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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

laid bare. There, amid all that is grand
and most impressive IN nature, the
chronicles of the globe must be read.
! From study of mountain architecture,
we learn that the dry land has been up
heaved, at many succes-iv periods, from
the sea floor; that these upheavals have
taken place generally along the same
persistent lines, and that they were sepa-
rated by prolonged periods of subsist-
ence. After each uplift the new
| land has been exposed TO disintegra-
tion, and its debris has been carried out
to the sea bottom, there 10 accumulate
into the thick masses of rock out of
which future lands were 10 be formed.
During the more important movements
of upheavals massive sheets of solid
rock have been compressed, crumpled
and even rendered crystalline, and have
been squeezed up along lines which have
formed mountain chains. Volcanoes.
too, have broken out along these lines of
terrestrial disturbance, and have poured
forth enormous volumes of lava from
their heated interior BY revolutions of
this nature, often repeated the frame
work of the land has been slowly built
up. During the early ages of taray
mountain growth, many tribes Of plants
and animals have come and gone.
These reveal the fact that there have
been history and progress of organic |
life as well as the solid platform on
which this life has been manifested. |
Generation after generation has passed |
away; species have changed, even |
whole types of existence have entirely |
disappeared, but the reports of this pro-
gress in the organic world have been |
preserved within the rocky framework |
of land with sufficient fullness to serve |
as landmarks in geological history.
The remains Of the extinct reptiles, en-
tombed within the mountains, becomes !
the clew by which the successive dates |
of the upheaval of these mountains are
relatively fixed. They bring before us
glimpses of the geography of the long
vanished past-herc fair woodland
with its lakes and its streams; there a
sandy shore bounded by bird and rep
tile; while often amid the rugged land
scapes of the heart of IL continent they
tell us that there of old lay THE stiffness
Of the central sea-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16
RING WEARING GENTLEMEN.

D1huaiS AtlaHllC-
Gentlemen in England have a general
fashion OF wearing rings in what seems
y me very lady-iike way A siynet
ring, engraved with a cipher, crest or n
beautiful design, seems fit and becoming
upon the hand of man who can afford
tn keep it clean and out of danger of
knocks and blows. Nor are we unaccus
toned to see examples of annular COR
geousness-nulably vast amelbvtss-
upon hands which are not so cared for.
But this is not the ring wearing of gentle
men in England. There small rings set
with stones are in favor. Diamonds set in
heavy hoops, Tubies as eyes in the heads
of golden snakes which coil three or four
times around the finger, diamonds and
rubics, diamonds and saphires, in alter
nation, are seen upon the fingers of most
OF the men who are above the lower mid
observation-disclosures, clergymen. army
officers, university dOns, hard-headed
men of affairs, merchants. Not one ring
only; indeed, q single ring upon a
mans hand Is rather exceptional You
will see a big fellow with big brown
hands, OF an elderly man with staid bust
ness habits, with three or even four lew
elled rings upon his fingers; not uD-
frequently there viii be TWO upon one
finger The turquoise is in great favor
the most unmanly and woman proper
of all precious stones, in my judgment;
most suitable TO the fairest and soffest
of the sex, 1t is frequently alternated
with the diamond on "A heavy hoop, a
wide space being left between the stones.
The fashion impressed me as quite in
eongruous with manly dignity aud SIM
plicity. But perhaps this was merely
because | was unaccustomed TO it. /
know that l saw \ man with n diamond
ring and plain hoop on one finger, a
turquoise on another, and a ruby-eyed
snake whose coils covered one Joint of n
third, whom | knew TO be a gentleman
and had good reason to believe was
man. If these men had
not been of my own blood and speech. | |
should not have thought this habit re- |
but thus it strikes a stranger
who is yet not foreigner.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16
BUSINESS ITEMS.

