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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-10
THE BEST WOMEN IN The WORLD.

L think old women don't quite like
the word ''lady," because it don't mean
anything noW-a-days-are the most beau
tiful and leveable things in the world.
They are so near heaven that they catch
the glow and brightness which radiate
from the pearly gates and illuminate
their faces. When the hair begins to
silver, and the embers in the fire grow
gray, and cold, and the sun has got so
far around in life's horizon that the pres
ent makes no shadow, while the past
stretches down the hillside to a little
mound of earth, where we will rest for
a season. little mound not big enough
to hold our corner lots, and marble
fronts, and safes, which we shall have to
leave on the other side of the hill, but
big enough, l trust, TO hold our memo
ries, and fancies, our air castles and Sc
crets; and when the journey is nearly
done, and the night is setting in, and
darkness begins to gather around US
without any stars, and the birds sing low
in the trees, and the flowers wither and
die, and the music we hear comes from
afar, strangely sweet, like sounds COM
ing over the water, and the little chill
dren, we live in ourselves, and the
world gradually recedes from us-then
l should like to be an old woman, full of
blessed memories and peaceful antici-
pations.
/ think / know the best woman in the
world, and 1 think every other man
knows her. / think the one know has
the kindest heart, and the dearest face,
and the most caressing hand. and the
most undying devotion among all wo-
men. Her eyes were once to me the
boundaries of the world, and were the
first things l ever looked into. And /
think tho host VIZ a4h
knows has all the qualities in the same
degree. And think there is not one of
US who has strayed so far from that wo-
man-.the blest of all women-not one
of us so calloused with the strife and
toll of life, not one of us in the midst of
difficulty and danger, who does not feel
the invisible arms around him, and who
does not long to go back to the arms
and the love of that woman, and to rest,
as we rested before our feet got into the
fiinty roads, upon the breast of our
MOTHER PereqTine Pickle.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-10
Deal Gently with the Little Ones.

He who cheeks child with terror,
Stops its play and stills its song,
Not alone commits an error.
But grieyous moral wrong.
Give it play and never fear it,
Active life is no defect:
Never, never break its spirit;
Curb it only to direct.
Would you stop the flowing river,
Thinking it would cease to f1ows
Onward must it few forevers
Better teach it where to go.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-10

The Kamsehatkans get tight on toad
stools. They sometimes give S25 worth
of furs for single fungus.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-10
MASONIC.

EmpOrfa Chapter, u. D.. H. A. w,
meets at Masonic Hall every Saturday evening,
at ~ o'clock. Companions in good standing
are cordially invited to attend.
p. B. PLUMB. II. p.
E.P BANCROFT, Sec'y.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-10
ABOUT BUFFALO HUNTING.
BY DANIEL GOPHER.

Let observation. with extensive view
Survey mankind from China to Peru.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
"Will not the self.same mold
Produce the self-same men"

