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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28
RECREATION.

To work best, q man must play due
ofthe time !; to bear the heav-
lest burdens, he must have his heart
lightened now and then; to think so
he must not think so steadi-
~. When the world on any plea ofpru-
dence or wisdom, or conscience, has
overlooked these principles, religion
and morality have suffered. In former
times, monastcries and nunerics, caves
and pillars, held the pure fanatics and
ultraists, the idiots and hypocrites,
whom violated nature sent there. Now
insane asylums and hospitals shelter the
headlong sobriety and mad earnestness
of business which knows no pleasures,
or of study which allows no cessation,
or of conscience and piety which frown
on amusement while the morbid NOR
atty, the thin wisdom, the jaundiced af-
fcctiens, the wretched dyspepsia. the
wreck and defeat OF body and soul,
which community deficient in outdoor
sports, genial society, or Legitimate gal
ETY., exhibits to the thoughtful eye, are
hardly less saddening than the hospital
or mad house.
Amusement, then, is not only defens-
IDLE, but the want of it is a calamity and
an injury TO the sober and solid interests
of society. None are more truly inter
ested-did they know their own duty
and policy-in seeing the community
properly amused, then the organized
friends of morality and piety. They
ought to know that nature ayenges her
self sooner or latcr-and better sooner
than later-for the violation of the laws
of moral and physical health apd tina
the suppression of the sportive, careless
andpleasure-craving propensities of ap
tltudcs OF our nature, involves an lnev
table arrangement and sure decaF o
the higher organs and faculties.
i Instead therefore of interfering witt
business, duty, sobriety, piety, wit
J scholarship, economy, virtue and reTer
ence-amusement, viewed merely as
principle, advances and supports then
! all. The intellect that plays part o
every day, works more powerful, and t
better results, for the rest of the time
1.-THE heart that is gay for an hour. is NOR
: serious for the other hours of the day
, the will that rests is more vigorous tina
the viii that is always strained
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28
COMING HOME.

Oh brothers and sisters, growing old,
Do you all remember yet
That home, in the shade of the rustling trees
Where once our household met?
Do you know how we used to come from school
Through the summers pleasant heat;
With the yellow fenncl's golden dust
On our tired little feet:
And how sometimes in an idle mood
We loitered by the way;
And stopped in the woods to gather flowers
And in the fields To play;
Till warned by the deep'ning shadows fall.
That told of the coming night.
We climbed to the top of the lost long hill,
And saw our homes in sight!
And brothers and sisters, older now
That she whose life is DER,
Do you think OF the mothers loving face,
That looked from the open door!
Alssi for the changing things of time;
That home III the dust is low;
And that loving smile was hid from US,
In the darkness long ago!
And we come to life's last hill,
From which our weary eyes
Can almost look that homo that shines
Eternal in the skies.
So. brothers and sisters, as we go,
Still let us move one.
Always together keeping step,
Till the march of life is done
For that mother, who waited for us here,
/ Wearing Il smile so sweet,
Now waits on the hills of Paradise
For her children's coming feet!
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

THE OPEN FIRE.-"I am firm be-
lever" says DIR. Cuylcr, in the moral
and spiritual influence of an open fire.
To make home attractive, there must be
somewhere in the house common fa-
mily rendezvous: and that ought to pre-
sent more radiant attraction than q
black hole in the floor, through which
hot air pours forth from subtcrranean
furnace. Men will fight for their affairs
and fircsides; but what orator ever in
yoked burst of patriotism in behalf Of
steam-pipes and registers? I never
cease to be thankful that / was brought
up beside the hickory fro of q rural
farm house,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28


JOSH BILLINGS GOSSIP WITH CoNTRI-
BUToRs.-NO notice will be took from
this date hereaftewards-oV letters that
haint got pOssage stamp onto EN-.
Don't write only on one side of the
manuscript, and don't write much onto
that.
Don't send manuscript unless you
can read it after it gets dry.
We pay, all the way up hill, from 10
cents to one dollar for contributions, ae-
cording to the heft.
And settlements made promptly ct
the end of the next ensuing year.
Poetry and prose pieces are respect
fully solicited.
The highest market price paid for aw-
full ralerOdo smashes, and elopements
with another mans wife.
No swearing aloud in our paper.
!saao--Your article on frogs" is re-
ceived.
1t made me lars like lightning.
Your idea that frogs might be increas-
ed by propygashum, is bully.
Your idea that '.frogs was discovered
by christopher Columbus, in the year
1492," had slipped my memory.
You also state that ''frogs grow moro
bob tailed as they grow older" This
IL too good to entirely lost.
/ Noah-We humblv decline von, esss
on the flood.
/ Your remark might possibly lead ne
more man to think as You do. and w,
don't want our columns to be held re
, sponsible for increasing the number o
phools.
t The world, has already GOT NOR,
) phools than there IL any need of -
There am ant no doubt in my mind bu
: that the sh noUd was perfect success, ant
he ONE would aSa m enG Il just sa
i of the country. ieos''S. - =,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

