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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30

We are disappointed in EmpOria. and
sorry for the lukewArmness of our friends
in thai city Have they been captured
by their boom, by the god OF mammon,
and lost sight Of principles Under the
old Law of the state whisky was driven
from the place, but now, with the strong
est prohibitory law ever created, the de-
lightfully moral little city has become,
we see IL printed, a regular rum hole
Wichita Eagle. .I.lrs
Don't fret about Emporia, old man.
We are getting along tOlcrably well.
The statement, by whOmsoever made,
that EmpOria has become a regular
rum hole" is simply false. Only one
man that we have heard of has openly
attempted to violate the Law, and he
found it pretty expensive amusement.
There is not half nor one-fourth the
liquor sold and drank here there was be-
fore the new law went into effect, and
statements 70 tho contrary are WORTHLESS
assertions or are made in stupid ignor-
ance, as the records of local courts will
prove. We have no objections to your
encouraging the whiskyites to violate the
law all you please at homo, which is the
direct effect of such paragraphs as the
above. but We shall not permit you TO
misrepresent Emporia. The decline in
the whisky business here is n noticeable
feature. EmpOria is law-abiding town.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30
THE DUTY OF NEW YORK
REPUBLICANS

The present week has thus far devel-
oped nothing in the situation at Albany
to justify the hope of an early cessation
of the stubborn hostiIities in the New
York legislature over the senatorial
question, and if the Republicans OF the
Empire State maintain their present
reputation for political stupidity for
many more days, the public will become
fixed in the belief that a competent boss
would not he a bad thing for the party
10 have. There is no doubt that popu-
lar sentiment has been very largely with
the administration in the fight be-
tween the President and Mr.. Conk-
ling, and the best friends and most ar
dent admirers of the latter regard his
resignation from the Senate as a culpa-
bic blunder which has fatally married
his brilliant record. BY turning over
the United States Senate to Democratic
control. and then catering the field in
person 10 secure q Vindication, he for
feited the regard of his constituency,
and 1t was only proper that the Republi-
displeasurc by refusing TO return him
TO the seat which he surrendered
without any warrant tn justify his action.
But we fail TO see how the administration
or the Republican party at large, has
been benefIied by the course of the 80
called lAlfbreeds in concentrating their
forces upon DepeW, who Is recognized
as beng in sympathy with the mOnop-
lists, and whose election would render
the hope OF future Cancellation between
the divided factions of the party ex
tremely prccariOus. The plain duty of
the legislature is TO select two Of the
most able and distinguished Repnbli-
cans in the state To ill the seats vacated
by Messrs. COnkling and Plat, and We
believe there are men in the
great Empire State whose high standing
in the commonwealth would command
the support of StalWarts as we'll as Half
breeds on score Of their fitness for the
positions and their records as true and
tried Republicans.
We believe that the popular verdict in
the case of Mr.. COnkling remains IN
changed, and we are of opinion that the
great mass OF the Republican party
would be averse TO his return to the Sen
ate with the declared purpose of antag-
Onizing the administration. But while
this is SO, there is strong feeling
against the ascendency of the element
which Depew is alleged to represent,
and the impression prevails among
many fair.minded Republicans that his
defeat would not be bad thing for the
general interests of the party.
We believe thatthe only solution ofthe
problem is the selection of two strong,
capable honest Republicans, whose de-
votion to the party would enable them
torise above all narrow considerations
of factional strife, and who would thus
command the endorsement of the rank
and file Of the party, who have no SYM
pathy with the aims and purposes of
lobbyists, rIDgsters or machine pol
iticians
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30

