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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08
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Nothing shows the refinement Of ths
ef more than the adorning of his h.
it shows his good taste and that bs Tune; j.
siroas of making all around him nla . oe-
and comfortable. Beautiful and ., feasant
homes tetfd 20 increase all the oooS 'a a,.
ties of the occupants, and remote - 4uaii-
Beauty and Ioveliness in nature 10 - 1ao.
that is noble m thought and deed, and ma. Ill
mankind better both as concerns their o~S
happiness and that of others. '' own
Having shown Why farmers should a.
their homes, viii tell yoa how to ID !. a
easiest. II The
If your house is poor and plain, # nal,
no difference; if you eahnot afford 70 b"sS
a new one, adorn the SURROUNDINGS - I ~
old one. In odd spells build new VI " 'ne
1t will cost almost nothing; set ont 60.
pretty trees in front and surround the tS'I ne
with them if possible. Fill the ward - U;se
flowers; they will cost nothing bn, ,tn
trouble of getting, unless rare var;et;a. sne
procured, and your wife and children ,a; 1
attend to the cultivation, never fear III IN
Build wood-house if you have not + 90,
one already. s'
Don't deface your door-yard with wood
piles. old rails, sleds, cart-wheels and o,bs,
rubbish; remove the hog pen from its con.
spicuous position near the roadside, to tho
rear of the house, and build a neat franz
structure instead Of sticks and slabs-'tw;H
pay for itself in few years. Have good
neat fences. they look and are much better
Remove all the sticks. stones and stumps
from the fields. Build good barns and
sheds, if not already built; they will nav for
themselves: Have good yards around yOpr
farm buildings. And above all, have the
best books of the day, where yourself and
family can gain instruction in their leisure
hours, and take your county paper.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08
len and turbid river. Where was the

len and turbid river. Where was the
bridge? ~
almighty God p said the horror struck
Doctor, swtereis nay gratitude 2 My no.
BILE beast came over here this night, backed
by me on the solitary string piece; and l..
with this right hand. gave him a blow as he
falteredi'' and the Doctor sank upon his
knees in the soft, wet snow, and wept like a
child; the men moved from his presence re-
specially, and left him to himself.
When, after some little time, he made
his appearance. his eyes were greeted by
the sight of his horse, surrounded by the
entire household each contributing to rem
der him some assistance. a quart OF warm
ale was given him by one, another rubbed
his neck and chest with spirits-a third
dried his glossy hide with warm flannel,
and others patted his neck, or caressed his
nose and face "Oh, John, my boy, and
gave you a blow" and the words ended in
a low waiting groan. Men uncovered their
heads, and turned their faces from him, and
at length led him aside where he spent the
night The morning revealed to him the
dreadful danger he had escaped, from the
sagacity of the beast, and again did he grieve
for the blow he had dealt him when so no
bly, putting forth more than human power.
"Don john never did days work from
that day. Sometimes his master rode him
forth on a pleasure tour, or drove him be-
fore a light vehicle few miles with some
members of the family; but his profession
al labors were over. Nothing could exTj
coed the care and attention that were given
him ever afterward. He fed from manger
made of mahogany; his room was more a
parlor than stable; and company to the
Doctors always paid don John" visit
before they left.
Thus lived they many years, the Doctor
and his horse grswing old together. ''Don
john survived his master some years; and
when the good mans will was opened. there
was found a clause appended which related
to "Don john" to this effect: that he
should be given to his youngest daughter
{ Mrs. Morrison) while she lived, to be cared
for as he had always done; that he should
at his death be buried in his shoes, wrap
ped in his own rich blanket, and enclosed
in BETTING box, in the corner of his own
burying ground. His wishes were religious
ly respected, and two years after l learned
this history. "Don Johns" bones were
buried in the corner of the old Mosely bu-
rying- ground in Whitesboro'.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