Senator Eaton has introduced bill
proposing the appointment of a coEn
mission composed of nine persons to
take our tariff laws into consideration
with view TO revision thereof.
Statistics show that in 1890, when the
population of the United States was only
about 100000, the average value OF
property to each individual in the coun-
try was $1S7. In 1870, when the popu-
lation had increased to nearly 80 900, 600,
the average of property, in value, to each
individual was $77696. 1t has been es-
timated that in 1865 the average wealth
of each person in Great Britain was
$1,000. By 1915 this had increased to
$1,000. The calculated total increase of
the popular wealth of the United King
dom i'll the same period was 1906, 000,-
600, or about three times the public. debt
of Great Britain.
The Panama local authorities are MAX
ing preparations to entertain NJ. de Les
seps and his party of Isthmus canal
prOSpectOrs on their arrival there. The
foreign merchants have been omitted
from the committee of arrangements.
Engineers accompanying NJ de Lesseps
are provided with drills OF Il new pattern.
by which it is proposed to pierce at diff.
ferent points which the canal will trav-
erse to the depth of the proposed exca-
Walton, so as to note the different sratifi-
cations encountered, the character,
texture, hardness, &c, of the rock, in
order TO form as close an estimate as
possible of the cost
There is every reason to believe that
steel steamships will soon take the place
of iron in the British merchant service.
Very few of the former have thus far
been built, but they have been found in
every way preferable, while their cost is
not greatly in excess of those built of
iron, in view of the cheapening of the
production of steel by new
process. Several of the great Eng
lish companies have given orders for the
building of first.class steel ships; and
contemporary suggests that this may ex-
plain the intense anxiety of our English
cousins to sell us the iron steamers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16
A BOYS REcupERArIyE POWERS

1t was on the morning before New
Years day. He sat, meditative. on the
front doorstep AT his feet lay slumpy
broom, across his knee reclined the han
die OF hoe, and on his checks, wrinkled
with woe, were dark streaks Of dried-up
tears and coal dust. Old man Higgins,
passing by, observing Ben's del seton,
sympathizingly inquired:
What's ailing of you, my Iadg''
My ma doesn't treat me right. Mr..
Higgins, responded Ben, eager to pour
out his soul; ''she has no feelings for
boys, and Christmas HOLIDAYS is a
deiusion. ! told her the sun would
melt the slush and dry up the
mud, but she won't listen to reason and
let nature take its course; nuthin' II do
but to set me scrapin' an sweepin' off
this plaguey old pavement, just as if it
was parlor floor, and my legs and back
aching with rheumatism, too, from car
Tying coal up stairs, so that | can hardly
stand on my feet. | oughter be IN bed,
havin' Valentine Imminent rubbed on my
kneeJoints and pooT-house plasters stuck
tween my shoulder blades, so | ought.
and | tell you, Mr.. Hig-n
"Oh Ben! Come over and see johnny
busters little bantam ffghtin' a great
big rooster, down back of the stable; he's
giving i'm fits, Hurry
ms interruption came from a boy
who had suddenly made his appearance
at the corner diagonally opposite from
Ben's house, and had then as suddenly
disappeared from view.
Abandoning broom and hoe, and leay-
ing the rest of his narrowing tale un-
folded, then injured and afflicted limo
cent took short cut through the street,
in slush, water and mud, ankle deep, as
he huriedly obeyed the summons and
rushed for the scene of conflict
As Ben was blowing his way to the
corner toweled head was projected
from an upper story window and an au-
thorltative voice screamed out:
You, Benjamin Franklin Blekerstaff,
come right back and clean off that pave
ment, or you don't get a single taste of
angel cake and lemonade, see f you do
Good morning Mr.. Higgins"
Ben looked back over his shoulder
and said, "Yes'm, in ii minute" hut
went ahead. Old Mr.. Higgins watched
his retreatlng form to the curbstone and
then continued his walk, wondering if
volatile liniment and porous plasters
would reach that boys case.
In quarter of an hour Ben. reap
peared with three other boys, armed
with a variety of implements, and that
pavement was polished off in about
three minutes
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

