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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-15
For1y-One year. an Editor.
Sew York Tribune. JUNO 2.

new 1Ofk tribune, June 2.
In the Express of last evening, after
Al years of service upon that Journal,
Mr.. Erastus Brooks makes his Valedic-
tory address to its readers. Mr.. Brooks
remarks with a complacency certainly
pardonable, that during his long ca
reer as New York journalist Il2 dali
ly journals have appeared IN this city
and disappeared. There are not so
many regular journals, he says. in
New York as there were % years ago:
and he ventures the opinion that there
will not be as many papers published
here % years hence as there are now.
His theory is that (within probable
limits) the fewer newspapers there are,
the better and cheaper they will be.
1t has been Mr.. Brooks fortune to see
them grow fewer, better and cheaper,
and SO far his theory is sustained by
experience. The truth is, the we'll
conducted Journal OF to-day was en-
tirelY unknown when, in 1876, Mr.
Brooks began his long professional ca
reer. There was no electric telegraph,
There was no great system of connect
ing railways. Ocean steam navigation
was in its infancy. The literary tea
lures of newspapers might be clever
but limited. No New York Journal
had anything like well organized ed
itorial staff. None of them discussed
public affairs promptly and compre-
hensively- The methods of obtaining
early intelligence were resorted to
with spirit, but compared with those
now in vogue they were clumsy and
inadequate. Most of the important
Journals were the organs of party, and
carried on a partisan warfare without
too much regard for truth or for decen-
cy, while every editor devoted a gen.
erous portion of the space at his COM
mand to the discussion of his personal
grievances and to coarse and virulent
attacks upon his rivals in business.
The public made no distinction be-
tween the newspaper and the man who
managed it. Mr.. Bennett was the
Herald, Mr.. Stone was the CONNER
cial Advertiser, Col. Webb was The
Courier and Enquirer, Mr.. Bryant, or
in his absence Mr.. Leggett, was The
Evening Post. One result of this was
a still beginning, never ending series of
personal quarrels in which the public
was supposed to be interested, and per-
haps was so. The taste of these
times was not specially good, and Mr..
Dickens caricatures of Mr.. Jefferson
Brick and Col. Diver, though little
nl-natured, were not altogether with
out verisimilitude.
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A WArER TELEscopE-The fisl

A WATER TELEsCoPE.-The fish
ermen of Norway carry in their
fishing boats a water telescope, or
tube three or four feet in length.
They immerse one end in the water,
and then, looking intently through
the glass, they are enabled to per-
ceive objects ten or fifteen fathoms
deep as distinctly as if they were
within a few feet of the surface.
Hence, when they discover plenty
of fish they surround them with
their large draught nets, and often
catch them by hundreds at a single
haul, which, were it not for these
telescopes, would often prove pre-
carious and Improbable fishing,
This instrument is not only used by
the fishermen, but it is also found in
the navy and coasting vessels.
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The X. G. e. 81 -. Railroad.
EmDoria Real Estate Re0ister

Notwithstanding the floods of
the past month, work on the mar
row gauge has progressed salts
factorily. L. B. Fuller, of Chica-
go, has charge of the line, and is
pushing the work through mud
and water which would discour-
age many men. He informs US
that the profile from here to Madi-
son, twenty miles, will be ready
for bidders by the 9th inst, and
that the contract for grading that
distance will be ready for letting
by the 18th.
The superstructure of the Cot
tonwood bridge is being construct
ed in Chicago, and the abutments
will be commenced as soon as the
water will permit. Having so
long bridge to construct at the
very beginning, of course track
laying cannot commence until it
is built. Those who are familiar
with the route will readily under
stand that 1t will take more time to
CONSTRUCT the first twenty miles,
than any subsequent fifty miles.
Our friends at distance, who
of course are anxious to have the
road as soon as possible, should
remember that it is only six weeks
since Greenwood county voted
their aid, and that no new enter
prise in the west ever accomplish
ed so much as this company has
done in so short time, and all,
too, before they agreed to. The
communities east of US are all TAX
ing hold of the enterprise with a
will, and We think we are safe in
saying that the entire line from
Kansas City to the south line of
the State, will De completed months
before the time agreed upon
The opposition which We haYe
met with has been persistent, and
sometimes INSCRIPTIONS, but the
people are aroused on the. subject
of cheap ,treights, and they will
have them. All our friends in the
southwest have to do is to 'hold
the FORT" for we are coming.
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Frozen Kindness

