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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17
A STORY ABOUT PROFESSOR MORSE

We happened to meet Colonel
Strother, the famous Port CrayoD,
and the talk turning, as usual, upon
Morse, the Colonel said: sg
81 knew him well. / took lessons
under him in drawing and painting.
I first saw him when he was COM
petitor for the remaining panel in
the rotunda of the Capitol. thought
then he ought to have had it. /
think so yet. He was not a great
artist, but he was enough of a one to
save US from ridicule. The job was
given to Mr.. Powell. General
Schenck did that. The General did
not probably know one picture
from another, but Mr.. Powell was
his constituent, and he believed, did
Schenck, that something in the way
of art should be done for the Miami
bottoms, SO he worked at it till he
got the commission" ..ss
Sand one day." said we, "Con-
gress will give General Snhenck
permission to remove that terrible
product of the Mama bottoms. But
about Morse"
"Well, engaged to become his
pupil, and subsequently went to
New York and found him in a room
on University Place. He had three
other pupils, and | soon found that
our Professor had very little pat
ronage. I paid my fifty dollars that
settled for one quarters instruction.
Morse was a faithful teacher, and
took as much intererest in our pro-
gress, more, indeed, than-w did
ourselves. But he was very poor.
1 remember when my second quar-
ter's pay was due him it did not
come as soon as expected, and
one day the Professor came in,
and said courteously:
Well, Strother, my boy, how
are we off for modey 2"
Why, Professor" answered.
81 am sorry to say 1 have been dis
appointed: but expect a remit
lance next week"
Next week. he repeated sad
ly; 81 shall be dead by that time"
/" Dead, sir?"
Yes, dead of starvation"
81 was distressed and astonished.
said hurriedly, Would ten dol
lars be of any service 2"
s'Ten dollars would save my life ;
that is all it would do" ,-sa
81 paid him the money, ell that l
had, and we dined together. 1t
was modest meal, but good, and
after we had finished he said:
This is my first meal for TWEEN
ty hours. Strother, don't be an ar
tist. It means beggary. Your life
is dependent upon people who
know nothing of your art, and care
nothing for you. A house dog
lives better, and the sensitiveness
that stimulates him to work, keeps
him alive to suffering"
"I remained with Professor Morse
three years, and then we separated.
Some years after met him on
Broadway one day. He was about
the same as before, a trific older,
and perhaps somewhat ruddier. ]
asked him how he was getting on
with his painting, and be told me he
had abandoned it; that he had
something better, he believed, and
told me about his proposed tele-
graph. 1 accompanied him to &ie
room, and there found several miles
of wire twisted about, and the bat.
| terry which he explained to me
His pictures, finished and uufinish.
ed were lying covered with dust
| Shortly after Congress made an ap-
precipitation, and Morse was on the
high road to wealth and immortal.
ty. as
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17

"Dear me, then you are not
ready" and the whole household is
troubled in seeking the book, and
the child begins to cry, and his face
looks blurred and dirty; it must be
washed again, and the clock has
struck; he will be too late. Away
he plunges through the muddy land
or dirty street, too hurried to pick
mis- way. and his boots are dirtied
and his clothes splashed, so that he
enters the school heated, miry, anX-
ious, is too late after all, and Is in
no way TO repeat lessons promptly.
All goes wrong from the first-be-
cause he was not ready.
Are you ready, girls The last
bell is ringing, we shall be late at
church"
SIN q minute, only a minute"
1t is five minutes before the bon
nets are adjusted. The parents
walk on, vexed; they haye stayed
until they can stay no longer. The
good house mother listens, grieved
at the words of her husband, ''Those
girls leave everything to the last,
my dear; it is a bad habit. You
must see to it." The complaint
is just, there is no reply; but it
is all the more painful for be-
coming the truth. The mother
walks faster than she is quite able,
for she fears the service will he be-
gun. Now and then she glances
back over her shoulder to see if her
daughters have come-yes, they are
at last outside the door. They are
following, ali will be right; no, they
have forgotten something-people
in q hurry always do. They have
gone back, and now she walks on
with her husband, certain that if
she and her husband are in time the
rest of the family will not be. She
is flushed and worried, her breath
grows short. "We are walking too
fast, DEAR" says her husband, con-
siderately, yet as she glances at his
face she sees it is troubled. The
comfort of both has been destroyed.
AS they enter the house of God
they find the service has commence
ed. 1t seems to them as if they
were disturbing others in getting
to their seats, as certainly they are
but worst of all, they do not and
cannot leave their vexations at the
door; they enter with them and
distress them. They are conscious
of q frame of mind unsuitable to
the place and time of day; in home
ly language they "have been upset."
and it is not easy to get right. Dear
reader do not blame them that a
trifle should thus upset them more
people fall on the pavement through
slipping on q bit of orange peel
than ever fell over a precipicc; but
it is mostly the trifles that destroy
the peace of life. And, indeed,
however trlfling the cause, it is not
a trifing effect that brings people
late to the house of God, as our
poor couple no doubt think as their
daughters (who have been mutually
upbraiding each other all the way
enter the church and with frCwning
and crimson faces hurry coniusedly
to their seats. a little, a very little
care and arrangement, and they
would have been ready and the
Sunday mornings walk would have
been delightful to all. Half the
vexations. losses, Quarrels and
troubles of life arise because people
cannot say "yes" when asked, care
you ready 2"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17
HOW TO PUT On 4 CORSET.

