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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24
wANrED-BErTER SCHOOLS.

Years ago, what children learned in
school, they learned 50 it would stick.
Now the tendency is to smear over large
humber of studies and good deal of
ground, and scholars come out Of school
with smattering Of everything from the
alphabet to the higher mathematics, and
many of them learn nothing but big
medicines and disposition to do any
thing for living that isn't work. From
the schools, too often come the army of
s'reformers," the car loads of book and
other agents, the pedilers of trinkeis
from door to door, and mol unfrcquently,
the tramps.
We would net overlook the fact that
great progress has been made in teach
ing in many useful respects, but on the
other hand abuses have not all been
kept out One of the Sc. it seems 10 us,
is the tendency to spread over TOO much
ground; TO half learn a,dozen branches,
instead of learning we'll half dozen.
Another is that too much prominence
and too mech importance is given to
the act of getting an education. The
impression is kept uppermosl in the
minds of the young that if they go
through the schools that is about ali there
is of life. Alter that thousands
of first-class positions are open for them
with large salaries attached, and the
public generally will be ready to do
their bidding. The country is full of ed
ucated egotistical asses, who think they
can fill any position from the manage
mcnt of large business concern to the
presidency OF the United States There
is more raw material for the latter posi-
tion in this country now than ut any
time in the past The schools fail 10
teach and impress the solid facts in re-
lation 10 hfe-ihat toll and patience,
industry, honesty, solidiiy Of character,
and stability OF purpose, are the step
ping stones TO eminence and the only
success which lasts, aud that proper ed
ucation is the help to these.
The schools teach young men To a
great degree that they can leap from the
school room to greatness at once. Too
many of them go out and find that their
basis is SUPERFICIAL theory viii not
stand the hard knocks Of every day prac-
teal life, and hence they become fail
ures. The schools are TO blauie for
large proportion of the flilups in life.
The schools run in ruts, and it is only
the occasional boy who finds this out
and mounts above The school room in
his aspirations that brcomes distin-
guished. How much we hear about
smart scholars in school, and yet how
few fulfill the promise of their school
days in after life. The schools are tuo
superficial, and the boy or girl that de-
ponds entirely upon what they get in
the school room for an, outfit for life's
journey will regret it with disappoint: |
ment. We would not curtail the schools,
but 1t seems 10 us as though they ought
TO do better and more solid work,
when we consider they money They cost |
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

81 see it stated by the papers that Mr..
Blaine is in excellent health. am bet
ter and stronger myself this fail than 1
have been since the Cincinnati conven-
TONS. j. TiIden.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

The young men At Topeka are wing
with each other 10 the purchase ofelab-
crate engagement rings for their best
girls To the great mental and financial de-
preston of their washer women.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

Wales lays claim TO tue distinction of
having the best harpists in Europe. On
this side OF the water the mort success
full and artistic wire pullers ure very
general. " conceded 10 Kansas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

China does not seem 10 present q
specially inviting field TO financiers Of
the Baldwin stamp. In that farof land
they chop off the heads Of enihezzIers,
and there has not been defalcation in
the empire for nearly three hundred
years.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

The Champion is vigorously agitating
the formation OF board of trade at
Atchlnson. EmporiR has one almost as
good as new, which we believe could be
SECURED ON quite reasonable terms.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

What is wanted, apparently, by the
government In the star route eases, Is
some good lawyer u conduct the prose
cution who has reduced hi raising to
a fine art.n
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

A Cleveland reporter taxes the cred
ulity of the public by the startling an
nouncement that Mr.. r. d. Hayes is out
of politics. The whereabouts of the ex-
president is always a matter of more OF
lcsz interest.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

In castipg the political horoscope for
1884. the Bourbon leaders will not pro-
coed upon the basis Of 1873 electoral votes
from the ''sOlid SOUTH" Mahune has re-
vised the Democratic arithmetic Of 1880.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

Mr.. MacVeagh should have been big
ger or the place which be assumed TO &C.
cupy smaller. Either condition would
have met the demands of the situation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

