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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
COURAGE,

4 great deal of talent is lost i'll the
world for the want of little courage.
Every day sends to the grave number
of obscure men, who have only re-
manned in obscurity because their timid-
ity has prevented them from making a
first effort, and who, if they could have
been induced to begin, would i'll all
probability have gone great lengths in
fame. The tact is, to do anything in
the world worth doing, we must not
stand back shivering and thinking Of
the cold and the danger, but just jump
in and scramble through as well as we
can. 1t will not do to be perpetually
calculating risks and adjusting nice
chances. 1t did very well long before
the flood, where a man could support
his friends upon an intended publica
ton for a hundred and fifty years, and
then live to see its success afterward
But at present q man waits and doubts
and hesitates and consults his brother
and his uncle, and his particular friends
until one day he finds he is sixty year:
of age, then he has lost SO much tim'
in consulting his first consin and par
ticular friends, that he has no time t.
follow their advice:
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Personal Mention

Miss Ollie Price is getting about
again, after protracted illness.
Mr.. Frank High is in the city looking
after the interests of the Chicago y Al
ton road.
Agent II. f. Torrington went To New
ton last evening on business pertaining
10 the road.
Mr.. Edward Endley, of Mansfield,
Ohio, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Hug
gins of this city.
Mr.. Damon, of the St Louis Globe
Democrat, is in the city in the interests
of his journal and the Grant movement
in EmpOrla-
Mr.. A. II. Taylor, professor of natural
sciences of the Lincoln, Illinois, univer'
sity, and II. o. Hickman, Of Springfield
we're the guests Of Professor WEIGH I"
the Normal, last Saturday.
Mr.. Il. NJ Bachelor, who has beer
engaged in the grain business at For
Worth, has returned to Emporia TO settl'
down and make this his home. During
his sojourn in the lone star state he sol'
over one hundred car loads of Lyol
county corn.
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Normal Notes.

SATOhDAhi may AD-
The new Normal was lighted up for
the first time last night, the Ocrasion be-
ing the meeting of the Lyceum society.
The installation Of officers was gone
through with in very impressive man.
ner, amer which Mr.. Harvey 10y, the
president elect, took the stand and IN a
few well chosen remarks outlined his
policy for the coming term.
Miss Arnold read very amusing ac-
count OF the little hatchet story.
Mr.. Chopper read u selection from
I.ongfellow, AFTER which the question,
"Resolved, that Chinese immigration
should be prohibited" was discussed on
the affirmative by Messrs. Severy and
McCown, and on the negative by Messrs
Smith and Ford The hall was crowded
with visitors, which put the debaters In
a good spirit, and they gave US one Of
the best debates We have ever had the
pleasure of listening to in the Lyceum-
The Lyceum choir then favored tbs
society with song, excellent in quality
but not sufficient in quantity.
Prof. Sogard then favored us with ont
of his excellent violin solos, followed BY
the critique, by Mrs. Delap. which wa
one of the pleasantest features of thu
evening.
The society then adjourned till Frida.
evening next The public generally m
invited TO attend.
\ Among the visitors from abroad VI
noticed Prof Taylor, of Illinois. and 1Il
Hickman, classmale Of Prof WEIGH.
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plan Adopted for the New Hotel.
The hoard of directors of the Emporia
Hotel Company met at the Office OF
Judge Bachelor last evening, May "a,
1880 to take into consideration the adop-
ton of plans submitted by different ar
chitects for the hotel building.
ON motion, the secretary was instruct
ed TO nut on record in Lyon county,
certified copy from the secretary oil
state of the original charter Of the hotel
company.
The following gentlemen presented
plans. etc, tor the hotel building: Mr..
Carr. of Leavenworth; Mr.. j. q. Has
kelI, Of Lawrence and Messrs. Nichols x
Souires Of Emporia- Upon general dis
cussion Ia the directors. the meeting adj
iourned, without deciding upon any OF
the plans submitted, 10 meet at same
rooms over first national bank at y
o'clock a. m. May 10, 1880.
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1880.
The board met pursuant 10 adjourn.
ment, all members. present
A motion was made and carried that
when the plans, specifications, ETC., are
accepted by those presenting the same
that they be subject TO any notifications
the board may direct.
! A motion was made and carried thai
the board undertake to adopt the plar
submitted by Mr.. Haskell, provided tina
satisfactory arrangements can he nad'
with him for specifications, etc. Adopt
ed by a vote of three for to one against
Mr.. Haskell being called into tn
meeting, said he would charge $3.50
make six trips during the construction
: of the building with guarantee of salts
faction.
i A motion was made and adopted tha
the directory enter into contract wit
Mr.. Haskell for plans, specification
etc, the vote on same standing as 10
3 lows: yes. B; no, 2.
:. On motion secretary was instructe
to draw up contract with Mr.. Haske
: for full compliance as to plans an
specifications.
Meeting adjourned to meet at 2 o'cloG
II p. m. to consider the name to be give
? the new hotel, when the motion tn
1 it be called the Coolidge House. inhon
:; of the newly elected president OF Il
( Santa Fe road, was unanimously adoI
IS ed. A. NJ. SoMAERs, Secretary.
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U. S. SIGNAL SERVICE.


