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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

Much of the trouble complained
of at the South is indirectly trace
able to idleness on the part of it's
young men. We have enough of
it at the North, but throughout
the recent slave States, it is little
short of q blight and a curse.
The old time notions about labor
still prevail to a large extent.
Physical work is deemed degrad-
ing and below the dignity of gem
tlemen. To use the shovel and
the hoe; TO follow the pillow or
drive team, is to lower ones self
to the level OF the slave. Any
thing but honest work! Young
men who would scorn to soil their
hands in earnest endeavor to till
the soil, or in trying to become
skilled mechanics are willing 10
unite with the White Leagues, par
ade all day in their ranks, and ride
all night to perpetrate outrages
on the race they hate. The man
who works for living, black or
white, is an object of contempt to
these patrons of idleness. They
see the sceptre of power departing
from them; they see their former
possessions going into the hands
of those who believe in hard work;
they feel that they are growing
poorer daily; and instead Of throw
ing off their coats and rolling up
their sleeves for an earnest compe-
tition in the fields of industry,
they strive in vain to stem the
tide that is bearing them down to
ruin by hopeless war on the in
dustrial class that stands in their
way. Can not some true friend of
the South arouse these young men
to the certain danger which con
fronts them? Idleness leads to
vice, and vice ends in destruction.
There is bright future for the
South. Her cup of prosperity
will in time be filled to overflow
ing. If her young men would
drink from the cup, and be found
in the van of her new civilization,
they must turn their backs on the
foolish leagues that lead them to
evil, and face, like men, the re-
sponsibility of labor. Industry
can soon relieve the South of its
burdens; idleness, if longer prac-
ticed, will add to them.
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which shall 1t BE.

In view of the great dangers be-
setting young people of the pres
ent day, in the form of bad news
papers, illustrated F.juvenile"
monthlies and weeklies of vile
character, surreptitiously cir
culated, and finding their secret
way into the best homes and
school houses of the land, the dull
est managers or pure periodical
for the young hardly can fail to
burn with a holy fire. If they on
~ can do a negative good, in
crowding bad reading to the wall,
in taking up the children's atten.
ton so that foul publications are
unheeded, great work is accom-
plished; their mission is a blessed
one, and good citizens every
where should rally to their assist
ance. Let not parents deceive
themselves. No home is too sacred
or too carefully guarded for those
fiendish invaders, the vendors of
low and dangerous Juvenile pub
locations, to ply their unholy trade.
EUery child is in danger, for whom
good, well selected, enjoyable
reading is not provided by those
most directly having it's best in
terests at heart. All dangerous
publications do not betray their
character at glance. Often they
wear the mask of graceful informa-
ton, and even of piety. A mere
general oversight will suffice. Do
not force your child to spend time
in reading but look to it that all
his or her reading-time be
properly and pleasantly fill
ed. While you blindly con-
graduate yourself that your
boy or girl, through a fondness for
books and periodicals, must nee
essarily be learning something, it
may be well to know what that
something is. Undue intellectual
stimulus for children is bad
enough, but emotional stimulous
is worse. In the hands of unprin-
cipled purveyors, il opens the way
to moral errors of every kind, and
by quickening an else slow growth
to what is holy, develops only pre-
cocity in vice. The point of the
wedge is easily thrust back; but
beware of the silent force that
having once gained an entrance
may split the peace and purity oil
your home.-"Home and society,"
Scribner's for October.
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Bancroft Er Iianzs

of their posterity, that they NIGH
desist. For g single moment, i
did not occur to him that the man
Lincoln was being assaulted, but
that "a reasonable spirit, enc wait
ing to destroy the freest govern,
ment the sun ever shone on, was
giving vent to itself on him as the
chief executive, only because he
was such executive.
AS a lawyer in your midst.
he would have avoided all this
SANDER, for his life was a pure and
simple one. and he 40 doubt would
have been Il much happier man.
Bat who can tell what might have
been the fate OF the Nation hut for
the Pare, unselfish aud wise al
ministration of Abraham Lincoln
from March, 1861, to the day when
the hand OF an assassin opened n
grave for Mr. Lincoln, then Presi
itlent of the United States.
My personal relations with him
were as close and intimate as the
nature of our respective duties
would permit. To know him per-
sonally WAS to love and respect
him for his qualities of head and
heart, and for his patience and pa
triotism. With all his disappoint-
ments from failures on the part of
those to whom he had entrusted
command, and treachery on the
part of those who had gained his
confidence bat to betray it, I ney
er heard him utter complaint nor
the least censure for bad condRcEt
or bad faith. Il was his nature to
find excuses for his adversaries.
In his death the Nation lost its
greatest head; in his death the
South lost its most just fri end.
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Two Kinds of Talk.


