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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11
SCANDINAVIAN EMIGRATION.

Emigration from Denmark to Ameri-
ca has assumed such gigantic proportions
and gives promise to still further ex-
tension-as to cause some alarm in the
minds of thinking Danes, who ask each
other to what it will ultimately lead /;
for it is not only the superabundant and
useless part of the population that now
emigrate, but some of the most useful
classes of society including valuable
skilled Iaborers, while the last census
shows that the number of inhabitants is
sensibly diminishing from year to year.
At Copenhagen committee has been
formed, with the sanction and support
of the Government, to see what can be
done to prevent the country from being
drained of her agricultural and meehan-
ical population. 1t is proposed to en-
deavor to induce intending emigraAts to
remain in the country and settle in the
western part of Jutland, where there is
much uncultiyated land belonging to
the State and very sparse population ;
and where by grants of land, filtration
from the payment of taxes for q certain
period, and other inducements, they
might establish colonies IN their own
native country. Previous however, to
the execution of any such measure it
would become indispensably necessary
to give such colonists the facility OF
communication with the rest of the
kingdom by the construction of line
of railway from Silkeborg to the coast.
The committee are further of the opin-
| ion that money prizes should be distrlb-
uted for successful colonization and ex-
cellence in the various departments OF
agriculture, as well as the gift, or at
| least the free use of the latest improve
ments or inventions in agricultural i'm
pIements, and instruction in the most
effective mode of using them. All this
of course could only be done with the
consent of the Danish Parliament and
! the committee and the Government are
now preparing the dram of 3 bill on she
subject to be presented to the Leglsia-
tive Chambers on the opening OF the
session.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11
RAINFALL AND FORESTS.

We find the following on the subject
of rainfall and forests in the Lower
Lake Bulletin:
There are persons who persistently ig
more all facts, observations, and theories
in regard to the influence OF forests up
on the amount of rain that falls in GER
tain countries and localities. These men
pretend to believe that if all the forests
of this country were destroyed, we
should still have our full supply ofrain.
The cutting down of 4 few acres oftrees
may not produce any perceptible change,
but the removal of any extensive tract
of forest will show marked effect upon
the climate in the immediate vicinity.
We have authenticated reports from
Egypt, showing that the fall of rain in
certain districts where extensive forests
have lately been planted has increased
more than threefold in consequence.
And not long since, the Meteorological
Society of Mauritius reported that by
the destruction of some of the largest
forests, the climate which had formerly
been too wet for growing sugar cane
successfully, had now become sufficient
| ly dry to insure a full crop annually.
Land that had been cold and wet was
made dry by removing the forests in
close proximity to the same. At Cluny,
IN the southeastern portion OF the island,
near the mountains and large forests, the
rainfall in 1867 was 1872 inches, but in the
more open country of GTos Caillaux;
only sixteen miles distant, the rainfall
in the same year, was only thirty six in
chee. The observation meteorologists,
in various parts of the " orld, show SINH
lar results; and these facts ought 60
| teach that we may in 4 great measure
control the humidity of our own conn
try by simply preserving or destroyino
our forests.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11

EDS. HERALD: A day or two ago your
correspondent, in writing about an ex-
animation of law students, gave the fol-
lowing questions as having been pro-
pounded by one of the examiners:
"a great many years ago there lived
a gentleman named Lazarus, who died
possessed of chattels, real and personal.
After this event, please inform us, young
man, to whom did they go"
The student replied, ITO his admin
istrator and his heirs"
@WelI. them" continued the examiner
ain four days he came to life again, in
form us, Sir, whose were they then 2
Which interesting inquiry we submit to
the lawyers.
am not lawyer, but see no diff
Guilty in the inquiry.
Lazarus died and was buried. AS soon
as he died, his property, if he left no
will, vested in his legal heirs. The law
gives no man the right to die for four
days and then come to life again.
Legally, Lazarus couldn't rise. l have
no doubt the Supreme Court would de-
eide that the Lazarus who rose was not
the Lazarus who died. He was a new
Lazarus. The new Lazarus would OF
course know and feel within himself
that he was the old Lazarus, and GO
round boring his legal friend by talking
about his wrongs, but every LAWYER
would leave him as quickly as possible,
saying in parting, ats mighty hard
case, but if your heirs can prove youI
death, and that they came in legally un-
der the statute, there is no way for Laz-
arus to make them disgorge. All you
can do is-you're young fellow only
about 60-to hire out as clerk, try to
save something from your salary so as
to go into business again, build up O
grand estate, make a will, and tell your
legal heirs to go to the d-l.-CO1Te-
spondeace C7ecelaad Herald.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11
SAMMY BREEzE's PREACHING.


