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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-15

The following little poem contains a
curious question which is very prettily
and will be appreciated by
many who have asked the same question
in innocent childhood, and who in turn
have had to answer it as many times in
more advanced years:
A daughterI
Well, what brought her?
Kitty asks@'How came she here!"
Half with joy and half with fear.
Kitty is our eldest child,
Eight years old and rather wild
Wild in manner, but in mind
Wishing all things well defined.
Kitty says-"How came she here,
Fa.heri Tell me. It's so queer.
Yesterday we had no sister,
Else Pm sure l should have missed her
When went to bed last night;
And th4s morning hailed her sight
With strange and new delight.
For, indeed, il passes all
To have O sister not so tall
As my doll; and with blue eyes:
And-I do declare-it cries!
Last night didn't see her, father;
Or. Pm sure, had much rather
Stayed at home, as still as q mouse,
Than played all day at grandma's house.
She is so pretty, and so tiny;
And, what makes her face so shinyl
Will 1t always be like that?
Will she swell up, plump and fat,
Like my little doll; or tall,
Like my wax one! Tell re all
All about her, papa, dear,
For do so long to hear
Where she came from, and what brought
her
Yours and mama's bran new daughter"
A daughter-another daughter!
And the question Is, ''what brought herr?
Spence, our boy, but three years old,
Says the nurse did-and is bold
In defiance of them both
Since TO yield his place he's 10th,
And pouting, feels his noises point,
When declare 'tls out OF joint.
But though the childish explanation
BE food enough for child's vexation,
We older folks must better find
To feed the hunger of the mind.
To us, OF larger issues preaching,
This link of life eternal, reaching
From earth to Heaven, this new born soul
Comes fresh from where forever roll
Its countless years through yonder Heaven,
Hath deeper cause for thinking given
A daughter!
And what brought herr
No matter what; she comes to bring
A blessing in her lies young spring.
''No matter, darlings! she is here
Our daughter, sister, baby dear.
Open your hearts, and let her enter,
Open them wide, for God hath sent her."
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IMMIGRATION.

The board of directors of the Ger
man immigration Society, have just
completed their eighty-siXth annual re-
port, to be submitted at the annual
meeting of the society. The report
presents an interesting account of the
operations of the society during the past
year. 1t appears that 1876 were ex-
pended through the relief committee in
aid Of German immigrants, and 1888
letters were received, in which were in
closed S1S.3S5. Medical aid was afford
ed to the sick free of charge by an as
ISOLATION of German physicians con-
nected with the society, and 3,I4l
prescriptions were paid for. From the
treasurer's report it appears that 81, PSI
were received into the treasury as con-
tributions from members, for interest
donations, &c, to which added a bal
ance of $4,000 in the treasury last year
makes total of $23.S51. The expenses
amounted to S15,243, leaving a surplus
of SS,60S. The assets of the society
are {: Astor fund, $4,000; general fund,
$4,000; new extra fund, $1,000; Lud-
wig fund, 81, 0O0-total, $4,000. Dur
ing the past ten years 695, 177 German
immigrants were landed at this port,
being over 80 per cent. of the whole
immigration since 1859. While ten
years ago only 37,O46 German immi-
grants were landed at this port, the
whole number of the German immi-
grants landed at this port last year
amounted to 10l ,5Tl, the majority OF
whom proceeded to the Western States,
to found new homes and settlements.
Only eleven per cent. of the whole num-
Der arrived on board of sailing vessels.
1t is said that no improvements have
been made concering the transportation
of immigrants to their places of destin-
alton in the interior. Immigrants are
| transported in trains with ill-ventiIated
cars and with g great deal of trouble and
delay. At the stations they are without
shelter, and nothing is done to provide
for their comfort. Concerning emigFa.
| ton to the South, some discouraging
details have been furnished.-N: T
Telegram.
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NUMBER Is.

