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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
WORK AND WAIT.

A huSbandman who many years
Had plowed his fields and sown in tears,
Grew weary with his doubts and fears.
81 toll in yainI These rocks and sands
VIII yield no harvest to my hands;
The best seeds rot in barren lands.
my dropping vine is whitening;
No promised grapes its blossoms bring;
No birds among its branches sing.
''My flock is dying on the plain;
The heavens are brass-they yield no rain;
The earth is iron-I toll In vaini"
While yet he spake breath had stirred
His dropping vine, like wing of bird,
And from its leaves voice he heard:
1.-THE germs and fruits of life must be
Forever hid in mystery,
Yet none can toll in vain for me.
"a mightier hand, more skilled than thine,
Must hang the cluster of the vine,
And make the fields with harvest shine.
"Man can but work; God can create;
But they who work, and watch, and wait,
Have their reward, though it come late.
"Look up to heavenI behold aud hear
The clouds and thunderinSs in thine ear
An answer to thy doubt and fear''
He looked, and lOl a cloud draped car,
With trailing smoke and flames afar,
Was rushing to distant star.
And every thirsty flock and plain
Was rising up to meet the rain
That came to clOthe the fields with grain.
And on the clouds he saw again
The covenant of God with men,
Rewritten with his rainbow pen.
''Seed time and harvest shall not fail,
And though the gates Oh hell assail,
My truth and promise shall prevail"
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IT WILL NOT Do TO BE BEATEN
NOW
New York Evening Post

New York Evening Post
Such are the words of General Grant
in brief letter written from Manitou
Spring to General Logan, and which
further announces that the writer will
come eastward in the later part of Sep
TENDER.
1t has not happened before that defeat
has followed when General Grant has
used words like these, and it is not likely
we trust, to happen now. But the pre-
cedent may wisely be scanned in all its
parts; and it will then appear that Gen
eral Grants way to avoid being beaten
was TO take every available precautlon
against it.
General Grants declaration, which
will now become one of the watchwords
of the campaign, is justified by every
thing that pertains to the situation. It's
force and significance have been elo-
quently and logically shown of late in
the addresses of Mr.. SchurZ and Mr.
Sherman, whose stirring points are
neither to be confuted nor forgotten, and
in the calm and patriotic utterances of
President Hayes, whose interferences
| are not less striking and convincing for
| being so strictly non partisan.
ut will not do to be beaten now"
General Grant prefaces the saying by the
| announcement that he "will gladly at
tend any meeting" in the east when he
comes on that Is intended to further the
success of the ticket headed by Garfield
and Arthur" and his doing so will sure.
ly be of potent service toward the con.
summation which his spirited words
| fore-shadow.
at will not do TO be beaten now"
| And why? We have had reasons OF
other men, and General Grant now gives
hi Nn ha haa fkaV.
| until every man who counts, or repre-
| sents those who count, in the enun-era-
ton to give representation in the elector.
al college, can cast his vote just as he
pleases, and can have it counted just as
| he casts it." This is brief, to the point,
and thoroughly characteristic.
at will not do to be beaten now"
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GRAPE VINE TELEGRAMs-