The Chicago Tribune of the 9Th
inst. publishes a sermon delivered
by Rev. DR.. Cordley, of Lawrence,
in regard to the situation of Kan
sas. Tie discourse is worthy of
the man who delivered it-one of
the most straightforward and NOR
ally courageous men we have ever
known. A man who has labored
faithfully in his vocation, and has
faced with unflinching determine
ton all the calamities which have
befallen Kansas in a period of six
teen years or more. The sermon
is an appeal to Kansas men to
stand by their State, and to make
the best of the situation. The
sermon, moreover, contains some
stirring words to those who blame
Kansas for evils they have brought
upon themselves, who the preacher
says:
When nature, weary of being
trifled with, chastises them with
failure, they blame the country in
stead of their own Incidence.
Last year was called poor year
and most of our farmers were poor
enough-yet I know farmers who
made more last year than any 9TH
er year they have been here, and
they were only plain, steady, hard
working men, and did only what
any one else might do. There was
no unusual skill or luck.
In striking contrast with this
discourse, and yet proving strong
ly the truth of DIR. Cordley's posi-.
ton, is the following epistolary
whine which we find in the Chica
go industrial Age ofSeptember Is
headed @Dismal Condition OF
Things in Kansas"
Box PIG, JUNCTION CITY, KAN.,l
August %. 1874.
Dear Friend Goodhue:
Your last good letter should
have been answered long ago, but
/ have been so busy. ] am gla6
your heart is in the reform cause
/ wish you were here TO help US
AS to money matters, am com
PEELED to say 1 never was 90 need,
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A little New York boy, eleven
years of age, did a plucky thing
while visiting in the country. He
was standing by q switch on the
railroad track which passed
through the village, and as the
tender changed the switch TO turn
an incoming train out of the way
of another train going out, the lit
tie boys hand got caught in the
switch. 1t hurt badly but the little
fellow would not let the switch.
tender take the risk of trying to
make the two changes necessary to
release him in the brief time al.
lowed, but stood bravely the tor
ture until the entire train had
passed.
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Prices Of Noted American
Horses.
From the New York Mail.


The following are some of the
prices paid for American horses:
Kentucky, $4,000; Norfolk, $15,-
900; Lexington, SIS, 900; Kingish-
er, $4,000; Glenelg, $4,000;
Snuggler, $4,000; Blackwood,
$50, 900, Jay Gould, $4,000; Dex-
ter, $33 600; Lady Throne, $50, 600;
Jim Irving, $4,000; Goldsmith
Maid, $4,000; Startle, $4,000;
Prospcro, $40, 600; Rosaliud. $780,
600; Lulu, $4,000; Happy Me
dunn, $25, 600; Clara G., $4,000;
Pocahontas, $35, 900; Edward Ev.
erett, $40, 600; Auborn Horse, 3d.
900, Judge Fullerton, $4,000;
Dombrino BERTHE, $40, 900; Socrates
$40, 600: George Palmer, $4,000;
Mambrino Pilot, $4,000; George
P. Daniels. $1,000; J. G. Brown,
SIS, 600; Magma Charta, at 4 years
of age 81, 500; Floral Temple sold
when aged, for 5000; for a brood
mare; 10000 was offered and re
fused for Tom Bowling last sum
mer: $50, 900 was offered and re
fused for Bassett in his three yeal
old form; $25, 600 will not today
buy haywood or Asteroid; $40, OOt
was offered and refused for Wood
ford Mambrino, and $4,000 TO
Throndale.
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THE ssAR-TENDEEs.~ SrDEsY