At this juncture the Coroner de-
sired TO show the course taken by the
ball, and for this purpose produced
the corset worn by Mrs. Burkhart
at the time of the tragedy. "You
see," said he-and here he drew the
corset around his waist with the
laces in front !-''the ball must have
gone in here from behind. No, that
can't be, either, for the Doctor says
the ball went in front. Confound
it, I've got it on wrong. All! this
way (Here the Coroner put the
corset on upside DOWN. "Now,
you see," pointing to the hole in the
garment, which rested directly over
his hip-"thc ball must have gone
in here. No that can't be either,
for"
Here Mr.. Mather, tho hand somest
man on the jury, broke III. "Dr.
Stillman," said he, you've got that
corset on wrong" Here DIR. Still
man blushed like poppy. "Well,"
said he, I've been married twice,
and ought to know how to rig a
corset" "Ics," said Mr.. Mather,
"but you don't. You had it right
III Tie first place. The strings
go i'll front and the ladies clasp
them together i'll the back. Don't
l know? l think l ought to;
I've been married. II you doubt
it, look here [pointing to the full
ness in the top). How do you sup
pose that's going to be filled up un-
less you put it on as / suggest ?"
"That," said DR.. Stillman; why
that goes over the hips" mo, it
don't said Mr.. Mather; chat full
ness goes somewhere else-this
way" and here Mr.. Mather indica-
ted where he thought the fulness
ought to go.
AT this a palc-faced young man
with q voice like robin, and u note
book under his arm, said he thought
the ladies clasped their corsets
on the side. The pale-faced young
man said this very innocently, as if
he wished to convey the impression
that he knew nothing whatever of
the matter. The jury laughed the
pale-faced young man to scorn, and
one Of them intimated that he
thought the young man was not
half SO green about women's dress
as he tried to appear. The young
man was "a reporter, and it was
therefore exceedingly probable that
his knowledge was fully as limited
as was apparent from his sugges-
ton, the juryman TO the contrary
Notwithstanding
Here another juryman discovered
that DR.. StilImaR had the corset on
bottom side up. Doctor" said he,
''put it on the other way"
Then the Doctor put it on in re-
verse order, with the laces in front.
This brought the bullet-holes direct
ly over the tails of his coat.
II don't think" said Mr.. Mather,
chat the bullet went in there, Doc
tor"
"No, don't think it did," was
the reply. "Confound ii, its mighty
funny-siX married men in this
room and not one that knows how
to put on woman's corset"
Here the Chronicle reporter, who
had several sisters and always keeps
his eyes open, advanced and con-
WINGED Mr.. Stillman and Mr.. Math-
er, after much argument, that the
laces of a corset go behind, and the
garment is clasped in front. After
this explanation the course OF the
bullet was readily traced, and found
to bear out the explanation afforded
by the two physclans.-X.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17
PEACEABLE SECESSION.
What Horace Greeley Thought Of il
Before and During the War.

