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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18

in trade also stimulated active compe-
tition in the improvement of their sew
eral inventions. These improvements
in some points, are carried to high
degree Of perfection, yet in one respect
there is defect of radical character
in each of those machines, namely, COM
plication. Something was still to be
invented to render it universally sue
cessful in families. There are too many
parts and movements, and too much
skill was required to manage the ma
chine.
We are told Mr.. Howe first tried to
make single thread machine, and only
gave it up when he found-so says Par
ton in his history of the sewing ma
chine--that che couldn't do it."
After five years q new theory sprang
up to question the soundness of Howe's.
Mr.. James E. A. Gibbs, of Millpoint,
Va, after a little reflection, satisfied
himself that no sewing machine using
two threads, and employing a bobbin
and shuttle, and the numerous other de-
vices found in loom for weaving cloth,
could ever be made sufficiently simple
to meet the wants of all. To him it
was plain that where an extra thread is
used there must be extra machinery to
manipulate that thread; and it was
equally plain that the only way to get
rid of that extra machinery and its re-
sulting complications was to remove the
cause. He says "if woman is ever to
be emancipated from needle bondage"
she must have machine that scOnaGna
can use. His first effort, therefore, was
to invent new and more reliable stitch,
to be made of q single thread. Mr..
Gibbs had not the advantage of a me-
chanical education. His father was
native of New England, and the son
naturally took to whittleing. With the
root of young sapling and his trusty
knife, he engaged eagerly to revolution
ize the cumberous system then known.
In due time success crowned his efforts,
in the production of curiously shaped
device, not larger than gentleman's
coat button, which had the capacity of
performing, in the making of stitch,
all the offices of ashuttle-stitch machine,
while it made of one thread only new
kind of stitch, more reliable, as expe-
rience has since proved, than any made
of two. AT length he made the ac-
quaintance of Mr.. James Wilcox, of
Philadelphia, who was prepared to-ap-
preciate the merits of Mr.. Gibbs in
vention. The improvements which have
since been added are chiefly due to the
genius and labors of. Mr.. Wilcox and
his son, Charles H. Wilcox, mechanical
engineer.
The prejudice which has hitherto ex-
listed with regard to q one thread ma
chine is fairly outlived, for practice,
experience, and good judgment have
shown beyond argument that the elas-
tic stitch will give with the cloth, and
is far less liable to break than the lock-
stitch, while no time is lost in winding
bobbins, or filling shuttles, and host
of other delays and vexations which a
two thread machine constantly give.
Such is brief history of the sewing
machine. NJ.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18
SNOW SQUIRM, OLD NATUR'."

A stingy christian was listening to a
charity sermon. He was nearly deaf,
and was accustomed to sit facing the
congregation, right under the pulpit,
with his ear-trumpet directly upward
toward the preacher. The sermon
moved him considerably. At one time
he said to himself-'I'll give ten dol
lars ;" again he said, an give fifteen"
At the close of the appeal he was very
much moved, and thought he would
give fifty dollars. Now, the boxes were
passed. AS they moved along his char
ity began to ooze out. He came down
from fifty to twenty, to ten, to five, to
zero. He concluded that he would not
give anything. "Yet," he said, this
won't dol am in a bad fix. My hopes
of heaven may be in this question.
This covetousness will be my ruin"
The boxes were getting nearer and near
er. The crisis was upon him. What
should he do? The box was now I'M
der his chin-all the congregation were
looking. He had been holding his pock-
et-book in his hand during this solilo-
guy, which was half audible, though in
his deafness he did not know that he
was heard. In his agony of the final
moment he took his pocket-book and
laid it in the box, saying to himself as
he did it-"Now squirm, old natur'I"
This was a victory beyond any that
Alexander ever won-a victory over
himself. Here is key to the problem
of covetousness. "Old natur'" must
go under. 1t will take great giving to
put stinginess down. A few expert
ments of putting in the whole pocket
book may, by and by, get the heart.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18

