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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

All medical men agree that Sarsaparilla is
the most efficient of all the alternatives derived
from the vegetable kingdom, and the Iodide of
Potassium the most powerful Of all those OBJ
| tanned from the mineral world, and ali who
have had anylarge chemical experience are
satisfied that felther of these substances IN
creases and intensifies the power of the other.
The Potash augments the activity of the Sars-
aparilla, and this in its turn adds immensely
TO the virtues of the Potash. Together. in the
combination of Edward WiIder's Sarsaparilla
and Potash, they constitute the most Poicerftf
Blood Purifier and Constitutional Alterdtire
ever used. No disease affection which de-
pends on impurity of the blood can resist its
action. Such Is the confidence in it that cure
is guaranteed in every case where the direc-
tons are followed, in any of the following
diseases: Scrofula in all its multitudinous
forms, Chronic Rheumatism, Cutaneous Afec-
tions, Syphilis or Veneral Disease, Scrofulous
Sore Eyes, Glandular Swellings of the Neck or
elsewhere, letter, Weeping Sore Leg, Ulcers
of every kind, Pimples on the Face, Ring
worm, Scald Head, Falling of the Hair or AL
lopecIa, White Swelling, Ague Cake, Chronic
Erysipelas, Dropsy, &C. This medicine has
effected the most wonderful cures. So much
so, that now the most eminent physicians in
the world are prescribing it in their daily
practice. They know its worth. Now is the
season of the year when your system requires
an Alternative medicine. Then get this at once.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

What flower would furnish a draw
ing room best? Rose would.
The census taker has discovered, in
Michigan young lady named Luna
Aurora Borealis.
Diggory says he always respects old
age, except when some one cheats him
with tough pair of chickens.
General Mcclellan is said to now re-
ceive salaries from various sources
which make his income aggregate about
$4,000 year.
Hosanna Waters is supposed TO be the
oldest resident of Boston. She is now
her 10th year, and is reported to be in
the enjoyment of excellent health.
A teacher of vocal music asked an old
lady if her grandson had an ear for mu-
sic. "Wall," said the old lady, 81 raaly
don't know; won't you take candle
and look"
Mrs. Elizabeth Fifer l07 years the
Sd of October. took her first ride on
the cars on the 18th, from Freeville to
Groton, New York. She has lived in
the town of Groton since 1906.
The census taker in a town in Mimi
esota, at the solicitation Of the people,
lists for the birth of babe. The CEN
sus of the village was thereby increas-
ed from 429 to 430.
The organ recently pu tup in the Jes-
uit's church in Chicago is said to be the
largest in the United States. 1t was
built in Montreal at a cost of S37, 900.
The duty Oh it from Canada to the
United States, under the present pro-
tectiVe tariff was S31OO
A four-year old daughter of a New Ha-
ven Doctor recently turned the faucet of
q hogshead of cough balsam, in the Doc
tors basement, and allowed 124 gallons
of thesmixture to distribute evenly over
the floor. 1t was bad business for the
Doctor, but possibly not so unlucky for
his customers.
A genial rector of village parish in
Minnesota found it difficult to get his
salary promptly. Latterly it was much
behind. Going to one ofhis delinquent
pensioners in the hardware trade, he
looked over all his stock of cork-screws
very fastidiously, seeking a large one
of peculiar strength and size. To the
inquiry, "What do you want of such
thing anyhow ?" the answer came, my
dear sir, want corkscrew that can
draw my salaryi"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17
SPINNING.

Like blind spinner in the sun,
thread my days;
know that all the threads win run
Appointed ways;
1 know each day will bring its task,
And, being blind, no more ask.
do not know the use or name
or that spin;
/ only know that some one came,
And laid within
Ny hand the thread, and said, 'sSinee you
Are blind, but one thing can you do.''
Sometimes the threads so rough and fast
And tangled hy,
know wild storms are sweeping past,
And fear thatI
Shall fall; but dare not try to find
A safer place, since am blind.
know not why, but am sure
That tint and place,
In some great fabric to endure
Past time and race,
My threads will have; so from the first.
Though blind, never felt aecurst.
think, perhaps, this trust has sprung
From one short word
Said over me when l was young
So young, 1 heard
1t, knowing not that Gods name signed
My brow, and sealed me his, though blind
But whether this be seal or sign
Within, without,
1t matters not. The bond divine
i never doubt.
know he set me here and still
Am glad, ana blind, wait His will
But listen, listen, day by day,
To hear their tread
Who bear the finished web away,
And cut the thread,
And bring Gods message in the sun,
''Thou poor blind spinner, work is DONE"
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SUBSIDIES.

