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GREAT GERM DESTROYER. PROPHYLACTIC FLUID /!

SMALL POX ERADICATED. Fitting of SMALL POX Prevented. Ulcers purified and healed. Gangrene prevented and cured. Dysentery Cured. Wounds healed rapidly. Scurvy cured in short time. Tetter dried up. It is perfectly harmless. For Sore Throat it is 8 sure cure, Cholera dissipated- Ship Fever prevented by it's use. In of death in the house, 1t should al-
 ways be used about the corpse-it will prevent any
 unpleasant smell. An Antidote for Animal CT Vegetable Poisons, Stings, &c. Dangerous efluvias of sick and hospitals re-
 moved by it's Yellow Fever Erad1c8teds
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4aarpsas, &e.

New Haven and Derby Railroad. Train arrangement commencing Nov. 2, 1eel-
 LEAVE NEW HAVEN, At 7:O5 and $50 m., 200 5:25, 6:15 and 11:00 n.
 LEAVE ANSONIA, At e:60, 9:Ol and 11:z2 m, S15 and 7:SS D. nn. Connections are made At Ansonia with pzBse0ger trains of the Naugatuck railrcad and at New Haven with the principal trains of other roads centerinf there. E s. QUINTARD, Supf. New Haven, Nov. 5, 1881. no2s Now Haven and Northampton
 Railroad.
 TIME OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
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GOING SOUTH,

Freight Train with Pass. Car leaves Westfeld at 7:20 B. n., Northampton S:50 So Deerheid 9:25, and arrives at No. Adams 12:15 D. n.
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Rhymes and Tunes. Charming collection of Household songs, lulabies and Kindergarten lays S1.5O,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18
TwENrY.EIGHr WEEKS IN A TRANCE.

The medical faculty of Germany have
been much interested lately in u case of
long standing trance on the part of a girl
of Is years of age. The facts arc, for
once, undisputed; and no possible sus-
picien of trick or collision can arise.
The patient lay for twenty-eight weeks
apparently in prOfund sleep at the hos
pital of St. Johns, at Kederweisel, near
Butzbach. During that time she never
woke once or received nourishment of
any kind. She was visited by upwards
of 600 medical men from different parts
of Germany during the duration of her
trance, and some French and English
physicians are also said 10 have seen her.
Great interest was taken by the
faculty in the question whether
the girl would retain sufficient
strength TO recover on awakening
from her long sleep, or whether she
would rapidly sink. This problem is
now set at rest. The girl awnke some
three weeks since, and has now quite re-
covered, although still remaining in the
hospital under medical supervision.
The case still continues TO attract atten-
ton and to give rise to discussions in
medical circles in Germany. However
small the waste of substance during so
profound and tranquil sleep the work
of the lungs and heart must have de-
manded, it would have been thought,
some sort of support. The fire of
| furnace can be banked up for some time !;
but sooner or later, unless fuel is sup
| piled, it will burn itself out How a
human being, even in the most torpid
state, can exist for twenty-eight weeks
without any nourishment whatever is q
| question which MAJ well puzzle even
| the most scientific of minds.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18
MRS. GARFIELD.

Many omens point to a sensible, prac-
tical, yet brilliant administration at the
white house. Mrs. Garfield, at the time
of her November visit here, says Wash
ington letter, did not contemplate the
exclusion of wine from state dinners,
and she is not a woman liable TO q
change of purpose.
Whatever course she may assent TO, ii
will be her husbands policy, not an in
sistence of her own, and she will be con-
scientious in its observance. Foreseeing
that many excellent total-abstinence Ia
dies may be disappointed, It Is well to
determine in advance to Judge the new
mistress of the white honse with broad
and catholic justice. There is sUme.
thing touching in the quiet gravity
with which she accepts her coming re.
sponsibilities. No sign of citation is
visible IN face and manner It Is a plain
face not radiant with joyous vitality,
like Mrs. Hayes, but it is q face that
betokens to q careful observer q deeper
experience of life. She has won upon the
many here by her modest but firm de.
clination TO have her photographs ex.
hibited for sale. If she will adhere TO
this she will be accredited with q deli.
cacy and sensitiveness that are q strong
attraction in q woman whose relation 70
the nation has q certain official charac.
ter reflected from her husbands high
calling and election. She is one OF
whom it is not fulsome to say: an that
stiffness which most becomes 8 woman,
calm and holy, thou-sittest by the fire
side of the heart feeding its flame"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

