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a High Old Passenger Con.
0aacGOr.

A few days ago q freight conduc-
tor on one Of the railroads went to
the Superintendent and he thought
he ought to be advanced, having
served on the road for several years.
The Superintendent agreed with
him, and told him that the change
should be made the very next week.
And it was made. The Superin-
tendent a day or two after took a
seat in the resr end of one of the
coaches to see how the new con-
dcctor would take TO business, and
pretty soon the official danced into
the door, cap on his ear, sleeves
pushed up, and half-acre smile on
his face.
"Get out your pasteboards - he
shouted, "I'm the high mucky
muck that runs this train, and then
turning rig BIT and left, he continued I:
fright bowers this way-play
lively - pass or order up-how's
trump with yOu-slide yor right
into Chicago hurry up there
trump this ace = hat kind of a
hand do you hold, old man?"
There was something novel and
exEilerating in his style, but yet
the Superintendent called the con-
ductor up stairs the next day and
toIo MIN he was the best man in
America to run q freight train, aud
that he should have To promote him
backwards. He was too talented
lot passenger conductor.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-06
wrDDER GREENS LAMENT

''I'm goIn to quit this airthly scene;
1t amt no plzce for me to stay
In such world as tits to-day
Such works ana ways is too much for me;
Nobody can leS nobody be.
The girls is hounced from top to toel
An that's the hnll o. what they know;
The men is mad on bonds an stocks,
Swearin' and shootin' and pickin' locks;
I,m real afraid I'll be hanged myself
Fl I amt laid on my final shelf
There amt creature but knows to-day
I never was lunatic any way,
But since crazy folks all go free,
I'm dreadful afraid they'll hang up mel
There's another matter that's pesky hard
cant go into neighbor's yard
To say "How be your or borrow pin,
But what the paDer'II have it in,
Were pleased TO say the Widder Grenn
or. a0nr Worthy friend Mr. Green hss zone
Down to Barkhamsted to see her son."
Great Jerusalem can't stir
Without q raiSin' some felleE's fur?
There amt no privacy, SO to say.
No more than if this was the Judgment day
AM as for rneetin'-I want to swear
Why even "Old Hundreds" spiced, and done
Like everything under the sun;
praise to the Lord from men below"
Now 1t goes like lOpin' steer,
High diddle, didile there and here
No respect to the Lord above.
With Wi ali the crea wI he ever eve made.
And all the jigs that ever was played.
Preachin' tOO-but here Pm dumb.
BuS tell you what I'D like it some
IF good old ParSon Nathan Strong
Out O. his grave would come along
An give us stirrin taste o. fire
Judgment an justice is my desire.
'Taln't all love an sickish sweet,
That makes this world nor 'tother complete
But law, I'm old I'd better be dead;
When the worlds turnin' over my head;
Spirits talkin' like Jarnal fools,
Bibles kicked out o. deestrict schools
Crazy creturs q mur1erin' round
Honest folks better be under ground:
so fare-ye-Welll this airthly scene
Won't no more be fOstered by Wilder Green -
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Look into the house OF a fretful
man or woman, aud mark the dis
comfort, the unhappinese, the posi-
tive misery, they often cause within
its sacred enclosures. Notice fr ct
ful mau in his business relations
how disagreeable he makes himself
to others, and how much he detracts
from his own power to act coolIy
and wiseiy. See such q man in the
cburch-what an amount of friction
and trouble he causes, where Ali
should work smoothly and quietly.
Besides the rasping and discomfort
such q person occasions, the exam
pie he sets is most pernicious,
Children easily catch the manners
Of their elders, and fretfuI people
haYe no one to blame but them.
eeivles II they worrisome, teasing.
dissgreeable children. - Examiner.
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a Compromise chat Il Repu-
dIAGIOn.

- During the past year various
states have boldly taken the ground
that their public debts cannot DO
paid, and that the creditors must
either accept part OF the bonds as
payment. or lose all. This sort OF
doctrine is becoming .AlSrmingly
prevalent and popular. The most
conspicuous exhibition Of the kind
is that ia regard to the debts of
southern states. A joint conven-
ton OF the principal holders OF
their bonds was recently held In
Philadelphia, and . committee OF
dnanciers and bankers was AppOin-
ted TO devise some plan by which
the states concerned could and
would pay their debis. The CON-
Dittee 10 still ayuriug on the prob
lem, bat committee OF New York
bankers appointed to confer with
n committee of Tennessee citizens
In regard TO the bonds OF that statr,
has reported In favor of the princi-
pal aud interest being calculated up
to July Let. 1877, aud that the state
then issue 6 per cent. bonds to the
amount OF so per cent. of the total
amount due, payable in thirty years,
and that the bondholders take these
new bonds in exchange for those
they now hold. It is said that both
sides will probably agree.to the re-
port, and that Tennessee will thus
reduce its debt 40 per cent. onsits
solemn promise to pay the remain
der. II this is not simply repu-
distion OF 40 per cent, we would
like TO know what reputation is.
The "plAn" is expected to be follow
ed by the other SOU bern states,
whose debts are estimated as fol-
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Laughter and Applause
From the New York Public.