THE JEWS IN RussIA.-Minister Cur
tin has made report to Secretary Fish
in reply to the request of the President
that he would inquire into the condition
of the Jews in Russia. The report
states that great ameliorations have re-
Gently been made in regard to the Jews,
and that many privileges have been
granted them, such as gratuitous con-
cessions of land to agriculturists, subsi-
dies for expenses of colonization and
settlement and exemption from taxation
and military duty for a certain term.
They are also entitled to domiciIiation
in any part of the empire, and if pos
sessing the requisite qualifications arr
admitted to exercise public functions,
to enter the medical service of the ar
my, and in some cases are admitted into
the class of notable citizens"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18

FEMALE There are two
daily newspaper offices in Boston in
which girls are employed as Compost
tors-the Traveller and TrdnscriDk. eve
ming papers, They were first employed
at the time of the famous printers
strike in November, 1864, and most
Of them are still in those Offices, receive
ing mems wages and working full
hours- They average eighteen dollars
a week, and perform their work equally
as correct and prompt as men. OF
course the female compositcrs conform
to all the rules of q well regulated con-
posing room, and feel themselves on Q
level with the male help.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18
A WORD ABOUT SEWING MACHINES.

Very few have given the rise and pro-
gress of sewing machine mechanism
much thought. The world is alive to
the invention of labor-saving machines,
and to its credit be it spoken, particu-
larly to such as will tighten woman's
labor.
Many have claimed the honor of in
venting the first sewing machine, but
justice alike to individual merit, and
impartial history assigns that honor to
the Rev. John Adams Dodge, of Monk
ton, Vermont, who as early as 1918 in
vented, and with the assistance of John
Knowles, an ingenious mechanic of the
same town, constructed an instrument
which made the back stitch, and sewed
q perfect seam. No effort was made,
however, to introduce it to the public.
Between the alarmed and offended tai
lOrs and the care of his flock, Mr.. Dodge
was compelled to abandon his machine,
structing q machine to ease a woman's
fingers.
During the next thirty years, Thimo-
nier, Hunt, Greenonh, Bean, CorIies,
and Howe were successfully added to
the list of "early sewing machine inven-
tors" Each succeeded in producing
something that would sew, but it is
doubtful If either of them equaled in
originality of invention, or in the per-
fiction of the seams it made, the ma
chine of Dodge.
The honor of introducing the sewing
machine is generally conceded to the
late Mr.. Howe, whose machine was pat
ented in 1916. The complication of an
upper with an under thread" the use
OF an ''eye-pointed needle" and the
shuttle" were embraced in the machine
of Walter Hunt, of New York, which
was invented as early as 1888, while his
feed device was the same in principle as
that Of Mr.. Dodge. The original ma.
chine of Mr.. Howe would sew q straight
seam, but it would not sew q curved
one thus the sewing machine was still
very far from perfect and so It remain
ed till other inventors came to its aid.
In the years 1851 and 1852 three new
ones. all based on the same general prin-
ciples as that Of Mr.. Howe, but each
containing improvements upon his, ap-
peared in the market, and it is from
that period that we are to date the first
successful application of the sewing
machine to practical MSS. Competition
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18

A MoTHER's INFLUENcE.-How touch
ing is this tribute of Hon. T. FL. Benton
to his mothers influence: "My mother
asked me never to use tobacco have
never touched It from that time to the
present day. She asked me not to gam
bic, and have never gambled I cannot
tell who is losing in games that are be-
ing played. She admonished me, too,
against hard drinking, and whatever
capacity for endurance have at pres
ent, and whatever usefulness / have at
tanned through life, have attributed to
having complied with her pious and
correct wishes. When I was seven
years of age, she asked me not to drink I;
and then / made q resolution of total
abstinence; and that have adhered to
It through all time, owe tc my moth
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18
DON'T FRET.