ne evinced so much feeling in reference
to Mr.. Davis refusal 10 make terms that
| said:
al wish you had called conference
Of your officers after Davis REFUSAL
What would they have done!' said
Lee
They would have taken matters into
their own hands, said I, 'and authorized
you to deal with the matter according to
your own Judgment
Gen. Lee thought a moment and
then said: 1T is too late to remedy mis-
takes now His officers would have
done just that thing. for Lee had the
confidence not only of the soldiers but
OF all the confederacy a thousand fold
more than Davis had In
deed, Davis was seriously dislik-
ed by our people. He kept in
position about him his peculiar pets, and
the oftener they lost a fight, the more
frequently were they promoted. History
will never credit JEFF Davis with being
either a model executive officer or 3
great general. His book will doubtless
convict him of being neither"
Gen. Malone discussed the various
movements of the two armies in man
ner that proved his intimacy with the
subject, but beyond the facts narrated
above there was nothing further dis
closed OF historic or remarkably interest
ing nature.
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RAILWAY STATISTICS.

q A statement recently published gives
the railway mileage OF the United States,
In 1850, Il "a, 233 miles; of Great Brit
ain, at H. 96 miles; and of Germany,
France, Austria. Italy, Russia, Belgium
and Switzerland at 63,735 miles. The
United States, sccording to this state
ment, had $500 miles OF railway in ex-
cess of the combined mileage of all
European countries. The cost Of con
struction Of the railways Of Europe Is
stated At 81 ,23s $50 ,965, or an average
of $13S.O17 per mile, while in the United
States the aggregate cost was "a, 762 $685.
OIL, or an average of $4,000 per mile.
The gross receipts OF European railways
for tho year 1879 were $O7s, 205, 321, or
an average of $i2,O14 per mile, while in
the United States the receipts aggregat-
cd $529, OLE 800, or an average Of 81, $50
per mile. The net earnings of European
railways aggregated $425, OOl $50, or IN
average Of $500 per cent. on cost of con-
structiOn, while in the United States
they aggregated $el0,916,724, or an aver
age of $453 per cent. on cost of con-
structiOn. The railways OfGrcat Brit
ian cost an average of 500, $50 per mile,
exceeding, by several thousand dollars
per mile, the construction expenses of
any other railways in the world.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30
BAD DRAINAGE AND FILTH ABOUT
OUR HOMES.

The cleaHIy care Of the body and the
ventilation of rooms avail not 80 much,
however, if about the house there creep
and crawl the invisible but none the less
terrible impurities from damp, moldy
cellars, standing pools Of shop water
and neglected, barbarous privie1.
~HOW long we might live,o exelaims
DIR. Nichols, 'if we could only get out
OF our dirt and that Of our netghbors ?"
In the better part of large cities people
seem TO have succeed very we'll in aget-
ting out"-thanks TO the rigid enfOfce-
ment Of sanitary lawsi and although a
clogged sewer pipe has power 10 trans
form the most elegant mansion into an
intolerable dwelliHg-pl it remains
for the country TO furnish horrors that
would cause sanitarian's hair 20 stand
on end. i 'I
A writer in Farm Homes says: The
psliating thing about this rural dlsTe-
gard for health laws is that il seems 70
be an unconscious disregard, q sin Of
shoughtlessness. The tasteful and thrift
ty farmer has his fences, outbuildings
and walks in faultless repair, while in
doors his wife scrubs and pOlishes, and
is marvel Of order ami neatness; and
yet some VillainOus cess-pool brewing
its mischief in the insuited air, or some
repository Of fiith-emboWeled, it may
be, in iuXuriant Vincs-breathes out its
poison day and Right. aud Knocks the
orderly care OF the farmer and the tidy
pride OF his good wife with its nnspeak
| able pollution. Could the farmer b
permitted 70 encounter these air poiSOnS
| in tangible shaPe-could he, f0T instance
catch Q glimpse Of diptheria peePing
into the sleeping room OF his bel0se[
little ones. or scarlet fever DIGGING theil
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PERSONAL. ann pnIIrIcAI

