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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12
SCANDAL LANE.
BY MRS. NJ. A. KIDDER.

1t is not on the signboard, sir,
Go search both far and wide;
Or in the town directory,
The map or railroad guide;
If you pump your neighbors, sir,
You pump, alas! in vain,
For no one e'er acknowledged yet
He lived ia Scandal Lane!
It is fearful neighborhoOd,
So secret and so sly;
Although the tenants oftentimes
Include the rich and high.
Pm told they're even eannibals,
And when they dine or sup,
By way Of change. they'll turn about,
And eat each other upl
They much prefer the youthful, sir,
The beautiful and rare;
They grind up character and all,
And call it wholesome fafei
And should the helpless victim vince,
They heed not cries of pain;
These very bloody eannibals
That live in Scandal Lanei
If you should chance to dine with them,
Pray never be deceived;
When they seem most like bosom friends,
They're least to be believed.
Their claws are sheathed in velvet, sir,
Their teeth are hid by smiles,
And woe betide the innocent
Who falls beneath their wiles.
When they have singled out their prey,
They make cat-Iik. spring;
Or hug them like u serpent, ere
They plant the fatal stingi
And then they wash their guilty hands,
But don't e1face the stain,
These very greedy cannibals
That live in Scandal Lane!
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sPIVTING FOIKsi SPLITTING FOLKS.

Spit, spit spit! Awful shockiugly
Man, you'll kill yourself, die the death,
| if you do not cease this continual ex-
pectOration. Indeed, life is nearly ex-
| tinct already. You are only 3 little bet
ter than dead man out of sight. Be-
sides, how shamefully filthy and offens-
i've the habit isl How disgusting any
schere. and especially in parior among
! decent people, chewing and splitting,
: splitting and chewingl
You complain of ailments? No WON
der; the marvel is that you are not III
the grave-lower still, down, dorm!
DOWN where devils dwell and spirits
are damned! Oh, what mercy youare
out of hell! What indulge daily III
one of the most deadly poisons that ev-
er issued from the bowels of Gods earth,
and live and breathe Pa thing outrage
l-ously earthly, sensual, devilishl Away
with this filth, this dirty tyrant, this body
and soul destroying "Indian weed"-
away with it. Danish 1t. ''Wash you !;
make you cIean," "Cease to do evil !;
learn to do WELL"
Does every sanctmonious face
Denote the certain reign Of grace?''
Agaih, look at that man, prominent
church-member, putting the cigar though
the streets! Oil what nuisance shame
on him! Lose his influence? His in
hueHCe loi SOou VI nc over Hdu any ~
already gone. "The time of this ignor-
anee God winked at" But now, what !?
Repent? snake haste, o man, to do il. y
What man, woman or child, with the
least spark of grace or common good
sense, does not know that the habit of
smoking or chewing the vile weed is be-
meath the very animals-the four-footed
beasts, creeping things?
Spend Gods money to crafty vi
cious, unnatural, perverted, sensual APP
petite, ruinous to health of soul and
body, and call it haFmlessi! Presnmp-
toni Heaven-daring
Tobacco makes a sot of q man, beast
worse, tenfold. Rum and tobacco
what twin devils, what mighty agents
of Satanl What multitudes fall victims
to these Moloehs! And yet here is one
protesting goodness with pipe or CT
gar in his mouth, walking or riding
through the streets!
Friend, take your name from the
church-book, exhort no more sinners to
repentance, to fee the wrath to come
mock God no more by your cold, form
al, hypocritical prayers and false testi
monies
What, profess to be deciple of the
meek, pure, and holy Jesus, attempt to
teach the rising age the way of virtue,
temperance, truth, and soberness, mean
while slave to one of the most hate
full abominable lusts that ever degraded
an immortal2 Shocking! horiblei Oh
for MUndeT-cldR of Gods vindictive
justice from Sinai's burning, blazing top,
to ring in your besotted ear, peal on
peal, to wake You from spiritual death
Talk about great and good men bow.
il g to this slave of appetitei False
Who believes it ?-C Church Union.
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there was no alternative; they reached
the shore in safety, but did not soon
forget their adventure, dare say.
The siesta is a very favorite institu-
ton of the Mexicans. 1t consists in.
closing up, suspending business and
sleeping one, two er three hours imzne-
diately after dinner. This people is
not much given to education. hence they
spend very little time in study. Even
some of their most prominent men in
politics, who are entrusted with high
honors, are quite iliiterate as well as
immoral.
he aos,ffoste7
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