Is the L. s. signal service of practical
value to the publicS Are its predictions
of the weather to be relied ons If so, is
there not some way of making them
serviceable to the common country PEG
pie? Can there be any cheap and speedy
way devised to give correct Information
twelve or twenty-four hours in advance
of a coming storm, 10 the horticultural
and agricultural communities scattered
all over this broad land? If these
queries can be answered in the aff1rma
tive, it will be seen at a glance to be
very important measure, which, In this
day of Improvement, ought not to bt
overlooked Often losses by single
storm are immense, much OF which
might be saved by a timely fore
knowledge, and a moderate amount o
precautiOn.
Already representations of the wealth
| er are forwarded to the railroad lines
and posted up on bulletin boards in thei
offices. If some one at each OF thes
places would daily inspect these reports
| and when q storm is threatened raise
| red flag in some conspicuous place, ant
as coon as that is seen let some one rails
another in some designated locality. an
then another, till the whole oommunIt
receives the information.
The cost and trouble would be slIgh
and the information would be tlmeI
and easily understood by all.
What is there to prevent the state hol
ticuItural society and the several auXil
ary societies from trying the experiment
and thus let their light so shine that
may be seen by men generally.
c. D. BURDICK.
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RnRnETTEls NIGHT THOUGHTS

Don't Judge a man by his clothes.
Can YOU tell what the circus is going to
be like by looking at the Italian sunset
pictures on the fence? Do you value Il
turkey for its plumage ?And isn't the
skin of the mink the most, and, indeed,
the only valuable part of him? There
are men fair TO look upon, who wander
up and down this country and sit in the
coolest place on the hotel piaHzas, who
are arrayed in fine linens and carulnal
socks, and who have to hold their hand
over their scarf pin when they want to
see the moonlight, who, unassisted and
unprompted, do not possess the discretion
to come in when it rains, and don't know
enough to punch hole in the snow with
an umbrella-new, soft snow at that,
with no crust on it. Now and then, son,
before YOU are old as Methuseleh, you
will meet man who wears hat that is
worth twice as much rs the head 1t COW
ers. On the other hand don't fall into
the error of believing that all the good
ness and honesty and intelligence in the
world goes about in shreds and patches
We have seen tramp dressed in more
rags than You could rake out of the fam
| ilV rag bag, and more dirt and hair on
! him than would suffice to protect horse
who would step up to the front dool
| and demand three kinds of cake, half &
pie, some black coffee and vanilla ICE
cream and then steal every movable
| thing in the yard. kill a dog, choke VI
the pump with sand, and girdle the
cherry trees because he could not carry
them away. Good clothes or bad, son
are never an infalliblc index to the mar
that is in them.
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WORMS OF WISDOM.

A blithe heart makes blooming Wis
age. :,
To triumph over our passions is of all
conquests the most glorious.
He that pryeth into every cloud may
be stricken with thunderbOlt.
Events are not in our power; but it al
ways is to make good use of even the
worst.
There are none that fall so implied, as
those that have raised themselves upon
the spoils of the public.
When u man owns himself to he in an
error, he does but tell you in other words
that he is wiser than he was.
Four things belong to ajudge-to heal
cautiously, to answer wisely, TO oonsidel
soberly and TO decide impartially-
They who have an honest and engaging
look, ought to suffer q double punish
ment if they belle il in their actions.
Since a true knowledge of nature give
us pleasure, lively imitation OF 1t Il
poetry or painting must produce "A mucf
greater.-Dryden.
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.ToseDh Cook