The following dispatches have just
been received by submarine telegraph: :
NEW YORK, Sept 16.-Gov Harris M.
Plaisted, Bangor, Maine: Accept my
congratulations on the glorious result
of your campaign. 1t will inspire our
friends with confidence and strengthen
them in the preliminary battles which
are to be fought elsewhere, and which
need all our forces.
w. s. HANCOCK.
To General ". S. Hancock, GCgernOr's
Island, Neao York:
BANGOR, Me-, Sept. 16.-Dedr Geaer-
al: Your telegram at hand. 1t has
come As hours too soon. The city roughs
always vote right. The farmers and
backwoOdsmen are yet to hear from.
I'm afraid they'll give us HI.
Yours truly,
BANGOR, Sept. 17.-Dedr GenerdE-It's
as feared, HI is to pay. The 'confi.
dence and inspiration given to u.s." that
you speak of, is of the vet blanket OF.
der. 1t will never do, to attack Yankee
Republicans on the double quick.
Withhold your kilograms till your are
"out of the woods" Yours,
PLAIsTED, who is not governor.
To General w. s. Hancock.
GOVERNORS ISLAND, n. Y, Sept. II
1SS0.-Mr. Harris II. PLGisted-Sir
Your telegram received. Pm at los:
to understand it. telegraphed congrat
ulations TO Alabama's chivalry, not tt
Names mudsills. Could my id stu
pid secretary have INSTRUCTED it? new
er expected anything from Jim Blaine'
serfs. Yours, W. S. HANCOCK,
Major General.
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Brother Mitchell, in his speech here
Saturday, told how he could get away
with the money in the U. =. treasury.
His plan was to elect Weaver president,
and then let Weaver appoint him
(Bro. MitchelD secretary of the treasury.
There is not a particle of doubt in the
minds of those who know the reverend
gentleman that he would scatter the
funds in the U. s. treasury In a short
time, and not only that, but that he
would owe everybody In Washington
City who would trust him. That was a
brilliant proposition, indeed, and we
have no doubt that Weaver will act
upon II on his accession to the white
house. 1t is q little singular that this
country should grope its way so many
years in utter ignorance of the great
flnAncier, Mitchell, who has been
wasting his abilities on the prairies OF
Kansas. and allow such men as John
Sherman to engineer its finances. As a
treasury buster" We are of the opinion
that Sherman cannot 'hold a candle" e
the wonderful lin his mind Mitchell.
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HERE AND THERE.

Some one should write occasionally TO
the Indians on the Texas frontier. They
are supposed to be SO anxious for letters
or public documents from the interior
department that they mob the mails.
The rash precipitAnoy with which the
'supeF6" candiaate fOrTar1ed his pre-.
mature congratulations 70 Coy. q
Plaisted, Of Maine. has suggested the
prOpFiety Of amending his name TO Gen.
HalEcock.
Exports Of breadstuffs from the United
States thus far this year have been near
ly third greater than in thecOErespond-
ing months Of 1879, although the latter
seemed sufficiently glorious for all prac-
teal purposes.
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party, contributed TO that end, we deny.
The opposite is the truth. The rebel ar
my was made up of Democrats. Not .
Republican was voluntarily found in its
ranks. The men who bore arms against
the country will DC found in the ranks
of the Democratic party to-day.
1t is the truth that the Demo
cratic party threw every obstacle in the
way of The prosecution Of the war. 1t
is the truth that the secret organization
known as the knights of the Golden
Circle" WAS organized by the Democrats
for the purpose of resisting the efforts of
the government 10 conquer the rebellion,
and TO render assistance TO the rebels in
arms. II is the truth that meetings
were held all over the North by the
Democratic party, from time to time
which denounced the government and
demanded that the prosecution of the
Efforts 10 save the Union should cease.
Il Is the truth that the money which the
government ISSUED 10 pay the expenses
of tie war was denounced as uncon-
stitutional by the Democratic party.
1t is the truth that the soldiers o { the
Union were denounced by Democratic
speakers and writers as 'hIrelings," Us
stools" and by some Democratic leaders
as dogs" And this fellow Moonlight,
in whose command there were many
soldiers from this county, now has the
hardihoOd to stand up and tell them
that il was the Democratic party,
and not they. who saved the
Union. II is the truth thai
q national Democratic convention
Just on the eve OF the final struggle
which crushed the rebellion of the Dem.
ocraiic party, declared the war for the
Suppression OF that rebellion a failure
We might go on and furnish columns
Of evidence to disprove Mr.. MoOnlighrs
position, but these matters are fresh in
the minds of the people, and it is un.
necessary. The man who, at this day,
in public address, tries TO show that
the rebellion could not have been, and
was not, suppressed without the aid Of
the Democratic party, either takes his
audience for a set of ignorant fools, Oh
is one himself In this case NO one &C
quainted with the ex- Republican ofiicG
holder, and now disappointed politician
will hesitate TO apply the epithet 10 tho
proper party.
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OVER THE STATE.

