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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-27

The rumors which have been rife for
some days past concerning Hon. Geo. I.
Anthony, in connection with the COVER
norship, certainly demand more sub
stantial confirmation than the following
declaration from the gentleman himself,
in recent letter to the Topeka Capt.
tai:
81 have hoped that my name might be
lett out of political relations as com
pletely rs my present life pursuits and
purposes are removed from them. My
acts and merits as n servant of the poo
pie in Office are, alone, left the property
of the public, now that / am out of such
service am not now, nor can l imag
inc any possible contingency which
could make me n candidate for any Of
flee in the gift of the people. Who says
differently from this is what Horace
Greeley used To call liar"
We should certainly regard this def
milton Of Mr.. Anthony's position as
sufficiently explicit for all practical pur-
poses, and if the words of the eX-gOver-
nor arc 10 be interpreted literally, they
quite preclude the belief that he en-
tertains any intention of entering the
gubernatorial contest. But, while the
present outlook may Indicate no pros
pect of "any possible contingency" that
would summon Mr.. Anthony Ia the
front, 1t must he remembered that the
mutations Of Kansas politics surpasseth
understanding, and that no man who
has ever tasted of their joys is likely to
remove himself absolutely from the
hands of his friends.
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SUMMER CARE OF SWINE

1t is mistake to assume that hogs
need no care or attention during the
summer season. The first conditions
for insuring a profitable hog crop in win
ter are good grass, soaked grain, water
and shade in the summer The spring
pigs should, beside their mothers milk,
have a run to short grass, soaked corn
and oats, and whatever the kitchen and
diary rejects. Soaked corn is more
wholesome than dry, and it pays well to
shell, it before soaking. We soak it
from twelve to twenty-four hours.
Spring pigs, fed during the summer on
soaked corn and slop made from
ground oats and corn, half-and-half, mix
ed with equal bulk of bran and mid
dlings, and allowed free run to pure
water, blue grass pastures and plenty of
shade, with access TO a box of salt and
ashes and charcoal, will well repay all
care and feed given, and will, at ten
months, average from 300 to 305 pounds
of choicest pork. On the other hand
spring pigs, whose mothers must ROOT
for a living and travel miles each day in
search of food, and have hungry litters
clingIng to and squeaking after them
can not make pounds of flesh out OF
scant feed and overwork. A large pei
cent of such pigs die from exhaustion
and disease. The fittest survive, bu
| none of the survivors are fit for the
butcher until the season following. They
must be carried through the winter a
great expense and great risk, source o
discomfort to themselves anC
their owner. 1t is impossible to fattcI
them off before March, and If then they
average go or 275 the owner feels salts
fed, because he don't know any better.
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ESTABLISHED IN 1857.

the reconstruction acts revolutionary
and void; and that, not latter than one
year ago, sought to a1nul the laws that
afford protection against fraud and pre-
serve the purity of the ballot box, in
obedience to the dictation of the, rebel
brigadiers, who propose 10 recover in
the forum what they lost at tire point OF
the bayonet.
The realization of these momentous
facts has aroused the free north, and
from every state north of Mason and
DixOn's line the Republicans are rally
ing 20 the standard of their able leaders
and to the support Of their old time
principles. In New York the most per
feet organization prevails, and accounts
received at Republican headquarters
from "a out of the 90 counties of the
state, indicate that the outlook for a
Republican victory was never more en-
couraging A careful canvass of the
situation in Maine gives gratifying evil
dence OF the solidity of that state for
the Republicans against the uuhol-
~ aud adulterous alliance of Demo
Gratis and Greenbackers- While the
Democrats of Indiana are divided onthe
financial question and are disguised with
unpalatable candidates, the Republicans
arc united at every point and are making
splendid Roadway in the work of revo
lutioniZing the state. In West Virginia
Georgia and Tennessee the Democrats
are divided on local issues, while in
New York the Tammany and Tilden
Democracy refuse To bc reconcilcd, and
are glaring at each other across the chasn
of open and avOwed hostility. Mean
while, the Republicans are everywhere
harmonious and enthusiastic in thcil
support of Garfield and Arthur. Their,
is no sulking among the leaders, and
better than all, there is no reproach upOT
the record of the party. II goes bcfor
the country pleading only its pas
achievements, and promises nothing
save continuance of that fidelity u
public trusts which has marked it
course for twenty years. The Democrl
cy can offer no such earnest of gooC
faith. Its record is tainted with weak
ness and treachery, its history is be
smirched with disloyalty, and its incon
sistencics are matters of present knowl
edge with the voters of the country
The people realize these facts and will
render their verdict in accordance.
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A NEW FASHION