The plan of our national government
in granting subsidies to corporations
seems to have become an important,
and we believe a pernicious system, and
lift continues there is no common basis
for predicting where the national credit,
for these purposes, may drift to. The
argument in favor of the system has
been that they would enable corpora
tons to confer peculiar benefits upon
the public, or would contribute to the
interests of the government. The Sc
cret efforts of one of the corporations to
repudiate its pledges to the govern
ment ought to give our legislators some
just views of this as an established ma
tional policy. While it has been claim
ed that these favors would tend to en-
rich the national treasury, we are led to
expect that the gains that may be real
lied will be poured into the Golfers OF
the corporations which are thus IA
vored.
One of the early arguments in favor
of the system, as relates to the steam
ship mail service, was, that it was q
necessary expedient in order to enable
our ships to compete with those of Eu-
rope.
The fact seems to be, however, that oul
commerce has gradually declined evel
since the plan was inaugurated by oul
government. 1t is believed that sub.
stantial private capital that would be-
employed in the advancement of pub
lie enterprises, as railroads and steaE
sLil IS kept back on account of reluc.
lance to attempt to compete with sucl
corporations as enjoy, or are seeking
the advantages which subsidies vii
confer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

By process recently discovered, have been
able to obtain from the bark of the Wild Cher
ry Electrically the Prunus Virginiani) an
extract which has been pronounced by the
Pharmaceutical Society of London and Berlin
to possess more of the virtues of this invalua-
bic tree than any other ever presented to
them. One single teaspoOnful of Edward VIII
der's Compound Extract of Wild Cherry con-
tains more of the active principle of the Wild
Cherry than any other preparation contains in
a wine-glass full. To this extract is added
other ingredients derived from the vegetable
kingdom, which give efficiency, activity,
and power to this remedy which justly entitle
it to be called the Destroyer of Coughs, Colds,
Catarrhs, Larangitis, Asthma, Influenza, and
Group. Not one of these affections can with
stand it. They yield instantly to its magic
power. Besides these diseases, it is invaluable
in Pneumonia and Pleurisy. In Bronchitis,
acute and chronic, it is unfailing, and in the
cough of Consumption it affords a relief which
no other remedy is capable of doing. In its
composition are summed up all the ingredients
necessary to effect permanent cure, which in
every case is warranted if used according to
directions.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

Merely from party standpoint it is
very unwise in Republican leaders and
newspapers to be clamorous for a re-
peal of the income tax. They are put
ting an argument into the mouths of
Democratic stump orators, which will
be used with telling effect in the future.
1t is this: That the Republican party
has Disseminated against the poor and
in favor of the rich in repeating the on
ly tax levied in direct proportion to a
mans ability to pay-the only tax paid
by the rich and evaded by the poor. 1t
will be preached at every township
meeting throughout the country, and
not without effect upon the masses of
farmers and laborers. The net result of
the repeal of the income tax will be to
transfer burden of fourteen millions
annually from the property owners to
the poorer classes. We warn the Re-
publicans not to give their adversaries
such great advantage ever them for
the next campaign. Let the income tax
stand.-Chicago Republican.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

Are you suffering from costiveuess or in
need of an efficient purgative? Edward Will
der's Family Pills are vegetable tonic and
invigorant of uncommon excellence. For
constipation and biliousness they are certain
remedy. By their action they both revive and
refresh the overloaded system. Nor is this
all. There is nothing in their composition
which is not vegetable. They are potent for
good among the strong and robust. They are
the one aperient or laxative needed by the del
icate and weakly. The liver, the great secre-
tive gland Of the body, determines both the
purity of the blood and the condition of the
bowels, These pills contain herbs, gums,
roots, and barks, every one Of which is ceIe-
brated ambitious remedy, and which, If
there be a single ascertained fact in medicine,
constitute the most genial and perfectly salts
factory purgative yet discovered. They do
nor rasp or injure. They clean out the de-
PRAYED and vitiated secretiens of the alimen-
tary canal. They stimulate and persuade the
liver They tone the stomach, and through il
the brain and nerves. They do not irritate-
they restore. In all the Phlegmasia, Rheum-
atism, Erysipelas, Vertigo, Dizziness, Infiam-
nation of the Brain, Liver, Kidneys, and
Bladder, and in every other affection in which
purgative is desirable, these pills are beyond
all peradventure a true panacea. Hence use
none other, as they can do you no harm, and
their effects are invariably beneficial.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

