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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-28

Substituting forty years ago,
about the War of the Spanish Sue
cession, Macauley said. "Who-
ever wishes to be well acquainted
with the morbid anatomy of gov
ernments, whoever wishes to know
how great States may be made
feeble and wretched, should study
the history of SPAIN" The time
that has elapsed since this sentence
was written has increased its force
and truthfulness. From Philip
the Second to Amadus is from the
greatest and most powerful to the
weakest and most unhappy of hui
man rulers in kingly form. And
now that Amadeus has Yoluntar-
lily brought his short career of
royalty to an end, the fact scarce
~ justifies a passing comment be-
yond the continent of Europe,
where q radical change in the form
of one of the old governments will
naturally create some interest and
excitement. In this country it
viii be OF importance only in its
relation to the Cuban question,
and 1t may eventually do much to
settle that matter in Ehe way in
which the American people have
long desired to see it settIed-by
acquisition. The Spaniards have
formally declared 3 republic undo.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-28
THE JESUITS AND THE COMMON
SCHOOLS.

Tho RoIaan Catholic church un-
weariedly pursues its determine
ton to destroy our public school
system. No opportunity is lost of
assailing the principle that the
education of the future citizen be-
longs to the State. For a hundred
years the chief thought of the
Papacy has been to pursuade it's
followers that education in secular
knowledge, apart from religious
instruction in the same school, is
the cause of all the ferment and
confusion that reigns in modern
society. Therefore all education
must be entrusted to the Church.
Yet the whole tendency of modern
reform is in an opposite direction.
Non-secular education, or at least
undenominational education has
been q favorite idea of the best
class of American minds. Out
side of the strictly theological
school among Protestants no con-
siderable effort has been made to
give any religious bias to the stu
dent. In colleges and seminaries
under the patronage of Protestant
churches the Bible has been read
and prayers offered daily, and the
students allowed to attend on Sab
bath the church of their choice.
The actual religious education is
referred to the family and the
ministry of the church in their re-
lation as pastors. But the idea
of the Catholic church is the Par
ochial school, of which the church
has charge, the expense being
borne by the State.
But in these United States, the
bishops and priests having been
unable to give religious character
to the public school, find that
many of the children of their com.
munion are being taught therein
as they have reason to believe, tc
their injury as Catholics. The
public schools, especially of oul
large cities, are not only attended
without expense, but they are bet
ter schools. The parents OF many
Catholic children are not eonyinc
ed that there is no piety or saliva
ton outside of the Roman com
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-28
aIusIc IN CAMP.

4
Two armies covered hill and plain
Where appointments waters
Ran deeply cfimscned with the stain
OF battles recent slaughterz.
The summer cIonds lay pitched Gk,
tents
In meads OF heavenly azure;
And each dread gun of the elements
Slept in its hid embrasure.
The breeze so softly blew it made
NO forest leaves TO culver,
And the smoke of the random cannon.
Rolled slowly from the river.
And now where eircling hills looked
down
With cannon grimly planted,
Ger listless camp and silent town
The golden sunset slanted;
When on the fervld air there came
A strain now rich, now tender,
The music seemed itself afame
With days departing splendor.
A Federal band, which eve and morn
Played measures brave and nimble,
Had Just struck up with flute and horn
And lively clash Of cymbal.
Down focked the soldiers to the hank
Till margined by its pebbles,
One wooded shore was blue with
f'Yanks," $50
And one was gray with Rebels
Then all was still: and then the band
With movements light and trieksy,
Made stream and forest, hill and strand,
Reyerberate with 'Dixie.'
The conscious stream, with burdened
glow,
Went proudly DER its pebbles,
But thrilled throughout its deepest
glow
With yelling of the Rebels.
Again q pause, and then again
The trumpet pealed sonOrOus,
And "Y ankee Doodle" was the strain
To which the shore gave chorus.
The laughing ripple shorewaril flew
To kiss the shining pebbles
Loud sbrieked the shining Boys in
Defiance to the Rebels.
And yet once more the bIgle sang
Above the stormy riot;
NO shout upon the evening rang
There reigned holy quiet.
The sad, lone stream, its noiseless tread
Spread over the glistening pebbles
All silent stood the Yankees now,
All silent stood the Rebels.
For each responsive soul had heard
That plaintive notes appealing;
So deeply "Home, Sweet Home," had |
stirred
The hidden fouDts of feeling.