SOME STRANGE FINDs-The Bank of
England has had no end of Taluables COM
mitted to its keeping. The vaults of its
establishment hold moldering chests. de-
posted there for safety's sake, and an
parently forgotten by their owners. In
1913 one fell TO pieces from sheer rotten
ness, exposing to sight quantity of
massive plate and a bundle of yellow
papers. The latter proved to be colIec-
ton of love-letters of the period of the
Restoration, which the Directors were
enabled to restore to the lineal descend
ent of the original owner, In 1878, a
tin box was fished out of the Seine con
tanning more than 500 letters, addressed
to divers persons in Paris. The box
set afloat miles above Paris-had been
sealed, and was furnished
with little metal sails. that it might
catch the current of the river at ey1.rr
point: but il had failed to achieve a sue
cessfuf voyage, and laid at the rivers
bottom for years with its freight of let
letters for the beseiged Paris SLAMS. some
of whom, however, had the grafiica alton
Of receiving them five years after dafe
-Chamberss Journal
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16
A NEEDED REFORM.

General Grant, who has taken such a
good look at foreign nations, thinks that
our cansUlary system could be reformed
very much ia the interest of commerce.
Ia his late speech to the merchants of
Philadciphiu he stated that at many
points the acting American consuls are
English merchants, who are Interested
in supprcssing instead of extend
ing American trade, and his idea
as to the remedy is the selection
Of our own practical business
men As oonsuls, permitting them
also To- net as the agents of American
merchants and manufacturers, which
they are now forbidden 10y law to do. If
the prohibition were removed, he says
they would be enabled To cultivate the
market for American goods, and thus
stand on an equality with their English
rivals. American machinery, farming
implements, cutlery, cotton fabrics, etc,
have largely usurped the place once held
by the British products in these foreign
markets, but in the sale of these exports
the British dealer stands rs the middle
man between the American munufactur-
err and the ultimate buyer, and makes
fine profit by the transaction. II should
he She duty OF our commercial agents to
Facilitate more direct exchange.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

AN ONIoN-BITING PARTY.-At an
onion party in Rockland the other even
ing, q wicked brunette played high
game for kisses. At a party of this de-
scription it is the custom for the girls to
go into darkened room, when one of
the party bites mouthful from an
onion. A young man is then admitted,
and it is his proud privilege to kiss the
batch of girls until he is enabled by the
taste to determine which one of them
bit the fragrant fruit The brunette
afore mentioned, in this case slipped the
onions into her pocket instead of biting
it, and the spruce Boston drummer who
was summoned to test and find, had
kissed five times around the circle and
was beginning again, when a girl, whose
jealous lover was outside, discovered the
trick and the game was up.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

The people of Memphis seem deter
mined that nothing shall be done to pre-
vent another visitation of the yellow fe-
yer next year. On Monday an ordinance
requiring that all vaults IN the civ
shall be thoroughly cleansed before
April lst, was repealed by majority of
the legislative council which has charge
OF the government of the city. This or
dinance was passed some time ago, at
the urgent solicitation ola number of
physicians, who, after a thorough exam
lnation into the sanitary condition of
Memphis, came TO the conclusion that
the vaults were the breeding places
OF the pestilence which has wrought
such havoc during the last two sum
mers. There is no excuse for the
conduct of the council So long as
Memphis is dirty yellow fever will find
It's victims there. If the people, through
their officials, refuse to do anything TO
protect themselves they should be left to
their fate by the rest of the world. If
they think that by encouraging pesti-
ience they will continue TO receive
from their ncighbors, they are
mistaken. We do not wonder that DIR.
Porter has resigned his Office as presi-
dent of the taxing district in disgust.
After all he has done to fight the fever
and to save the city from extinction, it
seems hard that he should have less in
nuence than a few demagogues who op-
pose cleanliness because il is cost!y.-
Globe Democrat
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16
WHO ARE AR1srnnRArs .

Twenty years ago this one made can
dies, that one sold candies and butter.
another butchered, and fourth carried
on distIllery; another was contractor
on canals, others merchants and mechan-
les. They are acquainted with both
ends of society, as their children will be
after them, though it won't do to say so
out loud For often you find these toll
ing worms hatch butterfies-and they
live about year. Death brings divis-
ion of property, and it brings new finan-
ciers. The old gent is discharged. the
young gent takes revenues and begins
to travei-toward poverty, which he
reaches before death, or his children do
II he does not, SO that, in fact, though
there Is moneYed rank, it is not hered-
Itaryi it is accessible to all The father
grDas and groes rich his children strut
and use the money. The children in
turn inherit pride and go shifiless to
poverty. Next their children. reinvig-
GRATED by plebian blood and by the smell
OF the cold, come up again. Thus soeie-
ty, like tree, draws its sap from the
earth, changes it in seed and blossom.
spreads them around into great glory.
sheds them, to fall to the earth again. to
mingie with the soil and at length to re-
appear in new dress and fresh garniture,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16
HOW TO GET RICH.