This world is full of kindness
that never was spoken, and that is
not much better than no kindness
at all. The fuel In the stove makes
the room warm, but there are
great piles of fallen trees living
among rocks and on the tops of the
hills where nobody can get them !;
these do not make anybody warm.
You might freeze to death for want
of wood in plain sight of all these
fallen trees if you had no means of
getting the wood home and making
q fire with it. Just so in family !;
love is what makes parents and
children, and brothers and sisters
happy; but if they take care to
never say word about tiff they
keep it q profound secret, as if it
were crime-they will not be
much happier than if there was not
any love among them the house
will seem cold even in the summer,
and if you live there you envy the
poor dog when any body calls him
q "poor fellow,
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WHAT SHALL WE po2n


A mother sat stitching and stitching away,
1t rained and her boys were indoors a. play,
When one OF them came and leaned on her
chair.
We've played every game in the world that
Voc, what shall we dor"
Before poor mamma had a chance to reply,
The rest of the littIe ones gathered Close by,
And the sum of their troubles all seemed the
We wish that we knew some wonderful game,
We've been sailors and soldiers, and fought
battles, too;
Now what shall we do2''
Mamma thought for moment, then gaily
replied.
Build palace of blocks with porticO wide,
And play that the owner had money to spend
And wanted to decorate rooms without end,
And ordered some pictures painted by you
That's what you can do.''
..Now each take a pencil and paper. and draw
The most wonderful things that ever you saw
A lily, sunset, shore or a sea.
Or-three little boys that are saying like you
'Solc. what shall we do?'"
The brightened-up children took pencils in
Gas amateur artists. you'll all understand)
And worked at their pictures until it was
rSe funny gray clouds had forgotten to rain ;
And mamma had q rest mot long one tits
true),
From "what shall we doP''
Of sweet, patient mother, in this earnest way
You are doing life's work. while your little
You are fashioning souls that hereafter shall
rise,
Gods beautiful angels, winged, to the skies
And heaven makes reply to yOHr ''what shall
Since Iove teaches you
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The sou.l,ern a5.u..,on

The Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer of
the 18th inst, says. 1--WE once tried
to be divorced from the North-to
separate peaceably. We fought our
own battle. We had the North, with
its millions of money and its own peo-
pie and the men against us that mon
ey could buy. We were defeated by
overwhelming numbers, after thou
sands of the MODEST hearts that ever
throbbed to gallant, heroic impulse
were laid in dust where in dust could
be traced the cause for which they
fought and loved so well. Our coun-
try was forced into submission. The
survivors accepted the position and
have struggled, through pain and
wrong, to regain former prestige in
the councils of the nation and build
up their shattered fortunes. At last
the feeble remnant of carpet-baggism
has swept from the land, and the
of military rule. We are as loyal as
any one in the country, are as proud
OF America as any, have in the nation
al councils as able and eloquent ad-
Yocates as any, and are able to offer
any true American with no section
alism 1873 votes in the Electoral Col
ledge. There needs be no further
fears of secession. Thousands of her
ole souls sleeping in their graves pro-
test against it. This may be true, but
these southern states are unwilling to
be the harps on which every dema-
gogue of the country can play with
the ease that he can grind a nicely
creased hand-organ. With Lamar,
Hill, Gordon, Ransom, and other in
tellectual giants, the peers of any the
country has produced, we need fear
nothing in debate. Our people mean
to do what is right as near as human
Judgement can discover, and they are
not lAboring TO secure the good opin-
ion of the North simply because their
approval is necessary for sympathy or
kindness. The South has been politi-
cally perfected by suffering. We
know who are our friends. Republi-
canism has not one spark throughout
our borders
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THE HABIT OF
we orer-value ourselves, we under
value our neighbors. Selfconceit is
therefore the source of that pharisa-
ical weakness called contempt. The
man who prides himself upon his
descent sneers upon the man who
relies upon himself and cares not
who was his great grandfather.
The self-sufficient purist says to the
scapa-grace, $50 too, wretch,-I am
holier than thou" and the million
alre, who regards money not as
means but as end, looks with scorn
upon the plodder who is content
with a moderate competence. There
are few things in this world so ut
terly contemplate as contempt. II
is tt is the vice of vanity and sen.
sation unknown to the true chris
tian.
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The Medicine of sunshine.

