue to grow, year after year, with a steady, prosperous growth, that will gratify her friends and astonish her enemies. Town Pride is the thing. The man who has none is a curse to the community in which he lives. His growling, and and tfloomy predictions, infect the community as a deadly poison does the human system. The man who is full of faith in the town where he lives who is proud of it, and hopeful of it, and who talks always and confidently of its advantages, its growth, and its great future such a man is worth everything to the town where he resides.

Rich or poor, it cessf ully done nor will he grow strong and prosperous in dollnj it. The man who believes in hard wojk, and is willing to be known as one who earns hia living, if he is ever.) eighty-one, and Chief Justice Marshall eighty-one. which age Chief Justice Taney exceeded by seven years. A Jewish Iigad. When Abraham sat at his tent door, ac and New Orleans was miles long 176 years ago.

ItVas 1,180 after the cut-ofl of 1722, It was 1040 after the American Bend cutoff (some 16 or 17 yeras ago.) It has lost 67 miles since. Consequently its length is only 937 miles at present. Now, if I wanted to be one of those ponder bringing nothing in return, may be occupied in some way to advantage without much labor. A grove may be planted, a few shrups and flowers, or some of the small fruits may be cultivated to advantage. If time will not admit of these things, scatter upon the surface plenty of grass seed and it will take care of itselfe.

Home weeds are so prolific in their seed-bearing capacity that the ground becomes full of the little germs which remain hidden in the earth for years, to spring up and choke the growing crops whenever the condition are favorable. To prevent this, far cording to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man stooping and leaning on a staff weary also intelligent, honest and economical, is the man who is almost sure to earn it, and to get on in the world, bo that after a time, he can rest from his toil, and enjoy tne fruits of his industry and thrift. New York Ledger. Kaay Sl tanners. Recent events have called public attention with age and travel, coming slowly toward him who was one hundred years old.

He received him kindly, washed his feet, provided his supper and caused him to sit to the intimate relation of morals and man- down: observing the old man ate and matters not his faith is as inspiring as a prairie breeze, and his influence passes into the Dublic mind as the sun into the iiers. i ouwg men anu ven uuu nuuiwi, permit themselves a freedom and lice nse of manner which having all the aspect of im-DroDrietv. may very readily acquire its sub rayed not, nor begged for a blessing on is meat, he asked him why he did not mers should not even allow such to grow along the roadside. Early and thorugh cultivation of the corn crop, thick seeding of small grain, early fall plowing before the weed seeds mature, are all valuable aids to clean cultivation. Wes ous scientific people, and "let -on" to prove what had occurred in the remote past by what had occurred in a given time in the recent past, or what will occur in the far future by what haa occured in late years, what an opportunity is here! Geology never had such a chance, ''nor such exact data to argue froml Nor "development of species," either Glacial epochs are great things, but they Are vague yague.

Please observe: In the space of 176 years the lower Mississippi has shortened itself 242 miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Golitie Silurion Period, jnst million years ago next November, the Lower Misssissippi River was upwards of 1,300,000 miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of air, warming it," purifying it, and filling worship the God of Heaven The old man told him that be worship stance. Edward addretwes Emily with a loud and jesting intimacy of tone and conduct, of which might be expected in the sailor saloons ed the fire enly, and acknowledged no tern Rural. Water Street or Wraping.butwhicn is repulsive and odious in the drawing-room or among refined gentleman or lady, and has the air of the demimonde.

They think that they are especially comme il faut, and that above all others they know what is the Aa Extraordinary Mpeclnten of American Iron. The Colliery Guardian of Jund 18th sayes: There is now being shown in the Birmingham district an extraordinary specimen of it. with life and brightness. liut we need not enlarge upon this theme, although it is one upon which much might be written. We merely desired to commend the article published below to the careful perusal of every reader of Thk Champion.

This journal lias always had confidence and pride in Atchison, and it has endeavored to inspire all classes of our citizens with its faith. We hope a perusal of this article will assist in this We believe every town should have an abundance of it. An over abundance of it is other god. At which, Abraham grew zealously angry, and thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evals of the night in an unguarded condition. When the old man was gon God called to Abraham and asked him where the stranger was.