AN EXPONENT OF MODERN DEMocRA-
ev. Thot boa.tly and pestiferous wretch
''Briek Pomcry," has reached the lowest
depths of bascness. His vile sheet con-
tains carricature, representing Mrs.
Lincoln sitting amid piles of labeled
''Mrs. a. L." 4 negro is bringing a
coffin containing the body of the MUIR
dcred President. Mrs. Lincoln, after
remarking upon the expensiveness OF
the silver screws and plate, directs the
body to be removed and put in cheap
er coffin, while she will see her auction
ecr about making sale of the casketi
1t should be remembered that this pa
per is the Democratic organ of the
Northwest, and boasts of a larger circu-
lation than any other Democratic paper
in the country. The Democratic mind
rejoices to read the beastly rawlings OF
the scoundrcl who edits it. Its large
circulation shows that it is true expo
nent of Democratic opinions.-1tcht.
son Champion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

George William Curtis, replying to an
invitation to attend meeting of the
Freedmen's Union Commission, in Chi
cagO, wrote these striking and memora-
bic words:
General Howard, man destined to
the most enviablc immortality in the af-
fectionate gratitude of the most injured.
of races, says in his report for 1867 that
the freedmen are an eighth of the SOW
ereign people of this country. What
necessity then is so absolute as the teach
ing of this great multitude as rapidly
and universally as possible, by all pub
lie and private means; the stronger
states helping the weaker, the richer
people the poorer, In order that the dew
il of ignorance, from which springs such
a legion of other devils, may be finally
traIllJICd ,aLItICI GooIc H Is not enough
to say that every neighborhood must
take care of its own ignorance. Some
States and neighborhoods skulk from
our duty by asking, Who is our neigh
Dor? For who, indeed, IS our neighbor
but every ignorant man and woman in
the United States and who are SO much
orr ncighbors as any geeat class of IN
educated persons, suddenly and necessa-
rill called to share ouI political rcspon-
sibtlities?
"The conduct of the freedmen during
war was noble, and since the war ended
| it has been most admirable. But. how.
ever just the instincts of ignorance may
be in an emergency, intelligence is the
only permanent security of liberty. Il
was the primer that slavery called Yam
kee, and hated. The rebellion was an
instruction against the spelling-book
The shot at Sumter was a naughty and
desperate defiance of the alphabet and
the guns that proclaimed the entry OF
Grant into Richmond were merely an
emphatic notice that school was about
to begin.7
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

FLooD IN CnINA.-A correspondent
of the Boston Ifareler, writing from
Shanghai, under recent date, presents
the follow ing painful picture:
China's sorrow. the Whanghn, part
and parcel of the Yellow river, has over
flown its banks in its periodical deluge,
but this season causing almost unlimit-
ed devastation, flooding space of over
four thousand miles and sweeping off
entire villages, and inundating any and
everything in the rush of waters Thous-
ands have persisted, while over sixty
| towns and villages have ceased to exist.
The remaining ones are so flooded that
their inhabitants go in boats from house
to house seeking shelter or food from
the scanty remnants of the gathered
crop-bareIy enough to last for a few
days-and then suffering and starvation
awaits them during the winter months.
Their past experience has taught them
to rely ON their own resources only, as
the Government viii hardly extend q
thelping hand to dying fellow creatures.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28
GRANT CLUB AT LAWRENCE.

