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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11
POETR Y.
sTHEaBREwINa OF SOMA.

The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke
Up through the green wood curled;
Bring honey from the hollow oak,
Bring milky sap" the brewers spoke,
In the childhood of the world.
Apd brewed they well OF brewod they III,
The priests thrust in their rods,
First tasted and then drank their fill.
And shouted, with one voice and will.
Behold the drink of gods"
They drank, and 10 in heart and brain
A new, glad life began;
Tho gray Of hair grew young again,
The sick man laughed away his pain,
The cripple leaped and ran.
Drink, mortals, what the gods have sent,
Forget your long annoy"
So sang the priests. From tent to tent
The Soma's sacred madness went,
A storm of drunken Joy.
Then knew each rapt inebriate
winged and glorious birth.
Scared upward, with strange JOY elate,
Beat, with dazed head, yaruna's gate,
And sobered, sunk to earth.
The land with Soma's praises rang;
On Gihons banks of shade
Its hymns the dusky maidens sang;
In joy of life or mortal pang
All mon to Soma prayed.
The morning twilight of the race
Sends down these rn4tin psalms;
And still with won iering eyes we trace
The simple pra, ers to Soma's grace,
That yeS.c verse embalms.
Asin tat child-world's early year,
Eact after age has striven
by music incense, vigils drear,
And trance, to bring the skies moro near,
Or lift men up to heaven!-
Some fever of the blood and brain,
Some self-exalting spell,
The scourger's keen delight of pain,
The Dervish dance, the Orphic strain,
The wild-haired Bacchant's ycll.-
The deserts hair-grown hermit sunk
The saner brute below;
The naked Santon, hashish-drunk,
The cloister madness of the monk,
The fakir's torture show
And yet the past comes round again.
And new doth old fulfil;
In sensual transports wild as vain
We brew in many Christian fame
The heather Soma still
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish waysl
Reclothe US In our rightful mind.
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.
In simple trust like theirs who heard
Beside the Syrian sea
The gracious calling of the Lord.
Let US, like them, without word.
Rise up and follow thee.
o Sabbath rest by Galilee!
o calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
The silence of eternity
Interpreted bv love!
With that deep hush subduing all
Our words and works that drown
The tender whisper of thy call.
As noiseless let thy blessing fall
As fell thy mamma down.
Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace.
Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy GOODNESS and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire.
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
o still, small voice of calm
John G. Whittier. in Atlantic Month
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-11

There is, perhaps, no time at which
we are disposed to think SO highly of a
friend as when we see him standing
higher than we expected in the esteem
of others.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

In the last weeks Neodesha Citi-
zen johnny, Gilmore published an
expose of the attempts made by a
little ring in that town to get hold
of his paper. The distinguished
Senator, H. c. Whitney, who makes
about as much noise as a gong, and
who has about as much sense as one
of those attractive articles of tym-
panum torture, vas at the bottom
of the move. The plan was to Gre
ate a 5000 subsidy fund out OF lots
and lands and run q big paper, in
which Johnny was to figure as cats
paw for Whitney. Whitney was to
be editor, and the chief object OF
the Charge and influential p" paper
was to advocate Whitney for Con-
gress. and another gentleman OF
like stripe for the Legislature. In
order to force our friend Gilmore
into the move, and to get the back
ing of the citizens of Neodesha,
Whitney reported that Pomeroy de-
manded the paper in his interest az
pay fer locating the Land Office at
NeOdesha. After inquiring into
the matter It was found that Senator
Pomeroy knew nothing about the
schemes OF Whitney to bleed the
people in the Senator'S name, and
we are glad to know that the Clti-
zen exonerates Senator Pomeroy.
The scheme was, of course, q fail
ure, and Johnny still has charge OF
the Citizen, which is one Of the best
papers in the State.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