THE LETTER Rive have q friend
who finds it difficult to pronounce the
letter II. Meeting him on one occasion,
he said:
1WoBbert, have you heard of the great
wiot on the BwysfoI wOad p
q A what 20
why, q wiot, q wiot-"
sWhat the siuse is q wiot 2"
tDon't ron know what Wiot Is !? A
wiot is q wuTnpus.v
@WeII, now, what is wumpus You
have got me again"
ssWhv, you know what I mean. a
Wiot--a Wumpus, q wow.
% hOl rioti Yes, yes, have heard
something of that"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

Don't go round bemoanipg the woful
condition of business, etc. in your place,
for what is the use of grumbling or la
menting? Who that cares anything for
his own business or interests wishes to
have the worst side OF his affairs con-
tinuaIIy thrust before him2 No; that
is not the way TO better tines Stop
your croaking, and 60 ahead in some
useful work that viii make stir. Don't
worry the life out of others by your
jeremiades about the place where YOU
live. Up and doing is the true principle.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

FAVORABLE REPoRTs.-A number of
letters received recently from various
gentlemen in Washington, state that
everything relating TO our railroad in
terests is encouraging and full of hope.
The Usage treaty, in the interests of the
State, of the settler present aud pros
pective on the lands, of the Galveston
and Enporia roads, is rapidly growing
in favor, and there is every hope and
encouragement for its speedy ratifica-
ton. The sooner the better. 1t is all
important to Leavenworth and Law
renee and Southern Kansas that the
future of these roads should be known,
and their success placed beyond eontia-
gency or doubt.-Latcressce Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

The most dangerous symptom that
cropped out in the late Woman's Suf-
frage Convention at Washington, was
the defiant declaration of desperate la
dies that 'tafter they become voters they
would not broil over a stove.a Now
this is threatening war upon the most
radical basis, and will suddenly bring
the abominable men to terms. We can
not do without the delicate management
of clever women in the kitchen, and III
they are going to swear of cookery In
payment for privilege of voting, it be-
comes us all TO protect our privileges
while we have opportunity. Can't
compromise be effected
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4 sTRANGR AFFAIR.
From the Evening wisconsin, Jan. "a.

From the Evening wisconsin, Jan. q.
a number of our city physicians went
out TO Burlington yesterday to invest
igate the case of child which for TWEEN
ty days has been in trance The case
is pronounced one of the most remark
able that ever came under the notice of
the medi al faculty, and there is little
wonder that it creates something of
sensation. In the report of the affair
published in the Wisconsin, of yester
day we had not sufficient details to ex=
plain the case thoroughly, bnt are en-
abled to do so to-day from the lips of
persons who have seen the child.
a little daughter, twelve years of age,
named Nina, of Christian Rausch,
German farmer living about one and
halfmiles from Burlington, Racine coun-
ty, in this State, had a severe attack of
measles and diptheria. She had nearly
recovered from these OH the 9Th day of
january, when she called her father to
her bedside and told him she was going
to sleep and that she should sleep for
long, long time. She said she would
look as though she was dead, but she
would not be dead, and she made her
father promise that he would not bury
her, which promise it may readily be
supposed has been faithfully kept. Soon
after making the request, the child to
all appearances sank quietly and peace
fully into her last sleep. BY all it was
supposed that Nina was dead, and the
body was enshrouded and placed in a
coffin. After the sleep the body show
ed no signs of death, although the pulse
and the heart ceased to perform their
puIsatioas, and no device could show
That the respiratory organs were in use.
The eyes closed.
In this state Nina has lain for twenty
days without sign of life and with no
sign of death, other than a sinking of
the cheeks and eyes, which would be
natural with one who had tasted for so
long period.
Three days ago vein was tapped and
blood flowed as naturally as il would
in u living person. A blister raised on
the flesh precisely as it would on that
told our reporter that lie pressed a fin
ger on the hand of the girl; her flesh
was solid, and upon taking away the
finger the spot was white. In few sec
onds the color came again precisely as
it,wouid if the flesh of living person
were pressed in the same manner.
Under these circumstances it is reason
able for the parents and friends to be-
lieye that the child lies in q trance, and
there is little wonder that the case is
attracting so much attention among the
medical faculty. 1t will be watched
carefully to the end, and with interest.
A large number of persons have visited
the house of Mr.. Rausch, and all ex-
press themselves as lost in wonder and
amazement at this strikingly strange
affair.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12
HOW MARK TWAIN MAS SOLD IN
NEWARK.