Abraham replied: "I thrust him away because he did not worship thee." 1 God answered: I have suffered him these hundred years, though he has dishonored me and could not thou endure him one night. iron maxing in the united states, it is a portion of a sheet of very thin iron, bo thin that though its surface are 4 inches by 3 inches, yet its weight is only 3 grains, apothecary's weight. The breadth rule of high society. But they are merely vulgar and have the manners of those who are worse than' merely vulgar. Coarseness can not be glided into refinement.

The young woman who habitually calls her young friend of the nostrills will drive it away almost as of the other sex by their Uhristain Mexico like a fishing rod. And by the same token one person can see that 742 years from now the Lower Misdiaiuppi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together and be ploding comfortable along under a Bingle Mayor and a mutual Board of Aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of Conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. i i- Cat A Ilor'a Feellaa Hernial acemaea names, or who suffers any thing that can be if it were the cinder of burned paper.

The called familiarity, although it fall short thinness is itself very surprising, hut the ex- of actual indecorum, shoull reflect careful- traordinary part of the matter is that the ly. "Sir," aaid'a lady to a policeman who iron has been made from what the American took her elbow to Daws her over the street, terms a "muck bar" obtained from a food for Lfittn Women. If anv one wishes to arrow fleshv.a t)int "It I wish you to touch me I will ask you." Danks puddling furnace at Pittsburg, with- I it 1 I Ll l.J Tl No woman of a high ranse of personal sigm-1 out being reworked. Thus, an extreme ty wishes any man to lay his hand upon her thinness of iron, which it is almost impossi 1kT Ml I LI A- .1 better than none. We like such a town and such a people.

When a man builds a house, or digs a well, or sets out a tree, or makes any improvement, he should not simply consult his convenience and his own immediate iuteretitp, but he should have an eye to the effect of his work upon the town in which he lives. lie should even waive, very of milk taken before retiring at night will cover the scrawniest bones. Although nowadays we see a great many fleshy females, yet there are many lean and lank ones who sigh for the fashiona ble to secure from the very best materials, worked and reworked many times over in the of Vellne Order. Cats do very well to git along with until tha git to a certin size then tha are only fit to fling things at. Luv ceems to affeck them the saim wa that colick does ower baby.

They aint neer soft abowt it as sister Jen an thoughtlessly or unnecessarily, rnor wm such a woman permit any kind of rudeness in the manner of men. Editor's Easy Chair, in Harper's Magazine for September. MunneiA Vrarelinar usual way, has been got from iron in the states of crudeness in which it was found upon leaving a mechanical puddling fur ble measures of plumpness, and who ul wwauios juuiupucas, nuu vuu largely, personal interests, as dictated largely, personal interests, as dictated by hiB own unbiased and proper "town pride'' would Ue vastly improved in health and There are few situations in which people nrna -t iah 1 ri ti -i rn Kn mmi il with good solid flesh. Nothing is more a Ped that so thoroughly bnngout and selves coveted by thin women than a full ficrure. show up their honest as a long journey in a stage-coach or a railway car.

If there her clerk Them to air too mutch. Cats dont lay in 1 lap an look like a calf The maik more riois abowt it in a min-it than Jen an that feller duz till haf past 2 in the, mornin. If luv must be I think the cats wa aint kwitesb sickenine, tho awl kinds is bad enuflf. Cats are good things to be in the saim room wen yu nock sumtbin off an break or eat sumthing tha aint savin for yu, cos and nothing else will so rouse the ire and provoke the scandal of one of the nace. It is assumed in the country that the iron has been made from the ordinary district pigs, and the specimen haa an important commercial as well as a scientific significance.