Joseph Cook, who spoke here last
Tuesday evening, is is one OF the marked
men of this generation. The writer OF
this sketch knew him as Sunday school
boy at Phillips academy, AndoVer,
Mass, in 1856. Even then his name on
an exhibition programme would always
fill the house. From Andover he went
to Hazard college, and, after graduation,
back TO Andover 10 the theological
seminary. While he was a student in the
seminary, president McCosh, now OF
Princeton college, then of Belfast, Ire
land, visited this country. When at
Andover, Prof Park told him there was
young man in the seminary who would
! like TO meet him, and consult him on
some philosophical points he was try
ing to think out He then introduced
him TO Joseph Cook. After the inter
view. DIR. McCosh told Prof. Park he
was the most remarkable young man he
had ever met, and that he would yet be
heard from.
After graduation at the seminary he
preached at different places, but did not
seem TO find his work congenial. While
AT LYNN, Mass, he gave course OF lee
lures on the labor question which at
tracted general attention. Soon after he
went to Europe and spent several years
in studying the different phases Of Ger
man thought, On returning to tins
!, country he commenced the course which
, has grown into the Monday lcctureship
He commenced in modest way IN
small hall in Boston, where O fe"
thoughtful men gathered to hear him
His subject was the "PhilanthrOpic and
Scientific Basis of Religious Truth
f The lectures were given every Monday
, noon. AS they became known tn
Z audiences increased, They soon wer
3 compelled to seek larger quarters. The.
1 went first into the Park street churcl
\ lecture room; then into the chuTcl
I itself; then into Fremont Temple. Her
/ he spoke to 5000 people every Monda
8 nOOn-tO such an audience as never la
s been assembled on this continent.
c consisted Of ministers, lawyers and doC
tors, prOIeSSOES anu IItCIaAy uNSht W"
abound around Boston. From all tn
l. towns around Boston, even as far a
a Portland, Maine, and Springfield, Ma
; sachusetts, people would go in ever
q Monday to hear Joseph Cook. For fOu
', wears he sustained himself in this pos
!, ton, before perhaps the most cultivate'
n critical audiences ever assembled. Thel
I has seemed to be no decline in the int
:. erst. He has given 100 lectures in Bo
J; ton on the most difficult themes. II
l. four courses of lectures may be ciasse
n under four general heads: first, "Scient
r. and Religions" second, conscience az
e. Religions" third, Marriage and u
Vorce;" fourth, Labor and Socialism
n. He is . large, muscular man, with
Ne massive head. His voice is powerf
IN and under perfect control, adapting
ID self 10 all the shades of thought and fe'
ing. While profound in his thought,
is popular in his style, and bursts of el
auence and sallies of wit are constant
70 the progress of his address.
), His coming to Emporia is an eve
n worth noting. T.
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A very important question is involved
in this matter, and am pleased to know
that it is coming up in such shape as
will, in all probability, cause it to be
settled.
As to whether this work done by Walk
er in 1867 has any binding effect as es
tablishing lines, / do not think any well
informed citizen believes-yet it is a
good opening wedge for the purpose Of
opening up this matter for thorough
investigation
hope the matter will not be dropped
until something definite is accomplished
with reference to it. In the meantime
hold myself in readiness to give you am
information / possess which will tenC
to solution Of the difficulty.
Yours very truly,
| ROBERT MILLIKES,
Civil Engineer.
Nav II ISsO
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Iight equaI 70 ,hal Of a common