The world wants more sunshine
in its disposition, In it's business, in
it's charities, in its theology. For
ten thousand of the aches and pains
and irritations of men and women
we recommend sunshine. 1t
smoothes better than champagne.
1t is the best plaster for a wound.
The good Samaritan poured ont into
the fallen travellers cash more of
this than wine and oil. Florence
Nightingale used it on Crimean
battle-felds. Take it into all the
alleys, on board of all the ships, and
by all sick beds. Mott phial full,
but soul full. 1t is good for spleen,
for liver complaint, for neuralgia,
for rheumatism, for falling fortunes,
melancholy. We suspect that heav-
en- itself is only more sunshine.
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Less vigorous than their Faith

A New HAMPSHIRE correspondent of
the Manchester Mirror expresses his
views on the deserted farm question
thus bluntly: off farms have run
down the people who occupy them are
a long way behind in the race. We
have got on our farms to-day class
of people who can cipher through the
algebra, play the piano, and boast of
an acquaintance with the fine arts,
but they can't work. They have got
fine minds, but their bodies are sickly,
puny, and weak. To talk the matter
plainly, we have bred the bone and
muscle out of our families until we
have got a kind of human Jerseys,
fine-boned, milk-eyed, and nice TO
look at, and pet, and put on exhibition,
but so tender and weak that they are
fit neither for our climate, our work,
or our circumstances. Our fathers
worked II or IA hours day and never
thought of getting tired. We are US
ed up when We have worked four
hours. Our mothers made butter
and cheese, fed the pigs and chickens,
did the milking, raised a dozen
children, made the clothing for the
family, and when a shower was com
ing could rake. or load hay. Our
wives want a maid to tend the baby
and another to do the house work. a
boy to do the chores, and if we keep
more than one COW a cheese factory to
prevent the milk from spelling. II is
safe to say that 10 farmers wives to-
day cannot do as much hard work as
would two fifty years ago. AS a farm
ing people we are played out. If the
young New Hampshire farmer who
wants a wife to help him get living
instead of one to hang ribbons on and
pour patent medicines into, would
just go down to your city and find a
good strong, vigorous, industrious,
and frugal Irish or German girl, he
would find his farm would pay better
than it does now, and his children
would be likely to be worth ten times
as much as farmers as will be any of
the next generation of pure-bred
Yankees
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Outside Estimates of Kansas

UbAGSAAC G1SBl11A0lCS Va EAaEAASaASs
In answer to inquiries of CORES
pondent, the Chicago Inter-Oeean
says:
The soil of Kansas consists of two
kinds, the alluvium of the river bot
toms and lower prairies and uplands,
all of which are very fertile. There is
no State in the Union which has SO lit
tie worthless land as Kansas. All of
it is adapted to agriculture. Stock
raising is confined chiefly to the wes-
tern and southwestern portions of the
State. The climate of the State is sa-
luxurious, and the cold, although at
times severe in winter, is seldom pro-
tracted. The dryness of the atmOs-
phere renders the extremes of the cold
less trying than in Illinois and Iowa.
In the summer the heat is sometimes
great, but the nights are cool and
pleasant. There is only about four de-
grees difference in the mean tempera-
ture between the northern and south
ern portions of the State in winter, and
six in summer.
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ExTRAvAGANcE.-A Massachusetts
farmer, having recently visited Kan
sas, writes to his home paper, giving
his opinion of Kansas and her people .
He is delighted with the soil, the cli-
mate, the landscape, the people; but
he adds: "As class, Kansas farmers
are the most extravagant of any I
ever heard of, or saw, in any place or
station in life" He saw plows, reap
ers, mowers, horse rakes, harness and
water jugs left where, months ago,
they were last used; and he closes by
saying: "If there were the New Eng
land thrift and economy en- those
farms, Kansas, in ten years, would be
our richest State"
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VOLUME 20.
A short Story.

