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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25
The silver Question and tEle
Money Power,

Every day increases the intensity
of the feeling on the silver question,
and the final action of congress in
regard to it is destined to produce
an excitement unsurpassed in the
history of the country upon any
merely financial issue. No ques-
tion has ever been before the coQn-
try In which the alternatives are so
momentous. II the Bland bill pass
es the senate and receives the exec
utiVe sanction, the country, the
great body of the people, will be
satisfied, harmony between sections
now becoming rapidly alineRted
will be restored, and taking q long
breath of relief we will enter upon
. condition of political peace and
prosperity. If, on the contrary, ii
fails In the senate, or encounters a
veto, there will spring up q storm
of Indignation that will shake the
land, which may lead to results full
OF disaster to the business of the
country, and even bring destruction
to the national credit. N 81
The forces engaged in the con-
Aict are clearly defined. Ga the one
hand we have the moDey power as
II IL centralized and aggregated in
Wall street, New York on the 9TH
or the great body of the people. 1t is
something more than q contest OF
capital against labor, about which so
much has been said il is the con-
test OF capital against the people,
against their form of government.
against their liberties, their proper
~ and their homes. It is the cor
morapt greed of wealth against law,
honor and honesty. . L. Is the bold,
ambitious and unscrupulous attempt
Of q few thousand of men against
the great mass OF the people.
The money power is-not without
its advantages in the struggle
though its retainers are comuarsfiye
ly few in number. 1t is compact
and centralized, and has that which il
called the sinews of war. What end
81 cannot carry by argument it can
reach by subsidy; what judgment
it cannot reach by reason 1t can
change by gifts; what clamorous
-ontcFies 1t cannot still by threats, II
can BY scattering largesse; and what
llegialatiOn IL needs It can have put
through by brides. The people, i'm
poVerished by its schemes and
machfnations, have no money to
bolster up their cause, and would
sooEa to use &c thus basely If they
had. But the people are the sove-
Feigns of the country, aud the rulers
are but the breath of their nostrils
TheY can make and unmake them
At their pleasare. They can. pull
down the fabrics of oppression in
aenioasly and unscrnp1iously erect.
sd by the money power with far less
effort than It took to build them,
and they propose to do list. Louis
Daily Journal.
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a. HHHis not easily earned in these
%,Z NZ times, but it can be made in
WE three months by any one OF
either sex, in any part of the
country, who is willing to work steadily at
week IN your own town. You need not be
away from homo over night You can give
your whole time to the work, or only your
spare moments. We have agents who are
making over SO per day. All who engage al
once can make money fast. At the present
time money cannot be made so easily and
rapidly at any other business. 1t costs moth
ing to try the business. Terms and S. outfit
free. Address at ONCE,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

Littell's Living Age began It's
one hundred and thirty sixth vol
June with the number for JaDu-
airy 5.
New York paid last year in
teaehers' salaries $7,9l5yOOO. There
are In the State II, 1888 school hous-
es, valued At So, $4,000.
Hon. r. D. Shannon, State Supt.
OF public schools, in Missouri, has
become one of the editors of the
American Journal of Education.
There is talk in Iowa about abol-
ishing the Office of county superin-
tendent of schools, leaving the So
pervision of the schools to the 10
cal authorities.
Nebraska is said to have more
than 100000 acres of land sci
apart as q permanent endowment Of
the public schools. Those school
lands sold thus far have yielded an
average OF 81 so an acre.
The Indiana School Journal says.
"The true value of teacher is de-
termined not by what he knows
nor by hfs ability to impart what he
knows, but by his ability to stimu'
late in others desire to know"
There are 1,l93 students in Mich.
igan University, as follows: Grad
yates, 8; seniors, so; juniors, 62
sophOmores, 90; freshmen, 12S; IL
pharmacy, 81; in law, 1866; in al
lopathic medicine, 22S; in homoep
a1hic, IS; in dentistry, Al.
Brown University will not in The
future confer the degree of A. M.
ID. D., LII. D., pro hOnOre, but can.
didates will be required to present
essays and works in special depar t.
ments, and the degrees will be con
ferred only on the recommendation
OF examining committees.
Superintendent Stone, of Spring
field, Mass, wisely holds that much
of the perplexities of arithmetic
are of small value as study, and o.
NO value at all in practical life; and
that there is too much parsing, an
alysls aud humbug generally about
the study of -grammar as 1T is now
commonly taught.
The Marquis of Butte has beer
lecturing in the Scotch Highland
on the Celtic race and language.
He remarked upon the great tenac-
fly of the Welsh language, and
said that there are "a newspaper
published in that tongue in Wales
Irish and Scotch literature, he
maintained, could not compare
with this.
After much discussion and ex
element, q new factory law hal
been passed in Switzerland. Tht
law prohibits the employment in q
factory of any child under the age
of fourteen, and only permits child
rem between the ages OF four
teen and sixteen TO work fol
q normal day of eight hours. Fol
young persons of this age the
school instruction and work in the
factory, taken together, are only to
occupy ten hours OF each day.
President McCosh of Princeton
College, New York, addressed thu
intercollegiate literary ASSOCIATION
last week on the Importance OF
forming associations among Amer
ican colleges for the purpose Of
raising the standard of culture. BE
said that higher salaries should be
paid to the professors, and theiI
number should be increased, SO tina
able men would be induced to fl
the chairs. Students of moderate
or small means should not be com
PEELED to join in the eXpensiV
clubs or ampsements of richer stu
dents. Colleges, he said, shoni
beware of rearing a set OF special
iaAR.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25
Odds and Ends,