1t may be sixty years since there fire.
quently came to Bristol a well known
Calvanistic Methodist preacher of that
day-in a day when fattering titles
were not very lavishly distributed
called Sammy Breeze, by the multitudes
who delighted in his ministry. He
came periodically from the mountains
of Cardiganshire, and spoke with toll
cradle efficiency in English. Our friend
was in the chapel, when, as was not I'M
usual, two ministers, Sammy Breeze and
another, were to preach. The other
took the first place. young man, with
some tints of academical training and
the livid lights of then only incipient
rationalism on his mind. He took for
his text, "He that believeth shall be
saved, and he that belieVeth not shall
be damned :" but he condoled the heavy
condemnation, and, in an affected man
ner, shaded off the darkness of the
doom of unbelief very much in the
style of another preacher, who told his
hearers that he cleared lest they should
be doomed to place which good man
ners forbade him mentioning" The
young man also grew sentimental, and
begged pardon of an audience, rather
more polite than usual, for the sad state
ment made in the text. "But, indeed"
said he, she that belieyeth not-indeed,
l regret to say, l beg your pardon for
uttering the terrible truth-but, indeed,
he shall be sentenced to q place which
here dare not mention"
Then rose Sammy Breeze. He began :
81 shall take the same text tonight
which you have just heard. Our young
friend has been very foine tonight; he
has told you some ferry polite things.
I am not very foine, and I am not po-
lite; but l will preach little bit of
gospel to you, which is this: He that
believcth shall be saved, and he that be-
lieveth not shall be damned ); and i begs
no pardons." He continued: 81 do look
round on this chapel, and 1 do see peo-
pie all ferry learned and intellectual.
You do read books, and you do study
studies; and ferry likely you do think
that you can mend Gods Book and are
ferry sure you can mend me. You have
great-what you call thoughts--and po-
etries. But ] will tell you one little
word, and you must not try TO mend
that; but if you do, it will be tall the
same. 1t is this, look you: He that
belieYeth shall be saved, and he that be-
lieveth not shall be damned > and begs
no pardons. And then do look round
your chapel, and do see you are foine
people, Well-dressed people, well-to-do
people. You are not only pious, but
You have ferry foine hymn-books and
cushions, and some red curtains; for
do see you are ferry rich, and you have
got your moneys, and are getting ferry
proud. But tell you it does not mat
ter at all, and do not mind il at all
not one little bit; for 1 must tell you
the truth; and the truth is, He that be-
iieveth shall be saved, and he that be-
lieveth not shall be damned land begs
no pardons"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11

