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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25
ELI AND JOSEPH.

"Can thing which has no life move 81
asked Joseph Cook of Eli Perkins.
"'Of course it can," replied Eli. why,
last year saw watch spring, a rope
walk, a horse fly, match box, a peanut
stand, mill dam, an oyster fry, and cat
fish; and this year / expect to see a
peach blow, gin sling, brandy smash,
and
Anything more, Mr.. Perkins 81
"Why, yes; expect to see a stone
fence, cane brake, and bank run"
did you ever see a shoe shop, gum
boil, or hear Goldfish bawl :" asked Mr.
Cook.
mo, but I've seen a plank walk, a
horse whip, tree toad, and l would not
be surprised some day to see the great
Atlantic coast, the Pacific slope, tree
box, and"
AS Mr. Cook left, Eli told him he had
often seen a very mysterious thing-a
uniform smile.
"Why, I've often seen a sword fish, -
said Mr.. Cook. "I've seen hogs skin
boots, too, and once saw some alliga-
tors hide shoes. Yes, Mr.. Perkins,
have even heard the bark of a tree-actu-
ally seen the tree bark, seen il holler and
commence to leave. The tree held on to
its trunk, which they were trying to seize
for board"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25
ROCK OF AGES.

Crock of ages cleft for me-"
Thoughtlessly the maiden sung;
Fell the words uncOnsciously
From her girlish gleeful tongue;
Sang as little children singh
Sang as sing the birds of June.
Fell the words like light leaves adoWn
On the current of the tune
Rock of ages cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.''
"Let nae hide myself in Thee"
Felt her soul no need to hide;
Sweet the song as song could be-
And she had no thought beside;
All the words unheedingly
Fell from lips untouched by care,
Dreaming not that they might be
On some other lips prayer
Rock Ofages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee
Crock of ages, cleft for me-"
Twas a woman sang them now;
PleadiUgly and prayerfully.
Every word her heart may know;
Rose the song as storm-tossed bird
Beats with weary wing the air.
Every note with sorrow stirred
Every syllable prayer
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee"
"Rock of ages. cleft for me-"
Lips grown aged sang them now,
Trustingly and tenderly,
Voice grown weak and eyes grown dim
Let me hide myself in Thee -
Trembling though the voice, and low
Ran the sweet strain peacefully.
Like q river in the flow
Sang as only they can sing
Who LIES thorny paths have pressed
Sang as only they can sing
Who behold the promised rest.
Crock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee"
Crock of ages, cleft for me-"
Sang above q cOffinlid;
Underneath, all reStfully
All Iife's joys and sorrows hid,
NevermOre, o storm-tOssed soul,
Nevermore from wind or tide,
Nevermore from pillows roll,
Wilt those need to hide.
Could the sightless, sunken eyes
Closed beneath the soft gray hair,
Could the mute and stinened lips
Move again in pleading prayer
Still, aye still, the words would be,
'Let me hide myself in Thee"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25
BUSINESS NOTES.

Moderate priced houses are in demand
in Boston.
Boston's shipment of shoes is increas-
ing weekly.
Milwaukee's rolling-mill men report
heavy orders.
Merrimac mills, of Lowell, Mass, are
being enlarged.
Kansas City is coming up as a pork
packing point.
Troy, n. Y, real estate shows an adj
vance over last fall.
The st. Louis iron trade is better than
1t has been for yerrs.
The outlook for business in California
is exceedingly bright
indianapolis, Ind, reports q revival
in the building interest.
LOuislana's sugar crop last year was
the largest since the war
The Fall River (Mass.) iron works are
In receipt of heavy orders.
Nearly all the cheese factories in the
Mohawk valley are at work.
Work has been resumed at the Lanes.
VILE (Cape ANN granite quarry.
England Is the chief market for our
A-Neo HANNSS - AoANN NOAASo ACAL.
Several blast furnaces in the interior
OF Missouri have opened up again.
Michigan lumbermen anticipate a
very heavy and prosperous season.
1t is claimed that our coal can be de-
llvered in Australia at good profit.
Cincinnati stove manufacturers say
they have all the orders they can fill.
Minnesota -four is landed in Europe
within one month after it is barreled.
The total amount of lumber cut last
season is set down at 1884, 2I6.22O feet.
Short credit is the rule In Missouri,
and many of the farmers are paying
cash.
Five hundred thousand railroad ties
will be taken out of the Usage timber
this year.
In Patterson, NJ. thirty manufactur
ing establishments employ over nine
thousand men.
The carriage manufacturers of Phiia-
delphia are looking forward to an i'm
mense business.
Our American plate glass manuf.lc-
turers are driving their French rivals
out of the market
There is a heavy demand for steel
rails, and the Pennsylvania mills are
nearly all at work.
The local business on the line of the
Pennsylvania railroad shows very
large Increase.
Boston journals report good trade
in carpets and good demand for Ameri-
can ingrains and brussels.
The Troy Bessemer steel works are
producing over twelve hundred tons
Weekly-an unexampled product.
Florida is turning her attention to the
cultivation Of rice, which Is stated to be
better crop than wheat in any other
state.
The national tube works company of
McKeesport, Pa, have increased the
wages Of their employees from five to
twenty-five cents each.
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STATE NEWS.