Of blue or gray, the soldier sees,
AS by the wand of fairy,
The cottage meath the live-oak trees,
The cottage by the prairie.
Or cold or warm his native skies
Bend In their beauty DER him;
the tear-mist IN his eyes
The dear ones stand before him.
As fades the iris after rain
In Apri's fearful weather
The vision vanished as the strain
And daylight died together.
But memory, walked by music's art
Expressed in simplest numbers,
the sternest Yankees heart, |
Made light the Rebels slumbers.
na fair the form of Music shines,
That bright, celestial creature,
Who still mid wars embattled lines
Gave this one touch of nature.
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QUERIES.


DO. goH think 1T best "a. .ofiel' l1Ti-
zes in public schools:
No. We have a good many rea-
reasons for our emphatic answer
to this question, one or two of
which We viii state. First, the
motive For action on the part of
the student is Mt the very least a
degrading one. Wbenipupils work
for any ..other object than to ac-
qnire knowledgefforo its own sake,
they may work faithfully and we'll
so long as the object is before
them, but when that Is obtained.
or all hope or obtainingitsis gone,
some new incitive must be offered
or action ceases. Secondly, it
iyariably works injustice to some,
and is too-apt to produce alYill
among many. A3'mnE do better
work titan Il on the face OF it. but
when the opportunities for i'm
provcment, which each has enjoy
ed, is considered, it is often the
fact. that so far as red effort is
concerned Il has far excelled A;
and that is Il very. peculiar school
whose members will all be salts
fed with the awards made. Lastly,
it is poor index of ability upon
the part of the teacher. The true
teacher can always arouse suf
ficicnt zeal in the soul of any pu-
pll capable of being aroused at all.
hy showing to him, in its proper
light, the value, to be acquired by
gaining knowledge for knowledge's
sake fs0...... ,.,g-s
The school boardS of all first
class schools, SO far as We are ac-
quainted, disconntenaHce and many
positively forbid, the giving OF
prizes ~
What is the .frst Miag TO be done
I" tCuCNtHy ~ WOTH-
Make the child first acquainted
with the object, action, quality, or
relation, which, the word you in
tend to teach represents. and when
he is perfectly familiar with that,
give him the word; which repre-
sents it. Never allow a pupil to
add to his vocabulary any word
which he is unable to define so far
as he is able of comprehending its
meaning. As the pupil advances
in knowledge see to it that his
knowledgesef each word IN his yo
is increased in like pro
portion
This should be an iyariablerule:
First the thing, and then its name.
Because this is not adhered to the
masses have Il very limited kn6wl-
edge Of words.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-28
HOW sENATORsHIPs ARE LOST.

The dodge by which the Chris
tian philanthropist was entrapped
and slaughtered at Topeka, the
other day, is very far from being
a novelty IN our politics. Indeed,
it was practiced only last fall to
kill off Mr.. Corbett, of Oregon,
though he had, probably did have,
pretty sure thing on his re-elec-
ton to the Senate. The cards had
been skilfully put up, and there
seemed to be nothing more to do
but to go in and win. But good
classic authority has assured us
that human affairs are uncertain.
A guileful Oregon lawmaker in the
interest of Mr.. Ben. Holiday
caused il to be intimated to a next
friend and active worker of Mr..
Corbett's that he was open to con
viction-In fact, was prepared to
be seen. An interview was ar
ranged. The friend and the treach-
erous legislator met; and a wit
ness was concealed in the adjoin-
ing room-the old detective trick
with his ear glued to an eligible,
possibly artificial, hole in the wall.
The friend was led on to make a
proffer of money in distinct terms,
when the legislator turned on him,
explained the situation, and gave
him his choice between taking his
man out of the way and having
the whole affair detailed to the
Legislature, the Senate and the
country. Mr.. Corbett, from all
that appears, was as innocent of
any completely in, or even knowl-
edge of, the intended bribery as
the babe unborn; but appearances
were against him; he had lived
long enough to find ont that men
are apt to put the worst construc-
tion on things, and he didn't want
to sacrifice his friend The up
shot of the business WAS that he
got out of the way, and Mr.. Hol-
liday had the satisfaction of see
ing his attorney elected to the
Senate of the United States.