zone day, after dinner, Mr.. Webster
told a story of himself which was char
acteristic of him, ana amused Mr.. JEFF
ferson very much. Mr.. Jefferson re-
marked that men not unfrequently OBJ
tanned more credit for READINGS in
command of their knowledge, and in
deed for its amount, than they deserved.
He said it had happened to himself. Mr..
Webster replied that he supposed it had
happened to most men, and especially
to lawyers. He said that, soon after 60
ing to Portsmouth as young lawyer, a
blacksmith brought him a case under 8
will; he was unable to give him de-
cided answer, and desired him to call
again. Having little to do, he went to
work OH the case, and found it difficult
one. He went through all the books in
his own little collection, that could give
him any light, and then borrowed what
he could find relating to the point in
question, in the libraries of Mr.. Jere-
miah Mason, and of Mr.. Peyton r. Free
man, curious black-letter lawyer in
Portsmouth. His client called for an
opinion, but he was unable to give him
one-he had only got far enough into
tho matter to ascertain that the black
smiths bequest was either q contingent
remainder or an erecutO7y decise. He
sent to Boston and bought Fearne's
Essay on these two subjects, and other
books, all together costing him fifty
dollars. At last, after a months hard
work, and making ont a very elaborate
brief, he gave an opinion favorable to
his clients claim, argued the case, won
it, and received fee of fifteen dollars,
all that the amount in controversy would
warrant him to charge.
"Years passed by, and the blacksmith
and his case had almost passed away also
from his memory. At length, being in
New York on his way to Washington,
Mr.. Aaron Burr sent him a note, saying
that he wished to consult him on legal
question of some consequence. Mr..
Webster gave him an appointment, and,
when Mr.. Burr began to explain his
case to him, he said that he knew i'll a
moment that it was his blacksmith's
case over again. He, however, heard
Mr.. Burr quietly through, and then,
with the blacksmith's brief full in his
mind, began to reply. He cited series
of cases bearing on the point, and going
back, if remember rightly, to leading
| one in the time of Charles IL. Mr.. Burr
listened to him for some time, and then
| interrupted him somewhat suddenly, by
asking him whether he had been con-
suited in that case before. He evident
| ly suspected said Mr.. Webster, that
must have been of counsel TO the other
| side. assured him that did not know
there was such case or such parties in
the world till he explained it to me.
Mr.. Webster said that he subsequently
gave Mr.. Burr written opinion on his
case. and made him pay enough for it to
cover all his work for the blacksmith,
and something moreover for Mr.. Burr's
suspicion that he had been of counsel
for the opposite party. He added: Mr..
Burr, no doubt, thought me much more
learned lawyer than l was, and, under
the circumstances of the case, did not
think it worth while 10 disabuse him OF
his good opinion of me. '"-CurfiS's Lift
| of Daniel We6Ster.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11
WONDERFUL PHYSICAL PHENOMENA

That ceIebrated physicist, DIR. Priestly,
while experimenting with electricity.
casually illuminated one of his fingers
SO as to make it perfectly transparent
The curious phenomena was noted in
this journal, though it does not appear
to have excited further inquiry. About
two years ago, under similar circum-
stances, the no less celebrated phiioso-
pher, DR.. w. B. Richardson, of London.
illuminated nearly the whole of his
hand. This strange fact was published
in the London Lancet, and copied gen.
orally in all scientific journals through
out the world.
Recently, DIR. Thomas Nicholson, OF
this city, has pursued this wonderful
fact still further, and with considerable
success. BY the aid of the powerful in.
candescent light of an ox-hydrogen
blow-pipe, or calcium light, and large
magnifying lenses. he has succeeded in
illuminating the whole hand, the body
of frog, and other substances. From
the successful experiments alreadymade,
it would appear for the illumination OF
the entire body it is only necessary that
the light be sufficiently vivid and the
lenses sufficiently powerful If the
whole internal machinery of the human
system could thus be brought directly
under the inspection of medical practi-
TONERS, the advantage TO science would
be incalculable. Every person viii re-
member the semi-transparent appear
ance of the hand when held between the
eve and a powerful light, and If the
vision be aided by artificial appliances.
there is no difficulty imagining an i'm
mense increase of our clairvoyant pow
ers. We may thus be enabled TO dis
cover structural and functional ailments
which are now wholly hidden from hui
man sight, and apply remedies with an
exact Knowledge of what we desire to
accomplish.-lNetc Orleans Times.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11
JOBS COMFORTERS.
BY A SCHOOL BOY.