Have you for years been suffering with Ague
and Fever or ChilIs and Fever, which so rack
the system? If so. go at once and get bottle
of Edward WiIder's Chill Tonic, as it is boldly
asserted that, in its line, and for the diseases
fer which it is recommended, there is no med
icine known that will at all compare with it.
1t is a certain, speedy, a permanent cure
for every disease arising from miasma or ma
laria. No form of Intermittent or Remittent
Fever can resistit. Quotidian, Tertian, Ruar-
tian. and Twenty-one day ChilIs are obliged
to yield to it. 1t is the conqueror of every spe-
cies of Marsh or swamp Fever. 1t is the COM
plete master of Brow Ague, Periodical Head
ache, Intermittent Neuralgia, Splenalgia or
Pain in the Side, and of every variety and
modification of Intermittent and Bilious
Fever.
Nor does this medicine resemble any other
of the thousand compounds advertised for
these affections. 1t is the pure distillation
from the most costly varieties of Cinchona
bark and is in itself pharmaceutical triumph,
a therapenticaI wonder. 1t at once checks the
Chills and restores the blood to its proper con-
sistency, thereby graduating all traces Of this
the most baneful disease from the system.
Wherever these diseases exist this medicine
should always be kept in every household, as
a cure is always guaranteed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

There is no such medicine for the diseases
for which it is recommended as Edward Will
der's Stomach Bitters. 1t is positively assert
ed that they are altogether unequaled. They
are absolutely infallible, if used according to
directions, in Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Inter
mittent Fever, Liver Complaint, Collie, and
FIux. They are tonic. They are eminently
Alternative. They are superior to all other
medicines an appetizer. They invigorate
the enfeebled stomach, and revive the over
wrought system. They add new power to the
weakened heart, and. sustain the Overworked
brain. Besides being superior to, they are
unlike, all other Bitters, in having for their
base pure copper-distilled Bourbon whisky.
This fact alone has given them character IN
the city where they are made, and must COM
mend them to the lovers of the good and the
genuine everywhere. To the anxious mother
weighed down with family cares, to the mer-
chant exhausted by the harass of business, to
the dyspeptic, to him who suffers from consti-
patton, to the victim of fuX or collie or debility,
these Bitters offer speedy and never falling
relief. Try them. If you take them once, you
will never after be without them in your
house.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17
OUR NEED.

| Every one knows, that to have here
such a city as we all desire to see
built up, and such city as will be
built somewhere in this part of the
State, we must call to our aid some
thing beside our agricultural resources,
splendid though they be. The compile
lion of our railroad system, which we
are anxiously looking for, will
help US, yet not make US, because rail-
roads will strike other points and thus
take from US the patronage upon which
we now depend. 1t needs no argu-
ment to prove that manufacturing es-
adjustments are our great need if we
are to make here the city we hoped for,
and for which we have made so fair 8
start.
But these things are not the choice
titbits that will drop into our open
mouths with no effort on our part. 9th
er communities are striving for these
prizes, and we will recogize the stern
truth expressed in the homely phrase
1.-The longest pole knocks the persim-
mons" and that soon, to our sorrow, if
we are not up and doing.
Full of great results has been the en-
ergetic endeavors of our enterprising
citizens in the past, but that will not
suffice for the future. We must have
manufacturing establishments here, and
to get them there must be united, deter
mined and persecering action. Other
towns feeling the needs that we feel,
and experiencing the desires that we
experience, have organized Improve
ment Associations, and by means OF
them have gone Systematically to work
to induce capital and manufacturers
to locate in their midst. Bloomington,
Ill, or instance, organized such an as
socialion and spent over $1,000 in send
ing judicious committee on a tour
through the East, in sowing broadcast
wherever they went thousand upon
thousand of circulars, setting forth the
advantages of the location, induce
ments offered, etc. The result has been
all that could be desired. Peoria, Ill,
pursued similar policy with a like re-
suit.
Let us have united and systematic eff
forts in this direction. Let us have an
Improvement association organized, and
under its direction have prospecting for
coal and an artificial supply of water
commenced.
These things, as well as many others,
must be done before we can expect cap
ital to be put into manufacturing inter-
terests here. This must be begun too
by some of our older citizens. They
have not been lacking in energy in the
past, and have received their full
reward in increased possessions and the
respect and esteem of their fellow citi-
zens. Once begun, we are sure they
will find our newer citizens not whit
behind them in energy and enterprise
or devotion to the cause of the town.
Shall we have an improvement asso-
citation in Emporia? If so let us not
put of until tomorrow what should
be done to-day, and until the benefits
that might be reaped have passed for
eyer from our reach.
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For Sale.