There is laughter among the thous-
ands Of Woodworking and generally
faithful men and women who have
been serving the public, aud expect
ed to be turned out. Even Mr.. Key
tells Democratic applicant, who
wants q postoffice at present held
by colored person, that he can see
no reform of the civil service in
turning out a faithful man, white or
black, to make room for q new and
untried person. There is q delight
full freshness about the Washington
atmo sphere. Mr.. Hayes has sud-
denly made it fashionable to be hon.
est. An old friend and party work
er calls; Rutherford meets
George" with frankness and free
dom, and George proceeds to state
his claims and services. 4" Yes, it is
all true; you have done q great
deal for me, and more than l can
eyer repay. But then, you know,
about that place for which you ask,
you are Tot fit for it," Conceive
the roar of half amazed laughter
which such an incident causes about
town, related by the applicant him.
self, because he sees the fun of the
thing, aud likes Rutherford bet
ter than ever. Presently, too, there
comes one of those heavy managers
of the party, who thinks he invent
ed Hayes, or brought him out, or
caused his domination, aud relates
how he called. and urged his claims
somewhat stiffly, sand what do you
think the man said? Why he just
told me that Rutherford B. Hayes
really owed me a great deal, but
that the president Of the Uuited
States did not owe me anything,
aud he could not use his office TO
pay the private debts of Hayes u
Then his blank amazement infects
the crowd with laughter in which
the great disappointed is forced to
Join. And solemn senators so to
Schurz, deman ding the usual distri-
button of patronage, but are calmly
pointed TO the Republican platform,
and urged not to disregard it, but
to be as "as good Republicans as
Mr.. SchurZ himself" About two
days of this sort of thing suficed
TO set all Washington laughing, for
it is really amusing In the last de-
gree to find a set of public men who
try to tell the truth, TO keep their
pledges, and to serve the country.
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The movement in Illinois ia SO
Tar in reference to municipal debts,
which are mainly for railroad bonds,
and now aggregate $45, 1000, 900, aver
aging 10 per cent. interest. Many
Of the towns and counties declare
their unwillingness to make further
effort to pay the interest due on
their tcnds, unless the creditors
throw of part OF their claims in or
der to secure the remainder. This
seems to Us rspudiating the debts
in 80 far as it 10 done, aud nothing
less. The legislature is debating a
plan by which the interest on the
bonds shall be reduced from 10 to
5 per cent. on condition that each
municipality shall pay the State Z
per cent. per year on them, aud the
State shall use 5 per cent. of the
to pay the interest to the bondhold-
ers, and the remaining 2 per cent.
to reducing the principal, thus act
ing as q fiscal agent for the munic-
qualities. But the "plan" amounts
to nothing bat partial Reputation.
In Kansas'the counties and cities
OF Atchison and Leavenworth.
Douglas county, aud the city OF
Lawrence, are moving actively IN q
similar line OF repudiation. The
orthodox 6nanciers OF this and 9th
or countries Seemito be capable of
receiving one financial ides, and
that is that all creditors shall re-
ceive debts due them in specie OF
ats equivalent, aud that when
the debtors cannot be compelled to
pay the entire debt on specie bs-
sis. that they shall repudiate enough
81 It so that they eau pay the re-
mainder In that way. This is q finan-
cial plan which IL, to say the least,
very simple In theory, aud easy to
comprehend, and IL looks as If IL
wac going TO be carried cut to an
immense extent in thse United
States before many years have
elapsed. But to our mind it con-
tainS an element of financial de-
morAlization which its advocates on
both the debtor aud creditor side
fail to realize, bat which time aud
events will make very perceptible.
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Liberty.

