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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-08

No. 5.-Trotting race; $40 class.
Purse, $500. LIST horse, $125; I'd, so;
Sd. $e5.
No. 6.-Pscing race for green horses
that have never beaten three minutes.
Purse, 800. 1st horse, $50; ID, SIS +
Sd, $I5.
No. lsugning race, haiEmfle, best
2 in 8. Purse, 800. LIST horse, s65 !;
ID, $25; Sd, SO.
7oERfH BAv.
No. S-Free-for-allp pacing race. Purse,
500. LIST horse, &125; I'd, $50: Sd, SIS
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-08

Cottonwood Falls, Chase Co., Kan.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-08

No. 2.-Running race for two-year.
elds. Purse $50. HalfmiIe, best 2 in 3.
LIST horse, $35; I'd, SIS; Sd, SO.
No. .-TrUtting race for horses owned
in Lyon county and have no record.
Purse, $50. LIST horse, $40; I'd, SIS; Sd,
SO; 4th, s..
No. 4--TTotting race, 3 min. class.
Purse, 500. 1st house, eiss; I'D, $50 !;
Sd, So.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-28
Gen. Sam Houston,s Romance.

Born in Virginia in 1893, left an or
nhan in boyhood, Sam Houston went
with his mother to Tennessee, where he
eupported her with his own industry,
thus early learning family loyalty. In
1913. at the age of 20, he enlisted under
Gen. jackson IN the Creek war, and for
his repeated deeds of gallantry he so
Gained the esteem of jackson that he
urged him TO remain permanently in the
army. Resigning, however, and study
ing law in Nashville, he rose from Office
10 office. and in 1923, at the age of 30,
he was elected to Congress, and then
again in 1897 was elected Governor of
Tennessee. Up to this time Houston
was unmarried. Universally admired,
and urged by associates to form an ALI
ance, which seemed essential to his sta
ton, a young lady of beauty and accom-
plishments was commended 10 him by
family influence. His proposal of mar
rage was accepted, and late In 1923 the
marriage ceremony was performed with
unusual pomp. The next day Houston
resigned his Office, crossed the Alissis-
sippi into Arkansas, and Dec. II, 1928,
wrote from the agency of his old Chero-
kee acquaintance the letter to Presi-
dent jackson which called forth his let
ter Of Jan. d, 1899. No one of Hous-
tons companions knew till his death the
cause of his new course, which his best
friends, like jackson, regarded as par
tial insanity; no one but his widow
could reveal it, and she only through a
sense Of coniugd and Christian duty.
That cause was the highest test of
loyalty Of which any man could be ca
pable.
On the eve of the marriage Gov.
Houston observed a tremor in the voice
and in the hand OF his bride, when the
VOW of undivided attachment was pro
nounced, which convinced him some
secret had not been revealed to him
Before retiring he frankly told her of
his suspicion, asked frank confession
and pledged her that it should not work
to her injury. His frankness and firm
ness led to the confession that her at
fections had been given and pledged 10
another before their meeting. and that
filial duty had prompted her acceptance
OF his profTer. Houston retired TO his
own cot, next day resigned his position,
allowed the entire fault TO appear TO be
his. permitted and encouraged her applI-
cation for a divorce on the plea of deser-
ton. and his bride was married to the
man Of her former affection. Many ir-
Irregularities, rumor, of course, charged
on the man who had really sacrificed
everything to save one who had erred
only IN mistaken duty; but no charge
If domestic infidelity could be true III
man who denied IL to the estimable lady
who afterWard became his wife
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-28
Mans Self.ImnOrtance.

Mrs. Jameson, In more instances than
one, shows her belief in self-importance
being mans prime quality. Here is one
thing that breathes hard spirit Per
sonal vanity III man is sheer. unmiti-
gated egotism, and an unfailing subject
of rldicule and contempt with all women.
be they wise or foolish" The Countess
of Blessington, who was almost as wise
as she was handsome, has left 2 few out
spoken opinions, of which one is that
''Sef-possession and dignity ought to
characterize man of birth and genius.
and a poet should neither be gay nor
hppant." Here is a singer: Men can
pity the wrongs inflicted by Other. men
ON the gentler sex, but never those which
they themselves infiict on women. 3"
Though the following would apply
equally well to womeI it is worth re-
membering as showing that to delicate
minded woman the man who prides him
self ON being bear, growing out un-
palatable truths at every breath, is not
considered the pleasantest of compan-
ions: ''Your plain speaking men, saws
the Countess, ''are usually either of OBJ
fuse intellect or of 1l-natured DISPOSE
tions, wounding the feelings of others
from want of dehcacy of mind and SEN
sibility. or from intentional malice
The Countess grows concise, and in say
ing that woman's head is always inhu-
enced by her heart, and mans heart is
always influenced by his head, utters
an epigram worthy of Pope In the
same epigrammatic mood must this have
been conceived: Great men direct the
events of their times, wise men take adj
vantage of them; weak men are borne
down by them Elsewhere she saws:
In the society of pc sons of mediocrity
of intellect clever man will appear to
have less spirit than those around him
who possess the least, because he Is dis
placed in their company.
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Was Joan of Are Burned at the Stake.