From the n. Y. Tribune of Nov. 8, 1885,
IF the cotton States shall become
satisfied that they can do better out
| of the Union than in it, we insist in
letting them go in peace. The
right to. secede may be a revolu-
tionary one, but it exists neverthe-
less. We must ever resist
the right of any State to remain in
the Union and nulify and deny the
laws thereof.
@To withdraw from the Union is
quite another matter; and when
ever q considerable section of our
Union shall deliberately resolve to
go out of it, we shall resist all CO.
ercive measures to keep them in it.
We never hope to live in n Repnb-
lie where one section is pinned to
another by bayonets."
fFrom the n. Y. Tribune Of Nov. &c, 49,
off the cotton States wish to with
draw peacefully from the Union, we
think they should be allowed TO do
so. Any attempt to compel them
by force to remain would be con-
trary to the principles enunciated
in the immortal Declaration of In
dependence, contrary to the funda-
mental ideas on which human lib
erty is based"
From the N. Y. Tribune of Dec. II, 1859. ]
eff it (the Declaration of indie
tendency justified the secession
from the British empire of three
millions of colonists in 1776, we do
not see why it would not justify
the secession of five millions of
Seuthrons from the Federal Union
in 1861. If we are mistaken on this
point why does not some one at
tempt to show wherein and why?
For our own part, while we deny
slaves against the will of the latter,
we cannot see how twenty millions
of people can rightfully hold ten, or
even five, in detested Union with
them bv force"
from the N. Y. Tribune Of Feb. %, 1864.
ave have repeatedly said, and
we once more insist, that the great
principle embodied by Jefferson in
the Declaration of Independence,
that governments derive their Just
powers from the consent of the
governed, is sound and just, and
that il the slave States. the cotton
States, or the Gulf States only
choose to form an Independent ma
ton, they have clear, moral right
to do SO.
Whenever it shall be clear that the
great body of the Southern people
have become conclusiveiy alienated
from the Union, and anxious to es-
cape from it, we will do our best to
forward their views"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17
TIE CHEROKEE STRIP.

FROM the GleBe, May ISL
Mr.. Caldwell. l hope there will
be no opposition to this bill. 1t is
very important that it should pass.
The whole strip is now settled upon
by settlers, and the bill has been
agreed upon by the settlers and the
entire delegation from Kansas. 1t
is satisfactory to all parties concern
ed, and it is of very great impor-
lance that the bill should be speedi-
" passed. a similar bill was pass
ed by the Senate last spring, but
was not reached in the House of
Representatives. 1t has now been
acted upon IN the House and repor-
ted by the Indian Committee of the
Senate, and hope it will pass.
Mr.. Hamilton, Of Texas. / should
like to ask the Senator from Kan
sas whether the Indians are press
! ing this matter, Or whether IL is be-
ing pressed by the settlers there?
Mr.. Caldwell. / will say to the
Senator that the Indians are press
ing the matter. They have been
pressing it for two sessions of Con-
gress. They arc more anxious, or
quite as anxious, as the settlers to
have this bill passed.
Mr.. Hamilton, of Texas. Let me
ask the Senator further, whether
these settlers went on the lands In
pursuance of law, were invited by
the United States on that territory,
or whether they are not sQuatters z
Mr.. Caldwell. don't know how
that is. / know they are now set
tied on the land.
l 1F. Houaslfan 4F IL ha
Government of the United States
were to take the whole tract at s., 80
an acre ! should have no objection
perhaps that would be a fair price
I for the whole but If you Gull it and
take the choice portions at two dol
lars an acre, the residue remains in
the bands of the Indians unstable,
when these choice spots might sell
for twelve or fifteen dollars an acre.
I say there is no justice IN that.
Mr.. Pomeroy. hope the bill
will not be recommitted to any com.
mittee. l would rather take the
vote of the senate without any de-
bate.
afr. Caldwell. / will say that q
portion of the lands are worth ten
or fifteen dollars an acre, they are
| worth that much because the set
tiers have given value to the lands
Five years ago they could be bought
for thirty or forty cents an acre, and
any value that is attached TO them
now las resulted from their settle
ment by settlers-tsettlers who have
gone there and made their homes.
This bill provides for the sale of the
entire tract of five hundred and fif.
ty thousand or six hundred thous-
acres and at two dollars and 81 sc
an acre, according to locality, which
| is uaore than the Indians agreed to 8
| year ago for these same lands Not
only are the chiefs satisfied with
this, but ali the Indians are satisfied
with it, and am sure they will get
a fair price for the whole land.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17
THE FRENCH ARMY STRENGTH
aev d STARTLING FACTS. ri

