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EeRr to SargAns the Rhine becomes the 0ly1o-
iu1 line between the Austrian lyrol anu East
Switzerland. The Swiss canton of AppenzeIlt-
tho little land Of Appenzel, with its pastoral
people and Its queer customs runs III here to Ect
Il peep at tho pnsslng river. These Appenzellers
are d very dcmocrutic people, even for demo-
cratic Switzerland. It is not only that every
man has II voice in the law-nnktns that 1t -
democrntic but it is also i'll the primitive way III
which that will is expressed There was time
when peoples chose their Kings by meeting en-
musse on il Held and giving the fullest man the
crown. Something very similar Is praCticed
even now in little Appenzell: o,;ts,eas Eyesy
Of the canton meet, and, armed with
swords and umbrellas, and led by band OF
music, march out to q meadow, where tho at
fairs Of state und tho election OF officers are
settled in short time by the sovereign people
The women Of Appenzeu occasionally join in
this procession, ald the graye-looking officials,
rigged in the uniform OF srnte, gallantiy give to
the ladies the best 6tanding-room on the green.
a little platform for the town grandees is elc-
yated, around which tho procession halts ana
listens to u prayer. Then follow the affairs OF
state, decided simply by show OF hands. IaXes
arc yoTcd fines laid, and officers chosen for the
next year. In few hours Appenzclfs outdoor
Parliament is finished, and the people 20 to their
homes, and lay their swords and tags away TO
rest for another year. This has been dppen-
zelrs Parliament for 500 years.
, 1880-04-04


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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
Educational Meeting

A meeting was held in the interest of
the graduating system lately, at the
Mound school house, district IS.
There was also an appointment for q
meeting of the grange that evening, but
after Il few exercises, both instructive and
entertaining, the grange graciously
waived their exercises in favor of the cd
vocational meeting.
After a short opening by n. w Son
nedeckcr on the value of system in
school work, Mr.. Wharton was intro
dUced. lie spoke In his usual clear, in
structive manner, explaining fully the
system under consideration He also
pointed out the defects of the old system,
showing that we must educate for real
practical benefit--that education must
forward those things that viii be of most
use to I live, widc-Gwalle, earnest citizen.
He then invited questions from the
patrons Of the schools, and had the
satisfaction Of seeing nearly every man
in the room interested enough to take
the floor and talk. They all seemed to
appreciate tie utility Of going ahead;
Of having education advance with the
rest Of civilization; and no one spoke
in favor Of the way he used to be ed
ucated- There was only one dissenting
voice. he dissenting because he WIS
afraid people were gazing 100 fast; he
was in iayor Of going more slowly.
He said he knew nothing of the sys-
tenn, either its merits or demerits, but
objected because it was new and pco-
pie were generally too fast for new
things.
Then the patrons couldn't get, the floor
fast enough TO reply. All seemed of the
opinion that he had better study the
system before he objected.
Among the speakers we noticed Mr..
G. D. Humphrey, F. A. Cooke. T. C.
Martin, Gill, Snedecker, Cupp, Town.
send, Albright, and others whose names
we cannot remember, but wh,ise speeches
we can distinctly rememl,er.
The meeting chased VIII, a motion to
haze another rs soon as enayenicnt.
p 2 DaGsag,le
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26

stock. The time is close at hand when
the demand f,r Legislation, either on the
par OF the states ar The United States,
viii be answered by enactments
that viii forever crush out the present
gigantic evils The New York Ship
ping List learns from authentic and re
liable sources that more than thirty tlious-
sand voters in New York have already
pledged Themselves TO ignore party lines,
and carry the question of reform in rail
way management TO the polls. in case The
present legislature. through fear or favor,
allows the further continuance of these
great abuses 1t is said that Mr.. Van
derbilrs great sale Of New York Cen
trail shares vas dictated, not so much By
the consideration that IL was not good
for one man to hold so large an amount,
as by prescicnt and wholesome fear,
HAT in the light OF this Investigation
and The resulting Indignation of the
people, his extensively diluted stock
might not huId wafer much longer.
! At the present time, what may be
lcIlttu tilt litftalDuS tftit VI Aiit ifstdl VI
this great concern, is ssne $4,000, 900
greater than the proportion of genuine,
honest capital. Fairly computed, the
cost of the line would be about 10000
per mile AS artifciaily capitalized, it
is about %I3O,Oo0. All this would be
nothing TO The public were ii not for the
resulting and enforced claim on the part
Of Mr. Vanderbilt 10 an earning, and the
customary one, on the fictitious cost
direct yearly exaciion from the people
from whom the right of the road to live
is derived, to the Vanderbilt cxchequer
of from twenty five 10 thirty-five per
cent on the amount actually expended in
construction. 1t is no won
der that in view of such facts
as these, there should be a sub
stantial and increasing discomfort. In
deed. it is matter of astonishment thai
a wrong so vast and so palpabIe has beer
submitted 10 50 long by an intelligent
people Tie abuses complained Of are
rot so bad in the west as IN the east, but
they are gradually working their way
over ilie entire country.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
PLUCKY CINOINNATI.