Mr.. Dcpew seems to be in the nine
hole, % to speak.
This is Blaine's day for having Bright's
disease of the kidneys.
Hon. Thomas Ryan will crate at Wei
liDgtOn ON the Fourth of July.
jeff Davis foes are those of his own
household, if Southern criticisms Of his
book are fair indications.
Mr.. Jacobs, the leading Democratic
candidate in the senatorial canvass at
Albany. has Withdrawn from the contest.
It would not be bad thing for the Re
publican party If Depew would follow
his example.
The virtuOus Dir. Brady is bowling
for an Investigation. Il will come in
due season if ne will only allow patience
10 do its perfect work. There is really
no occasion for any star route cOntrac-
tor to fracture his under-linen IN behalf
of a thorough ventilation so long as
"tltat man James" is at the head of the
Post Office Department
1t is SAID that just before Dorsey left
Washington for New York he called
upon Attorney General MacVeagh with
Bob IngersOll. He asked MacVeagh if
he thought that he Dorsey was guilty.
MacVeagh said Yes, and that he would
give him fair warning that he should
put him in thc penetentiary." AT this
Bob IngersOli said that they had better
at once prepare their case, and they have
been doing this ever since.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30
INGERsOLL's WEAKNESS.

In a breakfast Table Discussion
published in the New York Graphic,
one of the disputants INDUCES in the
following vigorous criticism of Col. In
soils lectures: -
''To say that the Christian body,
through all its life, past and to come, has
had, and will have some very rotten
members, from Pope TO parsOn, is simply
to say that it is composed, here on earth,
of very weak human beings, always liza
BILE to go wrong and do wrong. But their
doing and going wrong hardly comes
from obeying the Ten Commandments,
or believing in the Sermon On the Mount,
or devoutiy saying Our Father. And
here is IngersoIl's weakness. He makes
f1ippant attacks on acknowledged weak
spots in the christian church, attacks
that are only puny echoes translated i'm
to smart stump OratoFy of some of the
attacks of very able men. There are, TO
be sure. mysteries in Christian teaching
the Trinity. for instance - and mys-
teries there will always remain
on this side of the grave.
But are mysteries confined TO
religious teaching? We live and move
q life of mystery. What is life? What
Is death? What is growth? What is
the steady change and rounded order of
what we call the seasonSg What is
light? What is heat? What is anything
Everything is mystery. Then why start at
the Trinitys Is God bound To disclose
everything, TO expound everything for
Col. IngersOll's satisfaction! 1t is
enough for man to have reasonable
faith and q reason for the faith that
Is in him. Creatures we are; even
Col. Ingersoll will acknowledge this
much; and with all the restraints
and Limitations OF creatures. The
wonder is that God has made known sc
much, not SO little, to Us. Men certainly
did not invent the things they know any
more than they created themselves, OF
made the distance between earth and
heaven. But there; you have had lee
ture enough, my dear, this morning"
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London World: There would seem
to be no end 10 the initiation of things
Amcrlcan. Wise old croakers may shake
their heads a. they please, The gamble
is carried wildly on, and all sorts of en-
terprises are being set going tn fan the
flame. There is sure. Of course. TO be
the Inevitable end Of all this; but before
It comes there will b. room for the max
Ing Of many fortunes. and as all of US
think the whole world mortal except our
own sweet selves. each gambler hopes 10
be AIMING the happy few. There is no
appearance of the buoyancy breaking
down yet awhile, at all events. OF course
inthe long run II win be greatly over
DONE. There will be too many railroads
built. too many combinations made. aud
too many rash ventures of-all sorts. The
general community. however. will be
the better In the end for what is now be-
iftgsCone."
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30

