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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-11-05

The Remedy did more than she Expected.
Nrwtery, Lyc)ming county, Pa.
Dear Sir: The Indian Blood syrup did more than
expected 1t would and 1t has cured me of Liver
Complaint. use IL as a Medicine and would not br
II.
Mary Chairman
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-11-05
Liyer Complaint.

Centraa, Columbia Co. Pa.
Dear Sir This Is TO certify that was unwell and
could scarcely attend TO my work, think my Liver
was affected procured some OF your INDIAN BLOOD
SYkUP and now. after shOlt trial, feel like a new
man. recommend Its use to all.
Daniel Goodman.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-11-05

Noy%a BROTHERS, Bl;omsburg, P;
L nI /
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
LITTLE BY LITTLE.

Ii you arc gaining little by little every
day, be content. Are your expenses less
than your income, so that, though il be
little, you are yet constantly accumulat-
ing and growing richer and richer every
day? Be content; so far as concerns
money, you are doing well.
Are you gaining knowledge every day
Though it be little by little, the aggre-
gate of the accumulation, where no day
is permitted TO pass without adding
something to the stock, will be surpris-
ing to yourself.
Solomon did not become the wIsest
man In the world in a minute. Little
by little-never emitting to learn some
thing, even for Il single day-always
reading, always studying Il little be-
tween the time of rising up in the
morning and laying down at night; this
is the way to accumulate a full store
house of knowledge. Finally, are
you daily improving in charac-
ter? Be not discouraged because
it is little by little. The best men fall
far short of what they themselves would
wish to be. 1t is something, it is much,
If you keep good resolutions better to-
day than you did yesterday, better this
week than you did last, better this year
than you did last year. Strive to be
perfect, but do not become dOwnhearted
so long as you are approaching nearer
and nearer to the high standard at which
you aim.
Little by little fortunes are accumu-
lated little by little knowledge is gained
little by little character and reputation
are achieved.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
STATE ITEMS

Captain King has decided, after con
not TO call meeting of the
state editorial association. There arc
too many conventions ON hand o. X.
The report of the county attorneys
convention at Topeka, published in the
Commonwealth, shows that large in
crease Of interest is attending the meet
ings.
1t is reported that ID. B. Emmert is to
take charge of the FIT. Scott Monitor.
We hope, tor the sake of the paper, As
well rs for the sake of Mr. Emmert, this
report will prove true.
Judge s. n. Latta, an old and promi-
nent citizen of Leavenworth, died on
Tuesday last. He came to this state in
1854, and was one of the old Free State
Guard" He was for many years promi-
nent in public affairs at Leavenworth.
During our shower here on Sunday
afternoon they had Il very heavy rain
down III Elk county. Mr. Doud, who
came up ON the train Monday morning,
reported the Paw Paw valley flooded.
There was very heavy fall of rain in
the south part of this county ON Satur-
day.-Eureka Herald, l3.
Special post Office agent, NJ. +. Kanan,
arrived here from st. Louis on Monday
last, for the purpose of investigating the
accounts of A. Il. Hammer, late postmas-
Ter at this place. The result of the OK.
animation shows that Hammers bonds
men are left" To the tune of about
twelve hundred dOllars.-Sedan Journal.
The sanguine parties in different sec
tons of Kansas who have been employ
ing explosives 10 produce rain should
make note of the fact that the numer-
Gus powder explosions throughout the
country have never been followed by
any meteorological phenomena but the
meat showers which inevitably ensue
Mr. W. W. Goodwill, from Quincy,
reports a splendid rain along the Verdi.
! girls last Saturday. The river raised
eight or ten feet, the highest 1t has been
for about two years. He says their
wheat was beginning to suffer for want
of rain, lat this, coming when il did,
will insure good crop, the stand being
| very fine The oats crop has already
suffered. The ground is now well soak
ck.-Eureka Herald, Is.
There is trouble at Clay Center b.
ID. SeltZ was badly beaten for the city
council NJ the recent election. He had
been running temperance billiard hall,
and selling liquor on the sly without H.
ccuse and both the Temperance and PEG
pies parties voted against him. The new
mayor appointed him city marshal, and
therefore the people became very indig
nant, AS il was right and proper they
should, and hung the mayor in efiigy.
The Fredonia Citizen says "Neodeshs
is now pretty certain to be made the end
of Il division of the ST. Louis & Sau
Francisco railroad. The company sub
United 10 the citizens of that place 4
proposition In make Neodesha division
headquarters between Pierce City anC
Wichita, to build brick or stone rOunC
house of at least nine stalls, and estab
fish shops, the pay rolls of which woulC
aggregate about $1,000 a month, on con
dition that the city would donate forty
acres of land and $4,000 in money
Neodesha will comply, and by SO do
ing receive quite boost to pros
. perity.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
RAI.EEuI. PLANETS