The Cincinnati Southern railroad,
over the opening of which the people 81
Cincinnati have just been making merry,
is the only through north and south line
between Louisville and Lynchburg. Or
TO change the statement so Is to make il
better comprehended by northern peo-
pie, between Louisville and Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. Even Row that the new
line is opened, there is vast expanse Of
country without railway lines that follow
approximately the parallels of longitude
People living in Pittsburg, for example,
who want 20 go south. must first go west
to Cincinnati or east 20 Harrisburg be-
fore they can set their faces toward their
destination. The great Appalachian
mountain chain, with It's many spurs
and lateral ridges and the broad
belt of rugged iorest-coycrcd
hills which skirts its western
slope, is the cause for this gap in our rail
way system. II required the cash, cred
it and energy OF q great city TO push Il
railway across the southern end of this
mountain system and thus To opca 4 new
route to the cotton states In this enter
prise Cincinnati has shown a pluck and
public spirit which do her great credit.
She viii undoubtedly reap large com
mercial advantages from the read which
she has built and equipped with her
own means exclusively.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26

The state committee of the National
Greenback Labor party of Kansas, have
issued cal! suggesting that conyen-
ton be held in each of the congressional
districts in the state for the purpose Of
electing delegates aud alternates 10 at
tend the Chicago national convention on
the 9th of June, the date fixed upon be-
ing the Goth of May and the pieces as
follows: First district, Manhattan; sec
ond district, Garnet; third district,
Newton. Each county will be entitled
to four delegates and four alternates in
SAID district conventions, and county con-
ventions will be held on the 18th day of
May for the purpose Of cleeting these
delegates. This little formality affords
encouraging evidence of the survival of
al organization which was enormously
supposed to he dead, and proves the stay
ing qualities of wind as IA political feeder
Il demonstrates that Sam Wood has not
lived, striyon, and edited III vain, and his
noble effort To cvaHgciizc the state in the
interest of fat money has not returned
unto him void, but has accomplished the
purpose wherounto it was sent. We
have no doubt Chat NIessrS. Dillayc and
Chambers, occupying first and second
places respectively ON the national
Greenback Labor ticket, win regard this
uprising with keen interest, and it is
not beyond the limit of probability that
even Grant or Blaine, Tilden or Scy-
mour may be vitality concerned in its
final results.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
From Rock valley.

District No. 50 held It's first term ex-
animation on Tuesday, March 2d, 1880.
The board, or at least part of it, and
teacher constituted lhe examining board.
The school averaged Sl25 per cent.
This being the first examination of the
kind, the per cent is good. This
months reports show n decrease of Z
per cent. in tar'lincss over last month,
and last month was % per cent. less
than the previous month The teacher
and patrons had picnic on Wedncs-
day last that rightly might be called
the commencement exercises OF Rock
Valley graded school The lyceum
also held a concert tue last Friday in
February, and it also proved to be a
success. All went away well pleased.
The patrons Of district No. so do all
they can TO encourage the little folks
to become literary men and women.
If they continue so the future speaks
well for tGat part of Lyon county.
IT. G. EDMoNDs.
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|lrs fmpuria News.
EMroRIA. rRIpAY. MARcn %. lssO
THE REST MEN.

There is an important city election
close at hand. 1t behooves all citizens
to work to get good men in the city
council and school board. Personal
considerations should not DC considered
The public good Is the end TO look at.
Nom with "an axe to grind" should
bc elected 10 any office. It is the ''you
tickle me and I'll tickle YOU principle
the combination OF fellows who have
personal schemes to work up that make
jobs of various kinds possible. We I'M
derstand there win be something of this
nature TO propose TO the new council, and
il viii be well for the people of this city
10 keep sharp look out as TO the kind
of men they elect. Squeal before election
and not after. IL unfit men are chosen
the voters alone Will be To blame. LoOl
at the list of candidates well before yot
ing. Some other qualification is requis
lite besides the one 10 say AYE" when I
councilman's name is called on propo
sition 10 issue whisky license. Their
may be something else worth consider
Ing within the next two years, and bust
ness ability aud judgment may b
good things in candidate for so import
ant an Office.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
BUSINESS ITEMS.