We are in despair about Mexico.
Not that we think the turbulent re-
public on our southern border in
any worse way than usual. That
would hardly be possible. But we
despair of ever making anything
out of the news from that country.
Sometimes dispatch comes telling
US of the all but complete overthrow
of the Jaurez government, followed,
in two or three days, by another
giving all the details of the govern
ment's success in stamping out the
revolution. At other times, two
dispathes, fatty contradicting each
other, come in the same day, and
sometimes the two rival statements
form consecutive paragraphs in one
and the same dispatch. In whatev-
or order they come, there are al
ways two of these statements, and
they always contradict each other
hopeIessly. The other day we had
news from the City of Mexico that
the revolution was badly beaten,
and that the work of finishing it W I'll
occupy the government troops but q
very brief time, while from Wash
ington came the news that General
McCook, commanding troops In
Texas, had Informed our War De-
partment that the Mexican revOlu-
ton is so formidable as to make its
success In the overthrow of the
Jaurists almost certain. This ar
rangemenI Is q convenient one at
any rate, as 1t enables everybody to
choose the news best suited to his
feelings.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

There is an interesting dispute
pending just now between the Gov
eminent and the Western Union
Telegraph Company, In the year
1866 law was passed granting val
liable privileges to the telegraph
companies. on condition that they
should enter into an agreement to
transmit all government messages
ut such rates as the Po>tmasier-G Gen
eral should tx, giving them priority
ever all other dispatches. The
privileges thus offered were ex-
tremely valuable, and every tele-
graph company in the country at
once accepted The terms. When the
Weather Bureau was established.
the Postmaster General ascertained
from the Western Union Company
the exact cost of sending the wealth
or kilograms, aud fixed the rates to
be paid for this service at figure
allowing thirty per cent. profit. For
a time this worked well enough
but as this rate, admitted to be .
reasonably profitable one, was only
about one third the tariff charged
for business telegraphing, the people
have clamored, Haturally enough,
for q reduction in the commercial
rates, and the telegraph companies
now claim that the Government
dIspAtohes do not pay them for the
sending, wherefore they demand
higher price. which the Postmaster
General refuses to allow, falling
back on the contract giving him an
unquestionable right to fix the rates
for all Government messages. We
trust the matter will result in cheap
telegraphing. s~
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

naturally anxiousto know whether
they are to be permitted to remain
on their claims aud raise crops this
season. Many of them have made
valuable improvements. and have
their all invested there. 1t will be
a great hardship upon . hard work
ing, industrious people to drive
them awar. We trust that the Gov
eminent VIII permit them to remain,
At least until they can raise q crop
and so have a little something to
support their families until they can
improve other farms. We further
more hope the government will tell
them This without delay. 1t is not
right to keep these settlers In sus-
pense. Ii they are to be permitted
TO stay, let them know it.-Arkaa-
sas City Traveller.
The Gazette reports business
lively at Sedgwick City.
w. B. Chamberlain is preparing
TO erect fine residence on the cor.
ner of Eighth and Washington
streets.-Sedgwick City Gazette.
"A gentleman on Fall river
bought two steers for forty-five dol
lars last spring. They IAN at larg,
during the summer. In the faI
they had straw, and were fed twelve
bushels each of corn, and q shor
time since were sold for ninety dol
lars. Isn't forty-fiye dollars q pref
ty good price for twenty-four bush
ella of corn and a little straw ?-Eu
reka Herald.
We very much regret 10 hea
that Mr.. G. w. Camp, enc of tn
county commissioners, was com
pletely burned out one day thi
week. We were informed that b
was unable TO save anyuhing.-Ma
rion County Record.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

The Topeka cOrressondcnt of the
Lawrence Democratic Standard, ia
mentioning the shortcomings of the
last l. gi,lsture, SS!s that Hon.
Isaac Money OI Butler eoun'y, Oh
ciated rs chaplain of the House one
morning and for three minutes' SER
vice in this line drew $500. This
statement Is, of course, wholly un-
true, and If the Standard sciibblers
cannot engage Ia better business
than this sort of wholesale lying,
they had better stop writing. II
that correspondent don't stop tell
ing such falsehoods he will see the
time when he will be willing to pay
Mr.. Mooney $500 for three min
utes' prayer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12
REPRESENTATIVE LOWE.