The Newark Press contains the fol-
lowing exposition of what Mark Twain
terms "a Wicked Fraud, perpetrated
on him during his recent lecturing visit
to that city:
ut is seldom pleasant to tell on ones
self, but sometimes it is sort of q re-
lief to man to make sad confession.
wish to unburdeR my mind now, and
yet l almost believe that I am moved
to do 1t more because I longsto bring
eensurc upon another man than because
desire to pour balm upon my wound
ed heart. Il don't know what balm IL,
but believe 1t is the correct expression
to use in this connection-never having
seen any balm.1 You may remember
that leetured in Newark lately for the
young men of the Clayonian Society 2
/ did, at any rate. During the after
noon of that day was talking with Ole
of the gentleman Just referred 10, and
he said he had an uncle who, from
some cause or other, seemed to have
grown permanently bereft of all emo
ton. And with tears in his eyes this
young man said:
s'Oh, if I could only see him laugh
once morei Oh, if could only see him
weepic
was touched. I could never with
stand distress. i said:
Bring him to my lecture. I will
start him for you"
oh, if I could but do It'll If you
could but do it, all my family would
bless you forever more-for he is very
dear to us. Oh, my benefaetor, can
you make him Taught Can you bring
soothing tears TO those parched orbs {"
81 was profoundly moved. ] said
"My son, bring the old party around.
l have got some jokes in the lecture
that will make him laugh If there is any
laugh in him-and if they mise fire 1
have got some others thatH make him
cry or kill him, one or the other.
Then the young man blessed me, and
wept on my neck, and blew his nose on
my coat tail, and went after his uncle.
He placed him in full view, in the Sec
ond row of benches that night, and /
began on him. tried him with mild
jokes; then with severe ones; dosed
him with bad jokes and riddled him
with good ones ! fired old stale jokes
into him, and peppered him fore and
aft with red hot new ones; l warmed
up to my work, and assaulted him on
the right and left, in front and behind
l foamed and sweatetl, and charged and
routed, till was hoarse and sick, and
frantic and furious-but never moved
him once--I never started smile or 8
tearl Never a ghost of smile, and
never suspicion of moisturel was
astounded. closed the lecture at last
with one despairing shriek-with one
wild, wild burst of humor-and hurled
a joke of supernatural atrocity full At
himi Then / sat down bewildered and
exhausted.
The President of the society came up
and bathed my head with cold water,
and said
"What made you carry on so toward
the last2"
az said: "I was trying to make that
COMPOUNDED old fool laugh, in the Soc
ond row."
And he said: ''well, you were vast
ing your time-because he is deaf and
dumb, and as blind as badger"
Now was that any way for the old
mans nephew to impose on a stranger
and an orphan like me? / simply ask
you as a man and brother, if that was
any way for him to do?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

The National Women, in Convention
assembled, gave notice to the country
overlook "the logical fact OF its being
accompanied by the right to be voted
for.7 There is another logical fact
which we fear they overlook. IL is
that Suffrage has duties as well IS priv
iIeges. We sE1ouId like TO hear of their
accepting the logical fact that they
ought not to demand the one and
shirk the other.
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To De c0fltfRued.
ssRADIcALrsM. DOMINANT.