School report OF district No. IL.
school commenced Oct. I'd. and closed
February sd. Whole number OF pupil:
enrolled, SO; average daily attendance
36x; number whose department was sat
isfActory, o5; those who were not absent
during the entire term. Clara Allen, and
Obey Needles; those who upon examina-
tiou reached 100. Arthur Miles, Flora
Miles, Stephen AIdrlch, Mollie Powell
Clara Allen and Obey Needles; those who
reached 90, VIM. Kirkendall, Martha
Triggs, Geo. Spellman, Henry spellman
Florence Philips, Maria KirkendalI
Fannie Ratclih, Mary RatcliG, James
Harris, Charley Harris, Charley Bunk
Ira Bunk and Charley sheck.
On the last day we were requ' sted to
leave the school house at three p. m,
which we very obediently did, and on
our return In the evening found a troop
of FAIRIES busily at work, and what with
evergreen wreAths, notices, pictures, cur
Iains and other hangings, the mstamor-
phose was 80 complete that we hardly
recognized our dingy little school room
OF few hours before. The decorations
added much to the evenings entertain.
ment which lasted antil about halt mast
ten, when, according to Programme, Miss
r. Miles was announced for declama-
nation. We expected treat-we always
do when Miss III is to render part-.-but
were wholly unprepared to be treated to
y beautiful autograph album, with our
pupils names neatly enrolled and Cow
per's Political Works. elegantly bound
and containing six beautiful steel en-.
cravings. We bore IL though ,ws believe.
with tolerable grace, and now want t.
and to our pupils, thaDks.-A thousand
thanks for your beautiful gin, and NAV
the heavenly secretary enroll your names.
every one, Ia the album OF life. and NAV
the KIND father present you with spot
less robe and n crown of life.
JENNIE WALKER, Teacher.
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Lake City for the purpose OF re-
porting to Brigham Young, and he
promised me a crewn celestial as
my reward for what had done. l
went to Salt Lake City and made
my report to Brigham Young ten
days after the massacre. l told him
all, eVerYthing--who were there,
who were guilty and who were ac-
tive in killing the emigrants and
all / knew. / told him, "You must
sustain as or release Us from the
endowment oath TO avenge the
death of the prophets" Brigham
Young said. az will communicate
with God" went back the next
morning, when Young said:
Brother Lee, not q drop of in
nocent blood has been shed. l
have gone to God in prayer. God
has shown me it was q just act.
Tue people did right, bat were only
little nasty. have direct evil
dence from God that the act was q
Just one, that it was accord with
Gods will. sustain you aud the
bret hren in all that you did. ALI l
fear is treacherY on the part of the
brethren concerned. Go home and
tell the brethren I sustain them.
Keep all secret as the grave. New
er tell one word, and write me q let
ter laying all the blame on the In
dams. 1 will then report to the
United States Government that it
was an Indian massacre"
Brigham Young was then, and
for many years after. fully salts fed
with me in my act. He gave me
three wives after that, and appoin-
ted me Probate Judge of Washing
ton county.
When Cradlebaugh was Judge
in Utah and went to Mountain
Meadow to investigate the m2ssa-
ere, Brigham Young went with
him. He then knew all about the
massacre and upheld the brethren.
He preached at Cedar City, and
said about the emlgrants:
ado you know who they were
I will tell you. They were the
fathers; mothers, brothers, sisters,
uucles, aunts and children of the
men who killed the saints in Jack
son county, and afterwards killed
the Prophet in Carthage Jail. Their
children are in the poOrhOuse their
relatives refuse them because they
are the children of thieves, outlaws
and murderers. I have been told
there are many brethren who are
willing to inform on those who did
this thing. hope there is no truth
in the rumor. hope ne such per-
son lives. If there is, tell you
what your fate will be. Unless you
repent at once, keep secret all that
you know, and protect each other
you will die dogs death. You
will soon go to hell as damned, lost
souls. Let me hear no more of
treachery among my people. ANY
one who had proved traitor there
would have met the destroying an
gel at one."
After 1 went home l wrote a long
letter, the same as has been intro
duced in evidence against me.
Brigham Young knew that it was
false and written to save the Nor
mon church. His report to the
government was a part of the plan
to cave the Mormons from blame.
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GO Slow.