TOMATO KETcHUP.- following will
be found the best recipe extant for making
good tomato ketchup: Il ~s#
Take one bushel of tomatoes, and boil
them until they are soft. Squeeze them
through fine wire sieve. and add half
gallon of vinegar, one pint and half OF
salt, two ounces of cloves, quarter OF
pound of allspice.. three ounces of cayenne
pepper, three tablespoonful of black pep
per, five heads of garlic, skinned and sepa-
rated. Mix together, and boil about three
hours; or until reduced about one-half.-
Then bottle, without straining.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08
..Free Figures and Slave. ;,

Under this title, Mr.. Helper. in his re-
cent work, 1.-The Impending Crisis, gives
series of tables, whose figures are at once
unanswerabie arguments, and deeply sug-
gestive of reflection.
They show that the commerce Of the
Free States is four times as great as that
of the slave states; thatthe manufactures
of free states produce five times the value
in fabrics, employ FIVE times the capital,
and five times the number of hands, that
are employed in the slave states; that there
are twice as many miles of Canals. and rail-
roads in free states as In shave states; that
the banking capital of the free states is
double that of the slave; that the Military
Force is likewise double; that the postage
collected is three times as much in the free
states as in the slave. while the cost of trans
porting the mails is hardly at all greater;
that there are three times as many schools,
three times as many teachers, and four
times as many pupils in the free as in the
slave states; that there are in free states 60
times as many Libraries, with so times as
many volumes in them, as there are In the
slave; that there are twice as many News
papers, issuing for times as many copies as
in the slave; that although the population
of the slave states is less, the number oil
white men unable to read is a hundred
| thousand greater than in the Free; that for
~ million dollars more have been spent in
erection of Churches in the Free states
than in slave; that nine Inventions are pat
ented by citizens of Free states to every
one patented by the citizens of slave states
that the Free states contribute four times as
much as the slave states for the printing oil
Bibles, FIVE times as much for the printing
of tracts, and even double as much for Col
onization.
Two questions inevitably suggest them
selves on glancing over these tables. 1st,
how can an Institution which thus shows OF
weakness and decay. expect to always main
tain its clutch upon the power of the Fed
eral Government Cd, what reason or ex-
cuse can be found for consenting to subject
new Territories to its sway Albany
! Journal, g."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08
Influence of Mothers.

John Randolph never ceased, till his dy-
ing day, to remember with unutterable affec-
ton the pious care of his mother, in teach
ing him to kneel at her side, and with his
little hands pressed together and head raised
upwards, to repeat, in slow and measured
accents, the pattern prayer.
"MY mother" said Mr.. Benton, ''not
long before she died, asked me not to drink
liquor, and never did. She desired me at
another time to stop gaming, and never
knew card She hoped l would not use
tobacco. and it never passed my lips"
Not long ago the Rev. DR.. Mills, in one
of his powerful appeals to mothers to con-
secrate their children to the ministry of the
Gospel, said
ssA youth, after great deiiberation. and
with the knowledge that his mother desired
him to be clergyman, decided at last TO
become lawyer; and soon after, his mother
inquired of him, in tone of deep and ten
der Interest,"
my son, what have you decided to do?''
ITO study law, mother
She only replied, 81 had hoped other
wise,' and her eonvulsive sobbing told the
depth of her disappointment.
"Do you think said he, 81 could go
into the law over my mothers tears go
He reconsidered the case, and has long
been an able and efficient clergyman
All that Leigh Richmond was, he attri-
buted to the simplicity and propriety with
which his mother endeayored to win his
attention, and store his memory with reli-
gious truths, when yet almost an infant
OH if Christian mothers would but
wake up to the use of their powers and in
fuence, Samuel might arise out of every
family, and Leigh Richmonds be numbered
by thousands Sreside Monthly.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The K1rrEN.-A lady tells this story: 81
have been out in Indiana on visit, and
while there found kitten, which bought,
and brought home as a plaything for my
children. To prevent .any dispute about
the ownership of the puss, proposed, and
it was agreed, that the head of the kitten
should be mine, the body should be the ba-
by's, and Eddie, the eldest--but only three
years-should be the sole proprietor of the
long and beautiful tail. Eddie rather OBJ
jected at first to this division, as putting
him off with an extremely small share of
the animal; but soon became reconciled to
the division, and quite proud of his own
ership in the graceful terminus of the kit
ten. One day, soon after, I heard poor
puss making dreadful mewing, and I call
ed out to Eddie, ''There, my son. you are
hurting my part of the kitten; hear her
cry" "No, didn't mother; trod on my
part, and your part holLered i''
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08
A Noble Mother-Narrow Escape.