light equal TO that of a common
candle.
An observer in England has found
that the depth of dew-falls in that coun-
try seldom exceeds the hundredth part
of an inch during any night of the year;
while the average annual depth of the
deposit is not more than an inch and a
half
A school for the education of ediots
has been in operation in Holland for
twenty-five years. with encouraging re
suits OF the total of At pupils enter
ed upon its register since 1855, forty
three have gone directly into service or
| adopted trade, while twenty-five 9th
ers have been discharged in a greatly
improved condition.
During some recent experiments in
| Glasgow il has been proved til AT tele-
phonic sound can be conveyed through
a less faeile conductor than the usual
unbroken wire. In this case break in
the wire was taken up by q number of
persons, who by joining hands contin-
ued the electric current through their
bodies The effect of interposing these
human links was to diffuse and weaken
the electric power; but the current was
still sufficient to convey some audible
reproduction of song from the trans
hitting to the receiving end of tele-
phone.
By the aid of spectrum analysis sodi-
um has been detected in solution con.
tanning less than the two-millionth of q
grain.
Mr.. NJ. A. Vedder finds that water is
not freed from organic impurities in
) freezing, and that the germs of animal
= culae are present in very much ofthe ice
3 taken from stagnant water. This being
) the case, considerable risk must attend
. the use of such ice in drinking water.
A Brussels genius has plan for con
> structing a submarine apparatus FOL
travelling to the North Pole. 1t is pre-
sumed that when the pole is reached h
will act on another hint from julie
Verne's fertile Imagination and seek al
opening to the centre of the earth!
In paper on the origin of the pillow
+. DIR. TylOr states that the first agricultu
10 al implement seems to have been
= pointed stick four or five feet long, sue
70 as many savage tribes still carry for til
Of purpose of digging roots, knockin
down fruits and unearthing animal
At a later date the stick was bent an
used as a hoe, the point being hardene
al by fire In the southern part of Swede
as large tracts of land give evidence
no early cultivation, which Is attributed
o. a prehistoric people called by the n
ly tives "the hackers" who are always q
IN sociated with the giants of mytholog
al and whose rude hoe was fir pole with
ed short projecting branch. There can
sc into use afterwards larger instrume
Ia of the same kind, which W
&c not used like the hoe, but dragg
be by men or oxen. Instances of this a
gle to be found in old Egyptian pictur
en- and bas reliefs, and it was probably I
If primitive idea of the pillow, which Is
prehistoric origin, evidences bel
tn found of its early use among the Greel
es, Egyptians and Chinese. 1t had fro
~ the earliest times religious sanctiC
IT'S, The next improvement was wood
e hook shod with iron; and in the time
nu Virgil wheeled pillow was in use, viii
nd differed but little from the best in
ity rope q century ago.
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Emporia,r New Hotel.

This excellent enterprise is still BOOM
ing, and is bound to be a success. At a
meeting of the stockholders May IL,
the following gentlemen were elected q
board of directors: Col. II. G. Whitley,
L. Severy, VIM. Powell, Lewis Herman,
and Van II. Holmes. The board then
elected the following officers President,
Col. II. c. Whitley; vice president, l..
Severy; secretary, Captain Sommers
treasurer, Richard Thomas. Col. Whit
ley WIS also elected general superin-
tendent of the hotel, and it is we'll under.
stood that Mr.. Powell Of the Fiilh ave
nue. will be the manager.
This improvement substantially In
sured to Emporia, the next step will be
to build new opera house, a question
which we hope to see successfully agitated
during the present summer.
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A GREAT War FoR MINING.

Despite the present depression in bust
ness. the mining interests of this coast
promise to take y more prominent posi-
ton this year than at any other time
during the present decade. Our reports
from the hydraulic and quartz mines of
the state are most encouraging, and we
know that Nevada will contribute some
important Developments IN the near fu-
TIRE IL is fact that = number of our
mining capitalists have gone east, but il
should also be remembered that q large
amount of eastern capital is being used
in developing our mines When the
Colorado boom loses its force. and al
ready that boom is weakening, the mines
of the coast, which carry ores to great
iepths. will attract more attention than
ever. The people Of the east viii speed
iIv learn the difference between the
blanket ledge and the true assure
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THE SIZE OF OUR GREAT LAKES.


The latest measurement of our fresh
water seas are as follows:
The greatest length of Lake Superior
is 1886 miles; its greatest breadth is 100
miles; mean depth, 6SS feet; elevation,
627 feet; area, 80 600 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Michigan
is 800 miles; its greatest breadth, 1Oe
miles; mean depth, 600 feet; elevation,
SOC feet; area, %, 900 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Huron IS
200 miles; its greatest breadth is 1853
miles mean depth, COO feet, elevation,
274 feet; area, 10000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Eric is
$50 miles; its greatest breadth is 81
miles; its mean depth is "a feet; eleva
ton, 555 fee; area, 6,00O square miles
The greatest. length of Lake Ontario
is 1870 miles; its greatest breadth, O.
miles; its mean depth is 800 feet; eleva
ton, 261 feet, aIea, 6,OOO square miles
The length o. all five is ,2G5 miles
covering an area upward of 1S7,OOi
square miles.
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SATURDAY, May 10.