In South America the cities are
lighted with castor oil.
Boston has a man milliner, a Mr.
Marsh, who bids fair to rival
Worth. AAfs
Instead OF msnifesting gratitude
for his pardon Joyce has gone to
writing poetry.
A San Francisco man has been sent
to the insane asylum for spending
$ll.O on New Years presents.
When a faithful mother goes on a
whaling expedition che never fails
to get all the blubber she wants.
Miss Weatherhog, young lady
residing st Kingsley Falls, Quebec,
has i0st got rid of her name in the
usual way.
Russian women walk out with
their children, seldom with their
husbands, aud q man is not expect.
ed to bow to another mans wife on
the street.
Brigham Young, According to the
spiritualists, is having an arlsto-
cratic time of it in the other world,
He has his brimstone sent to his
room--N. z. Express.
1t is just IS sensible for q man to
say he cannot pay IS cents apiece
for gold dollars, es it Is for him to
say that he canRos afford to adver-
tise. .s -.
Deal gently with the weather pre-
dietiOns. The other day Prof. Tice
got mad ct q man who said that his
prognosties was 9 liar, and froze
him to death in ten minutes.
, It Is reported that Mrs. Hicks,
like ether fond wives, already stands
over the register and monopolizes
the heat, while her dear lord stands
spart and ktezg the wainscoting TO
keep mis- toes from freezing.-OIl
City Derrick.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25
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equals in presenting in most readable shape
general and home news. In every part of the
world great events are occurring, with prob
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THE COMM RCIAL PART INIT is con-
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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25
The AIinee Pies Revenge.

Come TO the throbbing molar, paint
Come to the wretch who feels the thrill
When dentists cut and come again,
And ask him to be still.
Come to the school boy when he beGs
To stay the birch that Welts his legs,
And sees the masters smile of scorn;
Come to that double wretch forlorn
Who feels the anguish OF a corn,
Crushed underneath the grinding neel,
And thou art terrible-we tear
And groan and cry and howl and swear,
And paw the ground and beat the air,
And think 'tis pain we feel
But loi the silly wretch who takes
OF cold mince pie his midnight lunch,
Then comes a demon form that shakes
A hundred pains with fifty aches,
And Grams then down him in bunch.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

A great eat race came or I'm Bel
GUM feeehtly. Seventy animals
we're carried some four miles fIom
foWu-in baskets and. then. let loose,
The cat that reached town first won
the 1rst prIze-a silver coffee pot.
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The weather at SkoWhegaa, Me-,
Hast Sunday was a degrees below
zero, The preachers gave the Beach
er henesy 4 rest. IL sst-
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-28
For the Eagle.
The White Willow.
TISrnrN Feb .

LINCOLN, Feb. %, 1873.
Mr. EDITOR Il saw an inquiry
made by j. G. r. of Kechi, with re-
gard to white willow, in your issue of
Feb. 14th. have some experience in
white willow in this country and will
give the result of it so far:
In the spring of 1866 put out some
800 white willow cuttings, they all, or
nearly all started and made a good
grow tn until about the first of July,
when about three-fourths of them
died, and those that survived has
made very poor growth since. The
best of them are not more than large
enough for a good riding whip. They
sprangle around on the ground as
though they had no inclination to
ever make tree, while cottonwood
cuttings that were put out at the same
time, and right beside them, and re-
ceiyed the same cultivahon-are 8
inches in circumference and II feet
high.
If. C.. r. wishes some cuttings to
experiment on can furnish him some
gratis as have no use for them.
d. G.. TEAR.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-28
For the Eagle.
The Other Side Of the Cheerful Wife Question.
CowsKIN, Feb. %, 1873.

