The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-18
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A "Trip Fss1a Kan.aa 10 west Virginia
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A Trip FsoA Kannaa 10 wesf Virginia
Laurel. POIST. VAST Va.I
August 2. 1851
Out OF the rnia sinrn, HI Kansas
thrOnRh ilse ,lrsllihy rrgi..a Of Illinois
= day in the hu>fling, roasting, gushing |
the lake to Milwsukee-
across the states of Indiana and Ohio |
into West Virginia. Here we came yes
terdsy. Our estimate of West Virginia
is raised about IS per cent. We are al
the houseof William Jones. ESQ, on q
hillside in little valley fianked by hills
two or three hundred feet high. Mrs.
ThOs. Mupiock and Mrs. Stotler are en-
Joying q visit With 1rs. Jones, a sister
and aunt they had not seen for twenty
six years. While write Mr.. Murdoch
is deyouring the contents of last weeks
NEWS, which arrived to-day. We went
through it on the way from the post
ONCE. q
TIE nAIEoIs DRouTH. ~
We struck "A extenaise- @dEE spall', ia
the neighbOrhoOd Of Peru, Illinois. and
it lasted well up TO Chicago. The travel
ing here was disAgreeable, andtbe wealth
e. very warm II this drouth existed in
Kansas II IL altogether probable the Chi
cage papers would have iiinerant CORE
spondeais gsdding around writing il up,
with Sensational headlines and sll the
trimmings which ., Chicago paper is
WOnt to use when lying about Kansas.
No notice Is taken Of It 90 long Is it is
IN theIr own stale. John TAtham's old
town. Norris, and the region thereabout
seemed the center Of the dry region.
The old soag about listers growing
small over there, can be revived and APP
Piled to the corn crop In Illinois, unless
= humps itsslf bgtWIIa nosg ahds frots.
There L. no compafiSeH bet~eeA stke
corn crop In Iowa and Illinois and the
crop In Kansas. A. lest this is true OF
those PORTIONS Of the inst mentioned
states which we saw, ,.,....
Ia some particulars Chicago has. the
Newspapers ofthe country. In the mat
ter Of enterprise they have no rivals.
Before leaRing Chicago Saturday morn
Ing We stopped Il . newsstand and puE-
chased . Tribune and later Ocean.
The attendant handed US the bundles,
which were about all we could carry.
A man with earpet-sack, an umbrella,
and two copies Of Chicago papers to
manage. especially on days when the
prOprietors OF said papers have ''both
feet in the trough" and 1t il . struggle
which can spoil the most white paper,
is In poor plight to show his railroad
tickets to the fellow at the gate Of the
parting fence, then to the brakeman, and
also 20 the porter Of the sleeping car.
By tie time he gets seated on, the sunny
side of the car and mops his blow, he is
ready to join hands with the fellow who
Il hunting for the author Of the latest
popular song. When he pulls out one
Of these Chicago papers he Is desperate.
He glanceS over It and IL iisgustad at
the wasted energytwhich has spread itself
over sixteen pages Of newspaper He
picks out one Of the sheets and throws
the balance away, because he knows It is
largely trash, not worth the time it takes
toread 1t. He serves the other paper the
same way, and this Is about the way such
papers are read. They are 6 nuisance,
and every sensible man longs for the
day when there will be reform. Not
withstanding the efforts Of the Times
and the Inter Ocean to make it appear
that the Tribune il in bad way linaa-
cially, the latter paper seems 70 survive.
The. Tribune has had TO stand O. good
deal from the fellows who have practiced
political hobbies in its columns, but 1t
does not seem to be very dead. It u an
abls paper. The Inter Ocean always
had the appearances TO MS Of being hard
up. 1t was started as an "organ." II
ran the gauntlet Of financial breakers
for some time, and may now be on 6
good basis. We knew its proprietora
when they were very ordinary school.
teachers. We have always thought the
manager Of the concern had mistaken
his calling and that the Inter Ocean
would never BE- . great paper under his
management The concern was greatly
afflicted last year with ThirdtermisH
| and Grantism. 1t has fourished on the
mistakes Of the Tribune, but we are o.
the opinion that those who want the bes
thought of the Republican papers o
Chicago have to go to the Tribune Il
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