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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-11
Ohio ProhlbI..onlsts.

COLUMBUS, o., August 5.-The State
Prohibition Convention endorsed the
state ticket recently nominated by the
except that Henry Camp, of Coshocton,
was nominated for attorney general to
fill the vacancy on the ticket. The
platform adopted declares for the entire
prohibition ofthe liquor traffic, abolition
of the executive and legislative patron
age, and the election Of ali civil officers
as far as practicable by the direct vote of
the people; favors compulsory education
and the prohibition of gambling in gold
stocks or produce, Is against grants of
public lands to corporations, and also
declares in favor of equal rights for all
the people, including the right of suff-
rage, irrespective of race, sex or color;
the protection by law of laborers against
the expressions of unjust capital, and
a lein on the property and earnings of
corporations for wages, the reduction of
public salaries, and taxes and various
other reforms in the general govern
ment, and urges the prohibitionists to
retain their party organization.
The platform expresses sympathy
with President Garfield, declaring the
recent attempt on his life was start
ling illustration of the danger arising
from the debasing influences of executive
patronage and the liquor crime.
The platform closes by recognizing
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union as great moral power, and its
cooperation in the present movement is
expressed
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-11

closed by Grove himself, who took adj
vantage of the alleged discovery of some
of the machines in English ports to, air
his own importance. Since the publica-
tion of the discovery of the machines
in this city, Grove has seized on every
opportunity to advertise himself, and
has succeeded admirably 1t is true that
there are Internal machines somewhere
that were made here. One of them was
taken to the Journal Office of this city,
in order to compare it with the des
cription of those discovered in Liver
pool A few hours after it was received
there it was sent for by the makers, and
was allowed to be taken away. 1t is now
said that Grove. acting in collision with
O'Donovan Rosa and four others, OBJ.
tanned control of the skiFmishing fund,
amounting TO $4,000, and that these
castings were made to lead the contribu-
tors to that fund to believe that a bona
fde disposition was being made of il. In
person he is Insignificant. looking like
the last man in the world to be the prime
mover Of any revolutionary enterprise.
The mans itch for fame, or his desire to
absorb a portion of the skirmishing
fund, has prompted bin TO start these
untrue reports. This is ali there is to 1t.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-11
miscellaneous

Hedge Laying & Hedge
Trimming.
own the county rights of the Patent
hedge Layer and the Champion Hedge
Trimmer. and am prepared to lay down or
trim hedge better and cheaper than any other
party can do. Call on or address,
j. l.. W. BELL.
Emporia. Kansas.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

for the substance Of his excellent annual
GRAFTON. Dr. Holland, in ScriJners' for July,
says: awe believe the winning of wealth to
be perfectly legitimate pursuit. Wealth
has great and benefcent uses, and the world
would go very slowly If money could not be
accumulated in wise and enterprising hands ;
but wealth may be used to make all men
near it prosperous and happy, or it may be
used to make them poor and miserable
When rich man is only excited by his
wealth with the desire to be richer, and goes
on to exact larger profits and TO grind the
faces of the poor in order that he may be
superfuously rich, he becomes inhuman and
unchristian. The Christian use of wealth is
what we need in this country, and in all
countries. II is not that wealth does not
give in charity. 1t is not that wealth is not
sufficiently taxed for the support of those
who are wrecked in health or fortune, but il
is that wealth does not give the people a
chance to escape from poverty that it does
not share its chances with the poor, and
point the pathway for the poor toward pros
perity. AS rule, wealth is only brotherly
towards wealth, and the poor man feels him
self cut off from sympathy with those who
have the power of winning money. We
may rest assured of one thing, namely, that
the poor in the future will insist on being
recognized. If they are not recognizes-.-if
they are ignored in the mad greed for wealth
at any cost to them-they will make the fu-
ture troubled and terrible one for our chill
dren and our children's children"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Another Hereto.