II has been decided to hold q reunion
OF soldiers of the late war at Council
Grove on Wednesday and Thursday,
October Goth and 21st.
Topeka Capital: Santa Fe lands are
being sold with fair rapidity, one cash
sale we have heard of. 10 a London man,
the consideration being $4,000.
The big sunfiOwer from Salina, over
% feet high and three inches in circum-
ference at the base, exhibited by John
Buchi at Bismarck, walked off with the
blue ribbon, and made all the other SUM-
flower stalks blush, proudly exclaims
she Salina Journal.
Answer TO ]. s.: Yes, the Democrats
have candidate for governor in the field,
though by some oversight the fact has
not been generally made known. His
name, If our memory serves US, is Ross,
ayd we believe that his post Office ad-
dress is Lawrence, Douglas county.
Col. Proutty, the rotund editor of the
Junction City Union, has recently be-
come a grand father. The last time we
had the pleasure Of seeing the Colonel
we were vaguely impressed with the
suspicion that he had reason to anticI.
pate an early accession to his family.
Posters have been received in EmpOria
for a grand Republican rally at Newton
on Saturday, September s5th. Hon.
IT,, Dean Cana1o-a TunOUa end Dluun n
and Hon. Lewis Hanback, will be pres.
ent, the Topeka and Wichita Flambeau
clubs will parade, and grand display Of
fire works will be had in the evening.
In Wilson county divorce case, over
one thousand pages of dispositions have
already been taken. This does not in.
clude the evidence Of the female neigh,
bOrs of the petitioner. who. in default Of
q paper mill at Fredonia. and an ade
quate crops Of stenOgIaphers, will be re
quired to appear in court in person, and
relate their testimony by word of mouth
ThurstOn, the would-be assassin ofD r
Anthony, Of the LeavenwOrth Times, wa
sentenced on Saturday by Judge Crozier
TO confinement in the penitentiary fol
eighteen years. This should be q solemn
and awful warning TO men who indulg'
the fAllacy that newspaper men car
serve no higher purpose in this work
than to act as animated targets for errat
&c marksmen.
Commonwealth: 1t is probable tina
an excursion train will be run from To
peka 10 Newton on next Saturday, thc
fare from here and intermediate points
being placed very low. If ibis is done
there will be an immense ernwd there 4
hear the FedhOt speeches that will b
made. The list Of orators embraces
Congressman Ryan, Senators Ingalls, and
Plumb. Hon Lewis Hanback, and Capt
| II II IslhnaOn
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THEY WANTED TO LIVE IN THE
STARS.
From the Burlington Havkeye.

Very near US sat two young people.
He wore the face of man who shayes
three times day, aud that white necktie
had never seen the starlight before.
There was pearl powder on the shoulder
of his coat, and a tender, dreamy look in
her lovely eyes. They sat and looked up
ut the stars, and they didn't care for any
solitary thing any nearer this earth.
Mortimer" she murmured softly
Mortimer" his name appeared TO be
Mortimer, though couldn't learn wheth-
er IL was his front name or after name
Mortimer, dear" she said, "if we could
only live apart from this busy and sor-
did and 0nsympathetic world, in one of
yon giittering orbs of golden radiance,
living apart from all else only for each
other, forgetting the base things of earth
ly life, the coarse greed of the world and
its animal instincts, that would be our
heaven, would il not, dear ?"
And Mortimer, he said that it would
There, heart of my own" he said,
and his voice trembled with earnestness,
my own darling Ethel through all tie
sofsened radiance Of the day and all the
ahimmering tenderness Of night, our
lives would pass away in an exalted at
moaDhere above the base-born wants Of
earthly mortals, and far beyond the chat
tering crowd that lives but for to-day our
lives, refined beyond the common
ken,
And Just then the man with the gong
came ous. Mortimer, ne made grab at
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International Erhihttion


