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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-11
EDUCATIONAL

The Yale faculty have decided to droI
into the next lower class any upper class
men found guilty of hazing freshmen.
Miss Mary w Holdbrook, of Hold
brook, Mass, has endowed chair in the
Oberlin, Theological Seminary, by do
nation of $25, 900.
Prof Sue M. D. Fry, A. NJ, of Illinois
WESLEYAN University, recently instructed
and delighted a large audience on Old
Town Circuit, Ills, Conference, with
her lecture on Rome and Southern
Italy"
The fine old University of st. Andrew
now grants degrees to women. Its "Lit-
crate of Arts Degree Certificate" which
is now at their disposal, is equivalent in
honor and in the stringency of the pre-
vious examinations to the M. A. degree
for men. The subjects for examination
/ are for the most part those taught in the
University itself, but to these have been
added history and the French, German
and Italian languages, with their litera-
lures
The Senate of the University of Lon
don has taken the necessary official ac-
ton in reference to the admission of wo-
men to degrees. Femalecandidates will
be admitted forthwith to the matricu-
lation examination; and all such as
have already passed the general examin-
| alton for women will be considered as
having matriculated, and will be admis-
| sible (after the required intervaD to the
first degree examination in either of the
| faculties.
Japan at present can boast of one uni
versity, at Toxic the capital, and about
| dozen colleges throughout the empire
devoted to agriculture, law, medicine
etc. A permanent fund of 100000
has been established for the purpose OF
education The total income for the
public schools is about $6,5OO,OO0 pei
year, arising from interest on the perm.
anent fund, local taxation, private dOna-
tions, etc.
The fall conferences are following the
noble example of the spring conferences
| in generously aiding in the endowment
of the James Memorial Professorship in
the Drew Theological Seminary The
Central New York conference has given
81, ITO, the Pittsburg conference, $f,O86
and the East Ohio, 81 ,220, making a to-
tai of $3,416 from the three conferences.
The total amount of the subscriptions OF
Methodist preachers to this great monu-
ment to the memory of Bishop James is
we understand, nearly $4,000.
There is excellent good sense in this
paragraph from the Philadelphia Press
THE great end of education is not infor
nation, but personal vigor and charac
| ter. What makes the practical man is
not the well informed man, but the alert
disciplined, selfcommanded man. There
have been highly trained and accom-
pfished men in days when knowledge
of geography hardly went beyound the
islands and mainland of the Levant
There were powerful English writers
long before Lindley Murray wrote his
Latinized English grammar. What
should be understood thoroughly is, thai
examining is not education. 1t is mis-
take to cover too much ground, and tC
seek to make youth conversant simply
with the largest number of studies. Let
them learn a few things and learn them
well. Let the personal influence of the
! teacher be relied upon rather than books
and elaborated methods"
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EnIsnN,s WALL PAPER

1t is very difficult to keep pace with
Edison and his inventions. Just when
you think you have heard of the last, out
comes another. A New York paper be-
fore us is literally full of him We read
OF his telemachon, an apparatus for
transmitting power over a conductor by
electricity; and then of his electric burn
er, which solves the problem as to the
subdivision of light, and proves that the
electric light is to be the light of the fIl-
ture. But he has even a later invention,
as unique and suggestive as its prede-
cessors. 1t is new kind of wall paper,
that absorbs light all day and gives it all
night. AT present the work is not quite
perfected, but already the paper will
make room perfectly light for
about four hours after dark 1t is not
going to be difficult to make it operate
from sunset to sunrise, he says, so we
can already count on things as done and
proceed to file our orders for new mate
rial. Its operation is perfectly natural :
the paper merely gives back what it gets
and goes on so long as the sun shall
shine. The effect upon the world can be
imagined Gas will, of course, cease to
be Of any use; oil will serve only In its
doubtful purpose of fabrication: the
whale, unsought by men, viii resume the
population of the ocean, which before
long viii swarm with the reconstructed
monsters of the lost ages; crime, which
f1orrishes IN darkness, will disappear
reading viii be extended over the entire
twenty-four hours; everlasting sunshine
win encircle us ali the while: and The
becoming eOloned spectacles viii grow to
be an article of universal use. When II
is desired TO darken room at night, PEG.
pie viii throw open the blinds and lower
the paper hangings, and let the darkness
IN, and the natural philosophers will be
made to read What is light Wall "a.
per- What is darknessg A white wan
or the absence of wall paper. Before we
finish with Edison he win have to give
rs q new dictionary to tell what he has
done.
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Cur Amt