The effect upon the mule market of a
fatal distemper prevailing among the
horses in New York will be contem-
plated with more or less interest by Mr..
Tildeu.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

The public will not be paraIyzed with
surprise TO learn that Corkbill origin
a,ed in Ohio. MacVcagh, we believe,
stands accredited TO Pennsylvania
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

According 10 an exchange Malone,
though not connected with the FIRST fami-
lies Of Virginia, il, nevertheless, nm +.
+. ", being risky, fighting yarmint
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

An explanation" from Mr.. MacVeagg
would be an uncommonly npportunc
proceeding just at this time.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

When they get done counting in Mis-
sissippi it is conjectured thet the Demo
cratic candidates will all be elected.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24


The American eagle folds its wings
and droops its tail feathers over $500,
900 mail robbery in London.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24

An advertiser IN Texas calls for an
industrious man, as boss over 5000
head of sheep that can speak Spanish
fuentlY.n
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24
rhe Guiteau Case-Incidents OF the
Fifth Day OF the Trial


Fifth Day OF the Trial.
WAsnINGroN, Noy. 18.-Long before
the hour for opening criminal court sew
eral hundred ladies and gentlemen as
sembled in the eastern corridors AID pa
tiently awaited admission 10 the court
room. AT 8 O'Clock the prise van drove
up and Guiteau, clenching large bun
die of papers in his manacled hands,
shuffled hurriedly into the building.
There was marked absence of noisy
demonstrations on the part OF the by
SANDERS, yet Guiteau plainly betrayed the
fear of sudden violence which always
marks his movements whenever he
deems himself at all exposed 10 dunger.
He was taken to the prisoners room and
devoted himself to reading the papers.
At 8 80 the seats reserved tor the gener-
al public were entirely filed. four tifths
of them being occupied by ladies.
Upon the opening Of court Scoville
requested the court to take some meas
ure to prevent the prisoner from giving
to the public his unauthorized commu-
nications, and also to prevent the
ANNOYING INTERRUPTIONS OF THE PEIS-
oNER
in the court room. This brought on q
scene, during which Guiteau demanded
that Scoville should go out of the case /;
that he was no criminal lawyer and had
no sense; he talked one thing to him in
private and another IN public. Scoyllle
endeavored to explain To the court, but
Guiteau became more and more excited,
and addressed himself alternately to the
court, to Scoville and TO the baililfs, who
were endeavoring to keep him quiet.
To the court he said:
81 repsesent myself, your honor, and
7 ohaI IL I al, cn.1v1iI -
Then turning 10 Scoville he said, "yoa
have no capacity and won't have you
m auage my csse,' Then turning 10 the
bailitfs he said: ''You mind your bust
ness, you COMPOUNDED fools, you amt
got no sense"
The court again stated to the prisoner
in decided terms he would order his Ie-
moval and proceed in his absence. To
this Guiteau shouted eXcitedly: 81 don't
care if you do; you have got no right
to remove me-" The court replied in
terms which seemed ia convince Cult
eau of its sincerity, saying: VERY
well; / shall do so If you persis: in any
more disturbances. There are proceed
ents IN this court for such rulings"
a whispered consultation between
Guileau and Scovillc followed and the
former, apparently convinced, subsidized
into absolute quict and devoted himself
To his papers
District Attorney Corkhill then offered
in evidence certain letters which We're
yesterday real 10 Blaine and identified
by him.
Eda Wagner was ihsn called as a wit
mes but failed to respond.
Joseph K. Sharpe was thcn sworn.
He did not see the shooting, but saw
the prisoner attempting to escape and
witnessed the arrest.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24
Gone 10 FIoridla.

WAsulsaros, d. G.. Nov. 1o.-Post-
master General James and party left for
Florida and win return Ella Atlanta.
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within his knowledge and without cross
examination was followed by General
ID. G. Swain. The witness was at FL
boron when the shooting occurred.
DIR. ID. w. Bliss was then called.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-12
A Reply to DR.. Rankin.