The times are hard, the people say,
And ail Our Odlce-hacks,
From statesmen down to chimney sweeps,
Have turned financial quaeks;
They'd dose the Nations stomach with
DecoctienS of their squills:
But LITTLE sure prevention is
The best cure for orr ills.
So when Progression's wheels grow veal
. drive the wagon slow;
Buy nothing that you 10 not need,
Ana pay as you go.
60 slow, go slow.
And pay as you go.
Some people think tits best to hoard
Our gold and silver mp
Until our foreign ere itors
snail please on them 10 sup.
While we in idle dumps sit by
And see things go to smash,
Sooner than say . greenback Is
As good as ready cash.
SO. when you have balky horse,
o drive the wagon slow;
Buy nothing that you do not need.
And pay as you go
Go slow, go slow,
And pay As you CO.
And some would have our government
Turn all the paper mills
Into hash houses for the make
OF million dollar bills,
Which. broadcast, they would distribute
TO every lazy scrub
VI no won't by work Of brain or hands,
An honest living grub.
But then day of reckoning comes;
Buy nothing that you do nQtneed,
And pay as you go. 49,
60 slow, go slow,
And pay as you go.
Some shrek for higher tariff dues,
And some for none at all;
some Tor more home consumption.
And some for less do baWI:
While be1ive the wisest part
To let these QUESTIONS rest,
AND TO get back TO honest ruts
All do our level bestl
When or the old, we'll trodden road,
y drive the wagon slow;
Buy nothing that you not need
Ana pay as you go.
Go slow. go slow,
And pay AS you go.
The golen coin is but the fruit
OF constant, earnest strife
ana frugal are the rugged base
OF every nations life.
IL we would spend we first should make
Lee all by this rule go;
Enough for every honest want
But not cent for Showi
So, when you're ON the down hill grade
drive the wagon slow;
Buy nothing that you do not need,
And pay as you go.
90 slow. go slow,
And pay as-you 60
silk Is but q pauper rag
When debt its Iustres soil;
calico's the better dress
Whom earned by honest toll
The on horse is of racer stock
And steps out beautiful
But the old mare is the better nag
Upon the uphill pull
So Keep your nags well under curb,
And drive the wagon slow,
Bny nothing that you do not need,
And pay as you go.
Go slow, 20 slow,
And pay as you go.
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The London &hOp-HfrIs Hard
Life.

London Globe.
The shop-girl is one of the most
hardly used of the human crea-
lures compelled to labor for bread.
The terms on which they are COM
monty engaged are of themselves
prepostarous, and afford melan-
choly evidence of the state of the
girl labor-market. The ordinary
practice is to insist, on a young
woman first entering the business.
on her serving one or two years
as "learner," during which time
she receives no remuneration ex-
ceptlng her food and lodging !;
after which, if she has given per-
feet satisfaction, she will receive
in shape of salary, rather more,
perhaps, than is given to an eff
Gent maid-of-all-work.
But no maid-of all-work who
ever drudges single-handed for a
family of seven has such a hard
time Of it as the shop-girI who is to
be found at the present time in ev
cry part of London. There are, of
course, exceptions. It is generally
understood that at the most i'm
portant establishments, where,
perhaps, 200 or 800 young people
Of either sex are employed, every
possible attention is paid to their
domestic comfort and moral vel.
fare-that baths and books and
all manner of heaIthful entertain
ments are provided for them after
business hours, which closes early
in the evening and allows a half
holiday on Saturday. But where
there is one such wholesale bust
ness there are in the metropolis
100 of the p2ltry sort, where the
number of "hands" employed
does not exceed half a dozen or
so, and where it is found necessa-
ry to adopt E vigorously calculat-
ed ''cutting" system in order to
make business pay and keep pace
with equally sharp competitors.
1t is at such a place where the
poor shop-girl is made to pay the
pans aud penalties which attach
to the business of her choice.
Eight o'clock in the morning is
the ordinary hour at which these
shops are opened, and they remain
open until nine or ten at night.
Ninety hours between Monday
merning and Saturday of daily
work, Incessant were it not for the
brief time allowed for meals,
which-shop-room being the first
consideration in the arrangements
of the house-are usually taken
in the more or less unwholesome
kitchen. Crowded with goods in
the summer time, the third or
fourth rate diapers shop is un-
bearably close and oppressive, and
if the place is constantly crowded
with customers, the air, of course,
suffers in proportion. In the
winter time the draughts through
doerways, necessarily kept epen
or jar for business reasons, &C
count for the shop being bitterly
cold, and for chilblained hands and
feet from which the poor things so
commonly suffer. Chilblaine1 or
sound, however, there is no rest
for the said feet. ''No sitting
down" is the rule infiexible at the
shop of the vender of long cloth
and laces, and any young lady de-
tected in the enormous iniquity
of evading it while on duty would
in a first instance be severely re-
primanded, and in a second pro-
baby discharged. It is a mon
strously cruel rule, and makes one
almost wish that the cruelty to
animals bill included human
kind.
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ODD FELLOWS.