on ACRES OF land situated In Usage coun-
GU y, Kansas, thirteen miles south from
Topeka, and four miles from n railroad station;
has forty-hve acres good bottom land sloping
to the south, ten Of which are broken; has a
nne stream Of water running through one cor
ner, on which Is about q acres OF timber; has
splendid stone quarry; also living spring
OF water, never known TO fail; one hunred and
sixty rods stone wall on the south side, and is
situated TO other farms SO that the entire body
can be fenced by building eighty rods offence,
and Is only one and n half miles from two
story stone school house. Price 81, 200. Terms:
$500 down, and easy time on the remaining
5000. Address /. ID. FOX,
w4I-3mos. Emporia, Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

CHEATED Our OF HIS MORNING PAPER.
The scene described below is said to
have taken place in the Kentucky Legis-
lature in the winter of 1867: A mem
Der from one of the mountain counties
was persistent reader of the Louisville
Journal, and each morning, as the
House opened, would commence read
ing his favorite paper, and about the
same moment some member would
move to dispense with the reading OF
the journal, and our mountain member
would lay down his paper. He stood
this for some time, but one morning,
rising from his seat after the usual mo-
ton, he exclaimed at the top of his
voice. "Mr. Speaker, I've sot here in
my seat for more'n a week and submit
ted to the tyranny of this Housed Some
body every morning moves to dispense
with reading the Journal, and I've lost
every paper I've bought for week by
it; and no man has ever moved to dis
pense with the Democrat or Courier
and Mr.. Speaker" Here the bal
ance was lost in the general laughter.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

The Council Grove Democrat hoisted
the name of Thomas A. Hendricks, of
Indiana, for President in 1872, and other
Kansas Democratic papers have f.fol-
lowed suit" This is all very well but
Mr.. Hendricks will be dropped like a
hot potato whenever the "unterrifed''
of the West shall meet in convention
with the 'unwashed of New York. He
is undoubtedly one of the best men OF
the party, but the Tammany oracles will
not have that kind of a man, and their
word, in the Democratic ranks is law.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17

Thousands Of children die annually Of
worms. A true vermicide or worm-kiIler has
long been desideratum in medicine. Ed
ward Wiider's Mothers Worm Syrup is the
one thing needed to secure the children
against the insidious evils Of the many worms
which infest their intestinal tract. It is relia-
bic. 1t is pleasant. 1t is salubrious- 1t Is
safe. 1t expels round worms, thread worms,
and the huge tape-worm. 1t cannot fail. 1t
clears up the skin. 1t sweetens the temper of
the little sufferers It secures sleep. 1t
brings back the appetite. 1t relieves the tu-
mid belly. 1t advances the growth Of the
child. 1t restores the roses to its cheek. 1t
saves its teeth. 1t guards it against convuI-
sions, spasms, and St. Yitus' dance. 1t is far
superior to all other medicines for expel1ing
worms. Mothers, see to it that you give your
children the truly never-failing wornl-kilIer.
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A Great Bargain offered.