To the Editor Of The National Republican:
In your paper of yesterday we find report Of
the proceedings of the temperance meeting held at
Lincoln Hall on last Sunday afternoon, in which
Rev. DR.. Rankin is represented as having made a
gross personal assault upon the character of Major
Morgan, one fthe Commissioners of this District,
and as referring to us i'll a way to cNnvey the i'm
preston that were in sympathy with his attack
Dr.. Rankin is reported TO have said: Mr.. Morgan
was surely aware that Nessrs. Lanahan and Brown
preachers of his own church, did not look with
favor upon his actions but he was afraid of the
liquor traffic" From our personal knowledge of
previous assaults upon Major Morgan by DR.. Ran
kin, we have no doubt of the substantial correct
ness of the report of his speech. We utterly rcpu-
date the attempt of DR.. Rankin to convey the idea
that we have any sympathy with his unjuStiisble
attack upon Major MOrgan's personal or official
character. With many other pastors in this city
We did not approve the calling OF the meeting on
Sunday afternoon, believing it would be pTosti-
tuted to personal ends
We are informed that large committee of pas
tors was appointed to wait on the President and
present the action of the meeting. We would sug-
gest that committee that before performing this
duty it might be well to ascertain whether they
have the support of One-third or one-ffth of the
pastors whom they are supposed to represent No
doubt some of the committee were appointed with
out their knowledge OF consent as was one ofus.
J. J.LANAHAN.
B. PEYT0N BROWN.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-12
Honi Soft Qui Nal y Pense.

To He Editor Of The National Republican:
1t is not only obvious to the reading public
of Washington that The REPUBLICAN has vastly
improved in every department under its new
management, but it is a topic Of repeated COM
ment One hears on all sides. with almost monoto-
nous frequency. such remarks as, what a splen-
did paper THE REPUBLICAS has gotten to be?' The
PoSt onceput The REPUBLICAN in the shade, bur now
it is the other way" 1T is by all odds the best
newspaper in town." 81 It has become live paper :"
&C. all of which is really true. Its not only newsy
but its miscellaneous articles are well selected.
Its spicy poems by prominent citizens % and its
humorous squibs afford great deal of merrment
and interest generally.
III view of these facts the writer surprised to
see communication in yesterdays Issue from a
subscriber, complaining of article published
recently entitled The SkdmOre Pad" and claim
This is altogether matter Of opinion. a person
lacking appreciation of humOr and looking for
evil could constrIe that article into having a
double meaning but as the average American
reader is very fJnd of hUmOT, and does not look
for evil where Hone is intended the article i'll
question was in general highly appreciated Ger
tainly its writer" Derrick DOttd AS a humoTiS.
is held very high in public estimation for his aTti-
ces are copied more extensively than any humOr-
ist i'll the country. As my REPUBLICAN is in such
demand 1t MY Office that | can scarcely get Il
chance to read it, please have an additional one
sent 20 my house. / send subscription by bearer.
A DOUBLE SUBSCRIBER.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-12
Good Idea i'm Charity.

A gentleman who has visited Paris and
made note of the manner in which the
poor are relieved there states the follow
ing as one of the methods employed: One
of the squares in the Halles Centrales the
principal market, is devoted to the sale of
what we would call secondhand victuals,
which are reprepared and rearranged by
good cook and sold at a mere nominal
sum. A very good dinner can there
be bought for mere trifie, and a good,
nourishing plate of soup for penny. The
reason these victuals can be sold so low is
because they cost the vendor nothing, or
next to nothing. He makes an arrange
ment with a number of hotels and fami-
lies to take what is left over from their
tables, sends wagon around for it
each day, has it carefully selected, and
when necessary, cooked over again,
and manages to make good living, and
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-12
PERSONALITIES,
company