AS the morning train from this place to
Chicago came near Rock River bridge, on
Manday last, the engineer, Robert Waugh.
discovered little girl at play on the track.
He sounded the whistle at its highest. sharp
est note, and used every possible effort to
stop the train. The little child kept moving
along on the track, apparently frightened
by the whistle. but did not leave the track.
The mother of the child, who lived in
house near the bridge, seeing her child in
danger, made a spring to save her, and
rushing in front of the engine. caught her
child and fell over the opposite side. the
engine brushed her clothes as she fell, and
passed on a short distance before il could
be stopped. The Conductor, Capt. Phil
lips, ran to the place, and found the mother
had tainted, but both mother and child
were saved He took the child in his arms,
and restoratives being used, the mother
soon revived. Who can tell the Joy of that
mother to know her child was saved ? Had
she hesitated moment, or have been only
a second later, both mother and child must
have been crushed beneath the wheels of the
engine. We did not learn her name. but
whoever she is, she is brave and heroic
woman Rock Island (Ill.) argus. "a sr
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

A DELICATE CONDENSATION. VIM.
Dennison, Republican candidate for Cover
nor of Ohio, was addressing meeting at
Portsmouth, Ohio, where many ladies' were
present. After speaking for some time he
apoiigized for his prolixity, and turning to
clock in the farther end of the hall. re-
marked that the time had passed SO feetly
that he was afraid he was taxing the patience
of his audience. $50 on, go on" was
heard from every part of the house, until
the speaker proceeded. At this moment.
when everything was still, pretty lady
arose in the audience, took off thick veil,
and quietly walked to the clock and cover
ed up the dial plate.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The AUTocRAr.-How prettily philoso.
pier Holmes brings Chess in as an illustra-
ton where "The Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table" says:
''The whole force of conversation de-
ponds on how much you can take for grant
ed. Vulgar Chess players have e play
their games out; nothing short of the bru-
tality of an actual checkmate satisfies them.
But look at the masters of that noble game!
White stands well enough SO far as you can
see; but the red says innate in six moves -
White looks, nods-the game is over
Just so in talking with first rate men, espe-
cially when they are good natured and ex-
pansive, as they are apt to be at table"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

SHovEL1NG UP TRAcKs.-Dick Nash de-
manded a cross grained old Alabama plan
ter's daughter: lsE
you for your daughters hand"
cit is, is it? What, you marry my gal
Look here. young man, leave my premises
instanter; and if ever you set foot here
again, I'll make my niggers skin YOU
Marry my daughter You
Nash had left-he saw that the old gen
tleman was angry. After getting off to a
safe place. he thought he would turn and
take a last friendly look at the home of his
lost idol, when he espied the old man busy
up his tracks from the yard, and
throwing them over the fence.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

this first lesson. acting, perhaps, as an in
itiative reiish--bnt, whether SO or not. the
0whyhee romance, IS prelude to q very
distinguished man g lifelong pursuits. is
we'll worth preserving for his biographer. z.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

To KEEP PREsEEvEs.-Apply the white
of an egg, with suitable brush, TO a sin
gle thickness of white tissue paper, with
which cover the jars, overlapping the edges
an inch or two. When dry, the whole will
become tight as drum.
To prevent jams, preserves, DC, from
granting, teaspoonful of cream Of tartsr
must be added TO every gallon of the jam or
preserves. $1,000. : s-.--. ---7
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The following advertisement of consta-
ble's sale, was taken from the wall of q
public room in tavern, in the State of In
diana: ~ go
"NorIs.-For sale cow with calf by
the subscriber. JOHN Books.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