THE MOHAMMEDAE REBELLION IN CHINA
From time to time our Cable dispatches refer
to the movements Of the Mohammedan Rebels
in China. Several times they have been re-
ported as making considerable progress, and
threatening the very existence of the Imperial
dynasty; at other times they are said to have
been defeated and repulsed with great loss.
The real nature and Importance OF the rebel
lion cannot, of course, be understood from
these brief dispatches; for not only are they
too incoherent, but they never distinguish be-
tween two different classes of Mohammedan
Rebels, who for several years have been stimuli
taneously waging war against the Chinese Gov
eminent.
Soon after the suppression of the TAPPING
rebellion, the first accounts were received of
insurectionary movements among the Moham-
medan subjects of the Empire. The Moham-
medans referred to were not the Turks in
Western Toorkistan, who, favored by the wide
Mongolan steppes, have always been turbulent,
and involved in wars among themselves and
against the neighboring countries of Khokand
and Bokhara. The difficulties of these Moham-
medans with the troops kept by the Chinese
Governments in their country, have thus far
not been of serious nature. The rebels who
have of late given so much trouble live in
China Proper, partly in the province
of Kan-su, which to the north Dor
ders upon the Amoor, and partly in
.Yun-nan, province adjoining Burmah. The
Mohammedans of both these provinces are the
descendants of soldiers belonging to the vast
crowds which under MOhammed of Ghasni,
under the GhOri- Sultans of Hindostan, and
under Djengis Khan, OVERLOADED Persia, India,
and parts of China. Chinese historians say, in
particular of the Mohammedans of Yun-nan,
that they are the descendants of an auxiliary
corps, which was obtained in the tenth CEN
tury from neighboring prince, for the sup
preston of q rebellion in the northwest, and
which, after the close of the war; received
grants of land in Yun-nan. They were, until
the outbreak of the present disturbances, re-
garded by the Chinese rs peaceful and in
dustrious people.
About ten years ago, the expressions which the
Mohammedans in Yun-nan suffered from the Chi
nese Mandarins led, fer the first time to acts of
hostility The Mohammedans, though ut first
compelled to seek refuge in the forests and
mountains of Burmab soon received strong re-
endorsements from the warlike people of
Northern Burmah. Having possessed them
selves of several strong places, they perfected
their organizations and placed king at their |
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.
Netu.21ork Q1ilp Gribarar&
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1869.

Prince Hohenlohe has addressed striking circular TO
the Governments of South Germany, warning them to
take action against the threatened programme OF the
Hcumepical Council NJ Olivier, it is predicted, will
succeed NJ Rouher in the direction of the French
legislature The Times and Star both condemn
the action OF the Lords the Church bill
The rumOred evacuation of Rome IS denied In spain
change of ministry occurred and in Cuba the Cap
tain has proclaimed the rebellion reduced anu
decreed certain moderate measures
Secretary Boutwell, has ordered the purchase OF an al
ditional three millions Of Government bonds tomorrow
and has reduced his currency balance S6OOOOO snce
July 1t s authortatively denied that Minister sckes
has been instructed to negotiate for the purchase OF
Cuba The Philadelphia Registry law has been decided
constitutional by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court The
President will visit Long Branch next week The OHIO
Democrats have nominated Gen. W. s. FosecIaAs Ior
Governor The Reunion Of the Ninth Corps ana the
burnside Expedition took place at Rocky Point H. L.
yesterday. 49,
Real estate assessments in this city for 1859 1884,,
iOO597 increase in one year OF sS5OOOOOo WINE per
sona estate has slightly decreased The Board Of Edu-
Gallon want half million for immediate expenses Some
new quarantine regulations were made yesterday In
Greenwood Yesterday family visiting their burial lot
had a child killed by the falling Of monument upon
him The Jury on theFifty railroad collision cen
sure both the Harlem and Belt Roads. Passengers by
the City Of Paris complain Of overcrowdng and bad food
Kndt the Brooklyn gold rObber to State Prison for
ten years Ellen Allen of HObOken died OF poison yester
day and her husband suspected Two persous father
and daughter were killed at NewPrOvidenee N j., by a
Morris and Essex Railway train on Tuesday evening.
We print on the second page Foreign and Domestic
Correspondence and General Notes. the third, local.
aud on the seventh, general miscellany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