James Parton, the well known author, has
the audacity to write as follows:
Compare the mechanics in the Novelty
Works with the clerks in Stewards store.
The clerks are excellent fellows they look
WE'LL dress well, understand their business,
and are in every respect worthy members of
society; but our best mechanics have a GER
tain force of manhood. "a weight of charac-
ter and depth of reflection rarely seen in
those who only buy and sell. should be
sorry to say anything to disparage our insti-
tutions of learning. Nevertheless, feel
confident that an intelligent youth, who re-
mains at school until he is sixteen or seven.
teen, and then apprentices himself to a good
trade, can get better education out of his
shop (with an hours study of principles in
the evening" than it is possible to get in any
college in existence-that is to say, better
education for his new and forming country
where, for fifty years at least to come, nc
man can hope to play a leading part, except
in welding material forces. say, then
lads of sixteen, if you would lay founda.
tion for sure prosperity, begin by learn ing
trade. If you would escape the perdition
of being fool, learn trade. If you would
do mans part for your country, begin the
work of preparation by learning trade.
We glory in Mr. Parton's "spunk," in
saying what his experience in life leads him
to think in regard to this matter, and would
only add that one of the very best trades for
a young man to learn is that of farmer
We shall never have many good farmers un
til farming is regularly learned as trade
at an agricultural school with frst-clasl
farm, or upon the farm of an educated ant
first-class practical farmer. Preferably We
should say, take both courses.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Another Wicked, Wicked Man.

A Mr.. Beakman (who is unfriendly to
SUMO Lirdo notuitLete- di"s Lilo name)
writes as follows to the New York Tribune
about that fraudulent red-breasted thrush
that masquerades among us as a "robin.
That feathered rascal, the robin, is law
unto himself, freebooter among birds.
have seen cherry trees that nature made OBJ
jects of beauty resembling junk-shops, re-
ceptacles for old clos and discarded tinware.
have seen strawberry beds surrounded and
covered with old fish-nets, scarecrows at the
corners, and bell hung in the middle with
cord leading to the house, where some
member of the family would occasionally
give the bell ring, but all to no purpose, ex-
cept to advertise to the robins "this is a
strawberry bed" They are connoisseurs in
the matter of fruit. had last year three
beds, side by side-Wilsons, Charles Down.
ings and President Wilders, the latter in the
middle. The Wilson's they eschewed, the
Downings they pronounced good, but the
Wilders they considered a fit dish to set be-
fore robin. If drove them out, they only
flew to neighboring fence, suggesting in
their aggravating way that they could wait
until l had gone. My neighbors' early
cherry trees, however, drew away the major
ity of them. They are cowardly witha
and prefer to steal near some leafy refuge
whence they can take a birdseye view of the
situation. Mr.. Beakman says he is "going >
to adopt the "shot-gun policy" So were
we, but we haven't. Couldn't stand the
pressure of the dear delightful fair sex, who
however, do scold some when we have to
disappoint them in their supply of fruit OIL
account Of the depredations of their swee
friend,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
The Rest That Remaineth.

Am / nearing the river where burdens
will cease to be borne2 Is my work almost
done, and shall | enter into rest 2 The sun
is growing DINNER, and getting farther from
me, and its light is not so brilliant as in
former days. Is this sure indication that
the end is approaching As we approach
the river do the shadows a little longer grow
and the sunlight seem farther away2 The
division between time and eternity must be
strange land for mortals, one which carries
in its bosom no sunny spot of cheer and
comfort. DO we tarry there only moment
before passing to the bright forever These
shadows are calculated TO tale out of our
lives all selfish ambitions and worldly pleas
ures. As we pass through these shadows
will our imperfections and sins be lost in
the darkness Is this our final escape from
the enemy, and when we get TO the golden
shores we will then be free ? If so dread
not its gloom. Let my feet touch the surging
tide, though it be in the valley of shadows
in the border land of time and eternity. Nv
soul is weary and would fly away and be at
rest. long for the mountains of God where
the air is balmy, where cold winds never
chill and friends are never enemies. want
to stand where sorrows and treachery never
come, where the pure and good shall be re-
spected, and the breath of treachery and
calumny shall have no existence. aMan
that is born of woman Is of few days and
full Of trouble"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Christian Luxury.