Not little has been said and written
in regard to our approaching municipal
election, and there is manifest q whole
some degree of agitation in regard to
this matter which furnishes encouraging
proof that the people are fully awake to
the importance OF proper selections in
filling the various positions of trust in
the administration of our city govern
ment. The benefit of temperate and in-
telligent discussion In this, as in the set
Element of all grave issues, cannot be
over-estimated as an agency in enlight-
ening the people and elevating the stand.
ard of public sentiment. But with this
its uses cease, and words and purposes
are alike valueless unless they
crystalline into consistent action.
1t is not a difficult task to generaliZe
the qualifications of public servants,
and in a city the size of ours there are
fair proportion of men who embody the
requisites of competent and faithful
custodians of the public interests. That
such men are not invariably chosen to
represent the public, canpOt be construed
SO much in the light of reflection upon
the judgment of the people as their neg
ligence in asserting the courage of
their convictions, and allowing their
culpable apathy to be over
reached by the zeal of more jealous
spirits, who are inspired to action in be-
half of candidates whose success means
subservience to the individual schemes
Of their supporters, rather than an IN
selfish regard for the interests of the
town. 1t is perfectly safe to trust to the
intelligence and sense of justice in any
community that enjoys the advantages
of popular education, and all that is re
quired to insure fair verdict IN any is
sue, is to thoroughly Undue the public
mind with the importance of its decis
ion.
In speaking of the present stage Of
our municipal history as critical one
VIC are trayersing ground which ha.
been covered many times, but we fee
that the gravity Of the situation war
rants repeated invitations of the publ,
attention to the questions which ar
even now upon the people, not to speal
of such as will Inevitably arise in tn
/ near future. While our large blondes
| Indebtedness will render necessary tn
closest economy in the administration Q
our municipal affairs, the reputation Q
3 Emporia both within the limits of on
| own state and throughout the countr
E forbids the policy Of dominating
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18

The cordial and enthusiastic manner
in which President Hayes and family
were received at their old home in Ere
mont, Ohio, is well-msrited tribute to
the true worth of man who has only
to be known and impartIally judged to
be fully appreciated. The Republican
journals which have assumed the Office
of censorS of the retiring executive, and
whose editors have given vent to their
spleen in shameless TRADES against the
administration of Mr.. Hayes, have
simply shown themselves too blinded by
their owA narrow prejudIces to accord
the man or his work the common JUS
tice of temperate verdict, and have in
CURED the charge of either malice
or stupidity in ignoring the results
of an administration the beneficent char
acter of which successfully challenges
the criticism of a fair-minded public. 1t
is simply puerile to the last degree to
attempt to level the shafts of invidiOus
comment at a man whose official career
has been indicated by achievements
which have become securely incor-
pOrated in the advancement and pros
perity of the country, and a com
parison fairly instituted between
the condition of the general af.
fairs of the government at the time that
Hayes succeeded to power, and the feel.
ing of thorough security which pervades
all the interests of the country at the
present time is an argument that no po
litical sophist can overthrow, and upon
which the ex-president can safely base
his vindication against assaults from
without and aspersions from the faith
less of his own political household.
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Mr.. Moody, with his faithful heuten-
ant Sankey, has conquered San Francis
co. There has long been a vague popu-
lar belief that the Pacific coast offered
only stony ground for missionaries.
Owing, perhaps, 10 the veraciOus
pictures of Mr.. Bret Harte, the untravel-
ed American is apt to regard California
as peopled solely by bonanza kings,
heather Chinee and gamblers of a muir
derous but sentimental character who
offer an unhopcful field TO any
eVangellsts. Messrs. Earle and Ham,
mond have visited California, but with
out any success. The secular papers in
San Francisco, however, state that the
result of the present labors of Moody
and Sankey in that city are not only
startling but promise TO be permanent.
mo evangelists," they say, "sInce the
days of Whitefield have seen more i'm
mediate or important effects of their la.
bors than these two men" From which
we may conclude that men and women
in California, whether they are heather
Chinee or gamblers, are pretty much
like men and women elsewhere who
have souls to be saved.
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USES OF CHARCOAL.