New York Tribune: 4 state cOnvcn-
lion has been called by the Virginia Re-
Publican cOmnIttec, Ia meet ut Staunton
ON August "a, and decide upon the At
utude IN he taken by the party toward
the Read usters. IL is to bc hoped that
the agitation Of the question of affiliat-
ing with the Malone party will be car
ried ON in u spirit Of cantlor and fair
hess. and that the verdict of the cOnyen-
ton will he accepted in good faith.
There Is evidently AN honest difference
OF opinion AN this question among the
Republican leaders In Thai state They
should all recognize the need oI
harmony aud the importance of settling
their disputes before they begin 4
campaign which promises 10 be OF con
siderable importance in It's influence up
ON National ~ well as Virginia politics
Ifthey stand together they can deal I
death-blOw 10 BOurbonism at the Hp
proAching election, but If they fall on
among themselves they will accomplish
nothing.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30
WHAT CHEEK.

speaking Of gall, p remarked q print
er in Nevada beer saloon. talking OF
solid check, never saw man who had
more Of it than Pete Bliyens, of Kansas
CITY. Three Of as used to room together
there in 1872. One night in July-it
was 20 hot that if you would chuck wa
ter on the side OF house it would siZz
like 50 much hot irOn-we concluded TO
go down and sleep on one OF the timber
RATS on the river. Well, we got On the
RATS with our blankets. Dust before
turning in Pete Blivens said he guessed
he'd cool of Ivy taking SWIM. knew
the current would snatch him right
under, but / didn't want TO give him any
advice, and he dived of the raft. The
undertow caught and sent him out of
sight in about three seconds. As soon
as We saw thai he was drowned, me and
the other chap went for his effects. We
found $3.50 in his pants pocket and an
old watch. We took 'em mp toEn and
soaked the clothes for 90 and sold the
watch for $40. Then we went
around town on . sort OF
iambOree and spent the money. About
O'Clock in the morning we were drink
ing the last dollar with some OF the BOYS
At the Blue Corner, when who should
Of clothes that he hoa borrowed Of mar
three miles down The river. And hang
me- II be didn't want his clothes, and
next day he was round dunning us fOI
| the paltry sum OF $3.50. The gall d
some men is enough 70 paralyze Louis
lana alligator.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30

tic coast. Brilliant showers Of meteors
will occur, especially within the tropics
The tides will he unusually. high in thu
West Indies, and hurricanes will pre-
vail on the cast side of the Rocky noun
tains. The month of July will DC ex
cessively hot, owing TO the heated at
mosphere returning from the equatorial
regions.
New York Herald: A western wife
Is said TO have notified her husband
that having become Buddhist she by
authority of her new faith had divorced
him. Here is a sweet new thing in di-
voree that will be eagerly clutched at
sight bS other women and great many
men, for in a country where any one may
change religion without losing caste
there will be little hesitation about
embracing Buddhism if 10y so
doing one may cease en-
bracing an uncOhgenIai partner. We
fear, however, that when the new ex-
cuse for divorce is carefully looked into
it will not appear as enticing as at first.
Buddah, indeed. did feEsake his newly
welded wife, but it WAS because he
loved her so much that he feared he
could not sufficiently love the many in
tellectual virtues TO which he desired To
devote himself; modern divOrcers, how
ever, leave their partners because they do
not love them enough. To this last
named class buddhism offers no consO-
latiOn. for while it might enable them to
stihe their cOnsciences TO the extent of
getting rid of an old partner, it absolute
ly fOrbids the taking OF fresh one, and
n religion Us mean as that is one that
nobody with divorce tendencies will
have anything ID do with.
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AMERICANS IN MEXICO.