Here we find that the contraction, meas
1lred per capita, amounted to nearly too
hundred and 0Gnetyf0ur millions Of. dol
lars E1a 1878, as compared with 1866 con-
sequently, with the paper dollar reckon
ed as worth $0.99.4 in gold, the nominal
$685., 31S, 685.76 of currency in 1865 would
be scarcely sufficient for present number,
because that sum, reduced to equivalent
gold at that rate, would amount to only
1917 AIS, 1885, or to $708, 382. % less than
the above table calls for
The trouble has been that the Repub-
lican party, like many another nervous
and impatient debtor, has been trying to
do too much. 1t has erred, but it has
erred on the side of honesty. 1t has tried
to rid the country of the great incubus OF
debt, and though this has been done at
the expense of prosperity, in measure,
and at the cost of much financial embar.
rassment, it must be confessed that the
exhibit, where nearly One-third of the
debt is shown to have been paid, and
where thirty odd millions of interest is
saved annually, is some compensation
for the hardshIps which have followed
an unexampled effort to pay our debts
This question ought to cut no figure in
the pending political contests, except as
an interesting subject for study. It is 9
matter which should be correctly stated
however, in order that, knowing the
truth and the effects of our past policy
we may gather wisdom from our expert
ence-ChicagO 1nteT-Ocean.
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THE QUESTION oE CoNrRAorIoN.

The Chicago Tribune submits a table
on the currency based upon the treasury
estimates, and showing the amount of
paper money outstanding in various years
since 1860, and its value in coin.
In 1865, for instance, it places the cir
culation at 1898 ,318, 6S6, the value of
which in coin is stated to be $692, 256,
355. In 1878 it states the amount OF pa
per at $6SS, 597, 275, the coin value OF
which is 1854 ,46S, 692. There are some
mistakes in the figures as compared with
the treasury exhibit, but they are minor
ones and amount to but few dollars.
We give the correct amount below, how
ever, even to the fraction of dollar.
In the above estimate three vital con-
sideratiOns are left entirely out of view
increase of population, increase of bust
ness, and increase of area over which cir
culation takes place-all of which have
been large factors in the problem of con-
traction since the war Two of these ell
ements became very active and potential
during the fiscal year 1866, in cOnse-
quence of the flow of paper money into
the south, to operate the exchanges in
many states, and among millions of peO-
pie, where the whole of the circulating
medium in use during the rebellion had
become worthless. That process with
drew considerable volume of currency
from the north, and amounted to great
and rapid contraction there.
But taking the value of currency in
gold, each year, as officially given, be-
ginning with it's climax in 1866, and dis
tributing it numerically, and consider
ing in the estimate the increase of popu-
lation, we shall have the following re-
suit:
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HE WAs.-An elderly gentleman of
benign appearance has of late been dis
tributing religious tracts in the street
cars, and yesterday at least one case of
quickened conscience was brought to the
public notice. A young man entered
the car, paid his nickel, and was handed
tract headed: "Are you sinnerg'' He
turned pale at once, read few lines, and
suddenly called out:
eyes, 1 ami put a bad nickel in
the fare box, but now III begin new
life by being honest. Here, driver,
change this half dollar and I'll pay my
fare over again.
The change was given him and he
paid, but after riding block or so he
left the car to see man on the walk.
The passengers thought it a wonderful
case, and all were deeply interested,
when the driver suddenly called out:
Hang me if this 'ere half dollar isn't
bogus. "-Det. Free Press.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
HOTEL DIRECTORY