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept 21.-The
formal opening of the international ex-
hlbition of sheep and wool products at
the main exposition building, took place
this afternoon in the presence ola fair
audience. After addresses by commits
sioner Leduc, ]. D. Whitehaten, editor of
the Ohio State Wool Growers Journal.
and Samuel Archer, of Missouri, the ex
hIbitlon was formally opened by Presi-
dent Russell.
The Western Union.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21-The Post saws
| II is generally understood that the con-
troll OF the Western Union Telegraph
| company has been obtained subject TO
| ratification at the October election, by a
party which believe an amicable arrange
| ment can be made with the American
Union Telegraph company, and it will
cause no surprise if it turns out that
Vanderbilt and his followers are in ac-
cord with this party.
The Maine Election
| PORTLAND, Me, Sept. 1S.-Four hun
dred and ninety-seven towns give Davis
| 73.416; Plaisted, 73,000; scattering, 33S; ;
Davis plurality, 416. Six towns to hear
| from gave, last year, Davis, 81; Smith,
81; Garcelon, 81 /; a Fusion plurality of
1877. Deduc:ing that, Davis will have Il
plurality OF 249, which is 50 short of a
majority, supposing that that there are
no further gains or losses.
| Death to Lotteries.
| WASHINGTON, Sept 1S.-Acting Post
master-General HaZen to-day issued an
order intended to exclude from the mails
| all registered letters, and letters contain
ing postal money orders, addressed to
several firms alleged to be engaged in
conducting fraudulent lotteries at Louis.
vile, Kentucky, Covington, Kentucky,
and New York City.
Poor LO as Granger.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 2O-Secretary
SchurZ says that the indications at a
number of points in the northwest the
Indians are very industrious and have a
great deal of land under cultivation. At
some points in the Sioux reservation
where they raise considerable wheat, the
4 cultivation of the soil compares very fay-
orable with that of the east.
tthN MOTT Arrest of Nelson.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-A dispatch
from Fort LeavenwOrth says PaYmaster
Nelson was arrested in Kansas City yes.
terday, and taken on a train bound for
New York, last evening. He will be
tried by court martial in New York up
on his arrival. 1t is not thought by the
tpaymaster general that he was attempt
ing to escape.
-- aJ-' From the Solid South.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1S.-The internal
revenue bureau caused the report thai
Deputy Collector Latham, of southwest
ern Virginia, with posse of nine men
, has been attacked while in the discharge
of his duty, by fifty armed moonshiners
fired upon repeatedly and compelled tt
retreat.
The Merry MOOnshiners.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Commission
; er Raum will furnish sufficient armeC
! force to break up the band of moonshIn
ers in southwestern Virginia who re
| Gently fired upon the government officers
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It will be seen that under q Republi-
can majority appropriations steadily de-
creased down to the Democratic acces-
sion in 1877. In the first year the DEM
Ocrats continued the reduction, emitting,
however, needed appropriations. In
their second year, the years proceeding
the congressional elections. they badly
neglected to provide for many obvious
and indispensable appropriation. This
was exposed on the spot as an election
eering device, but the figures went forth
and had their effect. There they stand
in the tables of 1878. The great appar-
ant savings, loudly Dragged about at the
time, but as everybody familiar with the
workings OF the government
knew beforehand must be the
pretended savings which had been pur-
pOse4y left out of the appropriation bills,
came in as deficiency bills at the next
session. There stands the proofs in the
tables of 1879. The appropriations that
year were greater than in 1875, the last
year of republican Tule-greater IN cur
rency by $24, sol 1858 40, greater in gold
by $41 ,979 ,O57.56. For last year the APP
preparations exceeded the last republi-
can year more than &l5. 900 900; for this
year they are considerably larger, and in
both years appropriations were purpose
ly omitted in cases in which they are
sure to be supplied at the next session.
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Some time since the Greenback and
Democratic state central committees of
Maine put in the field joint electoSal
ticket, composed of representatives OF
both parties. The atrOciOus check of the
Democrats in quietly appropriating the
fruits of the fancisd victory of the re-
cent election in the Pine Tree state, has
aroused the just indignation of the
Greenbackers, and u convention was
called by them for Tuesday To reverse
their former action, and take measures
for running the presidential campaign
on a different plan. General Weaver
and Mr.. PIaisted insist upon full
Greenback electoral ticket, and If the
Democrats want to pool issues with the
infationis:s they must endorse the
Weaver ticket. The Democratic catspaw
will pull no chestnuts out of the fire
with the Greenback monkey in No.
vauahpr
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Yery truly your:
sEASONABLE ARGUMENT