The Senatorial nominations have de-
veloped one striking fact. Maine, Indi-
ana, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Y ork,
Minnesota, Michigan and Massachusetts,
have spoken, and in each vase the Re-
publicans have taken candidates who
represent the advanced "Radicaly opin-
ion of the country. Those who irnag-
inc that the election of Gen. Grant was
merely an expression of conservative
confidence" in the man, which would
have been given had he been the candi-
date of either party, will find no war
rant for this opinion in these nomina-
tons. If Mr.. Fenton has any position
in New York politics, it is as an adyan-
ced Radical. Gen. Schurz has given
his wholes life to Radical ideas; Mr..
Hamlin is Radical, of the strictest
sect; Charles Summers name is whole
Gospel of Radicalism Mathew III. Car
penter adds Western fervor to Massa-
chusetts faith; while Mr.. Chandler Gov.
Ramsay, Gov. Cumback and Mr.. Scott
belong to same school.
The gentlemen who see in the cleo
ton of Gen. Grant a triumph of the SEN
timent which endeavored to paralyze the
war, to elect Mcclellan in 1864, to pre-
vent the emancipation of the slaves, to
make a new party out of the Philadel-
phia Convention, to break up the Re-
publican organization, are mistaken.
The men who now seek to make Gen.
Grant the leader of a party composed of
Copperheads and milk-and-water Re-
publicans win find in this expression of
public sentiment that our Presidential
triumph was that of the party of pro-
gress. Gen. Grant is pre-eminently a
Republican President, chosen by the
Union Republican party-by the party
which in 1866 defeated President john
son and his patronage, even when he
was aided, especially in New York, by
these same Conservative" politicians.
AS Republican journal of some
what advanced school, we trust that the
names Radical" and Conservative" or
any name, indeed, which gives express
sion to differences in the Republican
party, will be forgotten. We have no
remembrance of the griefs and the mis-
takes, possibly the sins, of the past few
years. We do not desire Gen. Grant to
be anything but the President of the
country, and the whole country. We
are confident that he will so use his high
Office that good men will conduct our
affairs, that economy will prevail in the
Administration, that justice will be kept
pure, that the national flag will be pro-
tected in foreign lands, and citizens of
this nation in every State in our own.
This is the sentiment of every Republic
can called Radical :" and the men who
are sent to the Senate, as believers in
Radical doctrines are the truest friends
of the new administration. Their truth
and their wisdom will be no less well
come because they represent the will of
the Republican party and the dominant
sentiment of the American people.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

Mrs. J. J.. Van Welt has recently been
arrested In New York for forgery. Her
mode of operating was 70 obtain the
signatures of wealthy men By canvass
ing for periodicals, for charitable insti-
tnfions, &C., and then by skilifni use
Of her pen she obtained large sums Of
money.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

A bill has been introduced into the
Michigan House of Representatives, and
has been reported on favorahly by the
committee on Education, 20 establish an
institution OF learning, 70 be called the
A1ichigsn Female College.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

SIMPLE CURE ron THx RHEgAArIsM.
Boil sm all pot fuII of potatoes and
battle the part affected with the water
in which the potatoes were boiled, as
hot as can be applied immediatelc be-
fore going 30 bed. The pains win be
removed or at least greatly aIleviated
by the next morning. Some Of the most
obstinate rllsamatic pains have lately.
been cured By one application Of this
novel and simple remedy.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

A notice upon 4 dpoF-post Of board
ing house IN the western part of New
Y ork city sets forth Neither kifanos
nor children admitted. On anoaher
house in the vicinity, Sign forb3ds
stpuppies Of both aexesy silza1ktaaee
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12
CHARLES wITEELOCK.
ARCHITECT & BUILDER,
KMPoRIA. KANSAS

Elevations Of dwelling houses, store fronts
churches, school houses, etc, drawn up with
neatness and dispatch. Also working draw
ings and specifications OF the same Is also
prepared TO do all kinds ofcarpenter and joiner
work by day or contract Has located perma-
nently IN ElnporiA.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

A Wisconsin genius climbed on the
roof of shanty at Green Bay lately,
and initiated an owl SO successfully
that q hunter shot him dead.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