PARK PLACE HOTEL-W. b. Luther, pro-
prIetor. Three story brick hotel, near The
A, L. q 5. +. depot, with excellent accommo-
dations. Transient rates, So 90 per day.
MERCHANTS HoTEL.-H. Ii. lines, proprie-
tor. corner Merchants street and 4th avenue,
Excellent accommodations. Three sample
rooms. Transient rates, 50 90 per day.
WINDSOR HOTEL-E. Emerson. PROPRIETOR,
This is a large frame hotel, near the A., 4. \
:. +. depot. Good accommodations. Tran
| sient rates, 81 90 per day.
EAPORIA HoUsE-C. c. Human, proprietor.
New frame hotel, on Commercial street. q
few rods south of the A, T. & s. +. railroad.
GOOD accommodations. Transient rates, $1.00
per day.
SHERMAN HoUsE-Capt. Sanford, proprie-
| tor. Two story brick hotel, on Commercial
| railroad Good accommodations. Transient
| rates. 81 90 per day.
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL w. b. Powell,
| proprietor. Large frame hotel on 9Th ave-
nue., few rods east of Commercial street. and
close to the business center of the city. Good
day.
| INDIANA HoUsE-Van Mccullough, proprie-
| tor. Two story frame hotel, on Union street,
/ few rods south of the A, T. & g. railroad ,
Good accommodations. Transient rates, $l.00
| per day.
| FULLER HoUsE-A. Fuller. uroprietor. A
large frame hotel, at the Emporia Junction of
| the A, Il. 4 3. +. and NJ, Il. q. T. railroads.
| Good accommodations. Transient rates, 81 90
| per day.
| WILSON'S HoTEL-W. b. Wilson, proprie-
tor. This is q new frame hotel at Emporia
| rates, 81 90 per day.
| NATIONAL HOTEL This is frame hotel
| at the III ;, K. q i. depot. Fair accommoda-
tions. Transient rates, 300 per day.
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No Time for Hating.

Begone with feudI away with strife;
Our human hearts unmating;
Let us be friends againI This life
Is far too short for hatingl
So dull the day, so dim the way.
So rough the road we're faring-
Far better wend, with faithful friend
Than stalk along, uncaring.
The barren fig, with withered vine,
Are types of selfish living;
But souls that have, like thine and mine.
Renew their life by giving,
While Cypress waves DER early graves,
On all the way we're going.
Far better plant, where seed is scant,
Than tread on fruit that's growing.
Away with scornl Since die we must
And rest on one low pillow:
There are no rivals in the dust
No foes beneath the willow.
So dry the bowers, SO few the flowers,
Our earthly way discloses,
Far better stoop. where daisies droop,
Than tramp DER broken rosesI
o what are all the joys we hold,
Compared to joys above usP
And what are rank and power and gold
Compared to hearts that love uS9
SO neet our years, so full of tears,
So closely death is waiting
God give us space for loving grace
But leaves no time for hating.
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NOTR.-The per capita currency is within
the fraction of less than half a cent in every
case
1t is useless for anybody, in the pres
ence of these figures, to deny contraction.
On June 80, 1873, the per capita of the
circulating medium, measured by gold,
was $5.97 less than it was on June so,
1865. Is there any suitable name for
that difference except contraction? No
intelligent mind will be so foolhardy as
to claim that fixed volume of currency,
even though at par with gold, would be
ample for thirteen years to operate the
exchanges of rapidly increasing popu-
lation. For example, if $685., 256, 354.7
ofcoin-purchasing powerw was just enough
for "a, S19,581 people in 1865, then 1864,
465. 691 SO would be insufficient for 49, :
1S9,525 people in 1878; and the discrep-
ancy would be still greater if, as has been
the case, there had been excluded from
the former sum such elements of curren-
cy as the 7.30 notes and some other pa
per issues by the government Below Is
a statement which shows what the gold
value of the currency, based on the treas
ury figures, would have been in each
year, had the amount been maintained
throughout at $19.S8 per capita The
amount per capita required to be added
each year is given, and the total amount
of currency necessary to fill out the de
f1cit Of the treasury totals:
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Will the periodical visitation of the
Asiatic cholera be the worlds next great
trouble? The United States surgeon
general at Washington, in his weekly re-
port, announces the ravages of real Asia
attic cholera at Mequ1nez and Fee, cities
of Morocco, in Northern Africa. In the
former place, the epidemic, at the last
accounts, was carrying off from twenty
to thirty victims daily. Both towns have
been exceedingly filthy. For the week
ending July 20, at Calcutta, India, nine
deaths from Asiatic cholera are report
ed, and for the weyk ending July 80, at
Bombay, thirty deaths. The surest pre-
ventive against epidemics of this char
acter is thorough drainage and complete
cleanliness of towns and individuals.
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CROWDED BY THE CLERGY. After
considering the question all winter we
come to the conclusion every spring that
the circus is immoral; but then the bill
poster comes along with the big pictures
and our mind changes. AS we gaze at
the lions, tigers, and monkeys, and think
that nature made all of them, we are not
so sure. And when we look at the beau
tiful young lady, with nothing on but a
blue ribbon round her waist, with one
leg pointing to six O'Clock and the other
to high moon, and think that nature
made her, too, just as she was, excepi
the ribbon, we begin to lean up to the
circus. But when the brass band begins
to play and the elephants go round, we
rush for front seat to get in ahead Of
the ministers, who always wear stove
pipe hats and won't sit down in front. =
Marshall, Ia, Statesman.
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Too MEAN TO LIvE.-It has been sup
posed that the meanest man in the United
States resided in Boston, but the dis
patches from New Orleans show Chat he
lives there, and his name is Schillinger.
He had nurse who, though unacclimat-
ed, nursed her employers children sue
cessfally through the fever, when she
was taken down herself. At the risk OF
the poor wOman's life the brute hustled
her into an open wagon, day before yes
terday, and sent her 10 the hospital in
the midst of drenching rain, remark.
ing that he had had trouble enough in
his house with the fever. New Orleans
VIII confer favor on northern people
and insure new and large contributions
If they viii throw Mr.. Schillinger into
the Mississippi river Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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SheriFs Sale,