Noble L. Prentis is to take charge of
the local department Of the Atchison
Champion.
The Daily Capital is the name of new
evening paper inst started at Topeka by
Hudson & Ewing.
People in the Commonwealth Office in
Topeka hold conversations with Kansas
City people by means of telephone.
AS fast as new dwellings can be built
in Clay Center, they are occupied at
rent equal to 30 per cent. per annum on
the investment.
The Leavenworth Times says it is re.
ported that old Web. Wilder and our
modest young friend, Noble Prentis, are
to buy the Topeka Blade. There will
be some fun if that's true.
Hon A. NJ. F. Randolph, ex-attorney
general, has been appointed supreme
court reporter cice w. c. Webb, resigned.
The appointment of Mr.. r. will meet
with general favor throughout the state.
He is an able and pure man.
The state board of education will hold
an examination of candidates for state
certificates and diplomas, in the State
University building at Lawrence, on the
18th, 18th, 18th, Goth and 21st days of
next June. The examination will con-
slst of both written and oral exercises.
The Rev. Mr.. Kline, Baptist minister
at Burlingame, is in trouble. He is ac-
cused of giving way TO the service of the
devil-or rather of being too much of a
ladies' man. He was arrested and bound
over in the sum of $500 in a Justices
court. Mr.. Kline ought to be ashamed
of himself
Twenty new coaches have been receiv-
ed for use on the Santa Fe. Three of
them have paper wheels, as the Pullman
cars have. The others have cast-iron
wheels, 40 inches in diameter The lat
ter have been put on to test their value,
and they work perfectly, running much
easier than the smaller ones. 1t is be-
lIeved they will not wear the track so
much. The cars themselves are beau
ties.-Commonwealth.
w ACSAONOIA W lOtC LAlC NtCAlu vi
jor T. G. Bowles, superintendent of the
deaf and dumb asylum at OIathe. He
was prominent lawyer at Ottawa for
several years, and at one time member
of the legislature. He was a major in
the service of his country during the war
and was faithful and honest officer
His death is universally regretted among
those who knew him.
The gross earnings of the A. T. & S.
Railroad Co. for the month of March
last were $5S2, OOO-an increase of 1885,
633 over those for the same month OF
1878. The earnings of the Kansas Pacific
for the same month were $40, 951-an in
crease of SIS, $40 over those of the cor
responding month of 1878. The gross
earnings of nineteen of the principal
railroads of the country for the month Of
March show large increase over those fol
February, as well as over those for March
1873. The business of the western road:
especially, shows very gratifying in
crease.
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SUNDAY ADJUSTMENTS.