A brick famine is expected in Chicu-
go, and makers have advanced the price
To $l5 per Thousand.
The foreign imports of Philadelphia
during January amounted to 81 ,394,00S,
an increase OF $I,007 200 over January,
1873.
Two months ago the stock of the
American linen company, of Fall River,
was selling For less than $500 per share.
1t is now selling at $1,000 per share.
The exports from all the Atlantic
ports last year were in grain, IN round
numbers: Wheat, 1925 00 bushels (;
corn, 2,O40.OO0 bushels; flour, 81 900 bar
rcls.
4 company has been formed in Boston
to construct = railway in Mexico from
the capital of that republic TO points ON
the Texas frontier and the Pacific coast.
There are so many idle doctors in Lon
don that one Of the busy ones who re
Gently advertised for an assistant, offer
ing 500 u year, received between A00
and 500 answers.
Manufacturing clothing Ill Chicago
gives employment TO 10000 people, and
the value of the goods made are $15 ,000-
Geo. The industry has doubled III four
years.
Machine betting is now made in Cali
fornia from the entrails of sheep. A
thrce-four inch made of this material
will bear strain of seven ions 1t is
said to much more durable than hemp.
The exports OF produce from New
York for tins week cndiag March 10th
were So, 932, $40. The total since january
1st is 500, 454, 047, against $60,093,Si for
the same period last year, and $G7 ,033,-
Oil in 1873.
The Fail River mill owners have al
vanced the wages of their employees if
teen per cent. since the beginning OF the
year, and now they have promised to
give further advance Of ten per cent
on the first proXimo.
Incxhaustible quantities of iron ore
have been discovered in Franklin county,
Pennsylvania. The orc is very rich, the
yield being sixty to seventy-iivc per cent
iron This discovery will be an iHlport-
ant one FOR that part of the state.
The salaries ofa few OF our railway
officials show what IL mine railroads
management may sometimes prove. II.
J. JeWett, president of the Eric railway,
has a salary of $40, 600 year; Tom Scott,
president of seven railroads, draws $780,
coo salary, $4,000 from the Pennsyl-
vania road alone; j. w. Garrett, presi
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio has Il
nominal salary OF $4,000 year. There
are to-day fifteen general managers of
railways iii the United States whose sala-
ries run from $4,000 to $150,O00; nine
general superintendent, with u salary
FROM $1,000 to $4,000 yearly, aud u
number of officials in the same rank who
receive over s., 900.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

The gem puzzle must go.
In Roman society American girls arr
the favorites.
The Nihilists did not care to shoot al
the Cars felc.
Peter Cooper wears pair of slippers
made twenty years ago.
4 gem puzzle" tournament should
be held on the first Of April.
There are ninety-one American stu
dents at the University of Berlin.
There are ninety-flvc lakes IN Iowa
covering an area Of 6s,o90 miles.
Seven dollars week with solitude
will pan out further than $40 with
twins.
Steam and horse railroads in this
country require 100000 men to labor on
Sunday.
The are made yearly in Reading and
Berks county Pennsylvania, over 5000
0C0 wooden hats.
One firm OF Ludinglon, Michigan, has
purchased 140,000,000 feet Of standing
pine timber.
All the wooden mills i'll Eastern Con
necticut are running, some ofthem night
and day.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour offers
wine of rare vintage TO his guests, but
drinks none himself
4 Philadelphia man who was married
a year ago says he don't think much of
leap year bawls.
Apples have not kept well this winter
in other respects than where there are
large families of children.
a. Cincinnati criticism on the Pirates
OF Penzance'': "The thin pirate with a
terrific moustaclie had his right calf on
wrong side out'
General Beauregard, the ex-confeder-
ate, opposes the DarIen canal project,
and does not think that it would pay pri-
va,e capital to embark in the enterprise.
4 western sleeping car was recently
entertained with the sight OF n man beat
ing his wife. Some men have the rare
faculty OF making themselves at home
anywhere.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
rHr RAILRoAp ouEsrIoN

There is no power lake that of the peo-
pic whcs they become aroused Revo-
buttons come quickly when the irrcsis,i-
ide current Of public opinion demands
them. We hase long thought and often
said The railroads of the country stand
Ia their own light, aad their manipula
tors and managers are their own worst
enemies, in permitting certain abuses TO
continue The time is not far distant
and shrewd railroad men see it, when
railroads and their managers viii be
come the servants Of the people. One of
the principal means used by a few rail-
road kings to dictate terms To the bust
ness OF the country is through what is
known as "watered" stock. II is by the
issue of this worthless paper that they
get control of railroad lines. The
management Of the railroad interests is so
closely connected with the business of
the public that it'must be regulated in
the public interest, aud not for the
benefit OF railroad gamblers in fictitious
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
LAzINESs THE FOUNDATION OF so
CIALIsM.