We do but simple justice to an
able and efficient member of Con-
gress, when we give expression to
the feeling of the people of this por-
ton of the State, of satisfaction
with the course of Judge Lowe in
Congress. All our local interests
have received prompt and careful
attention at his hands. He has Ia.
bored industriouslv for the settlers
on the "Strip," and will doubtless
secure the passage of an act giving
them their lands upon favorable
terms. Though not an original
purifier" we are for the man who
maintains an unsullied character
and whose brains and business abil-
lities work out for our section of
the State the best results. Disdain-
ing all olap-trap and fan-farronsde,
our cit iZen Congressman has gone
quietly aud unostentatiousiy about
his BUSINESS and almost every page
of the Globe tells of some new eff
fort in behalf of his constituents
Chetopa Advance.
The Chetopa Advance speaks in
the highest terms of our Represents.
tive in Congress. We will add to
this that while we were in Wash.
ington few weeks since, we were
struck with the unanilpity with
which Kansas there eKtolIed him.
They admitted that he was quiet and
unostenfatious, bat claimed that he
was doing an amount OF solid and
substantial labor for his vast con-
siiIuency that could only be appre-
ciated by those conversant with the
facts. This was especially the
Judgement pronounced by one OF
our subscribers, Mr.. Slaughter, who
is there in the interest ofthe settlers.
Kansas Spirit.
By reason of the failure OF the
legislature to apportioB the State
into Congressional districts, our
Congressmen Siil be elected THE
year from the State ct large. We
are entitled to three. Let South
ern Kansas unite early on her man
aud bring all her forces to his sup
port. We believe there Is no dis
sension en- the subject. Judge
Lowe seems to be the universal
choice. He has been ours aII along
aud the more we know him the
better we like him. He il capable,
he is honest, he il industrious, he is
sober, aud attends TO his dnties.-
Fredonia Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12
EMPoRlA MINING COMPANY.


Our readers are probably aware
that an effort is being made to
organize joiEt stock company for
the purpose Of BIO lug Tor coal al
this place Articles of association
have been prepared, providing for q
capital stock of twenty-five thous-
and dollars, divided into five hun
dred shares of fifty dollars each. 1t
is proposed to make an assessment
of ten per cent, or five dollars per
share, for the purpose of sinking a
test hole by which the presence or
absence of coal may be determined
without the expense of sinking a
shaft. If coal in paying quantities
is found, the company will be al
ready organized TO proceed TO de-
yelop It.
We.are aware that times are hard
and money scarce, but II feems to
us that there is scarcely a man in
the city who cannot afford to take
at least one share, and pay five dol
lars for the purpose of experiment
Almost every one who has any
knowledge of the coal formation
is confident that we have good vein
ofcoal at a practicable depth, which
So developed, would retain thous
andsrDf dollars in our midst nov
sent out for coal, and attract man.
other thousands for coal which W
could ship TO other points. On
citizens are spending q great deal o
time and money to induce manufac
turers to come here, sn of whicl
could be saved il we could demon
stratc the fact that cheap fuel coul'
be had.
When the amount of stock is sub
scribed there will be n meeting o
The stockholders to complete thei
organization, and push the wor
forward at once. This is n matte
of the utmost importance to on
city, and one in which every one
interested. We hope all will lend
helping hand aud make II q success
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12
LITTLE TOO THIN