Has neighbor injured you?
Don't fret
You will come off the best;
He's the most to answer for,
Never mind it, let it rest:
Don't fret.
Has horrid lie been teldY
Don't fret;
1t will run itself to death:
II you let it quite alone,
1t will die for want of breath:
Don't fret.
Are your enemies st work?
Don't fret;
They can't injure you whit;
If they find you heed them not,
They will soon be glad to quit:
Don't fret.
Is adversely your lot?
Don't fret
Fortunes wheel keeps turning round,
Every spoke will reach the top,
Which, like you, is going down:
Don't fret.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18

Doctor Guthrie says Before God and
man, before the Church and the world,
l impeach intemperance. l charge it
with the murder of innumerable souls.
In this country, blessed with freedom
and plenty, the word of God and the
liberties of true religion, charge it as
the cause-whatever be their source
elsewhere-of almost all the poverty,
and almost all the crime, and almost ali
the misery, and almost all the ignorance,
and almost all the irreligion that dis
grace and a1fiict the land. 4 am not
mad, most noble Festus. / speak the
words of truth and soberness.' do in
my conscience believe that these intox-
icating stimulants have sunk into per-
dition more men and women than found
q grave in the deluge which swept over
the highest hilltops, engulfng a world
of which but eight were saved"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18

The instructive action of the Irish
people when turned out of house and
home was shown last Wednesday. nj
Durham, England. A bailiff was sent 10
take the furniture of poor woman.
Bridget McIntire, for rent. He went.
accompanied by two policemen. lie
took away a small box, which served as
a cradle, out of which the baby was
roughly bundled; then went towards
the bed clothes, saying that he was going
him on the temple with brown pitcher
and killed him. She was taken, with
her baby, before a Magistrate on a
charge of manslaughter, and on being
asked what she had to say, answered |:
"Oh, have nothing to say. 1 didn't
intend to do any harm. / was wholly
out of ny mind at the time. beg par
don, gentlemen"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18

The MOMENT OF PERIL.-More than
a quarter of century ago, two vessels,
in gale off the Southern coast, and
wrapped in the darkness of the night,
were sailing toward each other. The
commanders knew it not, until sudden
ly, from the deck of one of the ships,
rang out the trumpet-shout, "Hard-a-
larboardi" The officer had caught sight
of the approaching craft through the
gloom, when near the prov of his own.
Instantly was heard in response the
thrilling words, " Hard-a-larboard y
Every heart on those ships was still, as
the white-robed arms of the leviathans
of the sea-waye seemed to interIoek in
a terrific struggle, then part forever.
Each swept on toward its destined port,
bearing the pale spectators of the scene.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18
OUR KANSAS LETTER.
Biographical Sketch Of the Kansas Normal
School Teachers.

The following letter, published in the
Elgin Ill.) Gazette, was written by one
of the students of the Normal.
My monthly contribution to your pa
per is due, and now lies before me in a
vague shape. A harder or more diff
cult subject could not have been selected
by your correspondent. In fact, Mr..
Editor, the "bump" of (what shall call
it p genius, or the gift of writing biog-
raphy is sparingly developed in the
writer; therefore, / shall ask you and
your numerous readers to pardon me
in my weak effort.
PROF. L. B. KELLOGG
was born in Ohio, Sept. IS, 1S41, and
his parents removed to Northern Him
OILS when he was but four years old.
He was educated in q district school
until the age of sixteen years. AT this
age he received from his father q gift
of his time to the age of twenty-one,
for the purpose of acquiring better ed
ucation and the summer after his six
teenth birthday he commenced teaching
as q Writing-master. At the age of
seventeen he commenced his career in
the teachers profession, as an assistant
in country district school, at a salary
of ten dollars per month. The next
summer QS5S) he taught the village
school at Scion, McHenry county, Ill
inois, at 8 salary of sixteen dollars per
month. In the spring of 1860, he en-
tered the Normal University of1llinois
as q student-stopping at intervals to
earn money by teaching, and continued
the course of study until graduation in
1854, where he left behind him a repu-
tation for true morals, upright demean-
or, and thoroughness-i in scholarship.
In the fall of 1854 he was engaged as
Principal of the Grammar department
in the Normal University, and in JAM
uary, 1866, he was selected by the Board
of Directors OF the Kansas Normal
School, through the recommendation
of President Edwards, to commence the
experiment of Normal School In Kan
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EYEs.-There il q wonderful diyersi.