The time has come to put a stop to
Sunday theatricals, Sunday concerts, sa-
cred or otherwise, and all that sort of
thing. To this conclusion people have
come who do not regard Sunday from a
religious standpoint. This is not "Pur-
itanical" movement, but movement in
the interest of society. 1t took time to
convince our citizens, regardless of par
ty, creed or race that Sunday theaters are
having a demoralizing influence upon
the rising generation; that they are hot
beds of vice, and that, to a large extent,
they are places made specially attractive
for disreputable persons. Many of these,
without Sunday patronage, could not
live, and the Sunday patronage which
enables them to exist is proof sufficient
that they should not be permitted to ex-
list. They are the essence of all that is
vile in society. There are no doubt re-
spectacle theaters open on Sunday, but
the violation of law by these made the
low dives possible, and so long as any
theaters are permitted to violate the law,
and, TOR the sake of making money, set
the authorities at defiance, the hotbeds of
vice will continue. The true policy,
therefore, would be to make a clean
sweep-to prohibit absolutely all theat-
rical performances on Sunday. To this
IL Is DOunu 10 cOme; IL nOI now, at some
in the near future. Our citizens have
endured the present condition of society
about as long as it is endurable.
The municipal regulations are made
quate, as are also the state laws. To
remedy this defect the legislature is now
appealed to, and it should not hesitate
to act promptly and with effect. The
call for the suppression of vice is loud
one. 1t comes from all the better classes
of society. 1t comes from the heads of
families, and from others who see the
temptations to which young people are
exposed; it comes from those who see
that in this regard Cincinnati is one of
the worst, if not the worst cities in the
country. If there is a member of the
legislature who thinks there is political
capital to be made by encouraging crime,
he is very much mistaken. The people
are getting terribly in earnest, and they
will get terribly mad if longer trifled
with. It is not a political question; but
it is a question whether the criminal
classes shall dictate terms to the author
tiles, and do as they please.-Cincinnati
Gazette
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25
A GRITTY PARsON.

A Methodist parson in Nevada has
publicly declined to abandon John Chi
naman. The Rev. Mr.. Gober went to
Grass Valley from Sacramento, taking
with him Mongolian man-ofall-work.
The members of the flock liked the shep-
herd, but hated the shepherds dog, and
it was not long before the board of stew
ards demanded the expulsion of the
Chinaman. The minister assured them
that John had lived with him a very long
time, was a toleIable christian and an
exceedingly good fellow, and there was
no reason why he should be discharged
from service. The stewards subsequent
ly returned to the attack, and informed
the parson that they would not pay his
salary if he refused To dismiss the Celes-
tial The reply was, "COme to church
next Sunday evening" The church was
crowded on the evening in question, and
the sermon was awaited with breathless
interest. The pastors reference to the
Chinese question was brief but pointed:
1.-THE stewards have told me that unless
l discharge the Chinaman in my employ
they will no longer be responsible for my
salary. My wife has learned to like
John because he is good christian,
thinks so much of us, and does his work
so faithfully. / now answer you once
for all that the Chinaman shall stay with
us, and shall continue as pastor of this
church until the conference sees fit 9TH
erWise to direct me, salary or no salary,
starve or no starve! / have never yet
been inundated from what considered
my duty as a christian, and do not pro-
pose TO be nowl Brethren, il strikes me
pretty forcibly that it would be better for
you to follow the religion taught in the
Bible than that dealt out on the sand
lots in San Francisco" Prejudice is
prejudice, but grit is also grit. There
was applause from every side of the
church, and when the preacher left the
pulpit prominent member of the con-
gregation stepped mp TO him and said !:
''Parson, you have partaken of my hos
pitality in the past many atime. RecOl-
lect that my latch-string hangs on the
outside when You come that way. There
is crust IN our cupboard when your
salary fails"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

Machinery Hall, on the centennial
grounds. which originally cost $500. 900,
was sold at auction on Saturday last
There were only five bidders, and it was
purchased by w. G. Allison Sc Co, car
builders, for $4,000. There is in the
building an enormous amount of gas and
water pipe, three lines of railroad track,
about 100000 pounds of wrought iron,
about 100000 pounds of cast iron, about
5000, 900 feet of white pine lumber, and
1000, 600 feet of yellow pine lumber, about
100000 feet of tin roofing, about 49, 900
square feet of glass, and about COG, 900
perches of stone. The building and all
matters connected there with are to be
removed by the purchasers, and the
ground on which it now stands is to be
smoothly levelled on or before the first
Of June next. The terms were one-fourth
cash at the time of sale and the balance
in thirty days.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