When l kncwed him At first there wa
suthin'-
| A sort OF u general air
That was very particular pleasin'
And what you might call debonuaIr.
Pm aware that expression is Frenchy'
And rather high daddy. perhaps;
Which accounts that have the -ic,iuaini
ofseycrll quaiiiy chaps.
| But he got 10 increasin' his doses.
And took 'em more often. he jId:
| And IL growed on him faster and faster
Till inter Il hummer he slid.
l WAS grieyed TO observe this here feijer
a shown himself down the grade.
Aud lectured him onto IL sometimes,
At the risk of its sPflin' the Trade.
III.
At last lac got thunderin' seedy
And he lost his respect for GiSseli.
And all his high notions OF homer
Was bundled away on the shelf.
But 1T times he was dreadful Temorseless
Whenever he'd stop for TO think,
And he'd swear 20 reform hisself frequent
And end it by takin' drink
".
Whist saved that young feller: r. woman
She done 10 I'm 4 Singlercst way.
lie come into the bar-roOm one cvenin',
(He hadn't been drinkin' that day
And sot himself down to a table
With "A terrible sorrowful face,
And he sOt there groanin' repeated,
AMI calm hisself gone case.
V.
lie WAS thinkIn' aud thinkin' and thinkin',
And cussin hissclf for his fate.
And ended his thinkin', as usual,
by orderin' a Bourbon straight.
lie was holdin' the glass in his fingers,
When into the place from the street
There came i young gai like spirit,
With face that was powerful sweet.
VI.
And she glidcd right up to the table,
And took the glass gently away,
And she says TO him, George, IL is over;
am only Il woman to-day!
l rejected you once iii my anger,
But come to you lowly and meek,
For | can't live without you, icy darling;
thought ! was strong, but I'm weak.
VII
''lou are bound in terrible bondage,
And 1 come, love, TO share it with you;
Is there shame in the decds can bear II,
For at last 10 my love am true;
have turned from the home Ofmy child
hood.
And l come TO lover and friend.
Leaving comfort. eOntentmeut and honor,
And I'll stay TO the terrible end.
VIII.
as there hunger and want in the future:
i will share them with You and not
shrink!
And together we'll join III the pleasures,
The woes and the dangers Of drink"
Then she raised up the gl1ss, firm and
steady,
But her face was as pale as the dead
'lIere's to wine and the joy of carousals,
The songs and the laughter she said.
TX.
Then he riz up, his face like tempest,
And he took the glass out of her hand,
And flung IL away stern and savage
And l tell you his manner was grand!
And he says: IL have done with it. Nelly,
And I'll turn from the ways have trod,
And iii live to be worthy of you, dear,
So help me Il merciful God!
Y.
You have saved me my love and my
darling,
On noble and womanly plan;
10 back TO your home till seek you
In the sarb and the strength OF man" |
seen that same fellow last Monday.
LoOkin' nObby and handsome and game; |
lie was wheelin', q vehicle, gentlemen,
And baby was into the same.
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A dashing youth went up to an ell
Derby Sixth avenue newsdealer, yes
terday, and claimed acquaintance.
''Y on don't know me:" asked the
young man emphasizing the word me.
"Why, / am james, the son of Mr..
johnson. Father took papers of you
for years before he died, and have
ever since; but we've moved up town.
By the way, believe 1 owe YOU 81 on
that last quarter The old gentle
mans pulse quickened, he adjusted his
spectacles, took another look at the
youth, and remembered. His youth
full debtor produced a $40 bank-note,
the debt was settled, and they bade
each other a courteous adieu. The
note was eounterfeit.-New York Sun.
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STATE OF KANSAS, Lyon CoUNTV-SS.
! The STATE Of KaRsds, to AL TO srAoza these pres
eats shan eoale-9rsetia0!
HNOw We, that i. John Bay. Sheriff o
N Lyon county. Kansas, by virtue OF an
thOrity in me vested, do, by this proclamation
give public notice that on the Tuesday sue
ceeding the first Monday in November, a. d
1874, there will be held general election. and
the officers at that time to be chosen are as
follows. to-wit:
4 Governor.
n ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
\ Secretary of State.
An Auditor of State.
n Treasurer OF State,
An Attorney General.
A State Superintendent of Public InStrnc-
ton.
4 Justice of the Supreme Court
- Congressman Sd. District.
a state Senator 9th. District.
y Representative 6Sth. District.
A Representative 18th. District.
~ County Attorney.
A County Superintendent of Public In
Struction.
ACOroner to ill vacancy.
a Probate Judge.
\ Clerk of District Court.
And votes of electors for said officers will
he received at the polls of each election dis
trict in said county.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand. ut my Office, at Emporia, in said
county, this end day OF October. A: d. 1874.
JOHN BAY,
Sheriff of Lyon county, Kansas.
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Sherrih-s Sale.