EYEs.-There Is wonderful DIVERSE
ty among animals in respect to the num-
Der of their eyes. In mammals, birds,
reptiles and fishes they are limited to
two, and are always placed on the head.
The greater part of the surface OF the
head of the house-fy is covered by an
aggregation of about 10000 eyes and
in the dragon-fy they number about
$1,000, and may be easily seen By the
small power.
They are not always confined to the
head alone. In spiders and scorpions
there are generally eight or ten Of them
in one or more clusters, on the dorsal
aspect Of that part OF the body which
ie formed by the union Of the head aud
throat.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-18

Forgetting God is, perhaps, the sin of
the day. Vast masses of respectable,
weli-meaning people, who do not mean
to be classed with great sinners, are
guilty of this sin. They never think Of
God, of his law, or of their duty to
serve him. When walked up to think
upon the subject, you can see that they
mean well, but the mind is SO over
worked in thinking worldly thoughts,
that God has no chance. So MANY
things claim their attention, that God
is crowded out
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EMPORIA NEWS


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The waves are pressing inward from the bay;
Far OF the advancing lines of ripping foam
Proclaim the hour of that mysterious sway
Which brings them beachward from their
ocean home;
And twinkling points ofIight, a radiance fleet,
Spring up beneath their swift, white-sandaled
feet,
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AANAo = AAC4OAABs
DEAL ESTATE AND COLLECTING AGENTS.
a. and NotAries Public, Eureka, Greenwood Co.
Kansas. colieetions made In any part o. the state
Conyeysnetng done. And Aeknoyiedgnents Of
" = tr.ein{ tillSs - lanA aAd 1aglng tixes log
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BLAcKsMITHs.
LIVERY STABLES.

- Ne . W. OANAS'
NEW LIVERY. SALE AND FEED STABLE.
IN You can get your horses fed with good feed, at
low prices also horses and bugges to let and teams
Hor heavy hauliuR.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-06-17
AFEEP lNTUTBE TUTURE.

A Pneumatic 1k5s oser Fox, HssdrsS As'ss
Leso-8essssssS 6eeonds (teW London Il
I'll q 0las0oW.
Prom the Boston Ttanscipe.l
The following extract from letter r..
ceived BY one Of our friends describes the
operation Of . pneumatic tube between Lon.
don and Glasgow. Probably fcw Of our
readers are aware Of the existence OF the
process by which messages and packages
tween these two places.
~ had occasion TO send Telegram T.
Lon don the other day, and In few minutes
received reply which led mo to suppose
that serious error had been committed By
my agents involving many thousand pounds.
Immediately went to tho telegraph of{ice
and asked to Gee my message. The clerk
said, we can't show It to you, - We have
sent it to London But I replied, 'yeu
must have my original paper here; wish to
see that He again said, No, we have not
got it; it II in the post Office 1t London
What do you mean ? I asked. Pray let
me sec the paper I left here half an hour
ago. WE'LL said he, If you must see It We
will get it back in few minutes, but It IL
now In London He rang bell, and in five
minutes or 20 produced my message, rolled
up in pastcboard. '.oatJ
IL 6c6IUS v08t IOI 0sDIuc 01OuSuo ssASsO 49,
existed pneumatic telegraph bctwixt Clas.
gov and London, and 6etwixt London and
the other principal cities Of the kingdom,
which consists Of m iron tube, into which
the messages are thrown and sent to their
destination. inquired If I might see .
message sent. oh, yea come around here.
He slipped number Of messages into the
paste6oard scroll. popped into the tubo and
made signal. put my ear to the tube
and heard . slight rumbling noise for sev-
ertscn seconds. when . bell rang beside me,
indicating that the scroll had arrived 1t the
General Post Office, four hundred miles off !!
It almost took my breath away to think of
it. If only could 60 to Boston with the
same relative speed, you might count on my
passing an evening every week ct 1A Beap
con street, and returning home to sleep.
Who knows but we may be conveyed In
this marvellous manner before many years
Perhaps you sre aware that there has
been large tube between the General Post
Office in London and the station In Eustace
square in operation for number Of yesrA
The mail bags for the north are al sent by
this conveyance, 20 that the Post O@O 70.
ceives letters up to few minutes before the
train leaves, three miles off. The transit
take less than two seconds Surely this Is
an age Of wonders. .t..... ar
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-06-17