wants and promoting the comforts of social
and civil Iife are equally emcaciOus tol
national defense-the movements OF armies
across our vast regions being regulated anu
facilitated by the locomotive and the lghtnins
and all danger of invasion being averted by
the fact that the telegraphs ana the raiIoauS
enable us promptly to concentrate Volunteers
enough 70 oyerwhelm all the armies which the
world could send against our National Union.
What vlstas Of national greatness ours.
upon the mind when contemplating the Iuture
nv the usual rate of increase, the population OF
orr country. estimated at fOrty-two millions III
1870. ffty-six millions in 1880, seventy-seVeh
millions in 1890, and hundred millions III lVoo'
will nrobably exceed three hundred millions IN
194O-seventy years from the present tlme-a
period that will be reached by many OF the
children now in our schools. And yet the Ma
tional Union would not then contain, proper
tionately, more than half as much population as
Massachusetts now possesses since the whoie
Union. if peopled like that State in the ratio OF
acres, would contain over six hundred Millions
With the consciousness that we possess more
than three and half millions of square miles
of land, or about twenty-five hundred millions
of acres, or nearly an acre for every dollar OF
national debt; and with the probability that
the lapse of twenty five years will nearly treble
the number of our present population, who
can despair of the Republic, or OF Its means 10
repay, in reasonable time, every dollar oil tue
debt incurred for preserving our National Unlonl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
TIE POOR SCHOLAR.

There has been q brave change since the
days when the poor scholar in the European
Universities begged his bread from door to
door, or served his fellow students in the most
mental Offices, that he might earn the privilege
of sitting in an humble corner of the lecture
room and being kicked about the college quad
rangle. Education in those half barbarous days
was not indeed the exclusive privilege of the
mobiles and the clergy; but poor lad could
only buy it at the cost of suffering and humili-
alton. There was for him no royal road to
knowledge; it was a pathway tbickly set with
thorns. He was treated little better than
scullion he was cuffed and spit upon he must
be fed at "a separate table, and wear n dress
which marked his social inferority. Even in
modern times the poor scholar in the foreign uni
versities, though he is no longer the servitOr of
the rich is still the victim of inyidiOus dis
tinetiOns. 1t has been reserved for our own
country to recognize the dignity Of labor by
honOring the lad who works for tho price of
his education as freely and as fully as the stu
dent who was born to an Inheritance of money
bags, and pays his tutor out of the profits of
his fathers dickering. 1t has long been
practice of many of our colleges TO open their
OOOTB 10 II CtIldlH VI poor
and deserving young men, and to dispense
this charity so delicately that nobody knew of
it except the receivers and the givers. But
the Cornell University seems now to have gone
a step further by practically abolishing poor
scholars altogether, and enabling any young
man 30 earn his living, to acquire an educa
ton, and to preserve hisself-respect and social
position, all at the same time.
A letter published in The TRIBUNE yester-
day gives an account of the progress which
the Ithaca institution has made in carrying out
this excellent feature of Mr.. Cornelrs plan.
II tells of one industrious lad, taking the
highest prizes in the scientific course and in
German, who had supported himself during
his studies by earning pOrter's wages in one
of the University buildings. ....... .
Another, whose average standing in all
branches exceeded that of any other member
of the University, combined the duties of stu
dent librarians assistant, and waiter at the
students table There is work about the farm
and grounds for all who want TO do it, at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

When we are young we believe in the story
of Blue Beard, and in sundry other domestic
tragedies which have charm for the infant
mind, including the immortal Babes in the
Wood. AS we grow old, We become incredu
lous of such wickedness; yet here is "quiet"
German gentleman just dead in his native land.
who, in the article of death, acknowledged that
he had poisoned sixteen members of his own
family in order that he might come into their
property. We are little doubtful, however,
about this he-Bnnvilliers. 1t cannot be tho
easiest thing in the world to poison sixteen
individuals, even if they are disposed of in the
lump, without exciting suspicion, especially if
there is one quiet gentleman who inherits all
their money. Perhaps the old fellow was ont
of his head-perhaps he was ambitious of
place in juvenile libraries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, JULY g. 1869.