The Mayor of Compiegne Is quite
genius in his way. He knew that the
prevailing notion was TO secularize every
thing and consequently he invented a
republican manifestation IN honor of
Joan Of Arc, the Maid Of Orleans, who
defended COmpIegne against the English
and Burgundians IN 1870, and was be
trayed into the hands of John of Luxem-
bOurg. who surrended her 10 the English
men who burned her at the stake in the
market-place at Rouen. The ruins of the
Maideu's Tower show where the Picardy
archer pulled the unfortunate Joan from
her war horse. and when those who are
fond of going back to the history of other
days think OF the legend and then Of that
horrible statue of the Maid OF Orleans at
the end of the Rue dies Pyramides IN
Paris, they must deplore the fact that
the man of Picardy left 10 descendant
who would come forward and unhorse
the figure that surmounts the pedestal.
VI Charles Mouselet has thrown some
doubt on the legend of Joan Of Arc hav-
ing been burned by the English. He
quotes q paragraph from the Ncrc}G'c Of
1853 announcing that certain documents
recently discovered led to the conclusion
that Joan Of Arc had been married, and
that, consequently, some unfortunate
NltLlLN must nave been SHcIulCti III ntI
place at Rouen. The documents con
sisted of an attestasion made by Father
Nigner, who said: Five years after the
judgment of Joan of Are, on the Goth day
of May, Joan, the Maid, visited Metz
On the same day her brothers called TO
see her They thought she had been
burned, but when they saw her they re
cognized her at once They took her
with them To Boquelon. Wherein a voc
man named Nicolle gave her a horse, and
two other persons contributed "A sword
and a plUmed hat, and the said Maid
sprung very cleverly on the said horse,
saying a multitude Of things to the voc
man Nicolle.
The old priest wrote this history with
his own hand, and made oath as to its
sincerity before a public notary, adding
as a proof oil what he had advanced a
copy of the original contract of marriage
between Robert des Armoises and Joan
Of Arc, otherwise known as the Maid of
Orleans COmpiegne has treasured up
faithful souvenir of the heroine. and
about fifteen years ago a subscription
was opened to enable the town to erect a
statue to her memory The idea was
started by a rather unpopular person,
and was soon allowed to drop The
present Mayor again took up the matter.
and with the aid of the municipality has
at length succeeded In giving the town
a statue of the Maid, whose words, .Tirai
Coir me bOnS aHlis dc COmpiegile," have
been cut IN the pedestal London
GLOBE
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-28