COWSKIN, FEB. ", 1910.
Mr.. EDITOR In your issue Of Feb
ruary 9TH, saw the following article.
Wives this is true "what a blessing TO
household is a merry, cheerful wo-
man, &C, SCI: thought to answer
it Immediately, now that we have
read over and again in the Guide for
Wives" that we must be cheerful,
&C., very likely all true, but. L pray
some you men take some of this TO
Yourself. Be the cheerful element OF
the house yourself. Make your step,
aud your countenance, like the sun
rise, irradiate and warm every nook
aud corner; but how rare case oil
this kind (sorry to say III. know
too that cheerfulness is greatly
thing of temperament. also know
that il is as much mans duty TO cul-
tivate il as it is wife's. Some of the
most agreeable society men who could
by no possibility be guilty of rude
ness abroad could never be suspected
in their own homes of ever doing any
thing else. The mar who will meet
other ladies with, chow well you are
looking" will often never from one
dav to another take notice OF his own
wife's appearance, or il so, only TO
find fault How bright that home
would be to his wife with one half the
courtesy and liberation he invariably
shows to strangers. Allow me to DIT
fer. he blandly remarks to an oppo-
nent, with whom he argues in COM
pany. Pshaw! what do you know
about it he says, at his own fireside
and to his wife children are "angles''
when they belong to his neighbors,
his own are sent out of the room
whenever he enters or receive SO lit
tie recognition that they are glad to
leave. Permit me" says the gallant
male u,S-d-uis in the omnibuscar as
he takes your fare while his wife often
| hands up her OUR IGfe even Win hei
husband at her side, no wonder she is
not looking well when she sees polite
ness is for every place but home con-
sumption. Oh, how men miss it in
disregarding these little matters, fol-
these little kndnesses are like breath
of fresh air from an open window IL
a stified room, we lift our dropping
heads and breathe again-little did
say. Can that be little which makes
or mars the happiness of human be-
ing. Husbands think of this and b'
cheerful at all times if you wish YOU
wife to be so-yes husbands be cheer
full at home. .. IL.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-28
The F.F. VS.. Astonishsd.

a queer thing happened in the Nir-
ginia Senate the other day. William
n. Stevens, full-blooded negro, arose
to make some remarks on the debt
question. lie had spoken but few
minutes when the Democrats opened
their eyes in establishment. Stevens,
in an address of an hour, demonstrat-
ed that he was the best orator in the
legislature, and the members sat spell
bound through his speech, one of the
ablest yet delivered on the debt ques-
ton. This Virginia orator was born
q slave, and is now about 30 years of
age. He is graduate of a PhiIadcl-
phia college, and also of a college at
Richmond, Va.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-28
For the EAGLE.
Secretary Of State.

ED. EAGLE In your last issue but
one, you publish letter to the Com
monwealth urging Noble l.. Prentls
for Secretary of State. have but one
objection to this, provided. Mr.. Prem
It's desires to step out of the areua, in
which he has so distinguished himself,
into one untricd by him. 1t is the
fact that there is another gentleman,
perfectly competent and worthy, VINO
has q better claim. | refer to Edward
Dounard, the present chief clerk III
that office. Mr.. ID. is now filing out
his fourth term eight years. as chief
clerk. He commenced with Small
woods first term and has remained
ever since, and venture the assertion
that no person who has had business
to transact through that office has ever
found him other than true, conscien
tious gentleman, and thoroughly
competent employe. During much o.
the time the control of the office de
yolved Oh him. He is acquainted with
its contents, and its routine of bust.
ness from alpha to omega. Always a
his post. ever ready to accommodate
No breath of suspicion has ever at
| tached to his name. Certainly, /
there is any thing in civil service, afteI
having so faithfully carried consid
cradle portion of the burdens of hi
superiors for eight years, he ought II
be invited by the voters of the Stat
to ego up higher"
| vote for Dounard.
ONE Who KNOWS HIM.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-28
For the EAGLE.
Corn as Fuel, Railroad Rates and Sha de Trees

February I'D, 1873.
Mr.. EDIToR:-It may be as you say
in last EAGLE that the r. Il. is bring
ing in coal and taking out corn al
figures below ruling rates, but their
freights from Sedgwick City to
Wichita, seems to be just about S1.5O
per ton OH coal, as that is the differ
ence in price between the two points.
AS the distance is Is miles and car
of coal is not less than ten tons, the
II. r. Company receives $1.OO for
every mile Travelled, or at the rate Of
$4,000 dollars for hauling a car of
coal one hundred miles. What would
it be at "ruling rates." and what at
clare cost ?"
j. G. Hyde of Grant Township tells
me that he has used corn as fuel and
that at Is cts. per bushel, it is just
about equivalent to Usage coal at
$3.50 per ton. But neighbor says
ssthe price of corn will advance, while
coal is likely to remain the same" Of
course we hardly expect farmer will
burn corn if he has a pocket full OF
money to buy coal with, but a great
many have to sell corn to get the
money and few farmers appreciate, or
benefit from a rise of produce, after
that ,,roduca ie sold
Granger" is right about forest tree
culture in he'd ge-rows. 1t is great a
mistake to plant them there, or even
along the public highways, especially,
those running east and west double
row of large forrest trees with heavy
foliage can just about keep road
muddy and halfway impossible the
year round.
Mr.. Editor these are hard times,
the mud-bound debt-burdened farm
ers feel their taxes sensibly, hence
counsel friend Stanley not to cry "bad
blood" every time clod-hopper asks
for economy in county expenditures.
Yours, Farmer X.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-28
Senator Ingalls, Speech on Silver and Rssump-
tim