HNION LODGE, No. Is. Meets at Odd
" Fellows hall, over Emporia Bank, every
Tuesday evening at s O'Clock. Members in
good standing invited 70 attend.
r. w. HIRTH, Sec'y.
ENMPORIA ENCAMPMENT, No IT. Moets
II at Odd Fellows hall. list and Sd Tuesdays
each month. The following are the elected
officers of Emporia Encampment, No. II, for
the ensuing term:
y. II. WARSEKE, c. r.
+. w. HIRTH, Scribe.
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With a clear sky. a bright sun an

With a clear sky, bright sun and
q gentle breeze, you can have friends
in plenty; but let fortune frown and
the armament be overcast, and then
your friends will prove like the
strings of lutte, of which you will
tighten ten before you will find one
that will bear the stretch and keep
the pitch.-Gotthold.
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A pair of quakers were lately
heard in high controversy, the bus
band exclaimlng: 81 am determin-
ed to have one quiet week with
thee" @But how wilt thou be able
to get it 2" said the haunting spouse.
will keep thee a week after thou
art dead" was the rejoiner.
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STATE GOVERNMENT.
CITY OFFICERs.

Mayor-Thos Morrison.
Treasurer Howard Dunlap.
Police Judge-Geo. 81. Stowel
City Attorney-J. jay Buck.
City Clerk-E. NJ. Forde.
Oarshal-Thos. Flemming.
Chief Engineer-D. e. McMurtrie.
Councilmen-1st Ward, A. A. Baker, 1. e.
Perley. I'd Ward, H. b. Lowe, J. H. Davis.
3D. Ward, John Henson, E. p bancroft fth
Ward, Ed. Borton, L. Nichols.
Board of EducatiOn-1st w ard, J. Jay Buck.
W. 7. McCarty. I'd Ward, Van MCCULLOUGH.
n. T. Nix. Sd Ward, II. W. McCune, L. L.
Halleck 4th Ward, j. A.Moore, L. B. Kel.
logg- Treasurer board OF Education, D. W
Eastman.
Justice Of the Peace. b. Bachelor, Geo.
II. Stowell.
COnstables-T. johnson. H. w. Gilchriest
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EMPoRIA SOCIETIES.
MASONIC.

EMPORIA COMMANDERY, Nos KIT.
d Meets on second Saturdays, after second
Friday OF each month at Masonic hall.
J.JAY BUCK. Recorder.
ENMPORIA CHAPTER, z. A. NJ. Meets ~
IL Masonic hall, on the Second Friday
Of each month. Companions in good stand
ing are cordially invited to attend
L. o. DAVIDSON, H. p.
ED BoRToN, Secretary
EMPORIA LODGE, No. I2, A. T. A. N.
IA Meets at Masonic hall, on the list FRI
day OF each month. Master Masons In good
standing are cordially invited to attend.
j. JAY BUCK. Secretary.
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SheriH,s Sale.

DISlFIcL COuFt, Filth Judicial District, LYON
County. Kansas.
Orvil /. Chase,
VS..
Arathusa J. Barton eft al
DY virtue OF an order of sale issued ont Of
- the District Court of the Fifth Judicial
District. sitting within 8 nd for the county OF
Lyon, and State of Kansas, l will, on Monday
the 3Oth day of April, a. ID. 1877, at IL O'Clock
a. m, at the front door of the court house. in
the city of Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas,
oner for sale at public auction, to the high
est bidder for cash, the following described
real estate, to-wit: All of the southwest quar-
ter OF the northeast quarter of section four
teen l14l, township nineteen fI9I, range ele1-
en- l1ll, east. lying north or the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway, in Lyon county,
Kansas, containing twenty-four acres
oaid real estate will be Sold as the propert
OF said defendants to satisfy said order Of
sale. HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
Lyon County, Kansas.
Sheriff's Office, March 90, 1871 I3-5t
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DIsir1cL SourI, f1ILn JUDICIAL District.
Lyon County, Kansas.
Noah Lofland
VS.
Maggie Lofland.
By virtue OF an order of sale, issued out
OF the District Court sitting in and for the
County OF Lyon, in the above entitled
Cause, win, on Monday the 23d day o.
April. 1877, 1t 10 O'Clock 8. m, st tht
front door Of the Court House in Emporia
Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale al
pnblic auction, TO the highest bidder fol
cash: the following described real estate
TO wit: Lot number nine, (9) on Merchants
street, in Copley's Addition to the CITY OF
Emporia. In Lyon county, Kansas. Said
real estate will be sold as the property Of
Maggie Lof1and, to satisfy said order OF
sale. Sherif's office, March 81, 1877.
HIRAM CONNER.
12-5t Sheriff of LYON county. Ransas