a Grant Club has been organized at
Lawrence under favorable auspices.
The Democracy have been very active
i'll that city of late, and really boast that
they expect TO carry Douglas county
next fall for the Democratic nominee.
We are glad to see the Republicans
waking mp. The Grant Club embraces
among its numbers many prominent
men o.; tho city and State.
Below is the platform ofthe organiza-
ton, which is brief and pointed:
ResOIred, That we do here and now
organize ourselves into club, to be
known rs the Grant Club of Lawrence,
upon tue following platform
L. We lndorse the great principles of
political equality and civil liberty, en-
| unciated by Jefferson and the fathers, as
| the foundation of Republican institu-
| tons.
2. We are in favor of loyal recon
Struction of the rebel States, and wish
to see it accomplished at the earliest
possible moment.
| 8. We indorse loyal and patriotic
| Congress in its conflict with pcrfldious
and lawless Executive SOD,
4. We indorse Gems. Sheridan, Sick
| les, Pope and Meade, for their wise and
lust administration in their several mill
tarv districts, and for their efforts to
carry out i'll good faith the laws of the
land.
| 5. We indorsc Gen. L. S. Grant as
! the representative of these principles, as
the great hero of the war of the rebel
lion, as the chosen leader of the loyal
hosts at the Dallot-boX, no less than on
the battle field, and under lis lead we
propose to "ight it out on this line,
| until She fruits of our victories over trea-
son, rebellion, and slavery are fully Sc
cured.
6. We pledge ourselves to the sup
port of whoever may be nominated by
the Republican National Convention to
| be held at Chicago.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

a PROSPEROUS MECHANIC.-Six years
ago we worked with printer named
Ellis Doty, in the Gazette office at james
vile, Wisconsin. Doty was the fore
man, and was both a rapid compositor
and superior job printer. He had a
brother, e. p. Doty, who had invented a
washing machine. Ellis saw there was
a principle in it, and, uniting his invon-
tive genius with that of the brother, they
finally perfected what is now known as
the 'Doty Washing Machine" which
they commenced manufacturing on a
small scale. The machines were tried.
were highly approved and they met with
rapid sale. Finding that they could
not manufacture them as rapidly as their
demand called for, the aid of large
manufacturing establishment was called
into requisition, and lately the two have
been consolidated with the Badger State
Manufacturing Company, and the name
of the new firm is calleds.tho ''Doty Man
ufacturing Company" 1t is ROW char
tered stock institution, of which our
friend and brother typo Ellis Doty is
Secretary, his brother Treasurer, and H.
Richardson President. 1t is now one of
| the most extensive and prosperous man
ufacturing establishments in the State of
Wisco nsin.-Weehiy aurora.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

A few days ago, as clerk in SYRIA
cnse drugstore entered the liquor cell
lar for the purpose of drawing some
liquor, he discovered large rat stand
ing on his hind legs, drinking whisky
as it dropped from the faucet, that had
not been properly closed. AS he nearcd
the rat, he made a very awkward ate
tempt to escape, but he reeled and
staggered like a drunken man. The
clerk, pleased with the comical predica.
ment of the unfortunate. animal, allow.
cd him, after several zigzag movements,
to enter his hole.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO--THE
CHANGES,

V.B. Dinslow, in Putnam's Naqozfae.
gives these Interesting "Reminiscences
In 1854, Mr.. Buchanan was minister
to England, and plotting the Ostend
Manifesto Capt. Geo. i. Nc CIcIlan
was detailed on secret service in the
harbor of Cuba, under instructions from
the Secretary of War; Gen. Omtman.
Lieut.. Beaurcgard, and others were
plotting fillibustering raids against the
island, for which the Government made
an offer OF SlO0,O00,000. Parson Brown
low had written Il savage work in de-
tense OF slavery, and was challenging.
Northern clergymcn to dispute its Di-
vine authority. Gerrit Smith. Doctor
Howe, Henry Ward peecher, the saints
at Oberlln, and a few hundred others,
were doing quiet and limited business
over the underground railway John
Brown had not yet left his farm in the
Northern WildS An
| obscure individual, remembered by a
few as having once represented Sanga-
mon District, Illinois, in the House, and
opposed the Mexican war in an awk-
| ward, ingenious and extremely unpop-
| ular argument, received a few compli-
| mentary votes for Vice President. in
competition with Mr.. Dayton, the NOM
1nee; Capt. Z. S. Grant, hardly susr ect-
ed of being an eX-army officer by those
WHO DOuSnC nOlaSSeS or cord wood of
him, was generally taken for a steam
boat captain, temporarily stranded By a
| stress of iH-luck, or who had hardly the
requisite energy and pluck to succeed
in business, calling for so much OF
those qualities, and who had heretofore
collapsed into Il speculator of sundries /:
| w. Il. Sherman was teaching school in
Louisiana* Gems. Sickles, Butler and
Logan were rough-and-tumble Demo
cratic lawyers of some notoriety; two
of the moht prominent and promising
officers of our little army were Col. Al
bert Sidney Johnson, and Col. Robert
e. Lee.
/ Briof as is the period since then, We
i have but two men i'll official life-NTr
/ Seward and Mr.. Chase-Whose promin
i ence has not been either created or over
thrown during this eyentful epoch.
;, -*Not quite correct: the opening o
the rebellion found Sherman as stated
but previous to that time he had beer
slashing around out here in Kansas
failing to succeed III pretty much every
thing he tried his hand at, and, as W,
believe finally left tho Territory in dis
! gust, TO seek a fortune, or better luck
} elsewhere. The war developed him.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