halo of the moon. The garden of the
Bolton mansion was bathed in grayish
mist. which fiickered among the tall
trees. and cast weird shadows on the
old castle.
Arthur Bolton was slowly strolling
through the deep paths leading in and
out among the shrubbery. The fire of
his cigar burnt fiercely as he pulled
nervouslv away at it. How often he had
walked here with buoyant steps and
light heart, looking toward the future,
when Lucy Grey was to have become his
wife
Chow cruell" he murmured. Cruel
cruel! Oh, how shall l bear it-hOw
shall l endure? Would TO heaven that
here and now l could lay down the bur
den of my life and sink into oblivion
Lucy. who was my life and lOve-whO Is,
and ever shall be, my love-is moi
false-but the noter
Hour after hour passed away, and still
ne staid. 1t was about midnight that he
stopped opposite the old tower.
"Harkl" he exclaimed, springing for
ward and assuming listening attitude.
arthur Arthur Save mel"
Like lightning his blue eyes sent
CLEAN up to the window above. 4 white
object huttered a moment, and then fell
at his feet Picking it mp, he read in
family penciled characters the follow
ing:
ITO the person finding this handker-
chief For the love of all you hold dear
in this world or the next, take this to
DIR. Grey of Hazelton, and tell him that
l am confined a prisoner, 10y Sir James
Bolton, In the big room of the old tower.
and that he swears / shall not receive my
Without reading further, Arthur Boil
ton sprang like a blood hound toward the
house He knew 1t all now. Sir James
was suddenly awakened that night by a
terrible crash, and hurredly throwing
on his clothes. he rushed toward the big
room in the old tower.
crash With a wild shrek, he sprang
forward. Crash, crashl And down flew
the door, rotten with age. and Sir James
arrived Just in time TO glare through the
open space on Arthur and Lucy, fOndly
clasped in each others arms, while the
Young mans hot kisses were raining over
the brow, cheek and neck of her who
was his life and love.
"Fiendsl' screamed Sir James, while
the blood rushed III torrents to has
head
With one Wild bound the old man at
tempted TO reach the pair. but, falling
short, he tottered, fell, and remained as
one dead
Tenderly he was laid on the bed. Al
ready Arthur and Lucy had forgiven him,
and for many week, hung over his pill
low; and when he became cOnvalescent,
none were happier than they. But the
punishment came Sir James sight had
gone in his illness, and henceforth all
that made life worth the living to him.
was to sit between Arthur and Lucy, who
had become man and wife, with hand
of each clasped tightly in his own, ana
hear them declare their forgiveness and
love.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-28
A Drummer's First Trim.

A Cleveland merchant determined To
send his son for trip on the road in the
interests of the house. The young man
was rather averse to going, but his
fathers persuasions were all-powerfnl
and he went. He was out some ten
days, and on his return his father any
iously inquired, "Well, my boy. did
you get many orders?" Yes, father "
answered the new-hedged drummer. 1T
got quite a number" Good I" ex-
claimed the delighted father. Il knew
you would succeed. The young man
grinned and answered: ''Well. the
first order L got was in Squashboq. 7
went into a mans store there and he
said git out = In Bungville 1 got NV
second order. This time it was skin !,
My third order was chase vourseif
round. My next order was scoot ;
and" But the old gentleman hast;i,y
arose and, kicking his hopefurs sample-
case across the Office, sternly command.
ed the young man to go out and helm
Jim load the truck.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-28
4 French Moman,s yaIor.

Visitors 10 Paris cannot fail to have
seen ia tlc great central market an old
woman seated behind "a goodlv array Of
clbhaces and caulihoWcrs, wearing the
Order Of the Legion Of Honor ON her
breast Her name is Annette Dreyon.
aud her history is a remarkable one. In
Lcr Younger days She was cuutiHierc IL
regiment ot Z0uavsS who served IN
Africa, IN the CrImc1, in italy, and on
the banks Of the Rhine She was pres
out nj the taking of Magenta. and during
that sHelrC saw q couple of Austrian sol-
diers Law hands on the flag u the re1i-
mcut To which she belonged. Judeter-
red lv the wli-tliug Of the bullets the
courageous Frauchwomsu rushed forward
20 save the flag killed one Austrian,
wounded the other with her revolver, and
returned triumphant with tie standard
she had saved from the enemy. For TINS
act of courage size was decorated, but il
Is not Ler only one. During the Franco
PIussian war she followed the Thirty
second Regiment OF the Line IS can't
Hjcrc. One day after the armi7tlce had
been proclaimed. she was Iusuited by q
Bayarian soldier, near the gatcsof IhIou-
vile. The plucky c1ltt7licr@ drew out
her revolver aud stretched the aggressor
dead on the ground For this She was
arrested. tried 10y a court martial sitting
at Metz, and condemned to death On
the day she was to be executed Prince
Frederick Charles happened 10 be passing
through Metz Having learned that a
woman was TO be shot, he inquired into
the circu' stances, granted her oresplte,
and four days later sent her back TO
France. pardoned. Since then Annette
has established herself as a market wo-
man. and. aided by pension allowed her
by the State, manages to live, Is she Is
proud Of saving. INDEPENDENTLY
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-28
Stenogranhie Rlnnders.