If there is anything in astrological
cIiology," the says Science of Health, we
are approaching one of the most pesti-
lential periods of the carth's history.
Since the commencement of the Chrls-
tian era the perihelia of the four great
planets of the solar system-Jupiter,
Uranus, Saturn and Neptune-have not
been coincident But this is about to
occur, and in the language of DIR. Knapp,
who has traced the history of the great
est epidemics that have ever afflicted the
human race TO the perihelia OF these
planets, there will soon be "lively times
for the DOCTORS" The theory is that
when one or more of the large planets
is nearest to the sun the temperature and
condition Of our atmosphere are so dis
turbed as to cause injurious yicissitudes,
terrible rains, prolonged drouths, etc,
resulting in the destruction of crops, and
pestilence among human beings and do
inestic animals.
Dr. Knapp has collected IA mass of
statistical data, all going to show that
perihGlion data have always been mark
ed by unusual mortality, and that sick
ness and death have invariably CORES
pended with the planets in perhelion at
the same time. The revolution of Jupi-
ter round the sun Is accomplished IN a
little less twelve years; of Saturn in a
little-less than thirty years; of Uranus in
about eighty-fOur years II il be true,
therefore, that the perihelia of these
planets occasion atmospheric conditions
unfavorable to life. pesiilential periods
should occur once in a dozen years; and
aggravated and still more widespread
epidemics at longer intervals. In tracing
the history of epidemlcs for more than
two Thousand years, DIR. Knapp finds the
facts in all cases to validate the theory.
Thus in the in the sixth, and again in the
sixteenth centuries, three of these plan
ents were coIncident IN perihelion, and
those were the most presidential times of
the Christian era.
But soon we are TO have. for the first
time in 1900 years, all four of these
planets against US. They will be at the ir
nearest approach to the sun in or soon
after 1880, so that for few years, say
from 1880 to 1884. the vitality of every
living thing, will be put to a severe and
trying ordeal. Some persons think they
see in the signs of the times evidences Of
the gravest disasters in the immediate
future The excessive heat, the unex-
ampled cold, the prevalence of flood and
disasters at sea, the general failure of the
potato crop, the widespread chillfever
among human beings, and the equal
presence of the eplzootic among animals
dIc lue1liO1eQ as dilOuS int piCh4OHA~
tons of the rapidly approaching perihe-
lion.
'sWelI, "to be forewarned is to be fore
armed" Accidents excepted, we know
very well that the persons with more
vigorous Constitutions and more hygenic
habits will have the better chance TO sur
vive whatever adverse influences the ex-
traordinary perihelIa will occasion Il
is well known to physicians that, in all
pestilences, plague, typhus, smallpox,
cholera, murrain, etc, the intenperate,
the dissipated, and those whose sanitary
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

A Kansas man, Alex. Caldwell,
of Leayenworth, Is now making a little
trouble with the Indian department mt
Washington. 1t seems that some time
ago the government invited bids for a
number of wagons tor the Indian ser
vice. Among others the Kansas wagon
factory ut Leavenworth, of which Mr.
Caldwell is president, put in bid. The
contract was awarded To combination
of eastern firms. The bids called for
331 wagons, but the contract was let for
500. Caldwell supposed that since the
rascal Hayt had been dismissed some
thing like an honest business PROPOSE
tion would have weight with the Indian
bureau, and was not represented At the
letting. From some cause or other, he
was led to inquire into the transac-
ton, and found that his bid,
which was accompanied by the
necessary cash. was the lowest, and that
il had not been considered. Had il
been accepted, the government would
have saved $1,6940l. He arrived in
Washington the other day and laid the
matter before Secretary Schurrz, who
promised to investigate. The Indian
commissioner replied that it was too
late, as the contract had been let But
Mr.. Caldwell and the Kansas delegation
do not propose TO be "blufied," and will
push the matter. II will be seen by our
congressional proceedings that Senator
Plumb has introduced n resolution
which will undoubtedly spoil nice lit
tie Job which has been put up by some
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
pREsIDENT MCPHERSON.