Mrs. Darlington desires to know why
the captain of any vessel don't keep mem
orandum of the weight of his anchor, in
stead of weighing anchor every time he
leaves port.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

GALLANT CAPTArN.-Now then. my hear
ties, you've tough battle before you
Fight like heroes till your powder is gone.
Then-run I'm little lame and I'll
START NOW
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

SLAvEs.-The movement of the Niger
is Southwark, and has been so since the
very sound National made Kansas hopeless
ly Democratic instead of Slavery. Every
day this fact is the better proven. There is
scarcely county in this part of the State
that has not its slave buyers; and what is
more, they are purchasing quite largely for
the Southern market. just the other day,
Mr.. White, a trader, shipped no less than
forty slaves on the Asa Wilgus, and be
did not, we understand, take with him all
he had purchased in this market during the
last few weeks. This it is that is yearly
our adult slave population. On
Tuesday last, Gen. Doriss, of Platte eoun-
ty, passed through this city. bound South
ward, with near one hundred slaves. We
did not understand whether they were for
sale below, or whether the General designed
working them himself at the South. 1t IS
immsterial SO long as the fact is that We
loose the negroes.-Ler. Ezpress.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

a Coon IDEA PoR LATHE SHAyzR.-A
mother said, Sonny. you have left out >
good deal from your prayer" 81 know it, !"
said the little four-Year old, .sbut what's
the use of loading up my prayer as ] would
an old cannon ?''
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

'Do you drink hale in New York go ask.
ed Cockney of compositor. who had
Just arrived. Hail No; we drink ruin,
smash and Jersey lightniag''
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

To REMOVE FILMS IRON THE EYES oI
CATTLE.--I have not found surer rem
edy than finely pulverized earth. occasion-
ally blown into the eyes through gull.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08
Texas IS Viewed by a Northerner


The Boston Adgertsssr prints letter
from San Antonio, Texas, that does not
give very fiattering picture of that coun-
try, which is no doubt over-praised. The
writer says:
with many others, we came here un-
der the most charming impressions of the
country, and with the determination to
make it our home; but, with those others,
we have been disappointed. Letter writer's
and book-makers, whose false or superb
cial accounts have induced many to spend
their little all to get here, should hear the
curses heaped upon them by these unfortu-
mates, who find too late that this is the most
undesirable place for the emigrant which
our country affords. Even competence
can scarcely be hoped for one who comes
poor, be his labor ever so constant and we'll
directed.
Consider few facts, and the truth of this
will be evident. Wages and salaries are
very low. while provisions are enormously
high There is large Mexican population
here, and the men are ready and good labor
ers, in almost any department, asking only
fifteen dollars per month without board
Every branch of business is crowded to ex-
cess. For agricultural purposes, the coun-
try for many miles around this city is alb
solutely good for nothing, owing to the lack
of rain. The few vegetables which are rails
ed are forced by irrigation, and are of a
very inferior quality. There is neither wild
game nor wild fruits-even the cosmopoli
tan strawberry fails to appear here. The
parasitical growth of the city must be attri-
buted to the presence of the army, it being
It's headquarters, and to its being the ave-
nue. to some trade with Mexico. When
these causes fail to operate, it must be re-
duced to former insignifcance.
The exaggerated accounts of its health
fulness bring many inyahds here, who come
only to add TO the suffering of last illness.
The miserable accommodations at the board
ing houses, the scarcity and inability of
nurses, and the clouds of dust which fill
every part of the town, are poorly calcula-
ted to aid the sick. The diseases incident
to the climate are pneumonia, fevers, and
an irritating eruption, from which stran-
gers almost invariably suffer while acclima-
ting The old inhabitants, however, seem
infatuated while discussing the health of
the place. If one falls ill, he comforts
himself with the thought that be should be
much worse anywhere else, and if he finds
that he is going to die, he reasons thai he
should have died years before, elsewhere
Strangers are supposed to bring latent sick
ness with them, which sometimes develops
after the patient has been here weeks or
months Severe colds, from which we
suffered two months after our arrival, were
attributed to the effects of our previous
residence in Boston. .e5
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The fellow who tried to get up concert
with the band of ahat, IS the gentleman
who. q few weeks since, played npon the
affections of an uptown lady - :
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

