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

We clip the following from the Law
renee Journal, furnished that paper by
Rev. r. COrdley, the new Congregational
minister of this city. We are glad THE
NEWS has so able recruit in the COW
business:
Emporia is first-class town and needs
to be well talked about. Accordingly it
shall be the duty of DR.. Cordley to tell
something of what he knows about it.
Addressing the readers of the Journal he
says:
1--WE are just getting the lay of the land
in EmpOria, and are beginning to feel at
home. We found very kind people to
welcome us, who seem to have thought
of everything that could add to our COM
fort.
Emporia lies we'll, both for beauty and
for trade. 1t is on the high lands be-
tween the Neosho and Cottonwood, the
site gently slOping towards the latter. 1t
has not that variety of beauty which is
so charming in Lawrence, but has more
of that expansive outlook which charac-
terizes Topeka. 1t has now about LOCO
people and large business. There are
some very fine stores, with heavy stocks
and heavy business. The main street
is lined with teams every day, and the
stores busy. There is a bright, fresh
look which indicates prosperity. All
this while the country about here is not
half as well developed as Douglas county.
They have ''dam," too, which makes
a Lawrence man feel quite at home. 1t
is over the Cottonwood, and is of solid
masonry on solid rock. 1t has not the
D, 900 horse power of our dam, but $50
den's Mills" is quite an institution, new
ertheless.
The State Normal School IS here, or
one of them, and it was once the rival of
the University, but the niggardly policy
of the legislature has contracted the in
stitution, and driven from it the able
teachers who gave the school its high re-
pute in former days. Prof. Norton.
whom many Lawrence people knew and
admired, is now in California, as popu-
lar there as he was here. The state has
erected a very handsome building alta
cost of 100000, besides an earlier one
costing $4,000. The state has lands
which would produce fair endowment
if taken care of. After the general gov
eminent has been so liberal in endoW-
ment, and the state has spent so much on
buildings, it seems shame that the whole
should be permanently crippled through
the narrow gauge economy of a few cheap
politicians. 1t is to be hoped the spasm
will be over before it is too late, and the
Normal schools of Kansas are driven in
to the position of mere endowed high
schools. In Michigan the State Univer-
sith, the Normal school and the agricul-
tural college are the care and pride of
the state, and they well repay the care
they receive.
There is one point in which Emporia
needs to copy after Lawrence, that is in
the planting of trees There are few
places well shaded, showing what can be
done, but there is general baroness TO
the streets which testify to early neglect.
Lawrence never did a better thing than
when she created that tree planting en-
thusiasm, which has made her the for
est city of the prairies. Every year her
trees become more and more her crown
of glory.
There is one annoyance here, and that
is the cows. A good many cows roam
the streets of Lawrence, but the cattle
on thousand hills could not begin to
outnumber the COWS of EmpOria Al
most every family keeps a cow or two,
or perhaps three, and every third cow
has bell on. At night the city sounds
like great cow pasture One old set
tier parades up and down in front of my
house every night, driving '-sleep from
our eyes and slumber from our eyeIids.'
have demonstrated with her night affe,
night, with brick-bats, and stones, and
broken pieces of sidewalk, but she knows
just how far can throw and lust how
fast can run. After leading me out
over the prairie, tearing my clothes and
scratching my feet, she stops when ]
stop, turns when turn, and by the time
get comfortably in bed again she is
jingling her bell at my front gate, as
much as to say, II dare You to frv that
over again" Comfortably in bed'' did
I sayG We are never comfortably IN
bed" Like the troubled sea, and those
| it is said to represent, there is no rest fol
us. have not seen the report of the
state insane asylum, but should expecl
to ind every third name from Emporia
If you should hear of my going crazy
YOU may draw bow at venture and
say SIT was COW bells"
] intended TO seF a word about the DO
litb:al bubbling here, but this wiz be ali
your readers viii endure.s' =