Do you see that tall young man
standing on the corner over the
way2
Yes, what of him? Why, what is
the matter with his eyer
ALL that is just what I wanted
to mention. One year ago he was
wallowing in the drunkard's mire.
He was one of the most forlorn
creatures ever saw. He was fill
thy in person, and brutal in his
habits. The lowest grogshop was
the only place where the poor
wretch could find a companion. He
was apparently lost to all good.
But some how or other change
seemed to come over him. He ac-
tually washed himself and donned
8 clean new suit of clothes. He
abandoned the dram-shops, and ap-
piled for work. The people asked,
tom, have you really reformed ?"
He answered boldly, eyes, don't
you see I'm a new man?" He look
ed like a new man. The people be-
gan to have confidence in him. They
encouraged him with kind words,
and when they could gave him
work. He began to look and act
like q man.
You see the Good Templars had
taken him out of the gutter and in
duced him to take the pledge and
join their Order. They helped him,
and for time, Tom Cerbin stood
as living witness for the Good
Templars. No one could gsinsay
the good work which had been
wrought In Tom. His reformation
appeared to be complete.
But alasl for want of stick-too-a-
tive ness in Tom the Good Temp
lars joy was suddenly turned into
grief. He held out for about six
months, and then because some
member of the Order displeased
him he went and got drunk. Then
he got mad at the whole Lodge,
and swore they were a set of hypo-
critics. He refused all terms of rec
onciliation and withdrew from the
Lodge.
He has been out about three
weeks. In that short space of time
he has been drunk a dozen times,
has had two or three fights and re-
ceived an ngly wound In the cheek,
and is now out of the lock up on
BAIL. He got that black eye last
Sunday. He went out to a Sunday
picnic, got drunk, and ran his poor
eye against a drunken Irishman's
fist. And now, with his eye black
and blue,and with a patch on his scar
red cheek, he is looking down his
nose with his well eye, wondering,
no doubt, where and how he will
get another drink. Such seems to
be the way of the poor drunkard.
Dear reader, the above is no &c
ton. The story is true to the life,
and you know similar cases, may be
worse ones. Shall we continue to
uphold and protect by law a trade
which produces such rain to our
fellows? G.. r.
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STATE GOVERNMENT.
CITY OFFICERS.

Mayor-Thos. Morrison.
Treasurer Howard Dunlap.
Police Judge-Geo. NJ. Stowen.
City Attorney-J. Jay Buck.
City Clerk-E. NJ. Forde.
Darshal-Thos. Flemming.
Chief Engineer-D. T.. McMurtrie.
Councilmen-1st Ward, "A. \. Baker, /. L.
Perley. I'd Ward, ii. Ii. Lowe, j. IL. Davis.
3D. Ward, John Henson, Z. z. bancroft. 9TH
Ward, Ed. Borton, K. Nichols.
Board of Education-1st w ard, J jay Buck,
W. L. McCarty. ID Ward, Van Mccullough,
n. T. Nix. 3D. Ward, IL. w. McCune, L. l..
Halleck 18th Ward, j. A.MOore, l.. Il. Kel-
logg. Treasurer Board of Education, ID. w
Eastman.
Justice of the Peace-C. b. Bachelor, Geo.
Nj. Stowen.
ConstabIes-T. johnson, H. w. Gnchries
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"A young lady recently receiv-
ed the following note, and is heart
broken: "Yue need't spect me up
to yure house no more sunda mites
a girl wat leaves gum a stickin on
the parlur cheers FOR Teller tn set
on amt no girl fur me. JIM
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COUNTY OFEICERs.

Judge District Court-E. Il. PeytOb.
Clerk District Court-G. w. Frederick.
Sherih-Hiram Conner.
Attorney-T. n. Sedgwick.
Treasurcr-Jos. Ernst.
Clerk. S. Craig.
Register of Deeds-F. r. Page
Supt. Pub. Instruction-O. Is. Wharton
Suryeyor-Harry IIibben.
Probate Judge-E. w. Cunningham
COroner-DR. Il. Ill. CHITTENDEN.
Commissioners /. A: T4YIoR .'
IL. a. WOOD.
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Some women waste their lives
in tears trying to persuade their
husbands to let them go to the
thousand islands for the summer,
but the wise woman hires a pretty
servant girl, and her husband lets
her go the first time she asks him.
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TOGETHER.