fixed sum per hour. Still better, perhaps,
there is an opening here for mechanics ana
skilled artisans, who while following their re-
spective crafts can at the same time pursue any
branch of learning for which they have fancy
There are carpenters working early and late
with the cbisel and the plane, and going to
class with the young men of independent
means. There are masOns, plasterers, cabinet
makers. painters, farmers, who come to the
recitation rooms fresh from the manual tasks
by which they earn their subsistence, ana
printers who set type at all spare hours IN the
Ithaca printing offices, or the rooms Oh the
University press There are two wOrkmen
from England who have even built themselves
q cottage in the intervals Of their studies
And, as might have been supposed, the young
men of this Industrious, energetic, perSeVer-
ing class generally rank among the most
successful of the students. They are
showing how the position of the poor
scholar can be completely reversed, so that IN
his person literature shall not be degraded, but
labor be ennobled; so that the man who earns
an education by the sweat of his brow shall be
held in higher honor than the youth who buys
one with his fathers money. Perhaps, too, they
will show us how education may be made more
thorough and more general without increasing
its cost, and the poorest lad in the land obtain
a scientific training, if he wants it, without
taxing the charity of Others
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

The Boston people inaugurated their new
statue of Washington last Saturday evening
with the usual amount of speech making. OF
one thing they certainly have a right to be
proud. "The entire monument" said Mr.. Rice,
the orator of the occasion, "and its accessories
"of contributors, artists, founders, stone-cut-
tiers, maSons, and managers have been fur
"nished from the resources of our own State
"of Massachusetts," There is no longer any
need of sending to European founderes for
our brazen images; the Ames Company of
Chcopee can turn out as good casting as any
in the world. They cannot, of course, make a
good statue out of bad model but they will
not make bad statue either out of a good
model. Now, if Boston will only take down
the brass Franklin! And then, if it will only
persuade the Ames Foundry to take off one
out of its five sign-board advertisements from
the new bronze doors for the Capitol at Wash
ington, so as to leave room for the name Of
the artist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

The order of Secretary Boutwell, for sec
ond purchase of three millions of Government
Bonds may be regarded as a definite indlca-
ton of policy. The Secretary does not con-
strue the law requiring the establish
ment of a Sinking Fund Gas we think ne
should) as requiring him to make up the fuli
balance which his predecessors should have
purchased but it is now evident that
he is too wise to permit the useless accu-
mutation of gold in the Treasury when
it can be better used in securing
our bonds while they are cheap, ana
in stopping the interest that we don t need to
pay If the Secretary feels hesitation about put
ting the bonds thus purchased into the Sink
ing fund, it is a hesitation from which Con-
gress will be prompt to relieve him next De-
cember. Meantime we congratulate MN
and congratulate the country on the Wis
dom that has at length attained to per-
ception of the fact that the business OF the
Government, like that of individuals, should
be conducted on business principles We
wish he were purchasing ten millions week
instead of three; but we are thankful for the
good he does, and glad to welcome in 1t an
occasion for hope that it may prove an earn
est of more to come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

Prince HohenlOhe, Premier of Bavaria, lately
addressed q circular to the South German
States proposing a series of pointed questions
to the theological faculties of their UNIVERSE
ties. He asked first what changes in Church
and State relations would follow from
proclamation of the infallibility of the
Pope in the doctrines of the sylla-
bus; second, whether the Church would
feel bound to teach the practical supremacy OF
the Pope over sOvereigns as matter OF faitn
third, would it consider the personal immuni-
ties of the clergy divine right; finally, are
the ex-cathedra declarations of the rope
binding on the cOnscences of all Cath-
olics, and how far will they anect
the education OF the people. fer-
haps it is because the answers to these ques-
tons have responded in some measure TO MS
fears that the Prince has addressed another
circular to the governments. He urges their
combination against the threatened proclama-
ton of infallibility in the Gcumencal Councn,
and his action promises to have an important
influence on the subject.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
PROGRESS OF THE NATION.