The New York World of late
date contains a remarkable article,
in which the Liberal Republicans
are told many unpleasant truths-
and discarded by this organ OF the
Democratic party. They are told
that they have no influence, and In
numbers they are LITERALLY insignia
cant. Sumner. Schurz and Greeley.
are remiaded that IT they had gone
TO Connecticut, and made speeches
for the Democrats, and against jew
ell, that State would have been lost
to the Republicans, and now they
are sharply rebuked as leaders with
no followers. The World further
declares that mo earnest man will
care straw what the Cincinnati
convention does, or forbears to do"
and concludes with the following
kick: "The Democratic party will
waste no more breath on the Liber-
al Republican leaders, but will here
after appeal directly to the people.
Our appeals will hereafter be made
to the honest mass of voters; with q
liberal platform and some such man
as Charles Francis Adams or Judge
David navis as the candidate, we
can probably get as many Republic
can votes as we could have done
through a Cincinnati alliance. Since
the Liberal Republicans refused
to lift q finger. against Grant in
Connecticut, we can see no use OF
any further billing and cooling with
their leaders. The Democrat
ic party will depend on itself,
sending its own recruiting officers
among the dissatisfied Republicans,
and enlisting them directly and In
dividually into the Democratic
army, instead of expecting them as
organized regiments raised by Lib
eral Republican leaders"
Here then, the Liberal Republic
cans have the whole farce they have
been playing exposed by the high
est Democratic authority, and the
movement has degenerated into a
side show to draw of enough votes
from President Grant to insnre the
election of q Democratic President.
We are glad that it has come to this,
so that no intelligent Republican
can be eajoled into aiding the De-
mocracy by training with the Lib
eral Republicans. AS the phrase
runs the device is altogether too
thin. and will command neither re-
spect nor support.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

liquor question. would therefore
suggest that as small q sum as you
deem needfnl be fixed as his regular
salary, with such increase IS the oc-
casion reqaires. even, IL necessary,
10 the full extent of all the resources
Of the city, IL he succeed within q
reasonable time in crushing out the
sale of Intoxicating liquors as q bev-
erage-by whomsoeVer sold. To
the rest of the employees of the
city would pay so much per day
for services actually rendered, and
require those services as seldom as
possible
Thanking you for the courtesy
you have always extended to me,
aud trusting that in the coming
ear We shall get along as amicsbIy
and pleasantly as in the past, / anu
Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM JAY.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

THE creditors OF Robert Milliken are
Il hereby notified that at : O'Clock a. M.
on the 18th day of August. A. d. 1872, in
the court room OF the court house of Lyon
county, Kansas, the same being the coun-
~ seat OF said county,I, John W.Truit,as-
signee Of the properly Of the said Milfiken,
In person and will remain in attendance on
said day and during two consecutive days
thereafter, between the hours Of 9 O'Clock
.. m and o'clock p. m, on
each Of said days, publicly 90 adj
just and sllow claims duly presented by
said creditors against said Robert Mill.
ken. At which time and place all said
creditors are required to attend and lay
before me the value and amount of theiI
demand, and any creditor failing to do sc
will be precluded from any benefit of said
assigned estate. JOHN w. TRCIT,
1877 Assignee Of Robert MiIliken.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12
KANSAS ITEMS.