1t is fashionable now TO stoop. This
is not metaphor, meaning that women
are little more than ever STOPPING to
frivolity. but the literal truth. The
midsummer freak of metropolitan bellies
is nothing less than to curve their spines
and drop their shoulders until they look
like hopeless consumptives. A girl with
a natural fiat breast Is considered mighty
lucky, and she no longer supplies an
artificial roundness, but is proud of her
lack of woman development There is
no use in reminding her that her
deficiency is not charming TO the mas
culine eyes; she will follow the fashion
no matter how foolish il is The idea is
that a hollow chest is indicative of
maidenhood. Women who are by ma
ture more amply endowed fiatter them
selves as much as possible, with uncom-
monty high, narrow corscts and hold their
shoulders as far forward as possible, thus
rendering null and void one of the best
of their beauties. All, well, what fools
my sex sometimes make of themselves
Some of my formerly buxom friends have
degenerated into hump-backs in single
week. Their dresses have been altered 10
suit the changed shapes, though i'm
agine they would suit the new figures II
th9y were turned hindside before. The
simpletons remind me of the pictures IN
the old reading books, illustrating the
good and bad posture at a desk-A boy
with protruded breast and erect head
which is like the belle as she was, and
another boy bumped over his book,
which is like as she is. II is TO be hoped
that this idiocy will be of short du
ration
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-27
BARNUM'S LOST ZULU,

The following, from the GAINESVILLE,
Wis, Gazette, will be read with interest
at this time:
The happiest person we have seen for
many day was the fugitive Zulu, who
arrived here yesterday in charge of the
American express company, and who
Joined his companions with the Barnum
show this morning. Since his disappear
ance in Detroit, on the night of May Is,
he has had varied experience. Unable
to speak word of English or make him
self understood, he oas Jared poorly, and
is thankful to get back to his MASTER"
as he calls Prof. FARM. ''Digandao"
says a woman asked him to ride in a
carriage after the evening performance.
They soon changed to the steam cars, and
in the morning he was In distant city
but the woman was gone, and so was the
800 i'll silver that he had in cloth bag.
He has no idea of time or space, but
| found himself on the docks in New
York. He could say "Zululand," and ono
day he was placed on ship. After be.
ing at sea few days he was transferred
to another vessel, and came back to New
York The first night after landing ne
spent in a prison. All this time Di
gandao was in impenetrable darkness, 50
far as conversation could aid him, and
often his efforts to make himself under
stood, resulted only in his being ridi
iculed. One day, while wandering about
the great city, he discovered large pict
ure of Mr.. Barnum on a fence. He sal
down by it, believing it would help him
find the company. The police noticed
his peculiar conduct, and knowing about
Barnum's missing Zulu concluded this
must be the party. Word was sent to Mr.
John J. Nathans, Mr.. Barnum's agent il
New York. Mr.. Nathans fastened TO thu
corner of Forty second street and Wander
bilt avenue, and there, seated by thu
great bill board which fronts the depo
sat poor Digandao, who yelled with dc
had recognized during his long wander
|
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THRILLING WITH THE WRONG FEMALE