A SEASONABLE ARGUMENT.
Just at this time. when the imitation
heresy has received n new impetus by
reason of the strength which the Green.
back party has developed in Maine, and
when the Democracy in all the close
states are repudiating the plank in their
national platform which pledges the
party TO honest money and strict main
tenance of the public faith-both state
and national, by making common cause
with the enemies of sound currency,
against the Republicans, the following
practical observations from the New
York Herald, an independent journal Of
much fairness and ability, are especially
seasOnable:
The course of trade this year and last
is signal refutAtion of the theory of the
inliatiOnists that our currency was mad
equaIe and that u large increase was nee
essary for setting the wheels of business
in motion. Without any addition 70 the
paper circulation the enormous foreign
and domestic trade of the country last
year was successfully conducted; and
the amount Of our currency will equally
suffice for the heavier trade OF the open
ing business year, especially as the great
er volume of transactions will be at a
lower scale of prices and without the
fitful and exceptional demands for money
caused by speculatiOns to foEestall
the market. The theory OF the infia-
tionists has been exploded at every point.
The business of the country has attain
ed unwOnted dimensions, and has been
conducted with splendid success not
only without any expansion of the pa
per currency, but without employing
the large amount of silver coin with
which they undertook 10 initiate the cur
rency when they failed to expand the
greenbacks. or the sixty-six millions
Of silver dollars which have been coined,
sixty millions still lie unused in the
treasury. For all purposes OF business,
this mass of silver might as well have
repOsed in its native mines, SD absurd
was the pretended necessity of coming
il as an addition to the circulating me.
dium. The business OF our most pros
porous year has been conducted indie
| pendentIy of this idle accumulation Of
silver and without any expansion of the
DaDer currency.
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mum will be glad to have the public take
stock in this enterprise, but whatever be
lacking viii be supplied of out his own
purse. He will probably invest the larg-
est part of his fortune, and should il
prove failure what sensation would
follow! Barnum would then be censur.
ed for taking such an immense risk: but
it is idle to anticipate the future. Dies
tiny cOmpcls him to advance, and whetla-
er TO fortune or 10 ruin will be all the
same in few years
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1t is said TO he part of the Fusion pre-
gramme in Kansas to have j. Wade Nc
Donald, the Democratic candidate for
congressman, withdraw, leaving the field
to Tom Ryan. the present Republican
incumbent, and Elder Mitchell, the
Greenback candidate. The plan has the
merit of economy, as It would obviate
the necessity of q double funeral and
save ut least a few feet of room in the
populous Democratic cemetery in which
Mr.. McDonald's deceased political
friends lie sleeping.
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The most perplexing phase of current
politics is that the men who arrogate to
themselves the province Of dcvising i'm
proved methods for the administration
of the national finances are invariably
individual bankrnpts, persons who are
as devoid of business capacity as they are
Of personal integrity, INSCRIPTIONS and
chimerical adventures who have swim
died their too confding neighbors, end
dead beats generally of the most shining
and distinguished order. Is the acumen
of the Reverend Mr.. Mitchell equal to
the solution of this political problems
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DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.

Senator COnkling. in his wonderful
speech delivered at the Academy of Mu-
sic in New York on Friday night, show
ed up the claims OF Democratic economy
by the following convincing figures:
Ii Is said that the Democracy have re-
duced appropriations. do not 80 un-
derstand It. The claim of economy is no
better than juggle. Here are the exact
figures, year by year, Republican and
Democratic, of sums annually appro-
priatedfOr current expenses, stated in
currency for each fiscal year:
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New York Tribune: The fraud" cry
won't work to save the Democrats from
the consequences of their disaster in
Maine. They have been shouting over
the election Of two notorious Greenback
demagogues to congress, and Hancock
has emerged from his tremendous digni-
ty and hailed that election Us glorious"
There is no escape for it. The party has
not gained anything by this furry save
disgrace. 1t has shown once more its
readiness to espouse any principle, how
ever bad, which will give it possession
of the government. This is in perfect
accord with Its promise TO Wade Hamp.
ton: "Once give US the power, and we
will give the south everything it wants"
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BARNuM's AMBIrIoN.
Prom 8 ReW York Letter

The veteran showman's grand project
the Madison Square Museums to be
carried out in all the extent of its de-
tails, and the work is already begun. All
who desire to take stock in the enter
prise may do 50, and the subscription
books are now opened. The excavation
alone viii be an immense job, as the
area is more than two acres and
the depth will not be less than TWEEN
ty feet What quantity to be re-
moved by the cart loadi The capi-
tai is 5000 900, and Barnum In
tends thas il shall be the grandest thing
of the kind In the world. He also
intends to have it finished before the in
ternational exhibition, which win attract
such immense crowds 70 this city. Bar