Who. knows the use of charcoal?
have no doubt that many of you know
that it is very handy to use in kindling
a coal fire, ut do you know its other
uses? Are you aware that a little of it
pulveriZed and mixed into a poultice of
any sort will effectually prevent the
growth of proud flesh in a wound, allay
the irritation and itching that often ac-
companies the healing, reduce the in
fiammation and greatly assist in the heal
ing?
Do you know that if pulverized
and mixed with the white of an egg, or
even mixed in water and drank, little
of it will quickly relieve sour stom-
ach of-dyspepsia, and usually check
light attack of diarrh@a?
It will do all this for man or beast
Do you know that lump of charcoal
put in the pot when you are boiling cab
bage, onions or strongly favored meat,
will prevent the scent itself from peue-
trating the whole houses A lady of my
acquaintance was lamenting that she
could not indulge in her favorite vege-
table as often as she would like, because
she did not like Ia have the whole house
favored with it for a week afterwar1. /
told her of this, and now she feasts as
often as she likes without incommoding
the other inmates of the house.
Do you know that you may keep n
fowl or a piece of fresh meet sweet al
most as long as you please by putting a
lump of charcoal inside it WRAP up in
cloth if you wish) and then wrapping il
in cloth and putting it upon n pan of
charcoal Boston Journal
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18

A NICE POINT IN GRAMNAR.--Two
young h0irs, who had been taking their
first lesson in grammar, disputed long
and earnestly over question. and at last
agreed to decide il by arbitration, select
ing the head of the family as arbiter,
with full power to send for persons and
papers. The old man was greasing his
boots before the kitchen stove.
Father" said the elder heir, sis it
proper TO say we Is rich,' or we am
rich?'"
The old man worked carefully down
into the hollow of his boot under the
instep, remaining long time in thought
full meditation, and then slowly replied:
"Well, should say It would come
higher to the truth to say we hain't
rich"
The young heirs, when they came TO
think what hard time they had worry
ing pennies out of their paternal relative,
thought it might be made that way too.
And the old man kept on amounting his
boots with the extract of hog.-Rock
tand Courier.
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judiciOus public spirit 20 the rule Of
penny-wise and pound-foolish legisla-
ton. If Emporia is TO ever realize the
grand future which her people have
dreamed of, and which, under the prop
er conditions. she may attain. her local
capital must be employed in the estab-
lishment of such interests as will en-
courage labor and sustain population
that will give her rank among the first
cities of the state. II is impossible,
without the introduction of new indus
tries, for the town to make any substan-
tial progress in the future, and the safe
guards which judicious city govern
prises would not only stimulate the en-
ployment Of local capital in such behalf,
but invite to our town q class of men
who are seeking investments where their
interests will be protected from the bur-
densome taxation which is the inevitable
result of needless and extravagant adj
ministration of local affairs.
While the great moral issues which
grew out of the agitation of the temper
ance question have been virtually set
tied by the success of the prohibition
amendment, it would not be wise
to totally ignore the standing of the can
didates for mayor and councilmen in this
regard. The most rigorous legislation is
dead letter unless supplemented by an
energetic enforcement Of the law, an end
which should be comprised as fully as
possible in the selection of officers at the
spring election. But, as we have al
ready intimated, the main point to be
kept in view during our local canvass
is the election of men to offices of public
trust who are thoroughly enlisted in the
promotion of the material interests of
the town, and with whom the welfare of
the city is paramount to the accomplish
ment of personal schemes and the attain
ment of selfish and individual ends.
There never was period perhaps, in the
history of our city when there WAS SO
little demand for job-mongers as now,
and the people want to look to it that if
any such apply they be promptly fur
nished with ticket of leave.
An elaboration of the qualities, in de-
tail, of a safe guardian of the city's in
terests, would be supcrfiuous. Every ill.,
telligent man will readily concede the
prOpriety of selecting our city officers
with a view to their capabilities as
competent business men, and the folly OF
entrusting the interests of an entire com.
munity 10 men who have given no evil
dence of being equal to the management
of their own business. 1t will moi
do to compass integrity at the expense
of ability or Uice UersG, when the two
are combined in so many of the citizens
of Emporia. A safe rule to adopt in
this matter will be TO vote and work for
the candidates to whom you would
with the greatest feeling of security, en-
trust the management of your own in.
dIv1dual affairs, and if this line of action
isclosely followed, no citizen of EN-.
poria need have any fears for the result
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7, would now be in order for h