A boil is generally very small At first,
and a fellow hardly notices. it, but
in a few days it gets to be the big
gest of the two, and the chap that has
It is of very little account in compari-
son with his boil, which then 'has him. .
Boils appear mysteriousiy upon various
portions of the human body. coming
when and where they please; and often
coming in very inconvenient places. II
q boil comes anywhere on a person,
that person always wishes it had come
somewhere else, although it would puZ-
gle him to say just where.
IL chap has 4 boil, he generally gets
a good deal of sympathy from others.
Who ever asks him what ais him
laughs at him for his pains to answer,
while many unfeeling persons make
game of him, or his misfortune or boil.
Ii is very wicked to make sport of per-
sons with boils; they cannot help it,
and often feel very bad about ii. Boils
are said to be .shealthy," and judging
from the way they take hold, and grow,
and torment one generally, there is no
doubt they are healthy, and have good
constitutions. They are generally very
lively and playful at night, and 1t Il
very funny to see a chap with good
large one, prospecting around his couch
for a place where q boil will fit in with
out hurting
1t is said that boiIs save the patient
"a mt of sickness" but If the sickness
is not the best to have, II must be "a ell
fired mean thing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11
SPRING..

Cold, conceited winter is almost
past. Winter wrapped in its mantle
of decay and frost, coaxing us with
protestations of mildness, and when
once yielded to its wiles, turns and
frowns, exulting in the apparent dis
appointment at the withdrawn induce
ments about to be clasped.
February beckons away his cold
hearted sire, and strong northwest
er watts in our embrace her younger
sister Spring, a. cruel, irresistible, at
tractive coquette-she Indignantly
mocks the passion she arOuses-cannot
satisfy the desire she Rwakes-hints
mysteriously at gifts of knowledge,
happiness and love which she never
bestows. She is exacting and retentive,
lays heavy burdens upon her admirers,
and. tauntingly, smiles at their trials,
tolls, exertions and hopes, as she skins
along her lightsOme way. Summer
finds us wearied by Springs tyrannOus
usurpation. She drugs US with an ano-
dyne of honeyed sweetness, and lays
us away upon beds of Jasper and Myr-
tie, bidding us believe that inaction is
peaceful, and indifference languor.
We might sleep on till our sIumber
would be one from which there is no
waking; but Autumn comes, breaks
Summers bands, repairs Springs mis-
chief, and awakens in US sensations
kindred to those which are borne upon
her soft wings, and breathes into our
souls with her seraphic breath. l hail
thee, o lovely, balmy Autumn! l open
my arms to greet thee, my rough, true
friend! watch the clouds driven by
the rude winds across the blue sky, and
harken to the booming and breaking of
waters in the deep caverns below, my
spirits rising buoyantly the while. Let
thy presence attend me across fields,
through woodlands and over stream
lets; give me instruction in thy art, in
which there is none other perfect, that
1 may blend in unexcelled splendor, vi
Olet and gold-that 1 may touch the adj
miration of thy worshipers, and sit al
ternately with thee on alterations throne.
Hands of angels, hidden from NOR
tai eyes, beckon thee to follow, and
again I am left desolate. NJ.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11