The retirement of Mr.. Nickerson from
the presidency of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe road was the occasion of an
address on behalf of the directory which
serves to show the marvellous growth of
that line, and Its vast importance in con-
nection with the business interests of the
great west. From doubtful and COM
parativelY insignificant enterprise, it
has grown to be one of the leading
thoroughfares of the country, until
now, in the language of the address,
"with a route favorable for through bust
ness at all seasons of the year; with i'm
mense, and constantly increasing, local
traffic; with u grand sweep of the vast
mineral fields on the eastern slope of the
Rocky Mountains, and extending from
northern Colorado to southern Arizona /;
with the shortening of the
route by at least TWO days
sail TO China and Japan, and with
the immense traffic which must grow
out of the intimate and friendly relations
between the states OF the two republics
as necessary sequence of the construct
ion of our road to the City of Mexico,
the Atchison, Topeka n Santa Fe rail
road must aud will move TO the front as
the greatest and grandest commercial en-
tcrprISe of this, or any other age"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
A. T. & S. F. RAILROAD.
Annual Meetings at Topeka.
Common wealth 18th

At the meeting of the stockholders of
the Atchison, Topeka d Santa Fe rail
road, yesterday, in this city, the follow
ing directors and officers were elected:
Directors-T. Jefferson Coolidge, Al
den Speare, l. T. Burr, c. w. Pierce, B.
p. Cheney. G. J. Paine, S. l.. Thorndike,
G. A. Gardner, all of Boston; w. Powell
Mason, of Walpole, New Hampshire ;
S. A. Kent, of Chicago; C. X. Holiday,
of Topeka; B. F. Stringfellow, of Aichi-
son, L. Severy, of Emporia.
Officers-T. J. Coolidge, president; w.
B. Strong, vice president and general
manager; Z. Wilder, secretary and treas
urer; G. L. Goodwin, assistant secretary
and assistant treasurer; j. p. Whitehead,
general auditor; f. Young, auditor; S.
l.. Thorndike, comptroller; \. s. John
son, land commissioner.
The elections in the auxiliary COM
panies thus far held have been as fol-
lows;
NEW MEXICO & SOUTHERN PACIFIC r. r.
COMPANY.
DirectOrs-T. ]. Coolidge, /. T. Burr,
c. j. Paine, G. B. Wilbur, Frank Mori-
son, s. l.. Thorndike, all of Boston; G..
I. Anthony. of LeavenwOrth; T. Sher-
lock of Cincinnati ii. l.. Waldo and w.
w. Griffin, of Santa Fe, and E. 5. Slower,
of Albuquerque.
Officers-T. ]. Coolidge, president
Nj. A. Otero, vice President; w B.
Strong, general manager; f. Wilder
secretary; G. l.. Goodwin, treasurer; JET
ferson Reynolds, assistant secretary.
PUEBLO & ARKANSAS VALLEY II. X co
DirectOrs-T. ]. Coolidge, l. T. Burr
B. T. Cheney, W. J..ROtch and l.. Nj
Sargent, of Boston; w. B. Strong, OF
Topeka. NJ. ID. Thatcher and o. III. p
Baxter. of Pueblo, and Jas. Clelland, 81
Canon City.
Onicers,-T. J. Coolidge, president
w. b. SrtOng, general manager; NJ. d
Thacher, secretary and treasurer; G. L
Goodwin, assistant secretary and assist
| ant treasurer.
KANSAS CITY, EMPoRIA & SOUTHERN
RAILROAD COMPANY.
Directers.-T. j. Coolidge, Alder
Speare, I. L. Burr, Warren Sawyer, S. L
| Thorndike, all of Boston; s. A. Kent, o
| Chicago; c. n. Sterry and ii. c. Cross
of EmpOria, and w. Martindale, of Mad
| iSon
Oficers.-Warren Sawyer, president
w. B. Strong, vicepresident and genera
manager; Z. Wilder, secretary ant
assistant treasurer; G. L. Goodwin, treas
nrer and assistant secretary.
Usage COUNTY COAL. AND MINING CON
PANY.
Directors.-ReSs Burns, Z. Wilder, G
\ o. Manchester, A. S. Johnson, Joa
| Mulvane, G.. +. Parmelee and W. G
Dickinson, all of Topeka.
Officers-JoaD Mulvane, president
q. F. Parmelee, vice-president; E Wi
der, secretary, and T. l. Marshal, supel
int
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
POLITICAL POINTS