It would now be in order for the en-
gaging idiot who is always lurking
around the tents of the sulking (?) stall
warts, to give publicity to the statement
that Grant drew carving knife upon
President Garfield while breakiasting at
the white house the other morning, and
that the amenities between the ladies OF
the party we're of such character as to
seriously mar the agreeable effect of their
colffures. The report would be just as
authentic as that OF an alleged meeting
recently Of the Grant men at Wizards
hotel, at which, upon the authority OF
Democratic journals, the new cabinet
appointments were censnred and ridi
culed in turn, while rumOr such as we
have suggested would be infinitely more
sensational, and more fully calculated &c
meet the demands OF the scandal-loving
| Duhlic
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New York Tribune: Orations over
the retirement of the Democrats from
the control of congress are not numer-
Gus in the party's organs. 1t may be
owing to the tacitly acknowledged fact
that so little good can be said of their
conduct during the SIX years they have
been in q majority of the lower house.
All the able editors appear to be seized
with as much diffidence as the friends of
the man that died with an unsavory re-
putatiOn. None of them could be per
suaded to make remarks at the funeral.
Finally, however, one more bold than
the rest undertook the task. But even
he found himself embarrassed when the
occasion arrived, and after much hem.
ming aud having could say only this;
"Well, its . nice quiet corpse, anyhow P'
That would be the substance of the
Democratic editors remark IL he should
express his honest opinion of the party's
present condition.
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A SCRIPTURAL DARKEY.

FROM the w aSnlngbOn hepuDLiCaus
Deuteronomy Dunn was born in North
Carolina, of INDECENT but black parent
age. At his birth he was too little to
help himself; SO l excuse him, and so
would you if you had been in his place
During Deuteronomy's juvenility he
had the misfortune to fall against red
hot cooking stove "a misfortune belong
ing wholly to piccaninnies), and had not
the mark of Cain, but that of the paten-
tee, stamped upon his ebony brow. But
this didn't seem to have affected his
astronomical organism the least; he de-
voured just as much, il not more, corn
cake and honey, than before the brand
ing. Deuteronomy generally went at
tired in a long checkered shirt and a mod
est expression circumference. His COM
plexion was dark-yea, black; in other
words. he was so black in the face that
he couldn't always tell when it
was daylight. Charcoal would have
made white mark upon him; and his
teeth resmbled piano keys and his feet
looked like door mats. Such was Deu-
teronomy. After Deut. had arrived at
the age of circumstances (f0 years old,
he, being a liberated person of color,
was entered at the collegiate institute
situated at the crossroads and presided
over by hatchet-faced female from
learned on account of her wearing
specs. This erudite preceptress bore the
ancient name of Elizabeth BIgelow,
shortened by common consent and the
colored pupils TO Miss Bigelow or Miss
Lizzie. Deut. entered the school-room
one rainy Monday morning clothed in
the aforesaid varigated undergarment
and benign expression of countenance
toting a yellow backed, dog-eared prim-
err. School being called, the teacher thus
addressed the new scholar:
Teacher. Well, my son what is your
name?
Deut. Use not your son, Re mammals
an my name is Deuteronomy Dunn.
Teacher. l should judge by your
biblical name that you have been pretty
well drilled in the scriptures.
Deut. ] is. / knows all about 'em.
Teacher. Well, I'll try you. Who
died TO save men?
Deut. William Tweed.
Teacher. Good graciousl Try again.
Deut. Jesus.
Teacher. Where was he born?
Deut. In New Jersey.
Teacher. You sacrilegious wretch
what do mean?
Deut Well, we can't keep run of all
the births in the bible.
Teacher. He was born in Bethlehem
Deut. Well, that is in Pennsylvania
1 only missed the state.
At this point the teacher swooned the
school adjourned. The distorted re
mains of the teacher have been forward
ed to New Haven on ice. Deuteronomy
| still lives.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18