In Germany, during the same period,
the mortality fell to Z in 1000 deaths
from all causes, about two-thirds of one
per cent
In Copenhagen, Denmark, from l751
to 1900, the annual mortality per mil
lion inhabitants was 3,12S. From 1900
TO 1850, during which vaccination was
practiced, 2S6.
In Berlin, Prussia, for the same Pc
riod, the rates were respectively 3,442
and I76. In Amsterdam, Holland, from
1854 TO 1906, perion of fourteen years
before and seven after the introduction
of Jenner's discovery, Il, $50 deaths Oc-
Cured from smallpox. From ISO5 to
1921, period of sixteen years, during
which vaccination was generally adopt
ed, 1891.
In Philadelphia, Penn, smallpox pre-
vailed as an epidemic in 1921, when
24S cases were treated in the city hospi-
tai. OF these 155 had not been vacci-
mated, and IS, or upwards of "a per
cent, died. Sixteen occurred in persons
who had had the disease either in the
natural way or by incubation, of whom
6, or at the rate of IS per cent, died :
and 81 who had been properly vaecinat-
ed, of whom one, or / = per cent, died.
An epidemic prevailed at Marsailles,
in France, in 1926. The population con-
sisted of 10000 persons. Or these 3d.
600 had been vaccinated, 1900 had had
smallpox, and 5000 had neither been
vaecinated nor had the disease. Now
mark the result. OF the $4,000 vaccin-
ated, 1900 were attacked, and 20 per
cent. of every 100 died. OF the 1000
who had had the disease, 20 were taken
down the second time, and 4 died. OF
the 5000 who had not been vaccinated,
1900 were attacked, of whom 1000, or
one of every four, died.
Statistics, showing the great value of
vaccination, could be multiplied al an
Jtnituns, if it were necessary; but in a
paper of this character enough has been
said on this subject.
grant that, now and then, vaccina-
ton does harm by propagating other
eruptive and disagreeable diseases.
But these are accidents that rare ely occur,
and tolerably long experience has con-
WINGED me that the fault is not always an
the vaccine. Dormant diseases are some
times developed by favorable conditions
and suitable remedies and who shall
say that vaccine virus will fail to wake
the sleeper?
Extensive observation by hundreds of
the most eminent medical men of all
countries leads to the following conclu-
sions:
l. Every individual should be vaccin-
ated in infancy, and again at the age of
puberty.
2. Vaccination, where perfect, is
sure preventative of smallpox and va
rioloid.
3. The system is susceptible of the
disease after puberty whenever the in
dividual without re-vaccination is ex-
posed to smallpox.
4. Re-vaccination is not generally
necessary if the fret operation was per-
formed after puberty.
5. Those who disregard vaccination
are always liable to smallpox when ex-
posed to it.
6. That if every individual were prop
erly vaccinated before puberty and re-
vaccinated afterward, smallpox would
disappear from the earth. NJ.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11
LETTER FROM SPEAKER BLAINE ON
THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, !

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 81, 1870.{
My DEAR SIR: In the confusion
which has arisen in some of the public
journals about estimates and appropri-
atoms and disbursements, the impress
sion has been created that General
Grants administration has expended
more money in the same time than its
immediate predecessor. This is totally
erroneous, as the balance sheet, on a
comparison of official figures, will clear
ly establish. The present administra-
ton has been in power nearly year,
and we can compare that period with
the closing twelve months of President
Johnson's administration. From March
/, 1869, the total receipts into the Treas
ury were d little over three hundred
and sixty-eight million doilars-I avoid
fractions for the sake of perspicuity.
Every dollar of this was expended, and
the public debt for the same period in
creased about six million dollars, as
appears from the official publications OF
the Treasury Department, thus show
ing total expenditure for the year OF
three hundred and seventy-four million
dollars (S374, 000, COO.
The total receipts into the Treasury
for the first year of General Grants ad-
ministration, estimating for the few re-
manning days, will amount to three hun
dred and ninety-four million dollars
1894, OO0,O00). Out of this sum total
eighty millions have been applied to the
payment of public debt, thus leaving
for the current expenditures of the gov
eminent, including interest on the pub
lie debt, three hundred and fourteen
million dollars, ($314, O00, 000l, or sixty
millions less than was expended in the
same time by President Johnson's ad.
ministration. These figures are taken
from official records and their accuracy
cannot be questioned.
1t will be observed that the receipts
were twenty-six millions CSC, 5000, 600,
more in General Grants first year than
in Mr.. Johnson's last year. Over TWEEN.
tt million dollars of this must be cred.
tied to the internal revenue, which ha:
been much more faithfully collected
for it will be noted that this large in.
crease in amount has been derived from
diminished and contracted sources OF
taxation, many of the taxes in force dur
ing q part of the year 1868, having
been repealed before President Grant
came into Office. Whether regard, then
be had to the fidelity with which the
revenue is collected, or the economy
with which it is expended, the compar-
isOn for the past is undeniably and over.
whelmingly in favor of the present Ad-
ministration.
For the future the fullest confidence
may be INDUCED. The House of Rep
resentatives is vigorously seconding the
efforts made by Mr.. Dawes, the able and
upright chairman of the Appropriation
Committee, to curtail expenditure
wherever it may be done and l am
very sure that for the ensuing year Sec
rotary Boutwell, will exhibit a financial
record even more satisfactory to tax
payers than that of the year which is
about to close.
Very truly, yours,
j. q. BLAINE.