Socialism is = disease of state OF
civilization in which true science Of so
ciety scarcely exists, in which false no.
fions Of life, of the relations of the in.
dlvidual 10 tHe society OF and the state.
are widespread, and in which all ranks
arc honeycombeSl 10y sentimental
metioEs of what ought 20 be, and can be
N this world. Since Rousseau, IA Ger.
tain set of doctrines has been pernlcatlng
modern society, which have 70 truth
in history OF fact at all, but which na,ter
human nature and are sure to be popu-
lar, because they make light of esluc;t-
ton, culture. capital, breeding, and all
the exceiicuccS which, being all very
hard to get, raise him who has them
above him who has them not. The same
doctrines teach, per contra, that the un-
trained man Is the form, and type, and
standard, 50 that men, instead of being
urged 10 seek the excellence are
encouraged TO believe themselves superb
or, without them, to those who have
them. Such is the outcome Of the doc
irine Of equality, and, rs il has spread,
it has only grown more popular, has pro-
pagatcd more and more faIiscies, and
shifted more and more distinctly into 2
thirst and demand for equal enjoyment
of material luxury. Socialism Is an
effort 10 crafty tl;Is thirst ii some other
way than by Using It rs IN incentive 20
industry and economy. Obviously. there
is no other way, unless il consists ia TAX
ing away the means of material enjoy
ment from those who have produced and
saved them. Every step in that diree
tiQr, Is a step towards universal impov-
eriShinenf and bssrb:fistl, and every step
will have 10 be wdn BY war. The social
lists aSssIne that their victory in thai war
is certain. but il is certain that they are
eniirely mistaken.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26

partment, where they are supplied with
ordinary provisions, bat no luxurics ex.
cept for the sick
The clothing department consists of
two large rooms filed from floor to cell
ing, around the walls and in the center
with passages for access 10 the shelves.
Here are constantly employed two color
ed men, one opening packages, the
other putting away goods From three
to four hundred men. women and child
rem are supplied from these rooms, and
Mr.. Whiting assured me that in one
month all these goods would be dispos-
ed of. AS the arrivals average about one
hundred per week, the demand for cloth
ing is very great, for nearly ali require
some from this department In
the, Office, at head quarters
were ten men who had been
assigned places at Valley Falls, but they
positively refused 10 so for the reason
that their employers required 4hem to
work on the Sabbath, and rest on Satu-
day. To test the strength OF their con-
victions, ! told ti1em 1t maitered not
which day was observed, provided one
in seven was set apart rs day of rest.
But their reply was, that the law of the
land and the law of God, required Sun
day to be kept, and they would violate
neither. Such men are needed every
where. In my interviews with all these
refugees, and visited every room, 1
could learn but one chief reason for
their leaving the south, and that
was oppression; oppression in law,
wages received, in exorbitant charges
for the nocess.,Tics OF life. and the utter
ignoring Of their rights in the courts Of
justice. Compared with these 'oppres-
siOns political murders seemed TO be of
minor Importance Much credit is due
the chief clerks of the relief association
for their efficient and economical man
agement of its affairs and their success
ful efforts in finding homes for the refu
gees, never separating families, as they
are sometimes asked to do. Goods are
received from al parts of the north, and
also from England, including all neces-
saries and a large lot of bibles and tesla
men,s. Thanks OF visitors are due 10
Mr.. Johnson for introducing us to the
refugees and for valuable information.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26


OF IIor.sfio Seymour, ~GTatia'' gives
this picture IN the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Seymour. TO leok Al. IS ! very large,
YANKEES type Of man, six feet or over,
wearing suit OF black cloth, with long
freck coat and with large country boots,
we'll blackeHoa. and = high hat. He has
3 benevolent face and . pair OF rich dark
eyes. When you goto see Seymour they
send you in some nice white bread and a
glass of rich mix and . snail cake of
delicious butter. Then the ainiabIe,
keen old man Will entertain you with the
most fai.fefly and beautiful talk He
hiss temperament like we-
mans Al atmosphere of CON
siticr.itioa for YOU and satisfaction
with himself and tenderness for his wife
surround him. Iou feel that more than
any living man he IS the dean ilad senior
Of The Democratic patty in america
During his Iiic he las hardy eyer guar
relied with aay body. You can aoE tell
at this mosncisi whether he believes Til
ticn 70 be = scoandrel, 2 genius or 4 saint.
Free IA his intercourse, especially desir-
otts 10 interest Republicans. Close with
money hut hsssnifaisls, seldom isaprov-
ing his properly in Usis.a, but proad Of
the town, yea rather fess, on the Whole,
HAT you are taxing WITH a inan who
h.ss llssea president instead Of enc who
may be- >