II is particularly gratifying that the
great contest between the people and
the money Lords of this country,
which has been so desperately waged
for months past, was concluded upon
the floor OF the Senate chamber by
two Western Senators-that the hnai
brilliant charge and ultimate route
was headed by two radical leaders OF
the radical hosts ,of the young giant
commemorative of the trans-Missis-
sippi. The dash and brilliancy OF
Kansas son so well understood by
her people was not over estimated
nor too high a value put upon its ei-
feet IN the coup de tat arranged by the
committee having the matter IN
charge. 1t was an effort in every way
worthy our senior Senator, worthy
the intelligence of the people OF ms
State. aud as reflex worthy the sem
timents aud convictions of the entire
West. There was no trimming nor
ANYTHING of conserving nature in the
matter of his address or iii the man
ner of its utterance. A writer In the
Inter Ocean says: "the final days
work was begun by polished speech
from Mr.. Ingalls, which in force OF
argument and skilllul presentation
was second to none that has been de-
livered." Another writer says: Ii
was a noticeable feature, dipping
sparingly into statistics but was what
the wicked Kansans call red-hot-ln
other words, it was thoroughly ives
tern" A correspondent ofthc Atchi-
son Champion says: A peculial
charm of the speech was the graceful
and elegant manner of its delivery aud
in this respect MIR. Ingalls, has few
any superiors in the United State'
Senate" The Cincinnati FnQutrei
Democratic) says: "The speech of Tn
Kansas Senator created a sensation
as an indication of how hard tn
blows fell the applause in the CALLER
les was so earnest and uproarous tina
Senator Anthony of Rhode Island, al
opponent of the bill, rose in his place
and threatened to have the gallerie
cleared.
The speech complete as quoted from
: the Congressional Record will b.
found upon the outside of this issu
and it is most earnestly recommend
ed to the attention of every thinking
man III this valley, for there is mucf
foreshadowed in its depths not seel
at first glance, but over and abov
all it gives to the world the convlc
tions of the countrys great producers
the mighty West.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-28
For the Eagle.
That Bridge Question.
ONE WHO KNOWS HIM
GRAND RIVER, Feb. is

GRAND RIVER, Feb. 1873.
EDITOR EAGLE If you can allow
me space in your columns would
ike TO say few words in regard to
to bridging the North Minnesota.
Your readers have heard the minds
of Messrs. York and Barlow, and also
the Beacon man. Mr.. Barlow says that
Messrs. York and Chase came out
and crossed the west ford after dark.
Now, if was advocating that point
should have wanted them to cross
after dark. and the darker the better,
and believe it to be the case with Mr..
Barlow. but, such is not the case, they
crossed in daylight and got to my
place just at dark, having Travelled
about two miles after crossing. lie
wants to know where Mr.. York gets
his measurement to figure from. Now,
| don't consider it any of Mr.. Barlow s
or my business, so long as he has the
facts, he says that the fact is 1t does
not take 400 feet of bridge-that they
only ask for 225 feet. Now, if they
only ask for 225 feet, they only ask for
bridge about half way across the
bed of the river. Would any rational
man. or set of men, attempt to build
bridge part way ocrcoss the Ar
kansas river, or any other quick-sand
stream with the intention of filling
the remainder. In regard to the accom-
mediation of the people living west OF
the river. | would only refer the read
eT to the map. AS for driving the
| trade to Hutchinson, that is all gam
mon, and every sensible man knows
it now. In regard to that remons-
trance it was gotten up by men living
mostly east of the river, aud on, and
north of that line; we leave the read
er to judge if there is self interest OF
not. Now, this remonstrance puts me
in mind OF the story of an old hunter
who was about to be attacked by o
bear: having shot away his last load,
and seeing that the bear had the adj
vantage in size and ground, he felt
that it was necessary to call on high
er power. He fell on his knees and
cried out. 0, God, help me this once,
but if you can't help me don't help
the bear, but, lay low, and keep COOL
and you will see the darndest bear
fight you ever seen.
Yours,
T. ACKERMAN.