A $4,000 Catholic church is be-
ing built at Seneca.
Pleasant Hyatt, man of family,
and a widow named Witford, eloped
from Eudora, Douglas county, last
week. Hyatt has been prominent
in that county as a school teacher.
In number of miles of railroads
Kansas leads twenty-five States.
Burlington is the next place to
talk about the paper mill. Several
towns have had paper mill ION the
BRAIN" Il don't hurt anybody.
Atehison poIIed LAS votes and
has S55 children In the public
schools.
Potatoes are Sl20 per bushel in
Leavenworth, aud al Clyde, on the
Republican, 81.
Water in the Missouri river is up
so that sand bars have disappeared.
The fifty cent prize package man
has broken out in Leavenworth.
At the first Hammond meeting in
Atchison, two hundred "anxiOus"
persons rose for prayers.
One man in Fit. Scott claims that
another man slandered him $4,000
worth. From our knowledge of
Kansas character we think that
amount 81 600 or $1,000 too high.
Erie attempted to gouge Usage
Mission in the contest for the coun-
~ seat of Neosho county. The re-
turns were stolen and forged ones
substituted. Several parties will
try a chance for the psnitentiary.
A blighted and stricken being at
Topeka advertises for a boarding
place where no boiled potatoes are
set on the table
The Chicago Post has an article
headed, ssTbe Fool Killer Wanted, p
and says, "Kansas City is the
place"
The Missouri, Kansas l. Texas
railroad company has not yet decid-
ed where it is to strike Red River.
Wilson county, for her popnla-
ton, beats them all on divorces.
Ten divorce cases came up for trial
at the last term of the District Court
in that county.
The first train crossed the Leaven-
worth bridge, last Sunday. The
test was highly satisfactory. The
celebration will take place on the
18th inst.
Kansas City has an assessed valu-
alton of SI2,O00,OO0 and a debt Of
100000, or S3l per capita; Leav'
enworth has population of II, 1913
an assessed valuation of Sc, 149, 496
and debt of $4,000, or about 81;
per capita.
A Leavenworth paper says: "Mrs
Thorne, of this place, the other day
rode spirited gray pony across the
railroad bridge. The floor is six oil
eight feet wide, with no guard OIL
either side"
The Probate Judge of Cloud coun
ty begins his marriage ceremony
thus: do you solemnly swear,
and ends with Now 1 lay me dowr
TO Sleep"
| Lawrence ej0ices in the fact thai
her railroad bridge is completed, &C
that the L. L. s. G. cars can now run
over to the Kansas Pacific depot Oh
the north side of the river, or Il
Leavenworth, if it is necessary fol
them to do SO
The Kansas Magazine states tha
we have in Kansas to-day. at leas
one seif-assured and hopefully wait
ing political aspirant to every acre
of improved land.
The following is an incident o.
the Topeka revival: ga brakeman
on the Kansas Pacific road said he
was almost ready to become Chris.
tian; but thought there was time
enough, and he would postpone the
matter for few days. That same
evening news was received he had
fallen from the train, and had been
run over by forty cars, and his body
torn to fragments" The moral il
obvious.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

TAKE Down THAT NAMI.-To one
of the calls OF the Liberal convention
is attached the name of Col. L. N.
Robinson, of this city. The Colonel
authorizes Ms to say that he does
NOT train with the Assistant Demo-
crats." His name was Aligned to the
call when he was absent in the East,
and without authority from him.
So here IL one good square man
that the "Assistsnt Democrats" are
counting without their host,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12
SHERIRE,S SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that by vir-
IN tue OF an execution issued out Of the
District Court Of Lyon county, Kansas,
Viii on Monday, the ed day OF April,
let.s, q o'clock p. M, offer for sale at the
door OF the court house in Emporia, Lyon
county, Kansas, Que white Ara bizn horse,
one single buggy and one single harness,
taken as the property or William Il.
Bopghman. to satisfy q pa jgment in favor
81 Samuel II. Bell and G. w. sutton.
Sheriff OF Lyon county, Kansas.
Emporia, April II, 1872. l5wa
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

The LIBERALs.-The Liberal cons
vention at Topeka Wednesday was
addressed by Governor Brown, OF
Missouri. 8. J. Crawford presided.
Resolutions were passed, which we
will probably publish, and abpnt
fifty persons were appointed as dell
egates to Cincinnati, which, it is
supposed, includes all the Liberals
there are In the State. Some that
are not Liberals were appointed, 30
anxious was the convention to make
q showing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12

A CH2EcE TO WIZ $4,000, AND
AT THE SAME TTs1R, AID THE SICK
AND DEsTITUTE.-The sale Of tickets
in the Grand Legal Enterprise ct
Omaha, in aid of Mercy Hospital,
under the auspices of the Sisters Of
Hercy, viii be continued till May
30th, when the drawing viii posi-
lively take placs. in open public.
This charitable enterprise enjoys the
OF the best business men
OF Nebrasks; also the Mayer and
President of the Board Of Trade,
Omaha. Highest prize, S5Qn0Q
Total, $4,000 10 cash. The tickets
are So each. or two for IS. For
fail particulars, address Rattee q
Business Managers Onsos
ha, Neb.