There is to the iron makers here the disagreeable inference that, If crude iron can be worked to such foil as is described, then that sheet of greater thicknes, but still of a thinness that brings them to. the narrowest gauge embraced in the sheets generally made in this country, and which realize very high prices, should be produced by the United States iron masters at figures so much "clipper-builds as the consciousness of plumpness in a rival. In cases of fever is selfishness, or meddlesomeness, or cynicism or irritability in an individual, it is as sure to manifest itself aa do the opposite traits of benevolence, forbearance graciouaness and amiablity. There are certain inconveniences that all alike must sufl'er from when travel-ine. but as a general rule, those who endure Town pride pays.

It is a good investment: Two-thirds of prosperity is artificial. Hue--8 is largely dependent on sentiment. Valuation is a creature of custom, to a very unsiderable extent. A thing is valuable ri proportion to the appreciation it secures. Many towns thrive amid surroundings adverse to prosperity, while uther towns, with more propitious surroundings, daily wear the habiliments of death.

Investigate, and you discover the people, in one case, live, active, full of "town pride in the other, a people whose town and prosperity is far in the back ground of and summer complaint milk is now (riven with excellent results. The idea that milk is "feverish has exploded, and it is now the physician's erreat reliance in with them the most patiently are free from throucrh tvDhoid Datients. or those same inconveniences at home, and bringing those in too low a state to be nourished though they suffer most keenly from them when awav from home they keep silence. by solid lood. It is a great mistake to cats air dum broots an cant deny it.J Wats the use a havin em arrownd unless tha can bare some of the domestik difficulties Tha hay got to do it in a family ware ime so-jurnin.

If yu rub a cat up and bak in a dark roin it will is a good thing to git sum boy to do which has cum to sta awl nite. Wen I have some like that kind I like to divide moast awl uv it with my little pla-mates. Aunt Hester has a ole cat which she brings whareever she goes. Unkle Ellick sais this is becoz she is a ole maid an likes to be reminded uv her coartin daze, but he dassent sa it to her face. She is to owr house It is a fair inference to make that the loudest in complaints of dust, flies, noise, bad fare at lunch houses, uncongenial associations, and broken sleep come from homes where these are the rules and the exception.

The par below those at which alone latens and button iron, for instance, can be made in this country, that the Americans must be in a position to compete successfully with the British iron masters for those kinds in his home market. Men in the trade who have seen the specimen are expressing the belief that the Americans should be able to compete with the English maker in the Antipodean, Colonial, the Russian and the Chinese markets, whither large consignments of British sheet-iron are scrimp the milk pitcher. Take more milk and buy less meat. Look to your milkmen, have large-sized, well-filled milk pitchers on the table each meal, and you will also have sound flesh and light doctors' bills. Milk and Female Ueantj venu may be known when traveling by showy dress, barbaric display jewelry, elaboraleand pompous manner, and a general assumption ii any one wishes to grownesny, apintol of suDerioritv.

one of these signs constantly going. Definition of a dentleman. milk taken at night before retiring will wiU be manifest in your true lady or gentle-cover the bones. Although nowadays we see man, who will be attired plainly, be quiet their thoughts. Plant trees, cultivate flowers, grow shrubbery, build fences, keep the wild undergrowth down, adorn, beautify your homes do this not simply to make your town attractive.

Have town pride. Praise your town take it up; work for it. Houses are a good thing in a town also people. But the great cornerstone of a town's succes is town pride. Without it the people will leave, and well, empty houses don't make a town any more than an empty skull makes sense.

4 Depend upon it, the evidence or lack of evidence of town pride makes the first impression upon the stranger's mind. this summer. Ma rit to her that the kolery a great many nesny temaies, yet there are and reserved in manner, and avoid notice many lean and lank ones who sigh for the as mUch as possible. Around the truly fashionable measures of plumpness, and who gentle there will be an air of refinement, of would be vastly improved in health and ap- courtesy, and of modesty, which will act as pearance could their figure be rounded with an impenetrable barrier against rudeness good solid flesh. Nothing is more coveted of all sorts, so that a person of this charac- It 'ia almost a definition of a gentleman to an small poks wus a ragin here but she cum say he is one who never inflicts pain: This annywa an brot the cat.