Il don't want to make any trouble, but
there is one man in this city, who ought
to be gibbetedr' began blunt-spoken
woman of forty-five as she stood before
the officers of the Twentieth Street Sta
ton day or two ago. When they in
quired for particulars she handed out
letter and said: observe the envelope
That letter is addressed to me. You will
see that the writer calls me his jessamine,
and he wants me to set an early day
for the wedding" When the captain
had finished the letter she was ready
with another, adding: "And this is adj
dressed to my daughter Lucretia. You
will see that he calls. her his rosy angel,
and he says he can't live if she doesn't
marry him. It's the same man" So il
was, and his letter was as tender as
spring chicken. That finished she hand
ed out third, with the remark: This
is directed to my daughter Helen. It's
the very same man, and in IL he calls
her his pansy and he says he dreams OF
her. ''Why, he has seemed to love the
whole family" remarked the captain
That's just 1t. I'm widow with two
daughters, and he was counting us all al
once, and engaged to the three Of us al
the same time. Oh! what wretches
there are in this worldr' Eyes, indeed
us lucky you louHu MIN Out, ASS, ~
is. If hadn't he might of married The
whole caboodle of us. fLucretia hadn't
searched the girls pockets while they
were asleep, we'd have thought him an
| innocent lamb" "And do you want him
arrested % mo, guess not but wan
this matter to go into the papers as 9
warning to other women. Just think o.
| his sitting up with me on Sunday night
Lucretia on Wednesday night and Heller
ON Friday night, and called each one o.
us his climbing rosel Oh, sir, the wo
man ought TO know what deceiying an
| imaI man is =" Yes, he's pretty tough =
at has learned me lesson" she said
as she was ready to go. "The next mar
that comes sparkling around my hous'
has got to come right out and say which
he's after. If it's the girls / won't sal
nothing, and if it's me it won't do 'em I
bit of good to slam things around an'
| twit me of burying two husbands."
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WHY COLONEL INGERSOL is NOT A
DEMOCRAT


Colonel Robert Ingersol tells why he
is not Democrat in the following Ian
guage:
l am opposed to the Democratic par
ty, and will tell you why. Every state
that seeded from the L. S. was a
Democratic state. Every ordinance of
secession that was drawn, was drawn by
a Democrat. Every man that en-
deavored to tear the old flag from
the heaven that it enriches was a
Democrat "a voice-"Give it to
them.") Every man that tried to de
stroy this nation was Democrat. EV-
cry enemy this Republic has had for
twenty years has been a Democrat.
[Checrs-"That's SOL Every man that
starved Union soldiers and refused them
in the extremity of death Il crust was
Il Democrat Renewed cheering Eve
ry man that loved slavery better than
liberty was a Democrat. The man that
assassinated Abraham Lincoln was
Democrat. Every man that sympathiz-
ed with the assassin-cvery man glad
that the noblest President ever elected
was assassinated-was 4 Democrat
(Chcers) Every man that impaired the
credit of the United States; every
man who swore We would never
pay the bonds; every man that
swore we would never redeem
| the greenbacks was Il Democrat.
| (Cheers.) Every man that wept over the
corpse of slavery was a Democrat.
Every man that cursed Lincoln because
| he issued the proclamation of emanci-
pation-thc grandest paper since the
! Declaration of Independence-every one
of them was Democrat. Every man
that wanted an uprising in the north,
that wanted to release the rebel prison
ers that they might burn. down tho
homes of the Union soldiers above tho
heads of their wives and children, while
the brave husbands, the heroic fathers
were in the front fighting for the hono
of the old flag, every one of them was ;
Democrat. Every man that believed
this glorious nation of ours is a con
federacy, every man that believed the
old banner carried by our fathers through
the revolution, through the war of 1919
carried by our brothers over the plain
of Mexico, carried by our brothers owe
the fields OF the rebellion, simply stool
for contract, simply stood for an agree
ment, was a Democrat. Every man VIII
believed the grand fabric of the Amer
can government could be made to crum
Bile instantly into dust at the touch O
treason, was a Democrat. Cheers.
Soldiers, every scar you have got o.
your heroic bodies was given you by
Democrat. (Cheers.) Every scar, ever.
: arm that is lacking, every limb that
gone, every scar is a souvenir of Den
| Ooraf
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OVER THE STATE.

