The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-12-19
Peculiarities Of one Of the Most Sue
eessfnl Journals In the World.

The New York San touches up
Mr.. Childs' peculiar manner of
avoiding burning his fingers with
the red hot topics of the day in this
happy vein:
When some outrage especially
fragrant, involving robbery of the
treasury or the compromising OF a
big felony, engages the public at
iention. the Public Ledger, Instead
of seeking to aggravate the general
discomfort, comes to the front with
soothing article on "Greasing
with Bacon in Scarlet Fever" The
taxpayer who is q parent, aud the
multitude of Taxpayers are such,
finds Il pleasant solace in thinking
that, even II he is likely 10 20 max
cd some day, his little boy can at
any rate be cheaply cured of ono of
the most danger Gus malRdics of In
fancy. When Mana has swept @
fresh election BY the help of his
hordes of repeaters, he finds
himself rebuked in this sterling
journal next mOrniHg with a with
ering article on "rhe Rava9es of
the TobaccO-worm." McAIuIlin
and Bum are annihilated by burn
ing essays EN- -t'The Use Of Afn-
monia ia Chronic Heaves," and on
The Supposed l invention of the
Velocipede by the Chinese ;" KEN
bic, after his greatest feat of
Addition, Division aud Silence, IL
startled and alarmed by the admoni-
lions on "The Virtue of Early ris-
ing;" and bitterly docs Allison rne
the hour in which he stripped a
Quaker gentleman of his hat and
rendered the compliments OF the
court to an armed rufiian for carry
ing pistal, when, with trembling
fingers, he holds next days Ledger
before him and reads that magnifi-
cent inYectivc upon ''The Cruelty
of Plugging Lobsters' Claws.
There j. no crisis 10 which this
andaciona journal Is not equal.
When Jay Cook x Co., failed, and
Iuin presented itself on every, si,le,
when other pens were paraliZed
and other minds bewildered, the
faithful Childs was ON hand with a
timely article on The VaIne of
Health" How strongly did he en-
force on the bcggared depositors
who had believed In the Christian
banker the importance of tho
flesh brush, and q walk before
breakfast! How tenderly did he
aooth the washerw oman OH whom
her savings bank had suspended"
with counsel TO be sparing in diet,
and not 10 enter an open carriage
when overheated! With what
timely significance did Ills advice
against too much wine at dinner
aud attendance at the opera more
than twice IA week reach the heart
at the widow in the garnet, with u
lock of small children. as her tears
dropped on that one Northern
Pacific bond for which she had
given her all
Faithful ever In the past, this
sentinel and monitor may ssffely be
trusted in the future. And in
That day OF wrath, that dreadful day
When heaven and earth shall pass
away
when even the Ledger building be-
gins To totter TO its fall, and the
statue of Franklin Oh its corner to
crack and bend ON those ponderous
legs which tho artist modelled from
grand piano-with GabPiel's
trumpet rising on the blast, and
with Christian bankers forsaking
senate house and shaYiDg-shop, and |
running like mad men before an
unpleasant-looklng person with a |
tail and a three pronged fork--let
Philadelphia assure herself her |
Chi:ds will not fail her. He witt
soar with tho occasion, and the |
world WILL get such al article on. |
THE Value of Corbolic Acid for |
Corns" as will remove even from |
The mind of EembIe all sense of
present anxiety. ~