The freezing out" of yellow fever in
ships, for which process the United
States senate recently passed bill APP
propriating 100000, to be expended in
a "refrigerating ship" has proved a
dead failure in at least one case. Last
fall several fatal cases of yellow fever Oc-
CURED on board the United States steam
er Plymouth. She lay up for the winter
at Boston, and was purpOsely exposed
throughout to freezing temperature,
frequently below zero, and was besides
fumigated several times. In spite of
these precautions two cases of yellow
fever broke out ON board the Plymouth
on the 23d of March, when at sea In lati-
tude twenty-five degrees north, near Der.
muda. The crew had been in good
health, and the men had not been expos
ed, save as their presence in the ship
may be called exposure. This is a
stumbling block" in the way of the ere
frigerator."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

Governor st. John spent day in this
city last week. He was en- route for the
border for the purpose of personally in
quiring into the reports and rumors of
threatened Indian raids. He is deter
mined to cut off all possibility of any
depredatiOns by rowing lands, and will,
until all danger or talk of danger is past,
patrole, with mounted men, the southern
lines of the counties bordering on the
territory in the western part of the state.
II the general government don't want its
pets hurt it must keep them out of mis-
chief, and from meddling with stock
men in the western ranches.-Wichita
EaUlp
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EDUCATIONAL.

Fourteen millions of the twenty-seven
millions of inhabitants of Italy, can mel.
ther read nor write.
BY the will of Charles L. Jones of
Cambridge, $4,000 are left to Harvard
college, to be used in founding six schol-
arships.
The late Hon. William Wilson be-
queathed about $4,000 for the endow-
ment of seminary at Angelica, Allegha-
ny county, Pa.
The report of the president of the
French commission appointed to exam
Inc the American school system, speaks
with cordial appreciation of the high
schools.
From the beginning of the next Octo-
Der term at Oxford, women will be able
to avail themselves of lectures on all, and
more than all, the subjects taught to un-
der graduates.
The late DR.. George B. Wood, of Phil
adelphia, left $4,000 to the University
hospital, and large requests to the Col
lege of Physicians, The American Phil
osophical society, and the University of
Pennsylvania.
The late DR.. Charles Ives, of New Ha-
ven, bequeathed $4,000 to Yale college
for the support of poor students in any
department. He left the same sum to a
Wisconsin college, and also 5000 to
the New Haven orphan asylum.
The st. Louis school authorities are
following Boston's example in cutting
down drawing. The course in their
schools is to be simplified as to be sue
cessfully taught by their teachers under
the direction of single supervisor.
AT the Iowa Agricultural college ev-
cry girl in the junior class has learned
to make good bread, and cook all the
dishes required by an ordinary house
hold. Besides this they are accomplish
ed in all the housekeeping arts, inclu-
ding care of the sick, care of children,
etc.
The number of scholars in average at
tendance at the British elementary
schools last year was laos, 1877. The av-
erage attendance at the Church of Eng
land or National schools was 1858, O29:
at British, Wesleyan and other schools
not connected with the Church of Eng
land, 351 ,785; at Roman Catholic schools,
l26, 800, and at board schools 559, O78.
The French Minister of public instruc-
ton has laid before the chamber of dep
uties bill restoring to the state the ex-
elusive right to confer degrees, excIu-
4
of non-authOrized religious societies, de-
prlving school-mLSters not belonging to
the establishments not recognized as of
public utility of exemption from militia
ry service, and so recognizing the supe-
rior council of public instruction as to
eliminate the clerical element which has
been predominant ever since 1850.
The suit against the Northwestern uni
versity, to decide whether or not the
charter granted by the legislature where
by all university lands were exempted
from taxation, was power vested with
the legislative body, has been decided
by the U. S. supreme court in favor of
the university. The case has been one
of many years standing; three lower
| courts have decided successfully against
it; but the final decree from the y. s.
supreme court gives it a clear verdict.
The taxes in question amounted to $780,
600, and the payment of that amount at
this time would have seriously crippled
the institution.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

A eolored voter, in Mobile, had been
employed on election day, by q mer
chant, to take some kerosene out OF the
Mobile and Ohio railroad depot for ship
ment. He informed the gentleman who
him that he was going to vote
the democratic ticket-cOuldn't think OF
voting any other. On his return from
the depot he was asked for the receipt for
ct. This isn't the receipt" exclaimed
the merchant. @Bress de Lord, !" was the
Response, 81 done gone an voted de ker.
Osene oil ticket :
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