Which satisfaction was not I'M
mixed, however, for though the
attorney was put forward in his
interest, he intended, in his secret
heart, after the field had been
cleared, to come in and seize the
place himself. But, like Miles
Standish, sent to court a girl for
his friend, the attorney concluded
to keep the prize for himself, and
though Ben, the rough, may have
upbraided in private, he had to
smile and congratulate in public.
springfield Mass Republican
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The STARTING PoxT.-The New
York Nation thinks "we are making
money enough in all conscience. ?
Judging from certain recent reYe-
lations concerning the prevalent
greed of gold, the worship of Nam
mon, corruption, peculation, BRIDE
~ and perfdy, the fac would Fath-
er seem to be that . considerable
portion of our wealth is made with
out any conscience at all And the
grave, pressing, imperative, ques-
ton is, how TO remedy IL. After
all is said and done, there is but one
vital and efeetual cure, that of indi-
yiduai integrity. The people must
begin at home; not with conven-
tons and machineries, but with
themselves and their children,
working at the beginning Of con-
science and consciousness, building
up the foundation Of that strong,
assured character which Is able TO
back the tempter on all occasions,
and which, while fearing TO do
wrong, fears nothing else in all the
world beside.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-28
A GREAT SHOVEL FACTORY.
Hsw cakes Anes Made His Money.

nov VAkeS AAes Made HIS Money.
The prominence of the great
shovel maker at WashingtoA, these
days, lends an additional interest
to the works at Easton. The his
tory of this trade. commences as
far back as the Revolution, when
John Ames worked at his forge in
West BridgeWater. Here he mind
ed all the duties of a blacksmith,
and also made plow-points, and
afterward a few shovels, the first
records on his books, which were
in 1888, showing first a halfdoz-
en-, and then four or five dozen,
made wholly by hand. 1t was in
1900 that he removed to North
Easton, having before that found
ed the United States armory in
this city, in connection with his
brother David. David remained
in the city as superintendent at
the armory, and subsequently
built the paper mill on Mill river,
just below the water-shops, which
his sons, David and John, snbse-
quently inherited, and which was
destroyed by fire some years ago.
John turned his attention exclu.
siyely to shovel making. The
troubles with England coming on
soon after, lie had an opportunity
of furnishing his ware for govern
ment use. He progressed so rap
idly in his trade, that in the year
1872 he almost astonished himself
by making a total, in the ID
of 1900 dozen shovels.
In 1874 tine son of the eldest Ames
formed the partnership of Oliver
Amos & Sons, which is the firm
name now, though the senior part
ner died some ten years since.
The present firm consists of Cakes
Ames and his brother Oliver
Ames, Cakes A. Ames and Oliver
Ames second, sons of the Con
and Frederick L. Ames,
son Of Oliver. The firm has
works at West Bridgewater, Can
ton, Braintree and North Easton,
where shovels are manufactured,
owns seven-eighths of the Ames' |
Plow Company's stock, and has a
controlling interest in the Kings
ley Iron Machine Company at |
Canton. Over fifty men arc re-
luired to make one shovel, and |
the whole number made would |
seem to overstock the market,
we're it not that the extent of the
world is its only limit. With all |
the hands fully employed, the firm
tmns out $50 dozen of the instru-
ments every day. Last year was
a dull time,and lbs, 000dozcn were
made. The goods are sold entire
~ by order, and no agents are en-
ployed. On all the railroads in
the Union, in the diamond fields
Of Africa, in Australia, Asia,
Europe, and the South American |
in New leland and the
islands OF the sea, the Ames shov-
Ell may be almost anywhere seen. |
Republican.
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COLONIES.

Man is u cooperative animal,
When civilized, life is to him moth
ing without laws, without society
and without religion. For these
thidgs he must depend upon his
fellow man. Cooperation is nee
cessity in many things. In the
settling of new countries where
there are savages, or which dc not
contain all the clements of sus-
tenance, it is necessity, and in
all cases an advantage. Hence
the colony plan is a favorite meth
cd for rearing up new homes in a
new land. This method used to
be followed principally where the
emigration was from one country
to another, as from Holland to
Guieana. But now it is adopted
in moving from one section of the
same country to another, and par
ticularly is this the case in the
broad domain of the United States.
