The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

The following Utopian picture of our pleas
antlittle city was clipped from the New York
Tribune and handed us by friend:
Sentimental souls who have millenial yearn-
ings, enthusiastic dreams of modern Arcadia,
may cen g their ways unto the town of En-
realized. 1t is described as place of rare
civic purity and simplicity, possessing all I'M
aginable educational and intellectual advan-
tages. 1t is so healthful that people die only
from a curiosity to see if there's to be found an
abode happier and more Yirtuous than Empo-
ria. The cause of this agreeable state of affairs
is easily defined. There is no Democratic
newspaper printed in Emporia, and what few
Democrats live there do, unappreciated, waste
their sweetness on most desert air. After this
il Is, Of course, scarcely necessary to note the
fact that there is not a single shop for the sale
of liquor in the town. 1t might be good
plan to sentence the next double-dyed Demo-
cratic politician convicted of bribery TO a per-
petual exile in EmpOria. We can imagine an
honored member Of the Ring wandering in
anguished solitude alongits respectable streets
sadly murmuring, ooh, for a saloon in some
vast wilderness, with one sweet Hoffman for
my Minister
head of editorial Correspondence in the
IVomdn's journal, says of it:
'sEmporia was my next destination, thriv-
ing town on the Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe
road, numbering population of 5000. Here
they have Normal School, good hall,
table ct ceteras of these go-ahead Kansas
towns. One thing it has not. 1t has no public
bar, saloon or GROCERY. The town refuses 70
grant to any person n license to sell liquor
and whoever undertakes to sell without q
license soon "comes to grief" i was the
guest of a charming Eastern family, whose
| eldest daughter, now comedy matrOn, was
graduated from DIR. Dio Lewis school at Lex.
| ington, Mass. Their home possesses as much
refinement and beauty as when they lived in
the East, and here, on the outskirts of civilized
life, they are given to their old, elegant hospi
| tality. So rapidly is Kansas filling up, and
trade Developing, that the dry goods store o.
my friend, this last year, sold $50, 900 worth o
/ goods, many loads going into settlements from
thirty to two hundred miles distant. A fair
haired, sweet-faced lady came from distances
i OF fifteen or sixteen miles, to call on me, 10 in
nent members of the New England Women
Club, whom she had not seen for fifteen or six
teen years.
to Emporia, Kansas, is in the city ON a shor
visit. He thinks Emporia the place so live
Men have good health as long as they live
and die finally from want OF breath. 1t has
population Of four thousand. Though it has
thriving business, plenty of churches an
school houses, public library, etc, it is il
some respects very dry place. 1t has Meth
er lager beer saloon nor liquor store OF an
kind. The very air is dry. The people &c
dry sometimes. 1t, too, is very virtuou
| place. There is no Democratic paper publish
/. ed there. Democrats are seldom seen, less fra
| quently heard from. The law backed up by
| good public sentiment is at the bottom Of i
The law always touches the Democratic bo
tom when il dries mp the saloons. Notwitl
standing all this. Cough is going there to le'
q ture. OF what use he can be nobody knows
Gin. Gazette.