the freshness of q modern building. A
certain bloom had diffused itself over
them, preserving their aspect untarnish-
ed by time, and making them appear as
if animated by spirit of perpetual
youth and unfading elegance So were
our Masters thoughts finished, and so
will they live for time to come
"He was our master inasmuch as he
inspired us. His character, his work,
his family are dear to us. Upon the
shrine of our souls, in undying devo-
ton, in the Utmost sanctuary Of our
hearts, where ife's deepest loves abide,
will be enshrined forever the name and
memory of Bishop Edward Thomson"
At the close of his address President
Merrick read a dispatch from Bishop
by reason of the change
in time of the funerai-expressing his
sympathy and that of the conference
over which he was presiding (the Pitts
burgh), for the afflicted family of the
deceased.
At the close of the Presidents re-
marks the choir sang, with great ex-
preston, "Cast thy burden on the Lord :"
and then the remains were conveyed to
the cemetery, where the burial service
was conducted by DIR. McCabe, of the
University, and President Donelson, eff
the Female College.
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THE ''TRUE STORY" OF THE CAR
DIFF GIANT.

The following history of the Cardiff
giant has been revealed at last, by Mr.. IL.
B. Martin, of Marshalltown, in the State
of Iowa. This estimable and ingenious
gentleman, believing himself wronged
by the partners in whom he trusted, has
made a clean breast of it. According
to his confession, he "got up that giant"
and, in partnership with one George
Hull, bought quarry of gypsum in
Iowa, from which the material of the
statue was obtained. With much diff
Guilty the stone was conveyed to Chica-
go, and there chiseled into shape by a
sent to Cardiff, in that famous iron
bound box, and buried Oh Newelrs
farm-Broome county being, as Hull
remarked, ga great place for relics"
Newell had q one-fourth interest in it,
and various other persons were admit
ted to partnership in the enterprise,
though it does not appear that anybody
but Newell and Hull got much except
protested notes. Mr.. Martins state
ment is tolerably circumstantial and
coherent, and seems to be accepted by
those who have heard it although such
is the depravity of human nature that
we dare say great many people will
hesitate to take his word as evidence.
" = are
in Mr.. Martins story of what he pro-
posed doing than what he actually did.
Recognizing the fondness of the public
for being humbugged, he felt that his
stone petrifaction, properly managed,
was equivalent to fortune; and ''if
Hull hadn't made id fool of him
SELF" he remarked, 81 should have had
the mother of the giant dug up near the
same spot" This pleasing old lady was
to have been represented in the deadly
embraces of huge serpent. She was
to have been built of iron, bone and
plaster of Paris, and we have no doubt
that her celebrated son would have been
very insignificant giant indeed by the
side of her. The behavior of the mis-
cradle Hull, in making a id fool of
himself, is therefore to be deeply re-
GREETED; but we may console ourselves
with Mr.. Martins prediction that in
less than two years he will humbug the
American people with some colossal
fraud in comparison with which the
Cardiff giant will be nothing but wood
en- nutmegs. We shall await the next
two years with pleasing anticipations.
This confession of the gentlemen who
"got up" the giant will perhaps draw
forth few remarks from the gentle
men who gave it various scientific rec
concentrations. We, of course, under
stand that the eminent professors, geol-
ogists, antiquaries, and authorities on
art and anatomy, who vOuched for. the
of the statue, are "not up
to small deceit or any sinful games"
but we should like to hear from the in
telligent savants who declared, some
that it was a real petrifaction, some that
it had evidently been in the earth at
least two hundred years, some that it
was stamped with the ''marks ofages,"
one that "only the ancient Greek school
of art was capable of such a perfect re-
production of the human FORM" and
one that Italy possessed nothing which
so perfectly "the intellectual
and physical power of a rock-hurling
Titian."-N. Y. Tribune.
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Notwithstanding tells story that
exquisitely illustrates mothers love.
In some spring freshet, river widely
washed its shores and rent away bough
whereon bird had built cottage for
her summer hope. Down the white and
whirling stream drifted the green
branch, with its wicker cup of unhedg-
cd song, and fiuttering beside it as it
went, the mother bird. Unheeding the
roaring river, on she went, her cries of
agony and fear piercing the pauses in
the storm. How like the old fashioned
mother who followed the child she had
plucked from her heart all over the
world. Swept away by passion that
child might be, it mattered not, though
he was bearing away with him the fra
GRANGE of the shattered roof-tree, yet
that mother was with him, Ruth
through all his life and a Rachel at his
death.
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Gov. English, of Connecticut, accepts
the situation under the Fifteenth amend
ment in q style which we commend to
the imitation of all Democrats. Gov.
English is thus reported:
''The amendment was ratified and
made part of the fundamental law of
the land, and no amount of opposition is
going to affect its practical operations.
For himself, when in Congress in 1868,
he voted for the abolition of slavery in
in the Distract of Columbia; he fore
saw the result. He cast that vote with
a clear perception that the removal of
slavery from the District was but the
first step to its complete abolition
throughout the country, and that the
emancipation of the slave race would
naturally result in their enfranchise-
ment.
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believe that we might not sit yet with
profit at the feet of some of our Gam l.
iels, if we only would. One could take
a good lesson in listening, which they
couldn't take often here by looking
down stairs. Every senatorial face is
turned intently toward the senator
from Mississippi, except that of the SEN
ator from Kentucky. What picture of
dignity and conscious moral grandeur,
to be surei Little, why, frey, twitchy,
bitter, honest, grumpy Garrett Davis is
writing as hard as he can write; of
course, in sublime Inconsistencies that
anybody is speaking at all. In his opin-
ion nobody is speaking. -tHe stop to
listen to a-to Somebody comes to
speak with him. He can't stop. He is
writingI No doubt that he felt that he
made very impressive appearance.
He did make very absurd one. Yet
one can feel sorry when they realize
how he honestly feels. He is sure in his
heart that the world had better have
ended, and have blown in atoms
through chaos, than have come to the
pass it has. Oh, for the days that were,
and the giants deadi Senator Gamer
on was the first to go and shake hands
with Senator Revels, and congratulate
him on his speech. Mr. Revels received
it with an honest. smiling face, which
was decidedly winning. Then came
Charles Sumner, Senator Drake, and
many others. Senator Brownlow sits
before Senator Revels. When Mr.
Drake stood there, the three men STIR
red the most wonderful associations.
There was one, now senator of the
United States, who eight years before
asked for an obscure seat in the Senate
Gallery in vain. He could not pass its
door, because his skin was a shade dark
er than that of the doorkeeper; though
his mother was q Scotch woman and
his father a free man. There, CULVER
ing with palsy in every limb, sat anoth-
er, who few years ago prayed that if
he died at the North his coffin might be
made open at one end, so that he could
crawl away from the AbOlitionists. |
There was another man, shaking hands |
with the senator of darker face, who |
few years ago presented bill to the |
of Missouri that all free men |
of color in that State should be sold in |
to slavery, which bill would have in
Guided the senator with whoom he was
now shaking hands. These three men
were all friends to-day. Well, the old |
earth moves! NC. A.
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SEEING GoD.-Let the majestic seren-
ity with which you estimate the great
and the small, prove that you refer ev-
erything to the Immutable9hat you
perceive the God-head alike in every
thing; let the bright cheerfulness with
which you encounter every proof of our
nature, reveal to all men that
you live above time and above the
world; let your easy and graceful self
denial prove how many of the bonds of
egotism you have already broken; and
let the ever quick and open spirit from
which neither what is rarest nor most
ordinary escapes, show with what I'M
wearied ardor you seek for every trace
of the God-head, with what eagerness
you watch for its slightest manifestation.
If your whole life, and every move
ment of your outward and inward be-
ing is thus guided by religion, perhaps
the hearts of many will be touched by
this mute language, and will open to the
reception of that spirit which dwells
within you.-[Sshliemacher.
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lUenscorth Bulletin.
WHAT'S THE REASON9