DR.. TANNER, the man of the forty days
fast, now weighs lis pounds
GENERAL Crook is now in the Indian
Territory looking after the natives
GLADSTONE writes on an average one
hundred postal cards and letters daily.
P T. BARNUM has so far recovered as tc
be able to return to his Connecticut home.
THE. New Orleans Picaytne twits Gen
eral o. o. Howard upon the loss of his arm.
THE body of James Hamilton, of Greens
boro, Pa, is to be created at Dr. LIE Moyne's estab
lishment.
Ex-Governor WARMoTH, of Louisiana
will get from his plantation million pounds o.
sugar this year.
LIE Due may yet solve the Chinese
question if he makes the beverage grow in the
South, and there is every prospect that he will.
EX-SENATOR CLINGMAN, of North Caro-.
lima, thinks President Garfield would make the
South happy and hasten the era of good feeling by
putting an Old Line Whig in his Cabinet.
TRUTH crushed to earth will rise again
The eternal DEGREES of God are hers;
But Forgery wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies with Aorey and his ours
HAD Mrs. Christiancy stuck to the
Treasury Department, instead of marrying all ole
curmudgeon like Minister Christiancy, she might
now have been the wife Of firstelasS Clark.
BEACoNsFIELD ascribes all his greatness
to woman. Adam laid all his troubles to the same
source. Adam, wc are ashamed of you! BeacoGs
field you are a gentleman.-B0StoR Transcript.
New YORK critics are not pleased with
Lawrence Barrett These gentlemen are so used
10 bad performers playing to papered houses, that
they do not know good actor when they see one.
LIEUTENANT-CoLoNEL DODGE is the
father of Frederick Dodge, who, under the stage
name of Paulding, began new engagement Mon.
day evening at Haverly'S Fifth Avenue Theatre,
New York
CAPTAIN SALDAHNA DA CANA, of the
Brazilian army, who is now in San Francisco, is
said to be a lineal descendant of the illustrious
navigator. Vaseo de CANA. The latters explora-
tons and discoveries began in 1897
WE have before us very well COM
piled but brief account, i'll pamphlet FORM of the
Northern States of MeXico-Chihuahua Sinaloa
and Durango. 1t speaks of the agricultural, but
particularly the mining, resources of those States
Mr. Hammond, the author, has been a very sue
cessfui mining engineer, and, although still a
young man, has had twelve years experience.
We also find embodied in his pamphlet Il report
from James r. Howard, the United States consular
agent at Guadaloupe Calvo, who is at present in
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-12

incidentally does a good practical work
in the way of charity by so doing. Ifthis
is done among people where waste is
considered a sin, and the utmost inge-
nuity in the repreparation of victuals pre-
walls, it seems as if it might be initiated
to advantage among us where extrava-
gance in the use of food is the rule and
not the exception. Our housekeepers
have a great amount of good clean vic
tuals which are given away or thrown
into the slops. The little children who
beg from door to door get a large share of
this material in mixed condition, but
even greater quantity is entirely wasted.
Now would it not be good plan to sys-
tematize the collection of it, and then put
it to use in relieving the hunger of those
who are not stupidity particular. There
are some, of course, who will turn up
their noses at the idea; but as rule the
victuals that might thus be gathered if a
little pains is taken to take care of them
would be more edible than much that
poor people now eat. And housekeepers
would be more particular to keep
their waste food in nice shape,
and would give more with sense of
doing some good if it were called for at
regular intervals by some regularly Or
ganized association, who had the means
to dispense it to deserving people. There
are many good points about such a plan.
People would give regularly in this way
who would not, for various reasons, give
to the poor in any other. 1t would re-
lieve housekeepers from the constant
solicitations of small beggars, and, most
of all, it would be giving in way very
little susceptible to the designs of i'm
posters. The expense of a trial of such
a plan would be small, and now is good
time to put it in operation.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-12
The Funding Scheme.