ffrF--..f g.sts.s /
The tremendous under-current of
iHtrigueand preparation for an other
deadly struggle which is going on
in Europe was never better Illus
trafed than by the recent announce
ment that France now has at her
disposal 81 600 soldiers, all ready
for service. This statement, which
was at first received with the incre-
-duhty which it apparently merited,
is. nevertheless confirmed very
.authoritatiFely. The army which
was imprisoned in Germany, num-
beriug about $4,000 men, is on q
very good footing. Sobefed by its
long aud shameful captivity, it has
prepared itself for vengeance.
There are also $4,000 reserve troops
Of really excellent character, and
$4,000 .Gardes Mobiles, who have
'fseen service" but who cannot ex-
actIy claim the distinction of beng
veterans. The men are not to be
disputed, however. They really
exist as an organized force, and as a
force willing and anxious to fight.
France Intends, within the next two
years, to bring her regular strength
up to q half q million of men; and
to, thus haYe two armies, one of vet
Grams and regulars, and the, other,
10000 in number, also, of militia,
at her Immediate command. Her ar
tiIlery l., stiIl in bad condition, but
great efforts are in progress for its
renovation and Improvement. Ger
many has found it necessary. to very
much improve her own artillery,
and will no more than equal France
in the Yigor of her amelioration of
that effective arm of the service.
France is still determed on speedy
and terrible vengeance upon Ger
many, and the wise may not be able
10 restrain the over-impatient. II
trouble begins at all it will probably
occur shortly after the payments are
nearly completed, and on some pre-
text connected with the "occupa-
ticn." The rumor that the occupy.
ing forces will be strengthened is
doubtless true, but of itself has no
alarming Significance. 1t is a pre-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17
STATE ITEMS.

ELK ana antelope ABOUND around
Cawker City. 1885.
Leavenworth has seven building
and loan associations.
Ottawa is first in Kansas to Or
ganize q Greeley club.
A new case of domestic infelicity
occurs in Topeka each day.
Kansas Pacific conductors are af-
ter three card monte fellows.
DrOves of antelopes are grazing
on the prairies near Ellsworth.
The Ottawa papers have been at
swords points for over yea
The temperance society at Burl-
ington has adjourned until after the
hot weather subsidies
The Rev. Werter r. Davis, Of
Kansas, opened the U. S. Senate
with prayer on the 2Sth of April.
Leavenworth. wants a portion OF
MILITARY Reserve set aside by the
general government as park.
The receipts of Robinson's circus,
at Topeka, was ten dollars short of
paying city license.
Paola will soon engage in manu-
featuring ''hoops for swell heads. +"
They'll have a big sale.
S. "A. Riggs represents Kansas on
the National Liberal Republican
Executive Committee. ..a
Thirty-one colored persons were
immersed in the Kansas river at
Lawrence, last Sunday week.
Folks rambling around Fort Scott
at an,unreasOnable hour are arrested
and locked ups =",ls -aa'- -7s.-'
In Coffey county, last Tuesday
week, nearly the entire lots of land
advertised for delinquent taxes
were sold to two parties from New
| York. Amount received, S6,5 =
The Kansas Central is out fifteen
miles. In twenty days it will form
a connection with the A. T. 81 S. F.
road at Grasshopper Falls. +t
Eighty hemesteads iii Kansas and
five hundred in Nebraska, within
the land grant of the St. Joe and
Denver road, will lose their land.
The New York Herald reports
Sidney Clarke as q Liberal. 1t says
Clarke and Ross have buried the
hatchct. . s....- I'
The Kansas Pacific Railway Com
pany have planted trees, this spring,
at all the principle stations on their
road, beginning at Bro okville and
ending at Ellis.
The Marysvllle Locomotive says
that the recent letters in the Topeka
Commonwealth, accusing Sam
Wood of stealing mules and Texas
cattle, were gotten up by Sam for
the express purpose of paving his
way to Congress. s .
The Wichita Eagle gets off the
fOllowing: mot guilty was the
verdict of jury up at Hutchinson
last week, 'but If the prisoner is
sharp he will leave town before
night He got up and got.'"
Oliver Simpson left Atchison last
Saturday at 6 a. M, walked to
Grasshopper Falls, where he took
dinner, and then started for Perry,
arriving at that place att O'Clock p,
] M, a distance of sixty miles accom-
plished in thirteen hours.
An old male Indian appeared Oh
the streets of Marysville one day
last week, bearing on his. hreast 8
card, suspended from his neck by g
greasy calico string, which read
"Poor widow, with eight small
Echildreu.H .us iG 1rEl Hss
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17
CALIFORNIA GOLD DISCOVERY.