In Lyon county, Kansas, District Court.
John Wiggam VS.. j. g. TrayloF Admir-
By virtue of an order of sale issued out of
the District Court of Lyon county, Kansas,
in the above entitled cause, will, on Tues
day, October 18th, 1878, at ten O'Clock a. IA
at the front door of the court house in En-
porla, Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash
the following described real estate, to-yyit (:
The undivided half of southeast quarter Sec
ton sixteen, and north half northeast quar-
ter, and northeast quarter northwest quarter
section twenty lone, all in township nineteen
range twelve. Also, east half section tyyen-
ty-three and southeast quarter section TWEEN
ty-two, both in township twenty-one, range
twelve. Also northeast quarter and east half
northwest quarter section twenty four, town
ship twenty, range twelve, all in Lyon coun-
ty, ansas. Said real estate to be sold as the
der OF sale. II. B. LOWE, Sheriff
37-5t LYON cnnntu z ansas
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He BOARDS EIsEwHERE.-Oneo of the
hottest days last week Danbury man
brought home small paper bag full of
sand for his landlady's canary. He play
fully rested it on her shoulder while he
was telling her where he got it. Presently
she uttered scream.
''What are you putting down my back ?''
she cried.
He had put nothing down her back,
but there was break in the bag and a
thin stream of sand was trickling down
her spine. She 'had to change every
rag" she told the woman next door,
while the preparation had mingled with
the sand and Horned q delicate coat of
concrete over her back He boards in
another place.-Danbury News.
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Tired Mothers.

A little elbow leans upon your knee,
Your tired knee that has so much to bear,
A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly
From underneath n thatch OF tangled hair
Perhaps Y0u do not heed the velvet touch
OF warm, moist fingers, Iolding yours sc
tight;
You do not prize this blessing overmueh,
You are almost too tired 70 pray Tonight.
But IL Is n blcssingf A year ago
did not see IL rs do to-day,
We are so duh and thankless; and too slow
To catch the sunshine till its slips away;
And now IL seems surprising strange to me,
That while I wore the badge of motherhood
did not kiss more ofG and tenderly
The child that brought me only GOOD.
~ n some night, " hen you sit down TO rest
lou mis-, the elbow from your tired knee:
HI restless, curling head from or your
This Iisping tongue that chatters constantly,
II from your own the dimpled hands have
slipped,
~ the VIII te feet into their grave had tripped,
conld not blame you for your heart ache
then.
/ wonder so that mothers never fret
At little children clinging 10 their gown,
Or that the Footprints, when the days are wet
Are ever black enough TO make them frown
If could end u little muddy boot,
or cap, or Jacket ON my chamber floor;
II could kiss a rosy, restless loot,
And hear IL patter in my home once more
II could mend broken cart to-day,
Tomorrow make u kite to reach the sky,
There Is no woma an in Gods world could say
she was more blisstully content Than l.
But an the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled with shining head:
My singing birding from its nest has flown,
The little boy use 10 kiss is dead.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
SheriF;s caIa

Notice is hereby given, that pursuant to an
alias execution issued out of the District
Court of Morris County, State of Kansas on a
Judgment in said court in favor of Elijah T
Keight1ey and against Solomon H. Dodge,
and to me directed, 1 will on Monday, the 4th
day of November, A. ID. 1875 at the hour of
for sale at the front door of the Court House in
the city of Emporia, in the county of Lyon,
and State of Kansas, and sell to the highest
bidder, for cash in hand, all the right, title
and interest of said Solomon H. Dodge in and
to the north half of southwest Quarter of
Section No. "a, Township 10, Range l3, Lyon
County Kansas, which has been levied upon
to satisfy said execution and others now il
my hands against said Solomon II. Dodge
Said property is appraised at $500.
LIB. LOWE,
5W Sheriff OF LYON Countv
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| M1 THIS Is nj
OI ONE DOLLAR. oil
HANCOCK, CRANBERRY co.

