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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-23
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sAUET DINAH" VS.. THE MAD STONE.
EDITORS NEWS We noticed an arti-
Gle in your paper, taken from the Kansas
City Journal, in relation to one Lewis
Dalton visiting Paola for the purpose of
being cured by mad stone, having been
bitten by a mad dog some six or seven
days previous to its application. The
question has been asked me number of
times, "What is mad stone?' have
always pleaded ignorance, for never
had the pleasure of being nearer than
days ride to one of those so-called spe-
cities. Now, it is a principle of every
physician of regular standing in the med
ical ranks to have no secrets in relation
to medical cures or remedies applied for
the benefit of mankind Our medical
journals are full of the writings of ply
sicians, and our newspapers clip from
them any successful cures of disease,
clothe it in plain language and present
1t to the people. Now this system of
cure produced by this wonderful rock,
whatever it is, is left in an unfathomable
mystery. Statistics teach that large
per cent. of persons bitten by rabid dogs
never present any of the symptoms of
hydrorhObia, from the fact the wound is
many times inflicted through the cloth
ing of the individual, thereby wiping off
the poisonous saliva ere it reaches the vi
tai fluid of our bodies, and expect some
of the frightened humans who have been
cured by this superstitious remedy have
been among the latter. In this case the
gentleman being bitten by rabid dog
on the hand could not expect to get any
benefit from the Wanted mad stone after
the expiration of a week, for it had no
doubt invaded the entire system in less
than one-half hour, although its more
morbid phases might not present them
selves for years. My question is, what
is this wonderful pebble that no two per-
sons describe alike? Where can 1t be
found, and what is its mOdus 0perandi of
cureg All scientific men that ever con-
suited upon the matter call it humbug
and denounce the advocates of it as a set
OF superstitious, crazy ignoramuses. Are
they wrong or does nature entrust her
noble secrets to the unlettered possessor
OF an Insignificant rock, while men de-
voting their life to the study of medicine
allow nineteen-twentieths of their pa
tients attacked with hydrophobia to die
unaided, or Is the cure like the time hon.
ored buckeye, carried in the pocket for
the cure of HemOrrhOidS or tho rattle
snake-skin belt, worn for weak spine; or
the shriveled potato, carried for the cure
of rheumatism? Alasl fear my inqui-
ries will be in vain. Its disciples. are
many, but they are not disposed to allow
their knowledge to be shed abroad, es-
pecially to the skeptical.
AUNT DINAH.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-23

MR.. EDITOR The assertions of Mr.
Fox in THE News yesterday render it
necessary for me, in justice to myself, to
say few more words regarding the in
PRODUCTION of the Independent sixth
reader. The book was first introduced
into the schools of Emporia the last term
of the school year which closed near the
middle of June, 1876. During the whole
OF the next year, which commenced in
September, 1876, and closed July, 1877,
the highest class used the sixth reader.
i taught the class both of these years,
and there IS no possibility Of me being
mistGken-all the documentary evidence
of Mr.. Fox to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. The first part of last year this class
recited to Mr.. Davis, but owing to the
crowded condition of the school it was
thought advisable to suspend its opera
tons for time. In January, 1878, Mrs.
Arthur was added to the teaching force
of the room, and the work of the class
resumed. New members were added,
and an arrangement was made by Mrs.
Arthur with Mr.. Fox, by which these pu-
pills could obtain their books at intro
ductory rates. Previous to this nearly all
these books had been purchased, l think,
OF Miss Plumb. The Independent sixth
reader has been used in the Emporia
city schools for nearly three years. If
Mr.. Fox has been ignorant of this fact
theteachers are not to blame. They GER
tainly did not deem it incumbent upon
themselves to consult him, or solicit his
advice as to the propriety OF introducing
this or any other book.
Please read the appended certificate
and decide whether those whose names
are attached are likely TO be mistaken as
10 the text book they used, or the teach
er TO whom they recited.
A word in relation to q change of
books: do not think any have been
made during the last two years. The
promotion of a class does not incur the
necessity of a change of books. Those
referred to by Mr.. Fox were not changed
for others, but merely dropped from the
list when the classes using them were
promoted. No grammar school or other
geography has been introduced since Mr..
Davis has been superintendent These
and other books have been used in the
Normal and country schools, and it is
barely possible that Mr.. Fox has become
a little mixed about this matter.
nj. j. WATSON.
This is to certify that we were pupils
of the EmpOria city schools during the
years 1876 and 1877 and members of Miss
Watson's reading class, and the book
used was the Independent 9th reader:
]. /. Russell, George w. Hibben, Eli
"a @. Dahm, +. b. McColloch, Perlee r.