Mr.. Samuel Brannan, one of the
leading and wcRlthiest citizens of
San Francisco, publishes in the,
Calistoga Tribune of April 18th, the
subjoined communication:
observed an article in your last
weeks paper, copied from the
Oregon Bulletin, giving an account
of the discovery of gold on the
American river, California, in JAM
uary, 1S4S, in which there were sew
eral important mistakes. The facts
are as follows: ''e ''f''
Capt. Suffer made o contract with
Marshall, Weimer 81 Bennett to put
up saw mill in. the fall of lS47, on
the south fork OF the American
river, where the town of Coima
now stands. Having q store at the
fort OF that time, / agreed t. furnish
them with all the necessary supplies
on Suffers. account, until the mill
was in running order, otherwise
they would not have taken the con.
tract. On the 18th OF January, l84S,
the milI-race, and the water had
run clear, he picked up q piece or
gold-or what he supposed to be
gold--at the bottom, of the race and
gave it to the vito of Weimcr, Ilis
partner, who was there cooking for
the men, and it is still in her possess
sion at Santa Barbara, where she
buried her husband a short time
since. A number of young men
from the Mormon Battalion were
at work on the mill for Marshall s.
Co., all of whom left their work
and commenced washing out gold,
and that was the end of the mill
building. Marshall, Weimer, Ben
nett and Captain Suffer claimed the
right to the discovery, and charged
every man who worked there ten
per cent. of what they found. Some
of the boys became dissatisfied and
went prospecting down the river
for themselves, and found good dig.
gings about twenty-five miles be.
low, on an island, which has ever
since been known as Mormon
Island. put mp a store there and
called the place Natoma, after the
name of the Indians who lived
there. also put up store at the
mill and called the place Coloma.
after the name of the tribe there.
Queen, who Is now living in San
Francisco, had charge OF the store
at Natoma, and Ven Pfster, who Is
living at BennecIa, had charge of
the one at Coloma. Any other
statement made in the article re.
ferred TO deem it unnecessary 20
reply to. This Is . true statement
in brief, and there are many living
witnesses to testify to its correct.
ness.
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EMPORIA NEW
FRIDAY, MAY II, 1872.
FROM HUTCHINSON.

Ed. NEWS One year ago there
was hardly a settler in this (Reno)
county, and the line of the Atchison
j Topeka and Santa Fe railroad was
not located. Now the county. is
fully organized and contains more
than one thousand inhabitants, with
accessionss Of. ten to twenty every
day. stoozsg fsaa.s f
u TtHGt HoMEsTEADs. IH
Nowhere else in Kansas can lands
be so easily obtained, by the actual
settler, of equal value. The very
best of deep, black prairie soil, two
or three feet deep, resting on a
loamy subsoii, which can be spaded
to any required depth, can be Sc
cured by homestead or presumption
within six miles of the town, on the
south side of the river. BY going
ten or twelve mills south of the
town you reach the south fork of
| the Ninescah, W here the land is held
at $1.25 per acre and can be taken
as homestead or -emption. Here
civilians as well as soldiers can Sc
cure, l60 acres as homestead. The
soil is the same as above described,
with clear running steams and
springs and limestone rock in the
lodges. This region, sonth of the
Arkansas from Hutchinson, was
formerly supposed to be very sandy,
but in reality it is found that it con-
tains much less sand than the rich
soil of the wide bottoms along the
river. In fact the more this coun-
try is explored the better opinion
do people have of it.
THE LITTLE ARKANSAS
bottoms, eight miles north of this
town, are as wide and as fertile as
the best of the Neosho bottom
lands. Here are thousanes of acres
of government land waiting for oc-
cupants.
OTHER STREAMS.
Cow creek, Turkey creek and Salt
creek, and the Ninescah North
Fork) are all constant living streams
of puro, soft water, flowing on
sand and gravel, and they receive
numerous spring branches which
are never dry. The bottoms are
wide and the divides between rise
so gradually that it is sometimes
difficult to determine when you are
out of the valley and on the up
lands. .'5 eng ...--. ai-
Well water is invariably obtained
by digging or driving a tube well
to the depth eff from, ten to forty
feet. It is pure and clear and quite
SOFT ls -sE.H sr4- .-.a.. -t.4.
.aa'i u' s.a HUTCHINSON. rrEaI
is growing with a steady, certain
progress such as must of necessity
result from its splendid surround
ing country. Texas cattle and
rowdies are kept out and the coun-
ty is given up TO settlers and do
nestle stock. A brick yard has
just been opened and 100000 will
be burned Immediately. Work
soon commences on the water
~ MO-. --'1-.i - tfEH - II rNo
power a!saF sa.-. a.r.J r hENO'
HUTCHINSON, KAN, Nay 9th, 1872.
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Subtrectf from agFeab man all that
he owes to eppostuhitya and ali that
he owes TO chance, aalf that ne has
gained by the wisdom or his friends
and by the folly OF his eaemfes. and
the giant win often ~ left ia,pigmy.
E-IBaflow. 90 iiiw ,suoff