It isgrawitha blak description is both refined and, as far as it spot awl over it cept a little on its tale an goes, accurate. He -is mainly occupied in dont like ant Hester cos she alius merely removing the obstacles which hinder waks to me of Moses an osef wen I 1 want the free and unembarrassed action those to slip an go in fishin, so I get even on i the about him and he concurs with their move- cat. ments rather than take the initiative himself. Onst I killed a mowse an stuck it awl full His benefits may be considered as parallel uv pins an throde it out quick before old to what are called comforts or conveniences Sipio which is hi? name and it grobbed it in arrangements of a personal nature; like like a sudden an if yu ever see eny thing an easy chair, a good fire, which do their part claw an holler it waz him. Then ant Hester by thin women than a full figure, and noth- ter may travel from end to end of the land in perfect security from unseemly intrusion.

Stick to the Farm. Within the last year or two, we can a half-dozen of our farmer who have been lured to financial des And depend upon it, two-thirds of the stranger's "impressions" will be imbibed from the people. If you intend to stay in a place, make the best of it if not, leave it. Town pride will conduce to your happiness, and exert a more potent power than anything else, in fattening your pocket book. in dispelling cold or" fatigue, though nature she snatched the mouse awa an got awl stuck truction by the glamor of speculation.

And ing will so rouse the ire and provoke the scandel of one of the "clipper-builds" as the consciousness of plumpness in a rival. In case of fever and summer complaint milk is given with excellent results. The idea that milk is "feverish" has exploded, and is now the physician's great reliance in bring-ng through typhoid patients, or those in too low a state to be nourished by solid food. It is great mistake -to scrimp the milk pitcher. Take more milk and buy less meat.

Have large-sized coin? back ten years, and carefully looking I crovides both means of rest and heat without in her fingers and streamed an the fokes I If. 2 V. I fPU- I 1 1 aw A a A Vltt DIAWUAIlt up tne niatory Ol, won rtv iiuw, wnu uave i mioiu. iuo uc gouwciu-ii, ui utvc uinuuer, I uuiii piiexu iu, uau left the farm to engage in trade, we find that carefully avoids whatever may cause a bar on a shovel an men cum an looaeu ior me. whom he He fowned me.

It didn't do no good to tell not one in ten has' succeeded. A recent case I or a jolt injthe minds of those with is cast all clashing opinion, or collision of him that I expeted mowse had et pin has coma to our knowledge that is lull ot in well hlled milk pitchers on the table each feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, cushin ine maKes nimseii top psagreaoie or resentment his great concern being to fur a grone man. I ffy 5 jt make every one else at ease and at home. An uther time I tuk the cat's tale an put He has eyes on all his company he is ten- a reel tite cloze pin on it, which maid him der toward the bashful, gentle toward the jump like a kangarue. Dad sed ware is that distant, and merciful toward the absurd he Sammy, and there I wuz.

I told him that I see can recollect to whom he is speaking he that cat a wawkin on.the cloze line an I bet Drawing sermons from stones has become an every-day affair since the introduction of the science of geology; but some newspapers can find a moral in any thing. The Chicago Post says: "Daniel Lamoreaux, of Fentonville, died yesterday of injuries received from being thrown from a wagon, aged 74." There structions to those who are tempted to leave the farm. By his own exertions alone, this farmer had accumulated a handsome competence, and at the age of fifty could look with pride over his broad acres of rich land, his fine herds, flocks, and comfortable buildings. He was out of debt, and bad a handsome surplus in the bank. Two years ago, in an evil hour, he was induced to in-yjsst in a dry goods store.

Last fall his farm and stock was sold for debt, and he is reduc meal, and you will also have sound flesh and light doctors' bills. The Btiral Critic. 1 After tne concert was he quietly took us aside, and gave vent as follows to his pent up feelings "I tell you, mister, she was a slasher. Our Genuie couldn't hold a candle to her. When she first sat down, she looked kind a wild, then with a howl dug suards against unreasonable allusions or she cot her tale aksidentaily betwene the topics which may' irritate he is" seldom pin.