A FARM of 151A acres, mostly bottom
IA land of the best quality, ON the south side
from Plymouth, Lyon county; all enclosed;
200 rods two-year old hedge; 65 acres in Guilt
walton; a good hewn log house; good well; a
new crib; granary and stable; 200 bearing
peach trees, and small fruits of several kinds;
there is no better farm for stock, having an I'M
limited range, and abundance of water and
grass for miles; good school house one-fourth
mile from the house; acres of timber one and
a half miles from the farm; AZ acres of fine
wheat; stock and farming implements can be
had on reasonable terms. Price $40 per acre,
in cash.
Come and see il at least.
w49-tf a. A. ALLEN.
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Senator Patterson, one of those I'M
pleasant persons who are always want
ing to know about things, and poking
their noses into quiet little arrange
ments that are none of their business,
has discovered that more than fifty
clerks are employed in one division of
the Custom-House who do nothing but
draw their pay, amounting in all to over
$4,000 per annum.
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Sealed PrODOsaIs

TWILL be received for the. erection of a
wv frame school house, with stone founda-
tion, in School District No. 23, as follows: For
furnishing the material and building the foun-
dation and chimney; and for furnishing the
material and doing the carpenter work.
To see the plan and specifications call on
Andrew Hinshaw, two miles west of Emporia.
Proposals to he filed by the first day OF
March next, and the right reserved to reject
all bids, if not satisfactory.
ANDREW HINSHAW.l
BENZ. MYERS, Building Com.
DAVID MAY. W6-S
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Spring Hill Nursery.

WYE have a splendid stock of trees on hand
wv for the spring trade, all Of which are
Kansas grown and in good health and vigor.
Our stock is warranted true TO name, aud will
give entire satisfaction to all who desire to cul-
tlvate a healthy, long-lived orchard vine
yard. Two-year old apple trees will be sold
FOR Sl5 per hundred, and other things in pro-
portion. Price list sent free from Lawrence,
Kansas. Iw47-t1 SAVAGE & KANE. =
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TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.

EXAMINATIONS for Teachers Certificates
IL will be held IN the Stone School House in
kmporia the last Saturday in each month,
commencing at O'Clock a. m. Applicants
should provide themselves with paper and
pencil. Strangers to the Board of Examiners
should present testimonials of good moral
character.
A. ID. CHAMBERS,l
j. l.. PATTY, Board of Exams.
NJ. j. WATSON.
February 4th, 1871. w6-iy
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Mr.. Tweed has introduced in the
Senate of New York bill to forbid the
employment of the heather Chinese in
that State, to declare all existing con-
tracts looking to such employment void,
and to impose fine and imprisonment
upon those who violate the provisions
of the same.
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STRAYED.

FROM my residence on Badger Creek. about
Il the Goth of December, one black COW about
3 or 10 years old; black calf, one year old.
white on flank; little red cow, three years
old, with bell on, and two-year-old heifer
(red.) Any person giving me information
leading to the recovery of the above animals,
will be handsomely rewarded.
w5-6 WIN. SQUIRES.
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Sherif'S Sale.

THE STATE OF KASsAs. LYON COUNTY, S.:
ENOS STRAWN, In the District Court
of the Fifth Judicial
VS.. District sitting in and
for Lyon County +,
JOHN G. MILLER. Kansas.
DY virtue of an alias order of sale to me
ID directed, from the Clerk of the District
Court within aud for said County, wherein
Enos Strawn is plaintiff, and John G. Miller
is defendant: will on Tuesday, the 18th day
of February, 1871, at O'Clock p. M, at the
door of the Court House, in the city of Empo-
ria, Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale at
public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash
in hand, the following described real estate
situate in Lyon county, Kansas, to wit: The
north half of the northeast quarter of Section
thirty-ive (35), in Township eighteen (1S), OF
Range ten (l0), to be sold as the property of
John G. Miller to satisfy judgment in favor
of Enos Strawn.
Given under my hand this 18th day of Jan
uary, 1871. E. IL. COATS,
Sheriff of Lyon county, Kansas.
RUGGLES d PLUMB,
Attys for Plaintiff. w2-6
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With degree of good sense worthy
of all commendation, the Ohio Legis-
lature has rejected bill providing for
building Governors house at the State
Capital The disposition to magnify
official dignities, and separate place.
from the mass of the people, has been
altogether too prevalent of late, and it
is gratifying to find legislators setting
their faces against Il.