Bennett, Charles N. Riggs, E. w. Kin.
nan, Cora Z. Kelly, Willie Clapp, Nettie-
Saith, Alice Pettingill.
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; Plymouth Item..

PLYMOUTH, May IL.
We have more need of rain here than
wind, but have had more of the latter
this week.
The Cottonwood is furnishing great
field for fishing. A large number of
fine fish have been caught here this
spring.
Diptheria has broke out again near
Toledo. Mr.. Moffit lost little girl this
week, aged 10 years. Other dangerous
cases reported.
The NEWS has good circulation here
and deserves twice as many more sub
scribers. A staunch Republican journ-
al, and always reliable is the most harm
we can say of it.
Mr.. Talbot is busy having his sheep
sheared. He has about GOO. A good
many died this winter and spring. This
climate is severe on them in the spring
of the year.
The Brislin Bros, are having poor sue
cess getting water on their farm. They
have dug about 60 feet through mud,
sand, coal, and rock, and yet no water,
at cost of over 500.
Mr.. Joseph Ecret and wife were visit
ing friends in Chase county this week.
Joe thinks he can spare time to visit
now since he has such splendid prospects
for good crops.
Mr.. Neil Campbell has been putting
a new roof on his residence 1t adds
greatly 10 its appearance. Now, Neil
put good coat of paint on and you will
have the handsomest house in Plymouth
N NJ. Carter and wife have left us tC
take up their home in Garden City, Kas
We regret to loose them from Plymouth
They leave hosts of friends who
wish them success in their far west home
Garden City has secured an honest, gooC
business man, and its society one of til,
best of ladies.
Plymouth gave May party May 10th
which was rather an enjoyable affair
the time spent from IL o'clock until five
was very pleasant indeed playing croquet
swinging, listening to excellent music
on the organ by the young ladies pres
ent, and partaking of one of the best pie
mic dinners spread on table cloths on thu
grass, picnic style, made us think o
times past and gone, for this is the frs
picnic May party we have attended fo
years. Among the visitors from you
city were Mr.. and Mrs. Morehouse, Mis-
Maggie Emmerson, Mr.. Thos. H. En-
merson, Miss Emma Richards, Mr. r. B
Turner, Mr.. Jas. B. Emmerson, Mis-
Mary O'Neil, Mr.. NJ. Richards and Mr.
Vail. They always enjoy themselves OF
all occasions like this and of course thi.
was no exception, come again.
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-12
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Local and News Brevities.

Cool nights.
LAND seekers are still coming and
going.
The new sidewalks are proving
their efficiency.
SrEAMBoAr-MEN say that business
on the Sound is growing better eve
ry day.
MANY of the farmers in Chehalis
county are still engaged in wheat
harvesting.
THERE will soon be about ten
teachers employed in the several
schools Of this city.
THE tree of life is family typi@
fed by the beautiful mountain lash
shade trees in this place.
MRs. Annie Sloan, of The Dalles,
wants to know the whereabouts of
her husband j. w. Stoan.
Two steam threshers are in opera
tion on Cowlitz Prairie, owned by
Messrs. Henriott and Russell.
IT is estimated that Is 900 bushels
of grain will be shipped from Che
halls and Newaukum Stations, Lew
is county, this year.
WE are requested to state that the
members of the Olympia Base Ball
Club challenge any or all of the
clubs of Washington Territory, Oie-
gon and British Columbia to play a
match game at Olympia.
MANY friends of Willamette Uni
versity are forced to admit that their
once favorite institution has lost a
valuable prestige. Sectarianism and
crookedness combined, are thought
by those not particularly interested,
to be the unfortunate elements that
have worked so much i'll, Of late, to
that institution.
ST.. Paul says faith is the evidence
of things not seen, and SO, on ac-
count of the near approach of the
Legislature, we have faith that the
dangerous sidewalks leading to the
Capitol will be put in thorough re-
pair before many weeks. AS they
hexist at present, they are glaring
disgrace to any town making the
smallest pretensions to public COM
fort.
IT is notable fact that since the
coming of the last rainy spell, there
has been about an equal division be-
tween those who roundly upbraid
and those who praise the weather.
Ore man didn't get his last acre OF
wheat into the barn and it was dam
aged; his neighbor had q field of
late cabbages and could hardly con-
tain himself for joy over the splen-
did developing effects of the show.
ers.
The last Seattle Intelligencer de.
votes nearly column to an article
urcing the necessity of a Land Of
iice being established at that place.