The apostolic canon of "laying by in
store" of forecasting, that is, with view
to coming appeals, and of doing this in pro-
portion "as God hath prospered us this
must be a canon no longer obsolete. Since
| began to obey the law" said thriving
merchant to me. al have not only been
greatly prospered, but l have found my abil-
ity to give somewhat largely the greatest
luxury of my life. The money is laid by /;
the call comes, and am not tempted to the
baseness of inventing excuses generally
have something, not always enough for every
deserving appeal; make short work of it,
for time | cannot spare, and as soon as get
the facts, and am sure as to the claimant,
give him cheerfully what think / owe to
his cause" know another and wealthier
man, who said he and his wife had an un-
derstanding; when his wife thought they
were rich enough to set up their carriage
the answer was, eyes, dear, it will cost Just
so much year; we can afford it, and you
deserve it, if you approve Of my increasing
my charities by an equal sum-" Is not this
the law of Christian luxury? l can buy
such picture or give such an entertain.
ment only when | give an equivalent to
Christ's poor and to the glory of his cross
and crown.-Bishop Core.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Who Made the Bible.

When young collegian said to DR.. Way
land that he did not think it required great
wisdom to make such proverbs as those of
Solomon the old man replied, "Make few,
make few" The world has been pro-
ducing literature for ages, but where are
the books that infidels themselves would set
forth as being fit for companionship with
the Bible? Men can make laws, creeds,
fashions, disciplines, systems and theories,
but when we think of being shut up to them
how small, how mean, how meager they are.
Take any church and deprive it Of the Bible,
and leave it nothing but its creed, and what
a miserable show it would make; but give
it the Bib'e with nothing else, and it would
have collection of law, literature, poetry
and ethics, sdch as the world could not par
alel. Who made this book? 1t comes
down to us from rude and dark ages. Surely
the breath of God streams through this
volume as through no other book which the
world has ever seen. 1t carries its own cre-
dentials, and the world must confess, when
listening to the words of Jesus, Never man
--~~I-- t.1-~ tL.-
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VOL. 10000. NO. 40.

nibbled all over by ants by strewing the
storeroom shelves with few cloves, oc-
casionally renewed Such things are triAes,
each one by itself, OF course, but half hun
dred such things can contribute very ma
terially to comfort and good nature in a fam
lily. II the knowledge that the steam of
green tea will revive her rusty black lace
and make 1t as good as new, has not de-
scended to her, Of what good is it that the
lace has Or why should she have a costly
bit of the beautiful Brussels lace in her
Keeping If nobody has ever told her TO shut
1t away from the air or from peculiarly
strong perfume She will spend more
presently in frequent repairs and redressings
than the lace cost in the first place. She
can afford possibly to wear gold embroidery
in an era of gliding, If she knows enough to
clean 1T when it furnishes, with a brush
dipped in burned and pulverized rock alum
aud she may be splendid and graceful in long
white ostrich plumes that would need as
long purse to provide frequently, if she
had never seen them dipped and dipped
again in the thick warm lather of curd soap,
then rinsed and dried and curled over a
knitting needle before the fire. She may be
the best of cooks, and know how to make
twenty different omelets, but if she is not
acquainted with the fact that a little salt
rubbed on the discolored eggspoon will re-
store its silver tint, she would better not
serve eggs in any shape and if they that
had the care Of her youth never let her see
that hot water took peach stains out of the
table-cloth, or that port and caret stains
were rendered dull by an immediate handful
OF salt wet with sherry, she might as we'll
buy gray and partly-colored damask to be-
gin with. What right has she to be at the
head Of family if she is not sufficiently
mistress of herself and of few surgical
facts to arrest the bleeding of a cut limb by
| tight hgature between the cut and the
pulsing heart 3-if she does not know that
always handy mustard aud water will empty
the stomach that has received poison, or that
the white OF an egg when administered in
ternally will transform swallowed corrosive
sublimate with its deadly torture in the
simple salvation of blue mass ?-if she can
not distinguish between apoplexy and drunk
enness by knowing that the limb will con-
| vulsively withdraw in the former case if the
sole of the foot be tickled and does not then
further know that the clothing must be at
once loosened, and blisters be applied to the
calves of the legs, the pit of the stomach and
the back of the neck If she be pio-
| neer's wife it would be useless thing for
her to remember that when her grandmother
was pioneers wife before her, she found
| pine sawdust nearly as good as soap with
which to wash her linen.- Harper's BaSar.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Three Impossible Things.