may Az
Guess Aunt Dinah" must be color
blind"-doesn't know the difference be-
tween elillie white" and Lille Brown"
and we can prove it by A. ID. Tressler.
Americas was we'll represented at the
musical convention at Council Grove
this week, and especially last night, and
reports 8 splendid time.
Query Of the landlady of the CONNER
ciai house, Council Grove: Who were
that newly-Inarried couple from Amer
Gus that took supper here yesterday
EVENING" We would like to know, too.
And Wiley sells everything, as well
as salt. at EmP0ria prices. Try him.
and prove it.
IT'S time to commence to count your
children, as the census man will soon
be among you. ]. L. Butler takes the
north half, and L. q. Wood the south
half of Americas tosnship.
Corn planting is scout over here, the
farmers having been planting since
March e5th. This is one advantage Of
this country, you can plant corn jusI
whenever you dOg.on please between
March 18th and July 4th and still raist
good crop.
The Greenbackers and the Democrats
are around as thick rs peaches on a bot
tom orchard this morning-all bound
| for the convention at Emporia to-day
/ KENO.
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SCIENTIFIo NOTES.

Prepared expressly for the EAPoRIA NEWS
After long search, d. Broca declares
that he has been able to find no skele
ton save that of the negro which CORES
ponds in proportions und outline TO thai
of the statue of the Apollo Belvedere.
Trouve's electrical polyscope was re
Gently placed in the stomach Of a fisl
swimming in Paris aquarium With
out producing any sign Of inconveni
ence, the body of the fish was then il
Illuminated by the apparatus, which
caused it to radIate into the aquarium
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The Lines of the Lots, Streets, ETC., IN
EmpDriR.

EmpOrlAs
EDS. EMPORIA NEWS your paper
of the Sth inst is published a certified
copy of the report of survey made by
one g. NJ Walker, accompanied by
some remarks, to both of which l wish
to call attention in the hope that l may
be the means of eliciting some further
information on this important subject
You are little severe, perhaps, on
surveyors when yOu say mo two survey
ors ever agree" With equal propriety
you may say that no two doctors ever
agree, or no two preachers, or lawyers,
or any other professional men ever agree.
l maintain that surveyors are as apt to
agree as any other class of men having
10 deal with unsettled questions.
Now, with reference to the lines in
EmpOria and the effect of this Walker
survey" upon any other survey:
1 can assure you, Mr.. Editor, that you
labor under a slight misrepresentation OF
the facts which you assert that at was
found (ls6T) that the old stakes of the
original survey were almost entirely de,
stroyed." Since May, 1869, 1 have been
doing work in this city and have taken
particular pains to discover the
position of the stakes of the original
survey, and as the result of my efforts
now have a record of upwards of 500 Oi
them, having found them on every street
in the city-snOugh to relocate every
street, avenue and block sin accordance
with the original survey"
The fact is very evident to those who
have looked into the matter, that in thu
first suavey of the town there was wha
you have seen fit to designate as, "som'
rather wild surveying" In some places
we find in the length Of two or thre'
blocks. shortages of five or six feet, anC
in others overplusses of sixteen feet anC
over, and discrepancies ranging from
this down
have foreseen that there will SOM
day be trouble over this irregular SUI
vey, and have many times during tn
past ten years called attention to the mat
ter, but il seems to have elicted but littl
attention until the present time. Tn
T great question 10 be solved at present i
, the one rs to which authority shall PIT
vail.
You say this Walker survey lis tn
, only official record now in existence"
think the plat on record in the Office q
> the register of deeds is the true oficis
? record.
) But therein comes a difficulty. 1t i
3 we'll known that the plat on record in tn
court house, and the record made on tn
' ground by the surveyors of the tow
E site As shown by the monuments, fail {
agree in great many particulars.
e Now, here comes the Walker su
!. vey." made ten years later, which dos
; not agree with either, as understand i
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From Rlnker,s Ford.

This is one, Of the old landmarks, if it
is u crossing on the Neosho. Some OF
the finest farms in Lyon county are in
this immediate vicinity. The most OF
the farmers live in good houses. The
prairie is dotted with sheep, cattle and
horses. There are few farmers who
give some attention to bee culture, and
they say it pays. They have good
stone school house, and Mr.. Wells keeps
a good school in 1t. l set this down as
one of the best neighborhoods III the
countv G. II. II.