The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-12

elbow long can 1 keep it ?" These
questions being satisfactorily an
sWered, he leaves other matters to
the venal and ,nercenary. AS an
official he draws his salsry with reg
ulaIity and dispatch. He pays lit
| lie regard to names or former repu-
tations. If you entertain him with
an account of what distinguished
person you were "Back Feast" ex-
pectinC thereby to excite his won
yeke his ridicale. You do not
| TO be called contempt. He cares
nothing for titles. They are album
dant in Kansas. especially military
| titles, for two reasons: very large
per cent. of the men have been IN
the army, here or elsewhere-snd
titles are considered SO worthless
/ that they are thrown to anybody
who will take them.
Ify0u try to control him by cit
ing presidents and authorities, he
| replies that the Quarries Of Kansas
furnish as good building stone as
Ply mouth rOck-and that gentlemen
| who have been decently and safely
laid in their graves, ought to be
| content to stay there, without tres
passing on the rights and privileges
of those who are still under the me-
cessity of paying taxes. and getting
! up of cold mornings, and perform
ing other disagreeable duties requir-
ed of living people.
The Average Kansan has conf
dence in the resources and prospects
/ Af ha Snk dc 4n ohor
her fortunes. Is it said that some
people leave Kansas? OF course
| they do. Some people would leave
Heaven itself fer the sake of mov-
ing. Those who go out from among
! class is made up of those who have
proposed to take. They had high
opinions of their own Importance.
When they started from "aWay
met at the State line with bands of
music aud banners-to be received
with open arms by a happy and
placed in legislative halls, and on
churches, and treated in all respects
in accordance with their own esti-
mate of their extraordinary ability.
In fact, the popular outburst on their
arrival was limited to the single ex-
preston" Bus. sir?" They receiv-
ed no attentions, outside of the real
estate offices. They were civilly
treated---allowed to choose their
own location aud pursuit--and to
engage with others in the race for
fortune and position. They soon
discovered that their pretontions
were coolly disregarded-that they
had no advantages over otEers-and
that whatever prizes might be gain
ed, must be won by hard work, and
in the face of active and able compe-
tiiion. By degrees, but surely, they
subsidized. On the death of some of
their wives connections In the dis
tant East, they went back-and told
mournful stories about the barba-
rism of Kansas. The retinue that
accompanied them to the depot as
they were leaving, was composed
exclusively of Iradesmen solicitous
respecting certain unsettled bills
and no one else knew that they had
gone.
The other class of refugees con-
sists of those who find the style of
living, the grade of society, and the
general condition of things, entirely
above their old standard. They do
not like State that has so many
school houses disfguring the virgin
landscape-and in which they haye
to drive over q bridge every few
miles, instead of being allowed to
exercise the inalienable right of a
freeman, which is to ford a stream,
or at most to ferry it in q scow.
Not long ago, we met a representa-
tive of this class, headed Eastward.
He had an old wagon, drawn by q
horse and mule, with an OK in the
lead-and on the wagon was paint
ed =" LeVe Kansas or Bust"
Two dogs were in the wagon, and
two uAder it. Trudging behind
were seven children, ranging from
three years old to nine, and q wo-
man wearing a sun bonnet and q
pull-back. We recognized the man
as soon as we saw him: we had oft
en- met him in Southern Illinois and
Missouri, where he formerly lived. |
There his regular diet was blue
mass, with quinine for desert. His |
uniform beverage was cornjuice,
with little water and no sugar. |
When he came into town to trade, |
his list of articles that he wanted |
was as follows: 2 pounds Ri Cof- |
fee, 4 pounds Dogleg Tobacco, u
gallon Plantation Molseses,6 pOands |
Lead, and Powder in proportion.
He always wanted these things on |
time (Which with him was practical |
ly eternity,) and if credit was refus-
ed he would turn his pockets inside |
out to raise money to pay for the |
tobacco and the powder and lead
and he would let the rest of the list |
go. He was of opinion that the |
earth is fiat, that wheat turns to |
cheat, and that for q man to wash |
himself more than once g year, is |
putting on style. Whenever he had |
to sign his name to q Documents
for example, q bond to keep the
peace-in order to avoid the Iiabili-
~ to the forgery Of his valuable sig
nature, he would get another man
to write his name for him, and he
would afilx 6 hieroglyPhic.
That man has left Kansas. And
he has acted wisely. Even If he
could have worried along with the
school houses and the bridges, ne
never could have felt at home in q
State which has no sweeps at its
Wells-Which enacts and executes
game laws, and builds its chimneys
inside Of the houses.
The Average Kansan likes preach
ers and 10 friendly to churches-but
as general rule he prefers not to
live so near the sanctuary that the
bell shall disturb him on SUNDAYS
as he reads his Tribune, or World,
or Scientific American.
By principle and tradition he il q
champion of civil liberty and free