u E6lW Woman. stsdl,w
TIE ah,s eosssaposAant Of ~ osA 1m
NsvadN Nsss writes = follows Hen saa
Ftaadsedq sadsr dass q Nay Slsh: taL
What irrsszisvabls ruin hsaEtls0 1as
can bring iat6a happy doasseac circle
Thfss ysazs Ago O.ta W. 'ths loved ena
loviDg wife Of . wsll-known merchant n
mother Of two bsaatifal childFss, oscupasd
a hosoeaels pos,sioa IN ssciesy, ana va
- much Of bella = . married WOMAN eaa
be. Ala III givsn b . semi-hsssesy oaao'
she nst ssat3suAa Il uss the word - In.
dicating wealthy from Charleston, who bad
come 10 The Pacific On visit % his brothss,
and whstherit W. an.actual cass OF natural
affinity, Of second love st hrss sight, pey'
chologists can perhaps determine for me
infatuated woman made no struggle with
temptation, but deserted husband, home,
and Offspring two weeks after her nrst IN
PRODUCTION 70 the South Csrolinian, ana -
companied him - mistress back 70 the
Southern siatea Twelve months ago hsr
protector died, and - suddenly that he had
not time to make will His relations
would net admit that che hod any claim
upon ~ estate, aad 70 from condition Of
afluence she wss At once reduced t. actual
poverty. Ovsswhslned by this misfortune,
she now began 70 feel the gnawingsot 10
moIss, and soon 70 stssp her conscience ID
oblivion By the use Of NauorG At length
an intense longing took possession Of her
soul once more to gaas upon her children,
and she procured snsugh monsy 70 return
70 California. But her husband had obtain
ed = divorce and remarked, and . little
tombstone at Lone Mountain marked ''Car.
rie, "Willis," told her for the hrst time
that she was clillless. . Black and desper-
ate despair settled upon her souI She had
not The courage to take the great leap into
futurity, but plunged into the worst depth
Of debauchesy and degradation, and now
svsry few days the papers record that q
young woman answering 70 the name Of
Carrie Stanley was brought TO the station
house in IN intoxieased condition, and The
reader wonders how It b that dissipation
claims % many victims. IL -. "
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THEATRE Boxes IN CHuRcH-A new
church in Clinton avenue, Newark. n. J.,
IL to Do built on the latest improved plans.
The main door viii have four aisles and one
hundred and sevsnty-two pewA There viii
b gallery around the whole church with
twenty mine square compartments or stage
boxes for families, each capable Of heldiAg
twelve chairs, with tables in The center for
hats and books. The aIistocsatic woEship-
pers can thus perform their devotional sx-
ercises apart from Tie oomnen throng. The
osiline will be forty-nv feet high, tie gal
lery ten feet high and twelve feet in width.
Dimensions Of The church, 100 fest b q.
The estimated cost will b ga, oo0. Tn
present chapel which u 70 remain . On sx.
tension, cast 10000 s.