From paper on blunders, by +. J.
Morgan, of Syracuse, we extract the fol-
lowing as ludicrous instances OF steno-
graphic Interpretation and transcript
ton
Gross receipts Grocery seats. Tam
arack knees-Dum rickety knees. The
mothers prayer - The matters prior.
He was little fellow-He was a little
full. They captured two Parrot guns
They captured two pirate guns. The
woman was baking bread-rhe woman
was begging bread / found the horse
IN that PASTURE found the horse in
that posture-Counsel offered paper IN
evidence-Counsel brought pauper III
evidence. Arthur Waite, the chalk
talk evangelist - Arthur Waite, the
Choctaw evangelist. The showers were
not sufficient to meet the wants of mill
men-wants Of milkmen. In the inter
vening time he said nothing-In the
entire evening time he said nothing. l
came with my brothers, Horace and
Henry-I came with my brothers horse
and Henry. A medical witness, speak
ing Of the illness of lady patient, said
She appeared to be somewhat I'M
strung and nervous" The transcriber
made him say she appeared to
be somewhat kneesprung and nerv-
Gus. a minister, preaching ser
mon on the death OF a gentleman
named Samuel, quoted: 'And buds and
blossoms IN the dust. He was delight
ed to read In the next issue of the paper:
"And buds and blows Sam IN the dust.
An attorney asked a female witness how
she came to be employed 10y plaintiff,
and she answered: % 1 saw a sign IN the
window, Female clerks wanted here.
The laundering reporter rendered 1t:
" Family color warranted here. An
orator referred to the different religious
sects or denominations " going for one
another throughout the country, and
said: - Here we have one sect persecUt-
ing another" and was so reported, but
the transcriber rendered it: Here we
have one sick person feeding another,
and so it appeared IN the next-mornmg
papers.
Several years ago an eminent lawyer
hired a stenographer to take testimony
in an important case. The transcribed
minutes astonished him. A patent,
upon which much depended IN the suit,
was converted into a "potentate;"
" solid frame" was turned into an "iso-
lated farm" the " furnaces Of this coun-
try were set down as "Fenians OF this
country" " clerks and bartenders" were
made " clocks and barometers;' and the
question, Were You in the habit of
visiting the housc?' was written, "Were
YOU IN the habit of fastening the hose 2"
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Girls are the most unaccountablest
things IN the world-except woman.
Like the wicked flea. when Won have
them they amt there I can cipher
clean over the improper transactions,
and the teacher says l do first rate; but
I can't cipher out Il girl, proper or I'M
proper, and YOU can't either. The only
rule in the arithmetic that hits their
cases Is the double rule Of three They
are as full of Old Nick as their skins can
hold. and they would die If they could
not torment somebody. When they try
10 be mean, they are as mean rs ptIsly
though they amt as mean as they let on,
except sometimes, and then they are
good-deal meaner. The only way to get
along with a girl when she comes to you
with her nonsense Is to give her tat for
tat, and that VIII hummux her and when
you get girl fummuxed she is as nice
as n pin. A girl can SOW more wild oats
than boy can SOW IN a year, but girls
get their wild oats sowed after a while,
which boys never do, and then they set
tie down as calm and as placid as a mud
puddle. But / like the girls first rate,
and / guess all the boys do. | don't
care how many tricks they play on me
and they don't care either. The hoity-
toityest girl in the world can always boil
over like a glass Of soda BY aud by
they get into the traces with somebody
they like, and pull as steady as an old
stage horse. That is the beauty of them
So, let them wave, / say; they viii pay
for them some day, sewing on buttons
and trying to make a man out of the fell
low they have spliced to and ten chances
TO one If they don t get the worst of it
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-28

The mutlahons Of prisoners exhIb-
tied on Assyrian sculptures are not sur
passed in cruelty by any we find among
the most blOOd-thlrsty of Wild races
and Rameses H.. who delighted in hay
ing himself sculptured ON temple walls
throughout Egypt as holding a dozen
captives bv the hair and striking Oft their
heads at a blow, slaughtered during ms
conquests more human beings than a
thousand chiefs Of savage tribes put to-
gether. The fortunes inflicted on captured
enemies by Red Indians are not greater
than were those inflicted of old on fel-
Ons by crucIfXOn, or on suspected reb-
els by sewing them up IN the hides of
slaughtered animals, or on heretIcs by
smearing them over with combustibles
and setting fire to them. The Damaras,
described as so utterly heartless that
they laugh on seeing one Of their num-
Der killed 10y Wild beast, are not worse
than were the Romans, who made such
elaborate provisions for gratifying them
selves hv watching wholesale slaughters
IN their arenas II the numbers de-
stroved by the hordes of Attila were not
eQualed by the numbers which the RO-
man army DESTROYED ut the conquest of
Selucia, and 10y the numbers of the jews
massacTed under Hadrian, 1t was simply
because the occasion did not permit.
The cruelties Of Nero, Galienus, and
the rest may compare with those Of
Zinpis and Iimou and when We read
Of Caracalla, that after he had murdered
20.0O0 friends of his murdered brother,
his soldiers forced the Senate to place
him amolg the gods, we are shown that
in Che Roman people there was aferocity
not less than that which deifies the most
sanguinary chiefs among the worst of
sayages. Nor did Christianity greatly
change matters. Throughout medieval
Europe political offenses and religious
dissent brought on men carefully de-
vised agonies, equalng, if not exceed
ing, any inflicted by the most brutal Of
barbarians. -Her6ert Spencer, in FOrt-
alioLfLtl R.a.irln
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Oueen yic's Wealth.