And now the southern heart is fired
again-at least that portion of it that
breathes in Kentucky. The wall of the
days of African slavery comes from the
Democratic press that Cincinnati, by
her recent election, offended Kentucky,
and this great Independent state will
transfer her business to Louisville.
Now, Cincinnati business men have
done more to develop Kentucky and the
whole south during the last ten years
than a dozen Louisvilles com bined.
They have laid through the entire state
one of the finest railroads ever construct
ed. To do this, these public-spirited
business men have taxed themselves to
the tune of $1s, 600 900, and more yet will
be required to complete the work. If
the enterprising and independent citi-
zens of Kentucky now prefer to pull ba-
con and dry goods with mules and oxen,
instead of by steam from headquarters,
and all because Cincinnati does not vote
10 please them, they undoubtedly have
that privilege.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

There is one member of congress from
New England who does not accept the
doctrine that it Is the business of the
national government to do everything
for everybody. His name is Robinson,
and he showed his popularity when
called upon to vote an appropriation of
aquarter million Of dollars for stamping
out" the cattle disease. He said his
state had always taken care ofits invalid
cattle, and he had grave doubts wheth-
er it was just the thing for the general
government to embark III the cattle doc
toring business. The effect of this pc
culiar Yankee notion was to send the
matter to a committee.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

The New York Times answers the
question, why do the gross animal pas
sions dominate our social life 81 by say
ing: ave believe one reason to be that
the barriers are lowered in domestic life
to allow them to come in. Matters are
discussed in the presence of young girls
which once matrons blushed to mention.
There is familiarity with vice, an &C
ceptance of it as matter of course,
shown in our newspapers, in our ordina-
~ talk, in our pulpits, which debases
the minds of the young. The very air is
poisoned in which our children live.
No legislation, no single reform can
touch this disease any more than it could
cure the malaria which Stays its victims
by the thousand. 1t is for each family,
each clergyman, each mother TO clean
and sweeten their own household"
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Randall wanted to please home Demo

Randall wanted TO please home Demo.
Gratis. The Harrisburg, Pa, Telegraph
compliments him thus;
"Great gods and little fishes ~
"Skim-milk masquerades as cream %
Morgan II. Wise, of Greene county, a
chairman of committee of the United
States congress. Who wOuld have
thought it? A common distiller with.
out brains or breeding. thoroughgoing
free luncher-a hummer on his constitu.
ents for his campaign eXpenses-a man
who presents his so-Callcd friends with q
for an amount that would puachase two
gallons - this man speaker Rankall
makes chairman of the important com
mittee on manufactures. Can Pennsyl
vania Democrats blush? Ifso, nOw's the
time.
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY,

Mrs. Mary Clemner says of her: 81
like Susan. Her jaw has the resolute
grip it would naturally get in lifelong
tussle to have its own way. Her eyes
are round, large, gray, and look straight
at you. She has no end of common
sense and keen wit, with no sentiment,
and little culture In the aesthetic sense.
But she is as affectionate and as simple
minded as a child; brave, noble
woman, who has given her whole life to
her highest convictions, and in battling
for the equality that she does, is simply
true to the traditions of her Quaker
on her at q safe and silent distance, where
she cannot turn and rend me for my
silence on the cause. New York Tn
bune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

IL is understood in Washington, that
according to the bargain which has open
ed the way for general legislation and tin
kering ofthe currency, the Greenback
members will vote with the Democrats
lacking political amendments TO the APP
preparation bills. If this understanding
is correct the Greenback party has been
merged SO to speak in the Democratic
organization.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

The Mobile Register warns President
Hayes that if he persists in his determ-
ination to veto Democratic measures at
may be necessary for congress to consid-
er very seriously whether it is not in or
der to call up from the table of the house
that resolution which was not acted up
on the Sd of March, 1877, TO the effect
that Samuel ]. Tilden was elected presi.
dent of the United States"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25

A cablegram from London says the
khedive has sent a large amount of gold
out the country and seems to be prepar-
ing to abdicate- He is pressing the col.
lection of arrears of taxes apparently for
the purpose of adding to his private for
tune. The sultan is quite ready to de-
cree the deposition of the khedive if Eng
land and France desire it. If, however,
the Egyptian ruler is obstinate, England
will doubtless deal with him directly.
The public debt of $3.50, 600, 600 is almost
all due to England. AS British pro-
vince Egypt would soon be in a most
flourishing condition.