The Eureka Graphic says that the
Spanish fever has broken out among the
cattle IN Greenwood county.
1t strikes us that some OF the friends of
Governor st. John are becoming, to say
the least, rather 'superserviccablc."
1t seems painfully evident that the ed
itor of the Topeka Commonwealth has
not been "secn" by Governor St John.
The Chautauqua Journal remarks that
Sedan has made disciples of Tanner out
of three Methodist preachers within the
past year
The Fort Scott Monitor has taken out
patent on Bourbon county man who
is one hundred and two years old, and is
now cutting his third set OF teeth.
Marshal County News: Barnum's sea
lion was injured in railroad accident
on the Union Pacific road, and died in
this city Thursday. Three of his best
horses died here.
Along the line between Chautaqua and
Montgomery counties and the Territory
cattle are dying very rapidly, and the
suffering farmers neither know the dis
ease or the remedy.
| The Hutchinson Interior says: YoJ
would have TO have the finest microscop,
manufactured 10 discover spear o
grass from Elinwood, Kansas, to Canon
City, Colorado Thousands of cattl
are dying all along the Arkansas rive
valley.
Three thousand acres of cotton are be
ing cultivated in Montgomery count
this year, with good show of success:
1t is likely that in Labette, the neighbol
ing county, hemp will continue to be
staple product until it is definitely dec
ed that the Blenders are dead.
We learn that Elder Mitchell has will
drawn from the canvass and has resigI
ed his candidacy for congress on tn
Greenback ticket in the Third Kansf
/, district. 1t is intImated that our goo
brother doesn't regard the chances of a
election sufficiently encouraging to ris
his preaching tools on the empty hone
of political sacrifice in November.
! The fourteen counties of Kansas ha
ing the largest acreage of corn this ye'
are in the order of their rank, as fC
lows: Jewell, Miami, Sedgwick, Brow
! Linn, Butler, Summer, Smith, Clou
I Dickinson, Republic, Labctte, Marsh
and Crawford. The acreage ranges fro
! 69, 397 for Crawford. to 81 ,221 for Jewe
: making an aggregate of 1,113,6oS acr'
9 1t is claimed by many of his friend
d that Major Z. 6. Ross, of the Lawren
a Standard, will be the unanimous non
# nee of thr Kansas Democracy for gov'
d nor. With the possible exception
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stone order, and Mr.. Parhamfdevoured
the first one with great relish. The sec
ond one was even more toothsome, and
after removing all the meat that was pos
sible from the stone, he placed the latter
in his mouth while he turned TO attend to
some duty. Several times he felt some
thing tickle the roof of his mouth, and
when at leisure again he examined the
stone carefully. Protruding from the
edge of it he discovered something that
resembled a spiders leg, and when
touched with knife it gave evidence of
life Mr.. Parham callcn to hiss side
George Stanton, an Iron Mountain en-
gineer, and j. r. Martin, agent for the
Southern express at TeXarkana. The
stone was carefully opened with knife,
and there snugly imbedded was GEN.
tipede. 1t was in a torpid state at first,
but the sunlight brought it into full
vigor in very few seconds.
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POSTAL CATS.
London Telegraph.


SO cngrossing is the partially of the
domestic cat for its home-so vehement
its yearning to return thither when cir
cnmstances over which it has no control
have resulted in its transfer TO unfamil-
lar localities-that certain Dutch natur-
alists have come TO the sage conclusion
that Grimalkin may be utilized as 8
letter carrier with considerable advantage
to public interests. These worthless pro-
pose to organize a service of post-cats,
and are at present engaged, by series
of ingenious experiments, in testing pus-
sy's capacities for delivering mails. Sc
lecung LUX for their headquarters, they
thence dispatch a number of cats, secure
" tied up in woolen bags, to the neigh
boring villages, where they are freed
from confinement and turned loose, with
neat packets Of letters firmly strapped to
their backs 1T once their domestic
instincts come into full play, and they
swiftly fee homeward with answering
directness. OF thirty seven cats thus
constrained to serve their country, not
one has hitherto failed to fulfill its postal
function with excellent punctuality. It
is feared however, that when a
double service shall be arranged, diff
culties and delays may arise from the
meetings of poss-cats on the high road.
If the feline postmen can be inspired
with a high sense of duty, overriding
personal impulse, all will be well. Fail
| ing this, we apprehend that irregularities
in delivery will take place.
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John Martin, we certainly fail 10 calf 10
mind any gentleman within range of our
acaualntance who would embellish a
hearse with more imposing effect OF re
fleet more distinguished credit upon the
Democratic funeral cortege in Novem-
Der
The value of property per capita in
this state is $32503. We have just gone
down into our pockets in response TO
the appeal of destitute citizen OF
Ness county," and find that our finan-
cial condition would be improved TO the
even tune of 1925, if "dIvyr could be
struck on the above basis. There are
periods in the monetary experience of
almost every newspaper man when he
is sorely tempted TO condone the sin of
communism.
The Stockton Record says an idea may
be formed of what hardy cereal the
Egyptian rice corn is by examining a
thrifty stock of it in our back yard
Last spring, being informed that rice
corn was good substitute for rice, we,
bought dimes worth on credit, and
our guide wife boiled it three hours with
out softening it a particle She then
emptied it out into the back yard, where
Il portion of it sprang up and grew De
stroying insects will get but little salts
faction out of rice corn.
Lawrence Standard: The preparations
for the grea; Bismarck fair are on acolos-
sal scale. A visit ~ the grounds yester-
day showed things well under way, and
surprised us by the magnitude and OK
cellence of the buildings which are be.
ing erected The track is finished, and
is an excellent one, on which good time
can be made, and few horses are al
ready being trained on it. 1t is broad,
nearly level, and enclosed ON both sides
by neat, substantial fence.
Machinery Hall is being shingled, and
is an immense structure, while the other
buildings are of corresponding size
Hydrants in all parts of the grounds
Will make water abundant and easily
obtained.
What most surprised us was the large
number and excellent quality of the
stalls for track horses. No other track
in the West can equal ii in this respect
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HERE And THERE.