Old Zach Chandeliers state has been
placed in the Blaine column.
Michigan will trot out Senator Ferry
as a candidate for vice-prcsident He is
a good man.
Cincinnati is the place, the 22d of
June the time, and Samuel J. TIlden
will be the man.
The Grant delegation of Democratic
Florida is more than offset by the Blame
boom in stalwart Michigan.
The decadence of the rosy exuberauce
of the democratic press is keeping steady
pace with the cbb of the Grant boom.
While it is not in the nature of infor-
nation, it may not be untimely to oh
serve that the Blaine boom is booming
Mr. Washburne declines the nomina-
ton for the presidency, but the hope is
ventured that he is still in the hands of
his friends
The facile mathematician of the Chi
cago Inter Ocean is figuring mp a stand
off between Cook and some of the back
counties of Illinois.
Gen. Grants hearty and enthusiastic
endorsement of President Hayes concil-
iatiOn policy is only equaled by his reti-
cence in relation to the civil service re-
form of the present administration.
The Kansas City Times startles the
public will. the announcement that Til
den is unavailable, but the pathetic
feature of the case is that Sammy don't
view the situation from that stand
point.
A few Seymour clubs are reported as
existing in different parts of the west,
but the long pole which Will knock the
Democratic persimmons is standing up
in a safe corner of one of the rooms AT
Gramercy Park.
The odor of sanctity which the gen
eral VI. f. conference Is exhaling upon
the gay and wicked city of Cincinnati
will be dispelled in about two hours after
the assembling of the national democratic
circus in June.
The strength of habit was never more
forcibly illustrated than in the case Of
the st. Louis Globe Democrat, which
still keeps at the head of its editorial
columns the stereOtyped line: 9TH,
Grant movement Is booming"
Mr.. Hendricks, of Indiana, has AGAR
Withdrawn from the political field
Toms frequent destinations remind Us
remotely of the young lady, who told hel
bashful sutton if he attempted to kis!
her, she should surely call her pa.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

United States district attorney Town
send has withdrawn from the Whitta-
ker case, assigning as his reason for this
action the fact that his presence from
the first has been apparently obnoxious
and irrating to those conducting the
case for West Point, and that his
pronounced views and Oulspoken
ways have only served 10 make the an
tagonism and discourtesy manifested
toward him from the outset, more
marked. This is, indeed, fine condi-
ton of affairs. When the usages of an
institution which is supported by the
government forbid decent reception OF
one Of its authorized and honorcd
agents, II would seem to us that the in
terests Of the country would be best sub.
served by wiping it out entirely or con-
verting it into school for instruction
la common politeness.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
A DISTRACTED PARENT.

Five daughters-four Of them engaged
Good heavens; 1 shall go nadi
For such a ,urfeiiing of love
No parent ever had
The very atmosphere Is charged
With Il; no matter where
IgO about the house. trip
Upon some whispering pair.
Atrvening. when take ny pipe
And seek quiet nook
To read the Evening Sews. or else
some new and tempting book,
open, perhaps, the rarlOT door,
When a familiar sound
Quite unmistakable. suggests
IL Is forbidden ground
So then more cautiously turn
To our reception room:
But To- AGAIN upon my ear
From its romantic gloom,
Come softly. but with emph sis.
That warning. when I start
And leave, rs Lady Macbeth wishei
Her guests would all depart.
Ny next resort is then the porch,
Where roses trail and boom;
Hai Is II echo that betrays
The JOYS of yonder rOOmf
An. mol a startled -change of base"
Reveals the presence there
Oh Cupid's Yotaries. and, alas
There's still another pair
.'But sure" think. my library
Will be y safe retreat -
So, there n once. with quickened step,
take my weary feet
Vain hope-that warning sound again
Breal $ on my listening ear.
Thank heaven, my younRest has not yet
Attained her thirteenth year.
Hank there she Is and bless my heart
That pOpinjay. young Lunn,
Is at her side-I 40 believe
That she. too. has begun
oh. ye who love to sat and dream
of future married joys,
Pray heaven with earnest fervOr that
Your girls may all be boys.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
JERUSALEM AS SEEN AT SUNSET.