DY virtue of al order of sale issued out OF
ID the District Court, fthe 9Th Judicial dis
t Ra sitting IN and for Lyon county,
TIM and c. w Adams is defendant, 1 will
on Monday the and. day of November, a. ID.
1874, at O'Clock a. m. at the front door of the
court house, in said county, offer for sale at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash
IN nand, all the right, title and interest of the
defendant, T. W. Adams in and to the follow
ing described real estate to-wiu: The south
east quarter of section IL, township ~, range
Will be sold as the property of the above
named defendant, e. W. Adams to satisfy
said order of sale. JOHN BAY
Sheriff of Lyon county. Kansas.
Emporia, Kansas. October End, 1874. 40-44
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STATE ITEMS.

~ . u h H AsNASs
Mitchell county has 1875 dol
lars in scrip outstanding.
Morris county is troubled with
aid meetings.
Only twenty-five damsels at
Council Grove, waiting
Abilene is mad because Man
haitian ships lime past her to Sail
ma.
John ii. Edwards, late State
Senator, is candidate for the House
from Ellis.
The Iron on the road from Man
haitian up the Blue is laid beyond
Rocky Ford.
During the month ofSeptember
the rain fall at the Agricultural
College was Abb inches.
The Beloit Gazette claims that
Mitchell county will be the ban
ner Republican county in the
State.
Cloud county desires TO be put
down 1000 majority for Phillips
and the straight Republican State
ticket.
Parrott, Cusey IL Co. failed to
find an individual in the town of
Abilene to act as charm an of their
meeting.
Hays and Ellis, up west, are riv-
al towns. Hays claims an advan-
tage in the fact that she has eight
more young ladies than Ellis.
From January l, 1874 to No
vember l, 1874 S99,042 acres of
and were disposed Of at the Sail
ma Land office. OF this amount
325,953 acres were en- tered by the
Kansas Pacific, and S,54S by the
Atchison, Topeka IL Santa Fe.
This ought to show quite gain
on the tax rolls.
Married ladies in Salina are de-
lighted with the story that the time
table on the X. 2. is to be chang
ed 50 that their eastern mail will
arrive at 4 p. m. instead of 8 p. m.
Husbands going to to the post of
flee after tea has become an IMAM
imous affiiction up there.
Farmers along the Kentucky
branch are still putting up hay,
and busy sowing fall wheat.
Over sixty wagons and teams be-
longing to citizens from the coun-
try were standing around the pub
lie square at Clay Center, Saturday
last, and the merchants looked
happy.
They have a queer way of max
ing boiling odious down in Linn
county. Col. j. ID. SRoddy Is the
Republican candidate for State
Senator.
We notice a growl in the Hutch
inson News which would indicate
that in some parts of Reno county
grasshopper aid is not judiciously
distributed.
The Rev. +. Il. Ingalls,, brother
of Senator ingalls,, was on Tues
day evening last, installed as pas
tor over the First Congregational
church of Atchison.
They cay that Senator Ingalls,
is giving the Kansas City Times
frightfnl scorings in his speeches
through the border tier. He has
the tongue to do il.
Goodin, piebald candidate for
Congress against Cobb, was in the
Chicago convention of 1864 which
declared the war 4 failure. What
does he think now?
When Melius introduced him.
self to Grant at Lawrence last
week, Grant expressed sorrow that
he was unable to examine any
clothing at that time.
The Newton Kansan says the
MennonItes are fast initiating
themselves into Kansas ways
Among the evidences are couple
of babies that have bee n borl
among them since here.
Water is so scarce in Fort Scot
that the people are much annoyed
The wells have all given out, ant
the water haulers complain tina
they cannot get enough for thei
: customers, and are compelled t
put them on short allowance.
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Hoop Poles Wanted.
WANTED.

"EvERLING, FARBUHARsON 4 co.
H VIII pay cash forone million -four Dbl
poles to he delivered at EmDoria
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ADVERTISERS.