A prepOsterous paragraph has been
Going on its rounds to the effect that
0ueen Victoria had insured her life for
large amount, in Partisan Office. In
asmuch as the Queen is sixty years old
she will have TO pay pretty heavy
,,rernium. No details are given as to
her Majesty's having undergone medical
sc111tinv. and we are left TO assume that
tba company waived such a sordid con-
sideration in the case of regal client.
60 far as the Queen is concerned any life
Insurance would be an absurdity, In view
Of her having been easily able, for many
years, to save 81, 600. 600 year. She is
1Erorld Putting aside all other source Of
income. her Duchy of Lancaster, and
legacy from Mr.. Neeld, bring her In
Ss10 600 a year, and her income alto
gether is probably nothing short of So
Zoo 600 a year.-NeW York Times.
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CHAPTER III

"Gaod morning, fatherI' exclaimed a
hearty voice, and, CHANGING up, from his
paper, Sir James Bolton beheld his son.
Springing excitedly from his seat, he
exclaimed
You, Arthur? Where"
''Why, father" cried Arthur. 'syou do
not seem very glad to see me.
But Sir James, recognizing his rash
ness, had recovered his self-control Ex-
tending his hand, he exclaimed:
pardon me, Arthur. but your return
was so unexpected, and so welcome,
that L"
Enough, father dear the young
man gently returned. aT know that 1
am welcome, especially when / have
satisfactory report of my work to hand
In. But l can not stay with you long.
ASSOCIATIONS here aretoo sad. too bitter
And his blue eyes looked inconceivably
unhappy, for he was thinking of her who
had written him soon after his arrival in
Cuba, one short, cutting note. declining
his love.
50 1t was arranged, greatly to Sir
James satisfaction, that lrtbnr should
start the next morning. to spend few
years travelling in the new world
1t was evening. The clear blue sky
was studded with twinklino stors whose
soft gilmmer melted into the stronger
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How Do Yon stand

One cannot lay out his work TO ad-
vantage without knowing precisely how
he stands with regard to his business.
The beginning Of the year Is the appro-
pirate time for ascertaining 1t. Ere
duently an account of business Is kept
for a month or two and then neglected.
If it Is only to encourage habits OF regu-
larity and perseverance it will be time
Wei spent to keep an account, not only
of money affairs. but a record Of events
for every day. This tends to beget
promptness and system IN every detail
of farm work, and in business affairs
that foresight and economy which are
everywhere the prime essentials to sue
oass
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Playing-Cards.

Not many French cards were ever sold
IN the American markets, comparatively
speaking, although these manufactures
were exceedingly tine-a linen card, thin,
strong and delicate, and nice to handle.
The great bulk of imported cards were
from English manufacturers, as they are
to-day. The English cards excel IN the
beauty OF their finished geometrical de-
signs Tor their backs being ornamented
with tne colors and gildidg to an extent
never attempted with the American article
This elegance Of ornamentation seems TO
have always been n specially with the
English makers, and alone, or in con-
nectlon with the heavy duties, appears to
warrant the price asked for them-abOut
double that Of American cards, the latter
being even a better article
But, as has been limited, of late years
great progress has been made in the
manufacture of playing cards in this
country, until at present no better goods
can be found in any market than are af-
forded by United States makers. The
modern. round conered card of the pres
ent makes Is a vastimprOvement over the
old style square cornered affair; and the
manipulation of stock IN their makeup
results IN an article possessing all the at
tributes considered desirable by card
players. The English manufacturers
have been trying to copy the results at
tanned IN American round-cornered cards
bv ''dieing out" the stock; but in this
effort they failed signally, since the card
cannot be cut IN that way without fatally
injuring It's edges and quality. Conse-
quently couple of card-cutting machines
have been sent TO England from this
country, and by the use of Yankee (or
jewish methods, no doubt our cousins
VIII achieve better success. Boston
Herald.