The woman suffrage question is loom
ing up with considerable prominence
in several of our sister commonwealth,
agitation on this issue running notably
Ligh in Nebraska and Missouri. There
is certainly room for an honest differ
ence of opinion in regard to this matter,
but we regard rs very questionable, the
propriety of extending the elective fran
chise to woman, SO long as she manifests
no higher conception of the uses OF the
razor than tO utilize it for pairing her
corns
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

George Washington, the first presi-
dent, was inaugurated April so, 1883 and
served until 1877. He was civil engin-
eer, and died December Il, 1893.
John Adams, the second president,
was inaugurated 1897 and served until
1901. He was lawyer, and was mem
Der of the first and second congress and
nominated Washington commander-In-
in chief of the army. He died July 4,
1926.
Thomas jefferson, the third president,
was inaugurated in 1901 and served un-
til 1909. He was lawyer, and died in
1925.
James Madison, the fourth president,
was inaugurated in 1909 and served un-
til 1917. He was lawyer and died in
1886.
James Monroe, the fifth president, was
inaugurated in 1917 and served until
1925. He was lawyer and died July
4th, 1881.
John Quincy Adams, the sixth presi-
dent, was inaugurated in 1925 and served
until 1929. He was . lawyer and died
February 23d, 1s4S.
Andrew jackson, the seventh presi
dent, was inaugurated in 1929 and served
until 1887. He was lawyer and died
June Sth, 1915.
Martin Van Buren,, the eighth presi-
dent, was inaugurated in 1887, and
served until 1S41. He was a lawyer and
died July "a, 1862.
William Henry Harrison, the ninth
president was inaugurated in 1S41, and
died just one month afterwards. He
was an officer in the army until chosen
to congress from the northwestern terri
tory in 1897.
John Tyler became the tenth president
upon the death of Harrison, and served
until 1915. He was lawyer and died
January IS, 1862.
James X. Polk, the eleventh president,
was inaugurated IN 1915 and served I'M
til 1S49. He was a lawyer, and died
June 10, 1859.
Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president,
was inaugurated in 1S49 and died at the
presidential mansion July 9th, 1850. He
was an army officer, being a major-gen-
eral at the time of his Inauguration as
president.
Willard Fillmore, the thirteenth pres
ident, served the unexpired term from
1850 TO 1853. He was lawyer and died
March Sth, 1874.
Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth presi-
dent, was inaugurated in 1858 and
served until 1857. He was a lawyer,
and died in 1869.
James Buchanan, the fifteenth presi-
dent. was inaugurated in 1857 and served
until 1861. He was lawyer, and died
June LIST, 1868.
Abraham Liucon was inaugurated in
1861 and was reelected in 1864, and was
assassinated April IA, 1865.
Andrew johnson, the seventeenth pres.
ident, became such by the death of Lin
coin and served until 1869. He was 6
tailor, and died in 1878.
Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth presi
dent. was inaugurated in 1869 and served
until 1877. He was an officer, and at the
time of his Inauguration was general OF
| the army.
Rutherford B. Hayes, the nineteenth
president. was inaugurated in 1879 anC
his term expired on the 4th of March
1881.
James A. Garfield, the twentieth presi
dent of the United States, was inaugu
rated March 4 1881.
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TIE TRUTH PAYS.

A few weeks ago train over the rail-
roads running west ran over q COW just
beyond the Grand Trunk Junction. The
matter was reported at headquarters. but
the owner Of the mangled bovine was not
heard of until Tuesday last, when he en-
tered the presidents Office and remarked !:
Il guess we'd better settle up now for
that COW 90
"Ah, you owned the COW killed by one
of our trains, did you f''
81 expect did"
"And what did you value her atf''
The man scratched his head, hisched
around on his chair, and finally replied:
"Well, dunno. My hrother-in-law
said had the company tighter'n blazes,
and he told me TO say she was new
mich cow. and lay damages at seventy
dollars.n
aYes.n
4But my wife said that I'd better say