Babes that on q morn of May,
Laughing, in the sunshine play;
Babes to whom the longest day
Seems to fly.
Babes to whom all things are toys,
Life n sweet that never clogs,
Home 8 fount OF simple joys
Never try.
Babes so bright, so blest, so faIr,
With dimpled cheeks and golden hair;
Can they be--that happy pair
You and IF
Babes no longer, now they stray,
Girl and boy, beside the bay
On q sunshine holiday
Fond but shy.
Smiles are many, words are few,
Hearts are light, whom life Is new,
And eyes are bluer than the blue
Of the sky.
Laughing school-boy brave and free,
Little maiden fair TO see,
CATERING seaweed--can they be
You and II
Boy and girl are man and wife;
Hand in hand they walk for life;
Peace and JOY be theirs, and strife
Come not night
Wanderers by the Eternal Deep
Whose shores are Time. so may they
Together, and together sleep
BY and byl
Sleep in death when day is done,
Wake TO life beyond the sun;
One on earth. In heaven one
You and II
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. ALL
s. L. DAVIDSON, ct aL>
Rf virtue OF an order of sale. fssued ont of
ID the District Court of Lyon county Kan
sas.in the above entitled cause, / will, on Mon
day, the I'd day OF July. 1871, at 10 O'Clock a m
at the 'front.' door OF the court house in En-
porIa. Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale at
public auction, to the highest bidder for cash
the following described real estate to-yit:
The southeast quarter OF section nine. town
ship sixteen. range eleven; the southwest
quarter OF section ten, township ejphteen-
range ten; the northeast quarter Of the soutfl,
west quarter OF section seventeen, township
twenty range eleven; northeast Quarter al
section twenty-seyen. township twenty range
eleven; west half of the northeast duerteT
and east half OF northwest quarter of section
I'VE, township nineteen, range eleven: soufh-
east quarter OF northeast quarter of section
thirty -one, township nineteen range twelve.
south half Of northeast quarter Of section
9ign1 township sixteen range twelve, in
said real estate win be sold as the property
sale. O1eh v.
sherir's Office, May a0th, 1877.
zz-ot. HIBAA CONNER, Sheriff =
Lyon county, Kansas.
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a Considerable Lover.

"Mary," murmured lisping Alfred,
Undecided VIII at to say,
E'MarY, If you do not love me,
Thay tho, thatth the way.
"But, NTH Mary, if you love me-"
Pressed the wretch in accents bland,
''And you wouldn't like to thay tho,
Then, NTH Mary, thqueeth my hand
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"A Chicago girl is so modest
that she refuses to let the clothes
remain on the line during the day
time. In our neighborhood the
tramps refuse to let the clothes re-
main On the line during the night.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.

DAMASCUS LODGE meets In Odd Fell
L. lows hall every Monday evening
Members in good standing are coPdiallyiin-
vited TO attend. n. RYHO. &c.
w. L MCCARTY, K z. S.
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NUuHIy3 Adusas- =
GEO. III. sTowELL,)
Cs.
MARX PATTY, ct as
- the District Court of Lyon county. in
the above entitled cause, will, on Monday.
the 18th day of June, 1871, at ten O'Clock
a. m, at the front door of the court house in
Empor1a, Lyon county, Kansas. oner for sale
at public auction. to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described real estate, to-
Ter, section nine, township min eteen. range
ten in Lyon county, Kansas.
Said real estate will he sold as the propertv
OF the defendant, Mark Patty, ct al :, to satisfy
Sheriff IS office, May %. 1877
HIRAM CONN Err Sheriff
<l-ot Lyon COUNT. Kansas
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METHODIST Merchants az
cor. 9Th Avenue. Preaching every Sunday az
II a. m, and st the usual hours at night. San
day school at ~ p. m; Prayer meetinr ever
Thursday evening. g. w. PYK, Pastor.
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e. l.. A.

a 4 -ADoaJLIAIItINV
IL Rooms over Emporia National Bank.
open every afternoon from to 9; every eVenR
Ing except Friday, from to Q. Life member
ship $2o. Annual membership -. Readfn-
room free. ID. &. MCAURTRIR, Pres't.
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ENPORIA GRANGE, No. 613, p. OH
Meets at Grange hall Saturday evening, Oct.
Tth, and every two weeks thereafter. Pat
rons in good standing are cordially invited
to attend. j. f. STRATTON, MAsTRER.
MARY STRATToS. Sec'Y.
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SECOND CONGREGATIONAL welsh
Merchants street between I'd and 81 Avenue.
m. and preaching at 81 p. m. HRERY RFrsRR..
Pastor. -
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FIRST PERSEVERANCE sth Ave-
nue. and Commercial street. Preaching at II
a. m, and ~ p. m every Sunday. Sunday
Thursday evening. j. Ii. CLARK, Pastor.
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Clear thought and vigorous action depend
upon that perfect condition OF system result
ing from pure blood When symptoms prov
ocative OF dizziness and inactivity present
themselves, then use st once DR.. Bulls Blood
Mixture,