The system of Brevets in the Army
began in laudabie desire to confer
honor, for brilliant services rendered,
upon men for whom actual promotion
was not possible. 1t has ended in a
sickening miscellaneous bedaubing
with brevet rank of everybody who
''has friend" in Congress or at the
War Department. Meritorious oAicers
who have the modesty of true soldiers
often go without brevets; while half
the worthless gascons in the regular or
volunteer service who care to impor-
tune their Congressman for it, can
attain or have attained these fancy Col
onelcies or rigadier-Generalship No
less than one hundred dlRd thirty-eight
Brevet Major-Generals are now borne
on the Regular Army Register, of
whom some are only beardless Captains
in the line. These youths, of Congress
favored, take precedence in Court Mar
tiais of veterans who have grown old
in the service, but have never won the
thrift ia rank that follows fawning (;
and this is but one of the awkward re-
suits of these disproportionate honors.
The whole system smells to Heaven,
and the Secretary of War is begging
Congress for relief from some of its
mbarassments.--NesC York Tribune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12

Two young men, giving their names
as @. Waters and Israel Wood, arrived
in town on Tuesday last, on foot who
stated that they were residents of the
State of Indiana, who came to Kansas
and outfitted with team at Council
Grove some time last fall, for the pur-
pose of catching wolves, and had pro-
ceeded some thirty miles the other side
OF the Big Arkansas. Being encamped
one day, taking care of the peltries they
had procured, and being considerably
scattered around, two Indians came in
to camp, where a cOmraGse, Kerr by
name, was and took possession. Wal
tiers and Wood endeavored to escape,
but Wood was overtaken and q ring
cut around the crown of his head, the
Indian who did it giving him to under
stand it was for the purpose of mark
ing him SO they would know him in
case they should ever catch him on the
plains again. We give the story substan-
TALLY as told by the two men, who were
really in destitute condition, and who
were apparently inclined to think that
nobody has any business out on the
plains at this season of the year-them-
selves included-and so do we, or any
other time of the year, as to that matter.
They appear to have great fears for the
safety of their. companion, of whom
they have seen nothing since they saw
the Indians have him.-Chdse County
Banner.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-26

niicant of the early adoption by the Presid ant
OF a more moderate policy in relation to the
Office question. 1t has somehow become q
mater of common report that the President
aud Senate are engaged in serious quarrel,
aud the fact has been impressed upon the
Presidents mind by senators calling on him.
1t was said to-day, upon good authority, that
all such reports were exaggerations OF the
facts. There is no ill-feeling displayed IN the
present controversy over the proposed repeal
of the Civil Tenure bill, except what is e1niol-
ted among the senators, and thereis gooo
reas On to believe that a suspension OF the Ia"
in question until the expiration OF Genera
Grants term will meet his approval. In
President has decided, it is said, to sena IN
nominations for vacancies that the welfare OF
the. government service require should be
filed"
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of the country are to support prosperous set
Elements, if they can be protected from the
Indians, and this has been abundantly Illus
.rated since the American occupat!oH by the
rapid prosperity OF those parts OF the territory
which have eojoyed protection.
ssTrom the Rio del Mort, westward to the
Lower Gila, the traveller may SO run his course
as TO pass entirely over plains-the praIr,es OF
this recion-differing slightly in elevation, and
gen orally 5000 to 1000 feet above the level OF
the sea. Water-generally to be lad only in
the streams and the springs at the base OF the
mountains-cau be obtained here by sinking
wells at no great depth. In his last message
to the Legislature OF Arizona, Governor Nc
Cormick strongly sets out the fertility OF these
plains, and recommends that provision be made
for procuring water by sinking wells, which ne
saws will make this country blossom like the
rose. West Of the 112th meridian the road
line crosses what is called the Colorado desert,
by way Of the Gia River, and thence from Fort
Yuma to San Diego its course is through
Southern California, which partakes here OF
the general character Of that rich and beautl-
ful State. The noble harbor of San Diego,
which forms the Pacific terminus of this road,
ig second on the Pacific coast only to That OF
San Francisco.
"Of the ultimate value OF railroad to the
Pacific. on this route, we have no doubt. Be-
fore the war Congress had granted to the
Memphis and Ell Paso Company valuable fran
cbises. Now il asks little beyond right Of way.
It's managers embrace gentlemen OF national
reputation and undoubted capacity and respon-
sibiity; they are confident Of success, and the
fact that they ask so little, while others have
been asking so much, must weigh heavily in
their favor"