Some are afraid three per cent. bond
cannot be made to sell at par, and that, if
no higher rate is possible under the law,
the maturing bonds cannot be refunded,
and will have to run on at the high rate
they now bear. Then, again, some are
afraid the three per cent bond can be
sold at par, and that if the bill passes
providing for that rate they will be
obliged to surrender their bonds for the
new ones. Some are trying to increase
the rate of interest in the funding bill,
therefore, in good honest desire to do the
best thing for the Government, while
others are trying to defeat the bill alto
gether in an equally honest desire to
do the best thing for themselves
(Which is which" it is difficult
to determine. The recommendation
that discretion be left with the Secretary
of the Treasury to increase the rate to
three and a-half or four per cent, if
necessary, is open to the objection that
the price of money always goes up to the
highest rate the Government authorizes
to be paid. This is probably on the same
principle that the man said he always
noticed that when, in travelling, he took
bottle ofbrandy with him forsickness he
was alwayssick. Thesam skepticism that
prevails now as to the success of a three
per cent. bond was equally prevalent
when the four per cents were authorized
One firm in New York is said to stand
ready with list of purchasers for one
third of the entire amount to be re-
funded, if three per cent. remains the
rate. This would seem fair indication
Of the safety of the measure
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-12
Some Gentle Advice.

Permit us to suggest to Democratic
editors generally, and particularly to
those who acquired special notoriety dur
ing the last presidential campaign by de-
Tending if not by originating forgery,
that they would show to better advantage
if they would remember that they were
not thev ictors in the late fight. Garfield,
and not Hancock, is President-elect, and
Republicans and their associates, and
not Democrats, are to govern this country
during the next four years.
One would suppose, from reading. the
editorials ofsome of the Bourbon papers,
that it is matter of vital Importance
that the next administration should re-
ceive the support of the riff-raff congre-
gated under the name of Democracy.
These blatant organs say they will, under
such and such conditions, sustain Gar
field; that they are willing" to give
| Garfield trial, &c. Here's richness for
you!
| Here we have a scurvy set of fellows,
! who have not yet recovered from first
class thrashing, calling on the men who
did the business for them TO practically
apologize for giving them the whipping.
These fellows say they would be pleased to
see so-and-so in the Cabinet of Garfield
that unless Tom, Dick, or Harry is ten
dered this or that position there will be
trouble; that the stalwart element will,
| or will not. have influence with Garfield.
and SO on.
Now, not to put too fine point upon
it, Messrs. Democratic editors, you are
simply making bigger asses of yourselves
than bountiful nature intended. Your
advice will be asked for when needed,
and to tender it before it is requested
would, if knowledge of the rules obtain
ing among gentlemen was clear to you,
appear impertinent. Of one thing you
can all rest assured, and that is the next
administration is not be namby- -pamby
affair, kind of weak tea party, to which
political enemies are to be invited.
It is a matter of superlative indifference
whether you care willing to give the
next administration trial" or not, and
don't you cease to remember the fact. 1t
is also matter of no consequence what
ever whether you think well or i'll of
Simon Cameron, US. Grant, Roscoe Conk-
ling, Don Cameron, John A. Logan, and
other friends of Garfield. These men un-
derstand each other, and they understand
you. For the future try to culti-
vate more becoming line of con-
duct, and bear in mind that you are
the under dog in the fight. You we're
whipped, and well whipped, notwithstand-
ing your contemptibly mean style of con-
Quoting the battle, and back seat at the
forthcoming entertainment is the most
any of you should aspire to, and infinitely
more than any of you deserve.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-12
Answer TO "Regrct.,

0the Editor Of The NctORG Republican:
Some one, who is doubtless Every much Of
lady" appears in card of advice to Mrs Chris
tiancy in Saturday evenings &ar. First she ad-
vises her to make no further statements to ill.,
volve herself deeper than she is in contradic-
ton. II is true that if Mrs. Christiancy had had
legal adviser or level-headed friend to guard her
against the too free use of her tongue she would
have been in better position to-day than she now
is; and yet when we come to sift the matter of
mongeT down, she injured herself only in stating
that she wrote the letters to Giro which ap-
week. On being interviewed by a Sdr re-
porter OH the same day, she hasens to correct
the statement which she had made to the REPUB-
IIcAS reporter by saying that she had read the
letters Published hers in the morning papers at
the time she acknowledged them as hers; but
having written letters to Giro, supposed the ones
published were really hers. Af(er reading them
She said they not the letters she had written,
while her friend and constant companion, Miss