Judged by the dispatches that from
time to time reach this country from our
sister Republic the only Mexican news
is about Americans. This is quite graft.
flying to our national pride, but il should
also be very satisfactory to Mexico. The
Oldest nation in North America is in
much the same condition that the great
west was few years ago. It is wonder
fully rich in natural resources, but to
properly develop these IN immense
amount OF capital is necessary, and
Mexico has little or NO money TO invest
In great enterprises. Eastern money
built railroads to the west, put steam.
boats on western rivers, erected mills,
stocked stores, and did everything
that money could do toward helping
western promise TO develop into
performance. AS result our great
west, not long ago a wilderness, is
now the wonder and admiration of the
civilized world. Now that elbow room
is becoming scarce in our own new
country Americans are pressing into
Mexico, and as most Of them carry mon
ey with them Mexico Is in luck. There
Is not another country in the world thai
will return so much for q little. Be
siGles fsrtile soil and rich mines the
country has one resource OF which the
west was always bare-she has n larg'
population which is well distributed
30 that lAboF Is always within reach
The two countries are fortunate in thei
acquaintanceshiP; each can offer tn
other what most il needs, and neiIhe
can prosper without benefit TO tho other
A great deal hf American money ma!
be wasted in Mexico. for the Yankee Ia
not yet learned that there are pe0pl
who do not care AZ all for things that h
esteems highly; hut in the long run tn
returns will be sure and the benefit
mutual,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30
A WILD FANCY.

II the sad old world should jump = cog,
Some time. in its dizzy spinning.
Ard 90 on the track with sudden jog.
What an end would come 20 the sinnInEi
What i rest from strife and the burdens OF
life
For the millions of people in it;
Why, Way out OF care. aud worry and wear,
ALI in 3 beautiful minute.
With not q sigh or u sad good by
For loved ones lett behind us.
We would go with \ lungc and q mighty
plunge
Where never = grave should And MS
What wild. mad thrill our veins would Ill,
As the great earth. like y feather.
Should float thro' the air tO God knows where,
And carry u all together.
No dark, damp tomb, and no mourners' gloOTa,
No toliing bell in the steepie,
Bat in one swim breath . painless death,
For q million billion people
What greater bliss could we wish than this,
TO sweep with birds free motion
Throash leagues OF space 20 resting place
In vast and vap0EY ocean
10 pass away from this life for aye,
With never dear tie suadleredI,
Aud = world on IRE for funeral pire,
While the stars looked on and wondered
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One Of the contractors on the Califor.


One OF the contractors on the Califor-
mia Southern railroad Il reported 10 be
employing IAdians with satisfactory re-
suits. This is practically u new expo
riment. Althoagh for more iliAn a centu-
~ Indian labor has been occasionally
resorted TO on the Pacific coast, chiefly
In agricultural occupations at points
where the scrvices of white men were
not to be obtained. Il Is, besides, an in
teresting and hopeful experiment, for
Il may be predicted with reasonable
degree Of assurance that. as y means Of
civilizIng the Indian. daily and system
attic work for which he is promptly paid
and 10 the faithful performance OF which
he Il strictly held, will accomplish more
than treaties and training schools.
Hitherto within the narrow limits which
have prescribed his employment the In.
dian has been . reasonably efficient
worker. The early mission buildings
Of California were built by the abOrig
inies. they helped To plant and cultivate
the first vineyards In that region, and
they are still employed TO conSidera
bile extent in the vineyards Of Southern
galicoroin
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THREATENED STRIKE.

A New York special to the Chicago
Tribune gives currency tn the fear en-
tertained in certain quarters that the
country is on the eve of a series of
strikes among operatives throughout the
United States which will permeate every
Industry of magnitude. The opinion is
expressed that the recent strike among
the brewers of New York was intended
an n SORT Of forerunner in the movement,
but for some cause their lead was not
followed. A circular was issued u few
days ago by well known detective
agency and sent TO all the leading off,
Gals of the various railroads throughout
the country, 10 the effect that the agency
was In possession of information that a
most comprehensive strike is contem-
plated ON or about the LIST of July by the
whole force of locomotive engineers; that
the arrangements for the strike were be.
ing. rapidly perfected; that they might
possibly delay the movement until the
first OF August, but that strike for ma.
teriAl advance in wages had been deter
mined upon which, from its far reaching
effect, covering every railrnad line, trunk
and branch, in the country, would moi
fail OF being successful. This strike, it
is believed, will carry all the working
forces upon the railroads with the engln
GERS, and is believed to be so thoroughly
organized that their employers will b
helnlesa