More persons fall out concerning the right
road to Heaven than ever get 70 the end of
their journey.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The most satisfactory way of expressing
a young lady's age is according TO the pres
emit style of skirts. by saying that eighteen
springs have passed over her head. 80
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

An Emeralder, being charged with s'ea !,
ing wagon. swore be had it ever since
was wheeibarrow.
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Sheep VS.. Other Stock.

The Kentucky Farmer thus briefly enu-
merates some of the advantages of keeping
sheep.
''They can make the quickest returns for
the investment in them, being ready to eat
at three or four months old, and yielding
valuable fleece at one year old, and perhaps
lamb also.
Their substance is cheaper than that of
any other domestic animals-grass and
stock fodder being all they will require at
any season.
They supply the family at all seasons
with the most wholesome, and the most de-
licious meat, of the most convenient size for
family use. -...
They present valuable products in two
forms, their wool and their flesh, both of
which are adabted to home consumption,
and to sale, and both of which are adapted
to either domestic or distant markets.
The transportation of them to market
alive is cheaper than any other live stock
(not blooded) of the same value, and the
same is true also of their wool, compared
with other and similar agricultural products
Wool may be more easily and safely kept
in expectation of better market, than any
other and similar products, as it is less liza
BILE to fire, insects, rats, or rotting.
An investment in them is self-enlarging,
and rapidly so. by their annual increase,
while their wool pays much in the way of
interest at the same time, which is not true,
if of any similar investments.
Sheep, here, have but one enemy, the
dog and his brother, ig'aoramus legislator;
who, not having the capacity to compare
the whole subject, and to explain it to his
constituents, allows the dog to run at large
unrestrained by law, and thereby this ines
Unable value is almost lost to the State"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The prevailing style of skirts allows Ia
dies in hot weather to ''lay of everything
else and sit in there 5oaes''-as Rev. Sid
ney Smith once wished TO do.-K. p. Post.
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The Origin of the Name of Iowa.


The st. Louis Democrat finds in an old
newspaper the following explanation of the
origin of the name of that State:
sToolsborough is situated just above the
mouth of the Iowa river. By the way, do
you know the Specification of the word
Iowa? Presuming that at least some of
your readers do not, tell you. Mcny
years ago, perhaps before you or I were
born, and before the pale faces had taken
possessions of the fertile lands west of the
Mississippi. and converted them to his COM
fort and profit, tribe of Indians encamp-
ed on the bluffs overhanging the Iowa river,
where now stands the town of Peterborough
The chief of the tribe, coming in view
of the river unexpectedly, was struck with
rapture at the surrounding grand and pictur-
esque beauty, and in his native dialect, ex-
claimed Iowa Iowa'-( beautiful, beau
tiful. Hence the name to the river, and
afterwards to all that portion of the Louisi-
ana purchase nowa forming the State of
Iowa. se.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The violet grows slow and cover H .'sa
with It's own tears, and of all flowers yleias
the sweetest fragrance. Such is humanity
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The best method of getting teeth inset, 3
ed is to 60 ''box the fox" !, where "a''-
dog is on guard.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

E7ertor-A An article to be bought.
Candidote.-An article to be soId.-
Punch.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The lady who knit Der brows. has co"
menced = pair Of socks.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

ADVICE TO You've MEN.-Get P'sOe
calico that will soosh.