I'll bet you bottle of wine that you'll
descend from that chair before 1 ask
you twicei" Done said the gentle.
man who was determined not to obey
the summons SO obediently. "Comc
down, sirI" "I1l not I" was the reply.
q Then stay there till I ask you again.
company, came down and paid for the
wine.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

1t is not always mark of frankness
to possess an open countenance. An
alligator is a deceitful creature, and yet
he presents an open countenance, when
in the very act of taking you in.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

@My Daughter. said a ford and af-
fcctionate mother, as she gave parting
kiss to her child, who was leaving the
home of her childhood, to GO among
strangers as teacher: ELet Virtue be
thy priceless jewel; Truth, thy firm
friend Piety, thy bosom companion !;
Kindness, welcome visitor and Neat
ness an every day associate. With such
friends to advise and guide, thy path
through life viii be strewed with no re-
grcts.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

A raw Irishnnan, just over. went into
q restaurant, and was asked by the wal
ter what he would havei .sWhy wit
tells to ate. av coorse, was the reply. A
plate of hash was placed before him.
s:Fot's that ~ demanded Mickey. That's
whites. was the answer. Mickey eyed
the compound suspiciously for some
tine. and finally exclaimed: "Be jab-
ers. the man that chewe'd that can ate
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

Evil companions are like tobacco
smoke; you cannot be long in their
presence without carrying away some
faint.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

Why are women like churches First
ly, because thsre is no living without
one secondly, because there is many
are objects of alteration, and. lastly. but
by no means 1eastIy, because they have
a loud claPper in their upper-story.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

Good nature, like the bee, collects
sweetness from every flower; while
Ill nature, like the spider, finds only
poison.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

A down-cast Yankee editor puffing
an alright coffin said any one trying
one would ever use any other,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28
EWPORIA WATER MILL,
WIT. SOD EN-,

Proprietor and Manager.
situated ON the Cottonwood, south Of town, is
now in hos
rsv Successful Operation,
And is ready to grind for customers on II
customary terms, and will try and please thpse
~, hand and will sell as cheap as can be
bou0ht in this part, of Kansas. Parties buying
to seIi again, a liberal discount will be made
and all hour warranted
Tho highest cash price paid for prime and
strieSfy prime wheat.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

Two millions of Irishmen have settled
here since the Republic was founded.
Two millions of Germans have come
into our midst. bringing large share of
industry, intelligence, and skill. Two
million more persons of other national
tiles have also taken up their abode
among us. During the last two years
nearly seven hundred thousand emf
grants have landed on our shores The
gentleman from Pennsylvania Mr.. KEEL
| ing relation to another subject, spoke
| of the rapid growth of a town in ILL
nois where fourteen different European
tongues and dialects are spoken. This
illustrates our discussion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

But, sir. the right of cXpatriatiou was
not even denied in feudal times. 1t was
acknowledged in periods that preceded
them. BY the Roman law every man
; was at liberty to remove where he pleas
{ cd. Grotius, Tryphoneus, Vattel, and
other writers on the law Ofnations agree
that .'every man has right to choose
, the State" of which he desires to become
a member; that single persons. if not
large companies, have right to leave 4
i country that oppressed religionists OIL
those who cannot obtain sufficient sub
sistence can do likewise; all these ant
others have natural right to expatriat,
it themselves. Nay, more, according tt
Sc Vattel-
y IF the sovereign attempt to moles
NJ those who have right to emigrate h
Ie, does them an injury, and the injured in
dividuals may lawfully implore the pre-
lection of the power who is willing t
nd receive them" e
Blackstone alone, of the great CON
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28
p AIN II I N G.
J. r. MAoDocK. THos. II. THOMAS
MADDOX s. THOMAS,
RJAC K s MI T III S.