Nothing is more easy than to get rich.
1t is only to trust nobody-to befriend
none-to get all you can and save all you
can get-to stint yourself and everybody
belonging to yOu-to be the friend of no
man, and have no man for your friend
to heap interest upon interest, cent upon
cent-to be mean, miserable and de
spised for some twenty or thirty years
and riches will come as sure as disease,
and death
And when pretty near enough wealth
is collected by disregard of all the
charities of the human heart, and at the
expense of every enjoyment, death will
finish the work-the body be buried
the heirs dance and fight over what you
have left and the spirit will go-where !?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

A writer in the Bismarck (Dakota)
Tribune argues that railroads and then
operators are among the greatest sources
of increased rain fall in countries re-
ported arid.-EX.
That's good. Now If railroad opera
tors increase the FaIn fall, can we not ac-
count for this thaw-out IN midwinter. by
attributing il to the influx of warm
blooded eNodusterss
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

In its review of the list year the N. Y.
Tribune says: THE year of 1879, will,
however, be remembered in future as
that in which the attention of the coun-
try was for the first time directed to its
faFming interests as subject of para
mount importance. ? In short, the
whole nation during the year just ended
has discovered within itself an inexhaus.
tible source of steady, induring prosperi-
~. When we remember, too, that the
farmers life thus recommended TO our
people is one Of the most whole
some for body and mind, most free from
temptation, and productive of the quiet
domestic virtues which give 10 people
solid rank among nations, we can under
ssnd the value Of the gift to us of This
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

The Philadelphia Times, after declar-
ing that Governor Garcelon, OF Maine,
has committed blunder that is either
crime per sc, or one of those blunders
that is worse than crime" says: Every
consideration of both right and eXpcdi-
ency calls upon him TO make . manful
surrender in obedience to the courts.
1t must come sooner or later, and either
by the straight or some crooked way"
Mr. GaIcelon chooses the crooked way.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

The Lawrence Daily Journal has is.
sued special edition devoted 10 local
matters, and a thorough review of the
advantages of that city as a point for
those seeking homes. 1t is illustrated
with fine view of Massachusetts street,
the principal business thoroughfare, the
state university, some of the churches
and other prominent buildings. 1t con-
tains 10. pages, and cannot but be of
great benefit to the town, as it is credit
able to the publisher of the Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

The Methodist Year Book" for 1880
gives the following statistics Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church: Annual con-
ference, 90; itinerant preachers, 2,402;
members and probationers, 1896, S37 !;
churches, i6, rel parsonages, $500; value
of church cditices, S6G, 539, $50; Sunday
schools, 1925; scholars in Sunday
schools, 1,543, SIS; presiding elders, IA;
nearly 400 pastoral churches are sup
Piled" and 1918 local preachers are
stationed as pastors.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

Queen Victora shows that she has not
altogether given up the reins of govern
ment TO Lord Beaconsfield, il the state
ment is true that she proposes tI,at
Baker Pasha-Col Valentine Baker
shall not be boistered up in Turkey nv
British influence II will be remefnhey.
ed that he was dismissed from the Brit
ish service by the Queens desire, for in.
suIting lady in the cars. He was ore
of the Prince of Wales s-set,' and tI,rou1I,
his influence obtained service in Turkey
where he has distinguished himself ana
received promotion. What the Queen
properly objects TO, and demands an ex-
nlanation Of Is the Governinenf,s-teI line
Turkey thai she desires his appointnlenf
10 0flce
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHING 1t is
estimated that $1,000 men and women
are employed in Philadelphia in the
manufacture of clothing, and 10000, 600
suits are made there every year. Cut
ting machines are gradually finding their
way into all ofthe large manufacturing
establishments of the city. The
machines have a capabiIIty of cutting
nearly eighteen hundred garments in a
day of twelve hours, or about equal to
the combination results of the labor of
eight men. ButtonhOles also can be
worked by machinery at the rate of one
hundred and eighty per hour, while by
hand it would take the same period to
complete three holes. BY the cutting
machines, folds of cloth forty ply thick
ness can be easily cut through. An in
stance of the value of machinery in
expediting manufacture is afforded in
the fact that the establishment where
cutting and buttonhOle MACHINES are
used turns out one hundred suits ready
for wear inside of twelve hours.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16
WnAr snA1L We DO wrrn Or 5