Take twenty boys of sixteen, i'll our
or any other town in the State, and let
them go to work, three or four in a dry
goods store, boot and shoe, fishing es-
Enlistment, and printing offices. In ten
years they will have become men of
twenty-six, and the majority of them
will then be about as far along in the
business as they ever will be. One or
two only in each of the above branches,
will be established in business for them
selves, or connected with some firm do
ing good business, and the rest will be
barely getting a living, and growing
about their poor luck. Now we assert
that there is good reason for their poor
success, and that 'luck" has but little, if
anything at all, to do with it.
If we take the trouble to ascertain the
real facts in their several cases, we shall
find that those young men who became
masters in their trades, OF leading men
in their pursuits, were not AFRAID to
1cork, and were determined to succeed.
They looked beyond the day and week.
They made themselves valuable and
useful to their employers by being al
ways faithful, reliable and willing to do
what they could for the interest of those
for whom they worked. When a press
of business came, they were ready and
willing to work extra hours, and with
out sulking or grumbling, well knowing
that business must be attended to when
it came, and that there were plenty of
dull times during the year, which would
more than counterbalance any extra
briskness of the busy season. To sum
it all up, these young men identified
themselves with the establishments
where they were employed-became
useful to their employers, in fact, fix
lures, who could be lily spared, and in
due course of time, having gained ex-
perience, were invited to take hand
else boldly struck out for themselves.
Here, then. is the lesson, which is, If
you wish to become successful masters,
learn first to become faithful servants.
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VOLUME 13.
EMPORIA NEWS.
Friday, April 10, 1870.
CROSSING OVER.
rom THE GERMAN BY UPLAND.