The approach of the ninth National Census
may well excite sOlcitude concerning the ex-
tent to which its results will be affected by
the extraordinary causes that have distracted
the country during One-half of the current de-
cade. The effects of such war rs we have
encountered, including the premature loss of
nearly million of men, may well be expected
to affect the ratio of comparison with the emu
merations of other decades, past and prospective.
Yet, such is the steady effect of emigration and
other recuperating causes, that the drawbacks,
however mighty they seem in comparison with
any former difficulties, will probably leave
much fainter effects on the Census than many
of us have at times anticipated.
1t is not very wonderful that Americans
should become believers in Manifest Destiny"
when thinking of the progress of their country
during the brief period of our national exist
ence How can it be otherwise when recOl-
lectng that the four-score years since the
original Tickety ConfedeTacy of i'll -jointed States
was merged in National Government under
the present Constitution, have been signalized
by increase of States from thirteen to thirty
seven, with territory enough to make out fifty
noble commonwealth ere this century ends
, WIN pOpudtlOh, lOllJ ullilOH5 HON' ludJ VIII
probably DO expanded TO round hundred
millions before the year 1900; with possessions
expanded from the original narrow strip along
the Atlantic coast into mighty empire stretch
ing three thousand miles across the continent
to the Pacific Ocean, and upward from the
Mexican Gulf to the Northern Lakes and the
arctic regions of Alaskan
Nearly fifty thousand miles of railroad have
brought all sections Of the Union into quicker
communion than existed between Boston and
Washington when the present National Consti-
tuition was, estabished-while more than
hundred and fifty thousand miles of telegraph
enable widely separated States and people to
interchange intelligence more rapidly than
could have been done thirty years ago between
the towns of single cOunty-the news from all
parts of the nation now appearing as promptly
in our daily papers rs the local items" from
the different wards Of tile city.
The means thus effective il satisfying tue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

The barren and provoking action of the
Lords on the Church bill has resulted in obvious
dissatisfaction. The Times regrets that they
have refused by a majority of 20 to approve
clause appropSiating the surplus~ funds of the
Church bat believes that the people Of Ed
gland will iDdorse some shape Of con-
current endowment. The Netos expresses
less conservative, but more impressive and
popular Judgment in saying tersely that the
Lords have done their best to deform the
Church bill, and that the Commons must trans
form it. The Lords have. in fact, revonged
the defeat of Disestablisbment by hacking and
defacing the bill and cutting it up into mis-
shapea eudOWments. In no respect is the bill,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

as the Lords have made it, whole or con-
sstent measure, and it ia, as Mr.. Bright would
say, piece of tinkering-of most elaborate
and lOrdly tinkering The wonder is
that in this year of grace and advance
ment the British Lords, temporal or spiritual,
have not unlearned to cObble and higgle over
a measure of the plainest justice. If anything
is wanting to make a lord more inveterate,
more selfsbly attached to tradition, more dis
posed to cling to the goods of this world, it is
the counsel of a bishop. In any high point OF
view we cannot see how the act of the En-
glish EpiscOpacy in insisting upon a lavish en-
dowment is to be regarded as other than mer-
canary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

The Democratic platform just evolved from
the Ohio Convention, on which Messrs. Val
landgham and Mr.. PendletOn are to
meet Gen. Rosecrans and embrace him, IS
made up in about equal proportions of reso-
lutions denouncing the Government for ex-
trayagance in paying honest debts and
defending their own Legislature for extraVa-
gance in creating new ones of doubtful nom
esty. Beyond this we do not observe any
thing of the slightest consequence, save the
cheerful assurance that the reserved rights OF
the States are gone to the dogs with the de-
feat of Secession, and that the Government IS
to be consolidated despOtism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

A correspondent, whose letter we print else
where, insists that the Jews did hang, and
cites Deuteronomy, xxi, %, 49, Very well: if
they hanged, so they stoned, burned, be-
headed, suffocated They punished witchcraft,
notwithstanding, idOlatry, adultery, all CAPT
tally. They executed false prophets, undutiful
children; defling priests daughter was
capital Offense; so was cOntradicting the con-
sstOIy. If Christianity abrogated these savage
retributiOns, why did it not also abrogate the
halter If our correspondent can find any
authority in the teachings of our Savior for
hanging, he will be more fortunate Tor unfor-
tunate) than most searchers of Scripture.
Meanwhile we refer him to Matthew v, 80, 80.