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH Our Sons =?
Give them good education Teach
them 10 be brave, strong, true. Teach
them to respect women and treat them
as their equals Teach them To be pure
in thought, deed, and action, to despise
meanness and falsehood. Teach them to
be selfsuppoTting and ashamed of idle
ness. show them the way to love
nature, to love The sunshine, exercise in
in the fresh air, and honorable work.
Teah them to hate tobacco, rum. all
strong drinks, and to love fruit and
simple foods. Teach them To spend
their evenings at home or in good society
and never to go into the haunts of vice
and sin Teach them ali the virtues.
none of the vices. and they will, when
you are cid and ready to depart, rise ND
and call you blessed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

Two Chicago clergymcn have recently
refused to have their salaries raised.
Prof Swing was protfered an advance
from $1,000, which he now receives, to
$4,000, but he refused 1t. and asked that
the proposed increase might be USED for
charity. Rev. DIR. Larimer's church, the
First Baptist, unanimously voted to in
grease his salary from 5000 to $4,000,
but he declined TO accept the advance.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

We will agree to buy ~ cent cigar
for the fellow who will go To the Kansas
City journal Office and say 10 ID. X.
Abeel, of that paper, that he understands
certain eX-editor from southwestern
Kansas is TO have an editorial position on
that paper. We dare anybody TO do IT,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

Despite the meagre appropriation
made by congress for the representation
of the United States at the Paris exposi.
tion, governor Mccormick contrived to
return $4,000 to the treasury. What an
exampiel But governor Mccormack
was not as economical with his own
money, spending $4,000 more than his
salary in order to maintain a generous
hospitality, besides losing the opportu-
nityo of making 100000. Nowonder he
is not anxious to accept another foreign
mission.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

Very appropriately, the first bill intro
duced in the Ohio Legislature on the oc-
casion of its assembling, on Monday, was
one for the apportionment of the state
into congressional districts. 1t re-enacts
the old apportionment ms it stood before
the Democratic gerrymander, and will
give the Republicans the clear majority
in the congressional delegation TO which
they are fairly entitled.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

The testimony taken at Lcavenworih
Wednesday in the libel suit of Charlotte
Patti against the Times of that city,
would INDICATE that, whether she was I'M
der splrttuouS influence, rs charged by
that paper, might depend upon the ques-
ton whether beer win iatoNicate i Inter
Ocean.
But what are you going to do with
those four glasses OF hot, strong Scotch
whisky?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

A young man who had Just returned
from long journey, clasping his adored
one in loving embrace IN adimly-light
ed parlor, was seized with a great terror
that, for an instant, paralyzed all his en-
ergies- -Ob, my darling,'' said he.
wildly, why didn't You write me of
thisi What is it-splnaI diseases or
have you dislocated some of your ribs.
that you are Obliged 70 wear this broad
leather bandage 81 aOh, love- She cen
thy murmured: ..this j; only my new
belt would have got a broader one
but i would not % und nv arms
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

IL is thrilling spectacle to see Tilden
quaking with fear least the republic be
hurled to ruin by imperialism. The
nan who lodged his income tax when
the money was needed to save his coun-
try from destruction, must necessarily
create commOtion among the people
when he rises to speak on the subject of
the nations peril.-N. y. Tribune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-16

The New York Produce Exchange
voted, Wednesday, by n decided majority,
TO indefinitely postpone the adoption of
the GENITAL as the standard of measure in
utter and final defeat of the attempt to
substitute the GENITAL for the present sys-