Many n year is in its grave,
Since crossed this restless wave;
And the evening fair rs ever,
Shines on ruin, rock and river.
Then In this same boat, beside,
Sat two comrades old and tried;
One with all a fathers truth,
One with all the fire OF youth.
One on earth I'm silence wrought,
And his grave in silence sought;
But the younger, brighter form
Passed in battle and In storm.
So vhere'er / turn my eye
Back upon the days gone by.
Saddening thoughts OF friends came DER me,
Friends who cloeed their course before me,
Yet what binds friend to friend,
But that soul with soul can blendy
Soul-like were these hours OF yore-
Let US walk in soul once morei
Take, o boatman, thrice thy fee!
Take, ! give IL willingly:
For, invisibly to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me.
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A writer in the Adrdnce says: "Not
long since heard sung in the church the
anthem Rock of Ages in which there
is solo to the words, should my tears,
ETC., which was sung as follows:
Shoo-hoo- hood my hi te-hears
For-eh-y yer her noW no.
Shoo- hoo-hood N.Y. hi re- heal
No languor kno-ho
Tnt-his tor-hor SHIN could
No-hot al ha- to hone.
Thou-h how muA- hust Sa-haye
And thou how an ha- lone,
IN my hand no price bring,
simply to the erAw -hOss -hi-cling."
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A well known judge, when he first
came to the bar, was very laundering
speaker. On one occasion when he was
trying . case involving right of prop
erty to 8 lot Of pigs, ne said: Gentle
men of the jury, there were just TWEEN
ty-four pigsiH that droye-iust twenty
four, gentlemen-exectiy twice as many
as there are In that jury box"
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CITY LAUNDRY,
IN j. ROLF, Proprietor. Corner Of 9Th Avenue
l. and Commercial Street. Washing done on
reasonable terms.
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EMPORIA NEWS
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Locals ten cents n line for each insertion. BY
the year. - line will be charged in this depart
ment for cards Of ten lines OF less and 81 20 line
for one-eighth or one fourth OF q column.
Cards OF five limos. or less without display, IS a
year. dollar year for each additional line.
Ones ighth OF n column, three months, s.; six
months. 9l2; one year. $50
One-f fourth OF a column, three months, So; six
months, SO; one year, $50.
Half column, three months, 80; six months $50 I;
One column, three months. $40; six months. SO;
one year. $40.
Twenty-Five per cent will be added TO the above
prices where advertisements are kept standing
the inside Of the paper and also Tor those set in
double column.
All advertising bills are due at the end OF each
quarter, which occurs the last OF March. June,
september and December.
Transient advertisement OF n less amount than
~ must be paid for ut the time OF the nrst inscr
ton, unless & contract IL made to the contrary.
Legal advertisements must be paid for at the
time they are nrst inserted. attorneys must be-
come personally responsible for them. The rates
for these. rs fixed by law, ten cents n line for
the nrst insertion, and i've cents line for each
subsequent Insertion.
SPECIAL NoTTcE-Advcrtisemen must be hand
ell In by wednesday Of each week.
Job Work.
w have the best fitted up job office In Southern
Kansas, and can and win do plain job Printing
such rs Blanks, OF all kinda, Posters. Cards Bill
Heads, Letter Heads. Envelopes etc, rs cheaply
and ms well as any ONCE In the state.
Address all communications TO
sTOTLER 4 WILLIAMS,
EAPokIA, KANSAS.
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LEGEND OF THE Ass.-The legends
respecting the ass are as quaint as they
are innumerable. According to an old
rabbinical legend, no being could enter
the ark unless Noah rendered a special
invitation. When the flood overwheIm-
ed the world, the devil, who was at the
time wandering over the world, saw
that he was about to be cut off from
contact with mankind, and that his do
miniOn would be lost forever. The ark
being completed, aud the beasts being
called to enter in their proper order, the
ass's turn came in due course. Sadly
enough for us humans, the ass was taken
with q fit obstinacy, and refused to enter
according to order. Neah finally lost
patience, and struck the animal sharply,
crying at the same time to the headstrong
beast: ENTER, thou devil" Rash and
fateful words. The invitation was, of
course, accepted-the devil entered the
ark. We may be sure he gave the patri-
arch and his family some trouble during
the voyage, and was on hand to begin OPP
erations on dry land as soon as the dis
embarkation should take pIace.-HOnrs
at Home.
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wHEELOCK = WILSON.