We generally resoTted 10 the city As
the sun declined, says Bartlett's "Jeru-
salem" Solemn, sepulchral is the char
acter ever impressed upon the mind.
Here is a city, still to the eye extensive
and populous. but no voice arises from
its wide area, and the hills and valleys
around. The evening breeze rustles
among its hoarY trees, sweeping sadly
the bleak, rocky surface of the ground.
The red light glanees over the city,
touching its domes and minarets with a
last dying CLEAN, and the dreary hills
are broken into grand masses of purple
and vermilliOn, while the glen below,
where sleep millions of the sons of Is
rael, and the sad groves which shrouded
the agony of Christ, are sinking into the
shades of night.
Such is the hour to view Jerusalem
alone, seated under some ancient tree,
memorial of her past burden and guilt
Then looking eastward over her fair
horizon of Moab and the desert, glowing
in the suns last rays, complete the IN
dellible impression of scene that for its
associations is unequaled IN the world.
Our survey of Olivet would be incom-
plete without visiting BeIhany-which
| is, in fact, ut its eastern eXtremity-the
village to which Jesus so often retired TO
The path continues from the crest of
| Olivet, and as we lose sight of Jerusalem
| presents us with succession of pleas
| ing landscapes The approach is through
the open cOrnfield; the white roofs OF
the sequestered villages are seen among
| groves of olives, which mark nearly the
extremity of cultivation before we reach
the sQlitudes of the desert There are
on the right the remains Ofthe buildings
of the middle ages, and on the bleak
hill beyond the more extensive ruins OF
a castle or a convent, overlooking the
/ Dead Sea, and the Moab Mountains. In
the village Is shown tomb which tradi.
tiOn has selected as that of Lazarus.
The pilgrim will linger about this pas
tOral spot, recalling the walks through
the corn-felds, where Jesus plucked the
ears of corn by the wayside. or imagin.
| ing the sisters of Lazarus coming forth
to meet and conduct him to the tomb OF
his friend. Ofall of the walks about
Jerusalem, this Betheny, over the Mount
of Olives, is the most pleasing in its rec
| elections.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
HERE Am THERE

Oregon has 100000 acres of good
graveyard land.
Thank heaven, there arc no spring
fashions in tombstones.
Bob Ingersoll, like Boston, is uneer-
tain about terminal facilities.
The Canon of Westminster gave a
party recently. A sort of canon ball as
1T were.
No man haA any reason to pronounce
life failure until he has tried TO drive
a balky horse.
The best accounts of battles can be
written by men who go to the rear for
water when the engagement is hottest.
Amateur florists at the north are suffer
ing from tulip craze. 1t is not the
first time men have gone wild over two
lips.
"He flies higher than he can roost,
has taken the place of "he cut of more
than he could chaw." in the vocabulary
of slang.
Hear the Chicago Tribune: @The
young man who wants to get up with
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
SCHOOL Tories.
coNpucrEp nY LYoN couNTY rEAcnER
Items and communications Tor this deparC-
ment to be seat TO o. b. Wharton.
EmpOria, Kansas.
Report Of Bunker Inn senos. for tn

Report of Bunker Hill School for the
Month Ending April 30.
Perfect in attendance: Nellie Burns,
Jennie Best, Charley Eyre. Perfect in
Nellie Burns, Jennie Best,
ANNE Best, Emma Lewis, Ethel Lewis,
Mary Wayman, Mary Robb, May P:tzer.
Over 30 in department: Myrtle Robb,
Mabel RObb, Lucy Brown, Belle Best,
Ella Best, Tom Eyre, Walter Best, Thedi
Putnam, George Wayman. Whole num-
Der enrolled during the month, 80; aver
age daily attendance, %.
RETTA HURLBURT, Teacher.