A New England scene: Grand old
hills, pine clad and SCARED, towering 70
the clouds in their majesty; gurgiing
brooks, winding through green mead.
ing and rustling their ripening heaps
and floating streamers; winding around
through these a stretch of yellow road
silent In the glare of the sun: on the
road a solitary potato bug. tofIing Ia
boriously eastward -Danbury News.
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REAL ESTATE DIRECTORT.

THE NEWS REAL ESTATE AoENcY-Storler
& Graham. over the PostOflce, EmpOria, Ly-
on county, Kansas. Do general real estate
business, Our list comprises forty thousand
acres of good unimproved land In Lyon coun-
ty, large number Of Improved Farms. FROM
10 to 500 acres each, and all kinds OF city and
suburban property. The only complete and
accurate plats Of Lyon county are at our Of
See. Land buyers furnished all information
in our power and cordially invited to call or
write. Che Land Buyer, our real estate pa
peg, sent free 70 any address.
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GREENBACKs TO ORDER.-John Han
cock before ne left for his cranberry
marsh Joined the Greenbackers. The 9TH
er day he sent down to the other men,
bers of the Hancock Cranberry Company
for money to pay pickers with. c. W.
Felker and H B. Harsaw by way of q
joke sent back $50 in the following
form, with instructions to carry out his
greenback doctrines:
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BARRER SHOP DIRECTORY

HARRY LEIBFRIED's BARBER SHOP AND
BATH RooMs.-West side Commercial street.
between 18th and 9Th avenues Shave 10 cents,
hGir-eutting, IS cents. Hot and cod baths to
order.
HEUsTK BARBER SHoP.-West side Com
mercial street, near corner of 9Th avenue.
Shaves, 10 cents; hair-cutting, IS cents.
HAUssLER,s BARBKR SHOP AND BATH
Rooms --IH Commercial street. east side, be-
hair-cutting, IS cents. New chairs. Hot
and cold SOFT water baths to order.
srAFPoRD's BARBER sHoP.-Coraer Gem
mercial street and 9Th avenue. Shave 10
cents; hair cutting, Is cents.
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DELINQUENT Tax List.

Notice is hereby given: That so much of
each tract of land or town lot, described in
the following list, and situated in the county
essary for that purpose, will, on the 18th day
OF October, A. ID 1873, commencing at nine
sold, be sold at public auction, at the County
Treasurer's office in the court house in EN-
porIa, Lyon county, Kansas, for the taxes and
qGent taxes and charges thereon for the
year 1877: JOSEPH ERNST, Co. Treas'r
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A TYEO q HERMAN,
Dealers in Meats Of all KiudsI
The Best and Cheapest Meat Market in
EmpOria-

Have now on hand and for sale cheap large
amount of Pork, Ham, Shoulder and Bacon,
thoroughly sailed, cured and smoked, and
equal 70 the very best that can be found any
where. They have also large Quantity Of
lard, by the barrel or pound Cali and see it.
All orders receive prompt attention, and
dealers are particularly requested to give Us
call. The best OF Beef. Mutton and Veal,
as usual, kept at our market on west side Of
Commercial street, opposite p. o.. Emporia,
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Vegetine.
SHE RESTS WELL.
Ve9etine.

GOOD FOR THE CHILDREN.
BOSTON HONE, "A FYLER STREET,
Boston, April, 1876.
II. r. STEVENS: DEAR SIR-We feel that
the children in our home have been greatly
benefited by the Vegetine you have SO kindly
given us from time to time, especially those
troubled with the Scrofula.
With respect,
MRs. n. WORMELL, Matron
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The new governor of Cyprus, Sir Gar
net Wolseley, Is total abstainer, and
ten years ago published little manual
entitled ssThe Soldiers Pocket Book. .
in which he strongly advises the prac-
tice to soldiers.