Inc south Is almost as iIhpOItuHdtS ioi
reconciliation" as II was in 81.
Three Hundred Rural Exchanges:
''The busy housewife is hunting up her
empty fruit cans"
If the Blenders are not dead they are
lying mighty low. They have not been
captured for ten whole days.
The Perkins wind mill is advertised
IN some of our exchanges. Has Eli
started out on another lecturing tour?
The enternal and consuming regret of
the Democratic party is that Wade
Hampton was not educated al deaf and
dumb asylum.
1t is larceny for tramp to steal a ride
on the railroads, and, as the current cas-
ualties of the day show, quite frequent
Iy punishable by death.
An exchange says: by their fruits
We shall know them" was not spoken of
the men who sell rotten peaches and
pears. Few people would care to know
them enough TO buy their fruits.
exchanges says that Oskaloosa has pro
duced a water melon weighing eighty
pounds. If there is anything that rivals
the fertility of the average Kansas editor
it is the peerless soil of our glorious
young commonwealth.
The "iniluX of specie" is somewhat
slow IN efIecting the remOter ramiflca-
tons of business circles. At least, il
has not been felt to any appreciable ex-
tent by those gifted members of the body
polite who mould public opinion with
their little lead pencils.
Five men have been murdered at St
Louis within the last two days And
vet the journalists ofthat city are waltz
| ing around like pack of Infatuated pan
theirs because the local census-takers
couldn't hold their own in the face Of
such a steady and wholesale depletion
of the population.
A trembling world is watching tho
progress of the Salvation Army in Kan
sas CITY with feverish interest. Il thosC
brave cvangelists succeed in capturing
the political editor Of the Times, the
darkly picturesque old gentleman will
horns may safely regard his back bon'
rs being irretreivably broken.
Mr. Davitt, an ambassador from thu
Emerald Isle, announces that he ha
come to this country TO complete tn
work begun by Mr.. Parncll This viii
readily strike the reflective reader in tn
light of an impossibility. The Ameri
can people were quite talked to dealt
ON the occasion of the first visitation
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They went out, ant the gineral got up.
Are they all gone - he asked

They went out, ant. the gineral got up.
Are they all gone - he asked
They are all gone" sed l.
There must be I new plan fixed, y
said he. Il can't keep ON faitin in this
way till the first Nv November. The
next time this happens | shell faint in
ded earnest, and it will be no sham'
Wat We shell 10 don't know 1t wuZ
sejestid that our candidate take an eX-
tended European trip, but eff he docs
that we lose the effeck NV his superb face
and figure, witch is what we nominated
him fur. Eff we keep him here and yoo-
tilize that, we run the risk Nv havin him
talked to, witch is fatle.
We hev the matter under consultashun
now, but hey not bin able to come TO any
conclooShen
wish to heaven Good be a keeper
for Garfield. His man hez soft thing
NV it. The cussid Republicans hewitt
but one set NV opinyuns and Their ain't
no trouble about that. Garfeeld's door
keeper he sets and admits everybody
without askin no questions, and heZ
nothin whatever to do ceptin to say
walk in gentlemen" And they 20 in
and Garfield talks TO all NV 'em, and
there amt no row, and no fianceerin, mol
no nothin.
II requires more engineerin to be a
Democrat We hev too extensive a sc
Nv prinsiples, and they require too graf,
a straddle to kiver 'em all | wish Il
heaven the first Nv November wuZ here
This kind NV thing is altogether toC
| wearin on not overstrong consti
| tooshen. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
| (EggShaustidl