The NEWS has bona ysde circulation
OF nearly fifteen hundred copies weekly
and is the best advertising medium to be
found In Southern Kansas. Its prices
are very little higher than papers with
from One-third 10 one-halr It's cIrcuIaiio
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Cordially yours.
JOHN DAVIS

And SO it goes. The farmer in
Davis county who attends to his
farm has wheat to sell. The farm
er who neglects his farm to 90
blowing around the country about
reform, and airing his ignorance
on the national bank question; and
who puts in his time declaiming
about the "oppressions of capital, !"
and studying up an clad mort
gage to gobble up an unfortunate
reform newspaper with-this far
mer has wheat TO buy. That's the
difference.
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NUMBER ~.
LEGAL.
NOTICE
SheriF's REORGANIZATION.

a Ii. persons are forbidden to hunt tran or
IA fish ON my premises under the penalty of
the law. J. L .COEFMAN.
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before. Corn crops all gone-no-
single roasting ear from oyel
thirty acres. Instead of pork, cat
tie and horses to sell to relieve nv
necessities, / must buy $500 worth
of wheat merely to keep animals
and children alive. with borrowed
money on short time at . per cent.
q month. Did you ever hear the
like?
Western Kansas has now all the
calamities ola terrible Chicago fire.
Drouth and locusts have consum-
ed every green thing. Our nur.
sery ia bare of leaves and the new
growth of bark, but trees arc bud
ding again. Starvation of people
aud animals is oar great fear.
People are leaving. Help me II
possible.
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The GREEN Boy OF THE Sun

80. B." gazed pensively at the
card a moment then looked up
meekly at the reporter and said
"Good day, SIR"
The reporter learned at the Office
what he knew perfectly we'll before
that Mr.. Bond had no connection
with the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Before It. n. Sedgwick, j. p, Emporia
City, Lyon county, Kansas.
Miles Il. Brown, Plaintiff,
VS..
Daniel Doty, Defendant.
On the Sth day of October, A. d. 1874
said Justice issued an order of Attach
ment in the above action for the sum of
$1,000 and interest thereon at the rate Of
II per cent. per annuM since April 1st
1874, which said cause will be heard on
the 18th day of November, A. D. 1874, at
10 o'alock a. m. MILES r. BROWN.
1915
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Money to Loan.

ON long time and low rates on improved
" fam security.
t. sEDGwICK.
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NNEN coOpers to shave hoops at Emporia
l. Inquire at Carter Il stones carpenter
shop. A2-4A
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ID. s. 10y and A. ID. TreeSler.
"EREBY give notice to the Public that
IL they hold themselves in readiness to at
tend sales ut any point in the adjacent coun-
for sales can do SO by applying ut Americus
H. m3E
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Information zoE sale. and "a
Desirable Place Vacant.
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LOCAL AND STATE NEWS
A SPECIALITY.

1t works for the People. The People
support It. Under no obligations except
TO its patrons, and TO society generally.
1t don't publish offensive advertise.
ments to poison the minds of the young.
1t publishes the official advertisements
for the county.
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VXTill procure plain penman salari-
w ed position worth SO per month
who win recompense the advertiser with
$50. address
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Last week the following adver-
tisenent appeared in one of the
morning newspapers:
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.Pat1.onize the News
II yer want the People to see your
advertise ments.
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a Sun reporter ans @errd the AL
vertiSemeut. The n.st i.y he re-
ceived the folio iIIs:
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STATE OF KANSAS, Lyon COUNTESS.
The STATE Of KaaSds, to Az TO SrAom these pre-
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Then he riz up, his face like tempest,
And he took the glass out of her hand,
And flung it away stern and savage
And / tell you his manner was grand!
And he says: IL have done with it. Nelly,
And I'll turn from the ways l have trod,
And iii live to be worthy Of you, dear,
So help me 4 merciful God!
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A TTORNEY AT LAW, No. 8 Eas
A sixth street, Newton. Kansas. VIII
practice in the State and Federal court 5
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When l knCwed him at first tacre was
suthin'-
A sort OF u general air
That WAS very particular pleasin'
And what you might call debonuair.
I'm aware that expression is Frenchys
And rather high daddy, perhaps;
Which accounts that have the ir,iuaint-
ancc
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"You have saved me my love and my
darling,
On noble and womanly plan;
Go back to your home till seek you
In the sarb and the strength OF a mani
l seen that same fellow last Monday.
LoOkin' nObby and handsome and game
He was wheelin', a vehicle, gentlemen,
And baby was into the same.