1t argues that the Territory should
be redistricted 80 as to have five Of
fees instead Of only four. Consid-
erations involving delay and expense
are the principal arguments by which
that paper sustains it's position. and
we confess that, in the main, it takes
q correct view of the subject.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-12

DID you ever see garden walk?
The fever at Memphis continues
practically undated.
A MAGNIFICENT exhibition every
evening free of charge, Jupiter and
his moons.
The site of the old Seattle sawmill
is going to be covered with new bus
mess buildings.
EDlsoN's platinum searchers do not
appear to find so much of the covet-
ed metal as gold.
The muniicent bounties offered do
not seem to lessen the number of
noxious wild animals in our Terri
terry.
DIR. Slade, the famous Spiritual
medium, is holding seances in Victo-
ria. He will probably visit the
Sound.
In the weather line, we have moth
ing special to chronicle, save that
the showers are irrigating other Sec
tions, to-day.
A GENTLEMAN who came in from
Oyster Bay, this morning, reports
drenching showers, there, yester-
day and last night.
PROF. Roberts, of Port Townsend,
will be here during Fair week, and
probably remain while the Legisla-
ture is in session.
The Seatco prospects are growing
more favorable. A large amount
of coal will be shipped from that
mine to Portland, this Fall.
Mp. James Biles, who has been
living in Portland the past few
months, will return in few weeks,
and resume his residence at Tum-
water.
The work of transporting coal
lfrqms4he Msacl .sof the. lRashingtos'
Libby has begun, and it is thought
that large portion of it will be
saved.
Hop-pIcKING commenced, in the
Puyallup valley about the 10th inst,
and the prospects are that the yield
will be much larger than was at first
expected.
SALEM begins to see that she will
be left out in the cold, unless she
has railway connection with Astoria.
OF course, Portland sees the thing
in different light.
HOPE is cheering up the hearts of
Victorians. Imperial commissioners
have arrived in the province, to ex-
anime the various harbors to find a
practical railway terminus.
N1NErY-r1vE bushels Of wheat were
threshed from one acre in Kittitas
Valley, one day last week. Can
Oregon or California report a better
showing for their grain fields?
SCHOOL in District No. 1, begins
the 22d of this month. Mr.. j. T.
Marten, formerly of the Territorial
University, is to be Principal, Mrs.
Cass and Mrs. White Assistants.
A. F. TuLns g. Son have estab-
lished a general variety store at Che
halls Station, and Mrs. Reynolds,
formerly of Oregon City, has opened
new hotel in that thriving little
town.
The steamship City of Chester
arrived in Seattle on Wednesday
evening, with an unusually large as
sortment of California fruits, con-
signed to various parties along the
Sound.
GREEN corn is one of the good
things of the season, and contrary to
predictions of early settlers on the
Sound, it is successfully raised all
over Western Washington, in large
quantities.
BAGGAGE smashers now assign
masculine and feminine gender to
trunks and travelling valises as gram
marians do to nouns. According to
their parlance, Saratoga trunks are
of the feminine gender.
The members of the Cabinet, at
Washington, regard the present
great influx of gold into the United
~o 40 a1x,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-12

HARMONY does not always reign,
even in choir.
PARTIES Interested in the Seatco
coal mines are hopeful.
LARGE vegetables of all kinds are
the rule and not the exception.
OYSTERS and clans now constitute
the strong suit of the Indian women.
A CHILD of Mr.. Bonner, at Tumwa-
ter, died on the 5th instant, of cholera
infantum.
PORTLAND saloon men are talking
of closing their places of business at
midnight.
FARMERS are waiting for dry weather
to enable them to cut and secure the
second crop of clover.
TIE Walla-walla county fair com
mences on the 18th of Septemb er
and continues through the week.
AN apple-tree, in town, wants to
play it is Spring, and so is blossom
ing again, just to see how it seems.
TnE people of Memphis have CIV
ell up all hope as to the abatement
of the yellow fever, until the coming
of the frosts.
Ir now appears that the fear of
the wheat rust did more damage in
Oregon and this Territory than the
disease itself.
Miss Cushman has opened q pri-
vate school for small children in the
front room of Capt. BIinn's building,
on Fourth street.
Mr.. G.. A. Steele, Special Agent
of the Postotfice Department for
Oregon and Washington, is making
a tour of the Sound.
The rain has had the effect TO
cause our country friends to. aban,.
done their work, Tor 4 season, and
pay mole frequent business visits to
our town.