~ To escape trouble by running away
from duty. Jonah once made the expert
ment, but did not succeed. Therefore, man
fully meet and overcome the difficulties and
trials to which the post assigned you by
Gods providence exposes you. (2) To be.
come Christian of strength and maturity
without.undergoing severe trials. What fire
is to gold, such is aH LECTION to the believer.
1t burns up the dross, and makes the gold
shine forth with unalloyed luster. (3) To
form an independent character except when
thrown on ones own resources. The oak in
the middle of the forest, surrounded on all
sides by trees that shelter and shade it, runs
up tall and comparatively feeble; cut away
its pl otectors, and the first blast will over
turn it. But the same tree, growing in the
open field, where it is continually beaten
upon By the tempest, becomes its own pro-
tector. So the man who is compelled to rely
on his own resources forms an. independ-
ence Of character which he could not other
wise have obtained.-Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Small Things In the Housewives Way.

A knowledge of many little facts that are
not always TO be had systematically laid down
in books, but which descend traditionally
from mother to daughter by word of mouth,
as the unwritten music of the songs of
Shakspere descends from actress to actress,
is often more useful TO the sorely bestead
young house mistress than all the Latin and
mathematics that she learned at school can
be. She may know how TO play Beethoven 5
sonatas so as to hold drawing-room breath
less and entranced, but II stands her poorly
If while she plays, great ink spot on the
drawing-room carpet stares her in the face,
that she does not know how " wash out
with milk, and clean up afterwards with
warm and nice soapsuds, or a grease spot
that could have been absorbed out of exist
ence by frequent applications of magnesia or
of buckwheat our, If she had only known
enough TO sprinkle it abundantly on the spot
and brush it off afterward. What does it
benefit her that her ready wit and repartee
can keep a whole dinner table gay, while the
fine cookery, that at no end Of trouble she
has taught her cook, keeps them contented,
ii the company are forced all the time to be
nervously flirting hats and napkins and ad-
jectives against the pestiierous flies that she
could have driven away by leaving in the
room an hour or so beforehand, little prep
aration of equal quantities of cream and
brown sugar and half as much black pepper,
had her mother ever known as much, or
thought to tell her of it2 OF what use is it
to her, living possibly far from bakeries and
bread shops, To keep crackers, for instance,
in the house II she has never learned how TO
freshen them by leaving them for three min.
utes in a hot oven, or TO prevent them being
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
A Blank Bible.

Henry Rogers, in his dream of the "Blank
Bible" tells most wittily how, in the effort
to reproduce the sacred book, no one remem-
bered his own peculiar duties, but every one
kindly remembered those of his neighbor.
Husbands remembered what was due from
their wives and wives from their husbands.
Says he, " As for Solomon's time for every
thing few could remember them all, but
everybody remembered some. Undertakers
said there was time to mourn, and COM
edians that there was time to laugh :
young ladies innumerable remembered that
there was time to love- and people of all
kiuds that there was a time to hate And
from each mans memory there seemed to
glide something or other which he was not
inclined TO retain there, and each seemed TO
substitute in its stead something he liked
better" "-,Seiected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
A Little Girl and Her Bible.