ell "a furnish plans for and to erect. all kinds
OF mechanical structures. WIN guarantee salts
faction.
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MEAT MARkErs.
SAMUEL RRYANr
RAFT 4 nIErRICH.

SAMUEL L. BRYANT
"AS opened Meat Market. ON Commercial St
il il opposite the Express Once and will Keep all
kinds OF Fresh Meat on hand at all times. VIII do
\ strictly cash business.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
+. J. WORIDICK,
MILES & GRAY

II. y. MOhIDICA.
A RCIITECr. is prepared to furnish plans. spec
n incations, &c. May be found at corner of
FINN Avenue and Neosho Street. Orders promptly
attended to-
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LIVERY STABLES.
n NJ NV nAvUSs
=. =. CLEYELAND's

ANEW LIVERY SALE AND FEED STABLE.
IN You get your horses fed with good feed, Mt
low prices also horses and bugges to let and teams
for heavy hauling
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HTTY MEAT MARKET. The people of Emporia
and vicinity will at all times ind good supply
Of Fresh Meats and Vegetables, one door south Of
Hallberg's store. Cash paid for hides.
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RLAcksMITHs.

r., MADDocK. THos. u. THoMA
MADD0CK q THOMAS,
DLACKSNuTHS They would announce to the
ID people OF Lyon and adjoining counties that
they still carry the above business at their old
stand will be ready Mt all times to iron wagons
and buggies. shoe horses and do all kinds of
repairing.
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ATTORNEYS Law.

VNIFTH AVENUE, Fmporia. Kansas, near cor
II ner Of Commercial Street Worden Bird
sell, Proprietors.
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DLACKSMITHS, Commercial Street, North of
ID 7th Avenue. Will pay especial attention 20
times be prepared to aceoRmodate the public with
any kind OF work In their line of business. Give
= call and we will endeayor 20 render satisfactiOn
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EMPORIA BUSINESS CARDS.
HOTELS.

ROBINSON HOUSE.
= N ROBINSON, Proprietor. Corner OF Mer-
lie chants street and Sixth Avenue. This house
has been RENTED and furnished throughout and Is
open To the public. Stages leave daily and
meet with all Eastern Railroads.
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(JENTRAL LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STA
BILE, on 5th Avenue. between Commercial and
Mechanics Street, Is now open and ready for bust
ness, and will furnish teams at any time during
the day night Passengers conveyed to any part
Of the country ON liberal terms. Particular atten
tiOn paid to boarding and transient stock.
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NIvIL ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS. arc pre-
~ pared to furnish elevatio and working plans
for all kinds OF mechanical structures, houses pub
lie buildings and bridges. Especial attention Civ
On 10 land surveying. Arc prepared to do carpen-
and Joiner work, either by the day contract.
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r.. II. sPRAGUE

GARPESTER AND BUILDER. shop on 9TH
. Avenue, between Commercial and Mechanics
street All calls promptly attended TO.
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GLEANINGS.

Frou-frou hats are in the market.
= Chicago has '.new American re-
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LAUNDRY,

y livery AND FEED STABLE, 7th Avenue
u A Teams and saddle horses to hire. Horses fed
ut all times and on reasonable terms
The New York herald., 1870-02-25
HORSES, CARRIAGES, &C.

DOR sALE-Ar A SACRIFICE, A SQUARE BOX
IL threeauarter Road Wagon, good with city
made Harness. Address A. r., Herald office