They would announce to the people of Lyon
and adjoining counties that they still carry on
the above business
Tasv will he ready at all times TO iron wagons
and buggies, shoe horses and do all kinds OF
repairing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28

Oh brothers and sisters, growing old,
Do YOU all remember yet
That home, in the shade of the rustling trees
Where once our household met?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-19

nv z Tp6ependent has an artist who IS drawn" 's
me ~. = .,'r,r,its Of live Americans. The aSV
Ut ;s President White of Cornell Ch.'oi9,,.
I5 isis the way in which he sketches tha' s'''''
man: .,.o,, no has had every
,ir which great wealth, in ell cthai America aud
smed industry could procure p c s,boarship-as for
abroad fancy that 80 technics, IoWgiggcs or
she rgors OF the mgner snnolarship that OF the
voted special attention HIS @ n6,yerful grasp Of
sg"du 'i,, ~ inoNleuse. and philosopicHitt d
nent az its various realms WHlle t,os hrineug
~ S,o arts ne has made his faVOUte S.sos'
@ eli the energies aud aptitudcs OF Ms . tho
Bu I'm President White TIE man i ii Esteod Of beuC
.tI,r lie possesses bis attaumehls ms'eou vi - de-
,nsessed by them. lie has tenperainent 6U c,rJs
mepsey active and Immensely symp2tfr' nnrter Of
a., not merely as a student, thinker Itlo.uo a5
tbnn ht: but also and perhaps Ottener az n9u
men valiant thuSlaStif, f te great office he
r. undertaken T. that strange gt OF getS e natu-
No "a a. i,st What ne wants them 90 do lie Is 'io r
pc 70 aT ian tle consuming agnesIn OF hls piV
snce All alien wills dissolve into sort VI ,onug men:
forniy Tins Is especially true lu nS Hdes them whittier
he Will II would not be staange lio e sin OF IDOL
should need frequent admoni'iOH "N"'"'
A corrosnopdent " 1ting of the portrait gallery OF
oolelrites Of the french Revolution LATELY opeheu
IN Paris says: ..-,n- q, .,o rob,o and
m any aspect Of the great mgoiIy y, ,c,Sbers of
ihese portraits, most OF whom NcIe disrrd ~
IL famous for their cruelty anu ulsresau VI
be"rs there is not face here which rs not IN some
Attractive Evan Mirdbeau, though strongly u.Il in
~i,t me smallpoX has expression OF intense pow -,
~ couuteUapce which, doubtless greatly cOLuI9ud h,
The extraordinary effect he is said to have ~ ~
Nsrle Artmuctte-a quiet calm, somewhat plo Ti,,,
sucb A. She might have had in her retlleheu at rra
$50 the Revolution broke out Next come "a
in profile With cold penetrating look 81 JSti ti
some smiling gay dressed youth OF ~ iIo'D aWfoii
$50 ~ death In his friend David; COuthoh Iduoh,
ard Camille Dcsmouns, all looking calm ana Gaits, ~
- ~ ,illotue had no tcrrOrs for them 1here Is pu4
80 - Ain. Ceuicr the classical poet, ana OF houSct
a. Isle author Of the 'Marseaise Tue latter p Sy
S.rc5 in several places with baY0net thfnS'S. "Ic'
bjoNd vim irregular but attractive features, ana ny
mi rditor Of the inflmous Pere Duchese come BeNt'
yre ~ also portraits Of Charlotte COrday the ftIt
80 de- Lomhille; TerOgne de Merieourt, the 9IlSa
f reason WHO ended her days IN madh0use
Mime Trucn dressed dH0zoe; Ialcyrano' anu l-''''
Eunnaparte father Of the present Emperor"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-19
4mtipa dtaA.mi,s.

A DODWORTHs CLASSES for DANCING,'
at tue Old location corner Sdh st and Fnhaye
Oct Classes for children MONDAYS and THrpsn.va
TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS h4pm ="
Al Mr. DodSorths residence No s3l Pnhav. eo,u.,, n,
Morning class for children on MONDAYS AID THURSDAYS A. n,
Afternoon class for children wBDNEsD AVS
SATURDAY MORNING class at Iot Az
Evening class for advanced pupils FRIDAYS ,ta
Evening class for gentlemen MONDAYS and THuRsn.vo
Cireu may he had at either Academy or BY add.p, .
Dodv Orlh's residence @e "H'e 70 ma
NE GARMOs DANCING ACADEMY NJ
~ q FhaTe. Of Foneentlst will onsa az ".
September ~ 1853. Circulars at the ACADEMY USUAL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-19
Sslu Uantto.


4 GENTS who are canvassing for the LIB
~ GRANT ard other Republican books make double III
coum. b. also taxing