When the Boston train came steaming
into the depot the crowd rushed for seats.
As band of recruits mounted the platform
they shouted back to their friends who had
accompanied them to the train the various
slang phrases they could command inter-
spersed with an oath now and then. As the
train moved on, they pushed each other into
the car, where many ladies were seated, in
Guiding Mrs. B and her two boys. Then
the oaths came out thick and fast, each one
evidently trying to outdo the other in pro-
family. Mrs. B. shuddered for herself
and her boys, for she could not bear to have
their young minds contaminated with such
language. If the train had not been 80
crowded she would have looked for seats
elsewhere, but under the circumstances she
was compelled to remain where she was.
Finally after the coarse jesting had con-
tinued for nearly an hour, little girl, who
with her mother, sat in front of the party,
stepped out timidly from her seat and going
up the ringleader Of the group, young man
whose countenance indicated considerable
intelligence, she presented him with small
Bible. She was little, delicate looking
creature, only seven or eight years old and
as she laid the book in his hands she raised
her eyes appealingly to his but without say
ing word, went back to her seat The
party could not have been more completely
hushed if an angel had slenced them. Not
another oath was heard, and scarcely word
was spoken by any of them during the re-
mainder of the journey. The young man
who had received the book seemed particu-
lirly impressed. He got out of the car at
the next station and purchased a paper of
candy for his little friend, which he pre-
sented TO her. He then stopped down and
kissed her and said he would always keep
the little Bible for her sake. The little
girls mother afterwards told Mrs. that
her child had been SO troubled by the wick
edness of these young men that she cosld
not rest until she had given her little Bible,
which she valued so highly herself.-Se-
lecied
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

nings have lately taken on a rapid develop
ment. The abolition by our fathers Of titles
of nobility, and the special privileges en-
bodied in laws Of promogeniture and en-
tail, was an obvious reform, without which
even the semblance of a free government
could not have been established. But the
forefathers provided only against immediate
dangers. They did not and could not fore
see the wonderful progress Of their children
in wealth and luxury, or the social divisions
and class feelings which these would gener-
ate. Far less did they foresee the rise Of
those impersonal and soulless lordships
which. in the form of corporate companies,
have sprung up amongst us, have more than
any nobility perpetual succession, and in
whose front all the old statutes against priv
ilege are imperative and Intellectual. We
now have our own problems to meet, as every
successive generation must have. We ought
to meet them understandingly. In order to
that end we must discuss them, privately
among ourselves, in the public assemblies,
"hu eioubh DltSSs <fl VIC uinciehb
views must have free expression, and the
best judgment of the people through their
representatives must at last decide. The
earlier decisions must again and again be
revised in the light Of growing experience,
until all rights are made secure. To con-
tribute our mite to this great discussion,
with view to further as we may the ad-
vancement of truth and justice, is the pur-
pose of our writing upon these questions.
We no more desire than did the early aboli-
tionists the stimulation of social animosities
of party hostilities, or of bloodshed. We
desire only that right and justice shall pre-
vail. If those concerned in wrongs recede
from them peacefully, there will be nothing
but peace. The people are naturally patient
and conservative. But when they are aroused
they emphatically mean business They
have shown it in their strong insistence
that none of the fruits of the civil war
shall be sacrificed or compromised away.
The same struggle that is going on in Ire.
land, and is beginning in England, is also
in progress in America. The issue is be-
tween privilege, monopoly" on one side,
and the rights of free people, or of peo-
pie determined to be free, on the other.
The result is sure, but the methods must in
great measure depend upon the nature and
extent of the resistance which is offered to
to the spirit of reform. One thing we may
be certain Of When the issue is fully
made up the people of Vermont will know
which side to take, and no slack-twstedness
will keep them from knowing who is with
them and who is against them.