Large tracts west of the Missouri
have been settled by colonies or
bands of immigrants. For rea-
sons easy to be inferred, it is a
safe and happy way for the pio-
neer. The success of these enter
prises has not been without its in
fiuences, and to-day the colony
emigration fever is at its heigh
Colonies are settling on the Union
Pacific road, on the Kansas Paci-
fic, on the Atchison, Topeka d
Santa Fe, and in Texas. Colonies
are forming in the middle, eastern
and southern States, and in
Europe, to try their fortunes in
the hopeful west. AS an inhabi-
tant of the west we are glad to see
this, for we know that wild lands
that is, land unused, is dead
capital. So is stone unqu2rried,
coal unmined, water power unap-
propriated. We have an addition
al reason. We are located in the
Great Arkansas Valley, the most
extensive, fertile, healthy and the
best located in the Union, and we
know, when there is emigration
excitement east of US, we may
count on getting our share. Our
country thus far has grown with
marvellous rapidity and vigor. We
have enjoyed the excitement and
prosperity incidental to this
growth, and wish it to continue.
We believe it will, and with in
creased speed. Every week we
either see or hear of colonial
agents hunting locations for colo
MES, while individual settlers OF
small squads are dropping in rap
idly. Let them come in any shape
they may, we welcome them, il
bold and hardy.
Strictly speaking, the arguments
generally used with regard to colo
NAL emigration do not apply to
this section, because the wilder.
ness here is conquered. We have
q railroad, churches, and schools;
civil law is strictly enforced, and
amenities of life observed. Hence
the new conner is safe whether he
comes in a troop or singlv.-
Hutchinson News.
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3 The lord mayor Of London sal
down to his Christmas dinner
with 186 relations, and none 7oi
them were poor. tT@
i It is stated that some eleven
hundred saits are about to be an
Itered against the Missouri Pacific
and the Atlantic. and Pacific rail-
| roads by citizens of Warrensbnrg,
ISedalia, and other points on the
road, for unjust Discrimination in
freight charges. These suits in
volvc over 81 .000, 0o0 as''A
Mrs.. DR.. MaEs Walker, whom
beyerybadyihoped had oozed out,
has turned up again at MASKING
ton and now wants Congress to
give. her $4,000 out Of the con-
Science fund. In all conscience
let her have it, provided that will
be the last of her. ITS worth the
amount to have these annoyaflees
abated. asd7 p.si' 3
+. On the, first of this month. the
Western Union telegraph eom.
pany reduced their rates The
highest tariff for a ten word mes
sage to any part of the Western
Union line does not now exceed
$3.50. heretofore it. was over S..
This reduction is most gratifying
to the purses of people. having
much telegraiAhing ta-do.
j. Il. Holmes of Manchester;
Michigan. has just sold five trees
on, his land in Clinton for 5000.
Four, of the trees were black wal
nut. and the other was a cherry
They were bought for the Detroit
market, and the same man offered
$3.50 for Is walnut trees standing
on the same land, being, the price
that Holmes paid for the Sc acres.
3 y man at. lebanon. ILL.,. heard
strange and. fitful- noises in his,
house until he could stand it no
longer, and went gropihgsabout in |
the darkness, compelled as if it,
were by an unseen presence In
n dark damp passageway he was
touched on. the, nose by n cold,
clamy finger. He shot. twice ut
the invisible thing-lights were
brought, and two bullet holes
through the family tea-kettle,
which was swaying in the wind,
showed that he had laid ont the
ghost, and also made a soldering
bill of % cents. $3.50 !
George William Curtis was born
in Providence. r. l., in 1924: Aei
the age of fifteen he. entered the
Association. In 1876
he went to Europe, and after a
year spent in travelling, enteredthe
Berlin University. After leaving
that institution he spent two years
in Egypt and Syria. In
1850 he returned to America and
Soined the editorial staff of the /
Tribune. He was, one of the orig I
inal editors of Putnam Maya
zine, lind sank his private fortune /
in that concern. lin 1858 lie be-
gan as lyceum lecturer, in which |
field his success has been marked /
and uniform. He is HOW the po-
Iitical editor of Harper'ss Weekly
fills the Easy Chair of the
and writes "Manners
upon the Road for the Bazaar.
His style is elegant and polished,
and it is stated that the Harpers
value his services ut $4,000 2
year. !.
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IcoNDrcrED III PROF. $. $. HANCOCK.
/ The learned, after many con
tests, have at length agreed that
the numerical characters 1, 2, 5, 4,
70, O, Z, 8, 8, usually called Ard6tc,
are OF indian origin. The Arab
|ans do not pretend to have been
the inventors Of them, but borrow
ell them from the Indian nations.