The Common Council of Seattle,
at one Of its last meetings, created
the Office of " Steward of the En-
gine House," with q salary of S45
per month.
ACCORDING to Eastern journals,
and they of all others ought to be
best posted, the public acts of Mrs.
Spiaeue are almost wholly dictated
by Conkling.
LIVELY times are anticipated in
this place from the commencement
of the Fair to the adjournment of
the Legislature. We can stand any
thing for q change.
The ship Gleni6er sailed from AS
toria, on Friday, the 5th inst, for
Queenstown, with over twelve hun
dred tons of wheat; this being the
first shipment for the season.
KALLoCH was elected Mayor of San
Francisco by bullet instead Of bal
lot. De Young took the most effec-
tive method of stutfing the ballot
box with votes for his opponent.
The Rev. Ada G. Bowles, of the
First Universalist Church, San Fran
cisco, married couple recently, the
first time the marriage service has
been conducted by woman, on the
Pacific Coast.
Mr.. Newsome, who tills farm a
few miles from town, has left at our
Office specimens of Early Rose pota-
tatoes which are of extraordinary
growth. The average weight of
the half-a. dozen tubers is II pounds.
or nine pounds in all.
PRor. E. D. Cope an eminent
Philadelphia paleontologist is soon
to pay a visit to the Northern Pacific
coast to examine and procure such
specimens a. may be had. Then
will be the time for our people to
dispose Of their rare Indian curios-
ties.
CAPT. Ballard, of the steamer
Zephyr, informs US that there is a
great deal of building now going on
in Seattle. Ho pronounces business
of all kinds rapidly improving in
that city. The starting up of seven
mills on the lower Sound, very prob
ably. is the direct cause OF the pres
ent impetus.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-12

HENS are retrenching.
A SEASON of moonless nights.
PAsTIMEs should not be lost times.
GROUSE are coming in thick and
fat.
Go to Puyallup for hops and to-
bacco.
OYSTERS are now shipped by near
ly every train.
ANOTHER scow load of bark ar
rived, this morning. u
THE sound of the planning mill is a
reminder Of old times.
The first and last things heard are
the hammer and saw.
We are glad to report that Mr..
William Irving is convalescent.
Now that the election is past, Cal
ifornia politians are breathing easier.
A VISIT to the seaside is healthful,
especially if you have plenty of
money.
SEVERAL of our merchants are pre-
pairing for the Fall tournament in
drygoods.
The train made an extra trip, last
Tuesday, to bring in q windfall of
passengers.
The Presbyterian Church at South
Union is to be dedicated on Sunday,
the 14th instant.
Mn. G.. Fl. Foster is engaged in
getting out cargo of spars for the
North eastern coast.
MIR. EZRA Meeker, of Puyallup,
is about to employ steam power to
run hop-drying machine.
The editor of the Daily Historian
prides himself on the number of
newspapers he has started.
GEN. Grant has sailed on the steam
ship City Of, Toxic for San Francisco !;
sessayasxsA AtlsssiS otblss ram s'-s
The 4" Vest Shore" for August
comes to hand. as usual. fully sus-
tanning its growing popularity.
"WnEN my raft. goes away" is
now the new version of "When my
ship comes in" among loggers.
I" Ir never rains but it pours." So
the Kearneyites begin to think; they
have simply overdone the thing.
The little town of Centreville,
Lewis county, is rapidly growing in
to importance of an inland city.
A VISITOR from Cowlitz county
reports that railroad surveying par
ties are hard at work over there.
AN exemplary man; the man who
props up his pear tree to save the
overloaded limbs from breaking.
GETTING married is now put down
on the list as one of the fine arts.
It is by no means one of the lost arts.
That the hard times extend to the
moon is evidenced by the fact that
she came to her last quarter this
week.
A YOUNG lady wants q situation as
teacher. She offers to teach a re-
spectacle young man how to make a
good husband.
Rev. A. Atwood, Presiding Elder
Of Puget Sound District, preached in
the M. E. Church Sunday, to large
congregations.
The release of the railroad lands
is having the effect to bring a large
number of settlers into the Territory
from California and Oregon.
The comet, now approaching the
Solar System. has started a new fash
ion; it sports no train. Ladies
would do we'll to make note of this.
LIKE all beautiful things, the stay
Of the yacht Casco was short. She
took her departure for the lower
Or Sound last Saturday, in tow of tho
Zephyr.
JANE says when she walks out
with John, they constitute full
archery appointment; ha is the bow,
and her heart is all OF q culver.
Pretty good for Jane.
WITH o bounty of IS for bears,
cougars and wolves, and 81 so for