It dont ceem to maKe enny aenerents whether I tell a lie or oan up. I get wal- luped enny wa. Ime only puttin oph bein a James boy on til the baby gits big enuff to go prominent to conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of him- upon the Louisville Courier-Journal re her fingernails into them ere rough notes, and shot 'em like lightning up into the thin ed to necessity of day labor to support his large and yet deneadent family.

All the along an'maije two uv us, then look owt. marks: "The Post should warn its readers about crettJhg into wagons 74 years Forth of Jooly 1 dun the onulest trik with accumulation of oyer thirty years hard toil I self except when compelled, never defends Old Sip i shut him up in a box an throo many ot them years ol priyaijon, nara- mmseii Dy a retort, ne has no ears ior sian- in 1U old. We have never known a wagon of a bunch ot uv hre krackers which woz ships. and the closest economy swept away der, or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing that age to be entirely safe." in a few months by the demon, speculation. And this is not a solitary case.

Every rea- uxoijves to those who interfere with him, and an agoin' it wuz fun enuff for 6 boys uv my interprets everything for the best. He is size i sat on the box to hold the lid down never mean or little in his disputes, never and laf like a crowded howse I didnt kne ones. Then she paused lor a reply, mister. She then commenced at the right hand side, went a rippin' down hand over fist, till she got clean down makin' a noise like thunder. She then yanked a handful out of Uwenter, and planted them at the end, then wiggled around with two fingers, grabbed up another fistful, punched right and left went rip-ety-hopety-scotchy up and down, and I tell you that 'ere pianner howled.

She then gave another snort, and when she went she busted in like mad, raised up off her chair, 1 i Tl. li 1 -iil--l thare wuz shavins in the boks Also i dident takes unfair advantage, never mistakes per sonalties or sharp sayings for agiimen.ts, or insinuates evils which he dare not say 'out. kno thare was a big krak in the lid. The fir cum up and burnt me and the cat cum From a long-sighted prudence he observes the maxin of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves toward our enemy as der can count similar ones in his list of ac-qjjaintences. They all teach one great lesson stck to your legitimate business, the business in which you have succeeded.

fet well enough alone:" A man who has lived all his life on a farm, stands tut little chance to compete successfully with the' men have been educated and trained for (Speculative pursuits. The two occupations are extremes- honest toil at one end, and tricks of trade at the other. If you haye a good farm, keep it improve jt, he proud of it, and when you are done with It, hand it down to your children the best inheritance, with a good education, that you could leave them. Ohio Farmer. 1 A pmivatk letter to the Leavenworth Commercial, from the upper Republican, states that up to the 12th the grand army of grasshoppers had not made their appearance there.

In Jewell county on the 11th a small band came down, but did no damage. In Phillips counry some little damage has already been done by a squad of the pests. But all that have made their appearance seem to be detached squads, that have evidently been blown by the winds, against their will, and they do not remain long. They have done very little damage. up ana scrauneu me uu -ue uum.

piaso 1 went awaa to hunt a col place and when i got bak the hen hows and sum fents wuz al burnt down and dad wuz lookin for me agin, i dont know how he fond it owt coz i kno i never nitted it to a sole. If ever he whups me that way one more time ile go without wating for the baby. I thot Sip wuz dead sure but he dident; you can most hardly kill a cat. He sees me in a corner wraped up in a big pooltine and when Ime arownd he watches me like 2 coles uv fire. I 1 stuffed three fingers full there, caromed six more in the corner, gobbled up a few more tunes, and settled their hash in about a minute.

After that she tackled it with her left hand alone. Between you and me, mister, the man that owned that 'ere piauer went shiftin' aiound on his chair as though he had a carpet-tack under him. Good night, mister," he were one day to be our mend. He has too muGh good sense to be affronted at insults, he is too well employed to remember iujuries, and toe indolent to hear malice. He is patient, forbearing and resigned on philosophical principles he submits to pain because it inevitable, to bereavement because it is irreparable, and to death, because it is his destiny.

John Henry Newman..