The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-03-15


pet house that arrests his attention
now huge dry goods store, or vast depot
Of groceries. The next moment he finds
himself pesring into restaurant. se
splendid as a steamboat and larger than
! Taylor's; or into dining room WindoW.
where, 10 addition to other delicacies Of
the season. there is spacious cake Of ice,
covered with naked frogs, reposing pic
turesquely IN parsley. Farther on, he
pausess before jewellers, brilliant with
gold, silver. diamonds, and pictures,
where single item of last years bust
ness was the sale of three. thousand two
hundred watches. of which one thousand
we're American. The number and extent
of the bookstores is another striking
feature. aud tits impossiblet to go far with
out being strongly reminded that pisnos
and cabinel.orgaus are for sale in the city.
Blessed are the people Of Chicago, and
blessed the strangers in their midst, in
The article Of malt liquor for It is ex-
celIeht. il is honest, and it is abundant.
True, scisucs has not yet positively as
certained whether or not the Coming
Man will drink malt liquor; but the Com
ing Man has not come. and If people will
drink beer, they had bstter dIink it good"
When next the Atlantic Monthly
chronicles the progress of Chicago. il
will have to describe grand Boulevard,
furnishing a drive Of fifteen miles round
the city, shaded with trees, and lined
with villas and gardens. This very spring,
it is hoped, will see the work begun. A
great park is also in contemplation, in
which Chicago hopes to behold the
strange spectacle of hill and dale. II is
not unlikely that the park will enclose =
range Of. mountains, the loftiest peaks of
which will pierce the air half a hundred
feet /; and up those giddy heights Chica-
COS boys will climb on Saturday after
Moons, iuhale the breath of liberty on the
mountain.toPs, and learn why Swirzsr-
land is free.
Nowhere in the world are there such
striking proofs of the inexhaustible Wig
or and power of Christianity as in this
new prairie town. Here, far inland, on
the shores of this blue lake, amid these
grain mountains, these miles of timber.
this ENHANCEMENT of railroads, this
mighty host Of new comers, even here it
is still the voice from Palestine, coming
across so many centuries, that delivers
he needed message Rest not, Chicago,
IN DD!.euks. 2nr grain, nor railroads, nor in
infinite porK. These are but means TO an
end Never mind aboGc:t cutting out St.
Louis: try only which shall IL most for
the eiviliz ltion of the prairie word /"
Chicsgois notinattsntiVe tothis message,
and is learning to interpret it Alright
Those beautiful temples, those excellent
schools, those local benevoleuces, that in
uocent social life. those ceaseless battlings
with vice. that instinct of decoration, /
that consolation :ly conducted press,
those libraries and bookstores, all attest
that Chicago does not mean to lsboriousIy
champ up the shells of the nut Of life and
throw the kernel away. 1t is our i'm.
preston, that huu an nature there is sub
Jet TO influences as favorable to its health !
and progress as any city CT the world, |
aud that family going to reside in Chi
csgo from one of our Older cities will be
likely to fad itself 10 a better place than
that from which il came.