The numerical characters of the
Brahmins, the Persians and the
APabians, saRde ether eastern ma
tons are similar. They appear af-
forwards to have been introduced
into several European nations by
their respective travellers, who re-
turned from the East. They were
admitted-ihto calenzers and ehron-
ieles, but they were not introduced
into charters, says Mr.. aAStle, be-
fore the sixteenth century. The
Spaniards, no doubt, derived their
use from the Moors who invaded
them. In 1910, the Alphonsean
astronomical tables were made by
the order OF Afphonsus Y, by a
jew and an Arabian: they used
these 7ndmefieals, from whence the
contend that they were
first introduced by them. a8
They were not generally used in
Germany until the beginning Of.
the fourteenth century: but in
general the form of the cyphers
were not permanently fixed there
till after the year 1881. The Rms.
slams were strangers To these, be-
fore Peter had finished his travels
in the beginning of the last cen
fury. l956F aFa.e,t bra
The origin OF these useful char
actors With the Indians and Ara-
biaps, is attributed To their great
skill in the arts of astronomy and
arithmetic, which required more
convenient Characters than alpha
bette letters for the expressing of
numbers a-s y-A ..uGs.s--a as
- Before the introduction into
Europe of these Arabic numerals,
they used alphabetical characters,
or Roman numerals. The learned
authors of tho Norwean Traite Di-
plomatique, the most valuable
work on everything concerning
the arts and progress of writings,
have given some curious notices
on the origin of the Roman nutil
morals. Originally men counted
by tiIcil. fingers, thus to mark the
first four numbers they used an /,
which naturally represents them.
To mark the fifth they chose a V,
which is made out by bending in
wards the three middle fingers,
and stretching out only the thumb |
and the little finger; and for the
tenth they used an y, which is a
double V. one placed topsey- turvy
under the other. From this the |
progression of these numbers is
Always from one to five, and from
five to ten. The hundred was sig
nified by the capital letter of that
word in Latin. c. centum. The
other letter ID for 500, NJ for Il
1000, were afterwards added. They
subsequently abbreviated their
characters by placing one of these
figures before another. G
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The FREIGHT. QUESTION. - The
Western farmers appear to be fully
alive to the necessity of cheaper
transportation between the East and
the West. At convention COM
posed of farmers, held at Bloom
ingdale, ILL.,, strong complaints were
made against the greedy railway
kings. The conventionists repre-
sented the farming interest of the
West as being in bad way. Pow
erty, ifnot bankruptcy, it was said,
stares them in the face generally.
According to one speakeD Elm the
midst OF such Overlooking album
dance as to choke the marts. of trade,
and while the consumers on the
seaboard and across the waters are
hungry for products, we cannot re-
aiiZe enough to pay our taxes and
labor" 1t was shown that in ten
years, Notwithstanding the increase
of railroads and consequently of
competition and of business, pas
senger fares have been raised neatly
40 per cent, with n corresponding
advance in freight charges. With
corn selling in New York at 60
cents bushel, il costs ~ cents TO
pay the freight from Illinois, leaV-
ing only % cents for the producer.
One speaker stated that the actual
cost for transporting a bushcl of
corn for that distance did not eX-
coed six cents. The scheme of 3
grand government railroad conhect-
ing the West and the East was gem
orally approved by the convention.
1t was thought that this was entire
iy feasible, and by being run at rea-
sUnable rates of profit would have
the effect TO bring down aud keep
down the charges of competing
lines. 1t was suggested that a be-
ginning could we'll be made in
bringing the railroads of Illinois
that State, which, in respect TO
freight charges, have been openly
| defied. These laws have been sub
mitted to the courts, and their con-
stitutionality has been sustained.
The only difficulty in securing their
enforcement arises from the fact
that while suits would have TO be
brought for the recovery of few
dollars and cents as overcharged,
they would be defended by corpo-
ratlons having $3.50. 600 600 and COM
handing the best legal talent to
fight each case with the utmost
skill for the sake of the principle
| involved. Under these ciTeumstan.
ces the farmers of Illinois, if they
are in earnest about the matter,
must make common cause and carry
test cases through the courts. IL
they cannot get the laws of their
own State obeyed, it will be of little
use to talk Of bringing other gov
eminent regulations to bear upon
a reform.