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She Held Her Grip.
Chicago Tribune.
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WELCOME home, Pansy."
Dappervale was at It's prettiest this
sweet June day as il nestled costly
among the hills that lowered above il
on every side. Down in the shady glen
where the village church stood, almos;
hidden by the cypress trees whose great
boughs of green were swept caressIngIy
against the sides of the modest struc.
ture, Pansy Perkins was standing, and
as EtheIbert Pettingill spoke the words
with which this chapter opens, her face
lighted up with radiant 2x4 smile that
was beautiful in its glad eXpanse of tcr-
ritory.
Come TO NE, Pansy," he said
1t was Ethelbert's voice, tender, gen
tie, that spoke, yet with something in its
tones that made the girls pause III her
excited, feverish walk Up and down, and
she pressed her hands to her throbbing
temples, looking at him with large,
bright, pathetic eyes. But he stretched
out his hand and she came 10 him He
pressed his arm around her wais. and
held her TO his breast moment N
silence.
Presently Pansy spoke. at is very
hot, is it not, darling 90 she said.
YES" replied Ethelbert, "aad it is
getting late, ard we should be going
nome -out as AespOhe the girl lookcu
up at him with those handsome dark
eyes that had witched so many men
do you loye me =" she said.
''Passionately, my angel" was The re.
ply in tremul0us tones.
''And You will buy me some ice
cream ?" she continued
Ethelbert felt his heart throbbing
against his suspenders, and for I'm in
slant he could not reply. But the mo-
mentary agitation was soon over, and he
spoke out in clear, mellow tones. 81
will do it with pleasure" he said.
The peachy check of the girl was laid
close to his now, and the veivety lips
kissed him tenderly back of the left ear
And then turning her head slightly
Pansy whispered to herself: 81 have moi
lost my grIp.'-From "OYer the
Brink. by Murat Halstead.
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FAKIRs RUN IN.
EonRdanra Game

/ Arrest of the Perpetrators of shrewd
Confidence Game.
Last Friday four parties, giving their
names as John Smith, John Kelley, Pete
Morris and John Snow, were arrested at
the ST. James hotel, by Officers Ryan,
Kremer and Birdsall, on the charge of
having unlawfully and feloniously and
under false pretenses obtained possession
of a watch and four dollars in money
belonging to S. N. Smith, who recently
came to EmpOria from Florence.
The swindle occurred at the place Of
Mrs. Shay, on Commercial street, south
of the railroad, this morning, and was
penetrated in the following manner
Smith, the victim of the racket, was ap-
preached by Sncw,who represented him
self as being a freight conductor on the
Santa Fe, who was IN search of brake
man. He SAID that the man who had
been working with him had stopped
and that he wanted to sell his time
check, calling for S26, To. whoever took
his position. Smith, regarding this a
good opportunity 10 secure work replied
that he had only four dol
lars in money but that he
would put up his watch as security un.
til he could earn the remaining $24
Snow took the money and the watch
and gave Smith switch key and told
him to be on hand at the round house
this evening at about O'Clock, the par
ties who were with Snoy assuring
Smith that he was all right, and that he
was making safe deal.
Snow and his pals then left Smith,
but before they had been gone many
minutes the latter began to sus-
pect that he had been tapped
and upon examining the brand on the
switch key his suspicious were con-
firmed, and after making inquiry re-
garding Snow, of some railroad men, he
found that he had been swindled, and
reported the case to the sheriff
In the meantime the fakirs had struck
out for the st. James hotel, and were in
the act of trying to trade of the watch
to a farmer whom they halted in the
road, when Mr. Cooley happened to
be riding by, and suspecting that some
thing was wrong. reported the ease
to the officers. Sheriff Ryan, Mar
shall Birdsall and Under Sheriff
Kremer. with shrewd forethought,
picked up farm wagon on the street,
with high side boards, and concealing
themselves therein were driven to the |
St. James, and had their men in custody |
before they even suspected the presence
OF an officer
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ENTERED INTO REST.
death of Mrs. Martha Bundrsm.

Death OF Mrs. Martha Bundrem.
Mrs. Martha Bundrem, one Of the pio-
neer settlers of Emporia, departed this
life at fifteen minutes after Thurs
day morning, after brief illness from
rheumatism of the heart, at the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. Maria SehmidlIng,
aged " years and 6 months. The de-
ceased enjoyed very good health for a
person of her advanced years, till within
a few days of her death, and on Monday
was strong enough 10 walk up street on
an Grand On the evening of that day
She was taken i'll, and since yesterday
morning little hopes were enter
tanned of her recovery by her relatives.
The subject of this notice was born
in Clifford county, North Carolina.
From there she moved to Ohio and
thence to Indiana, where she became a
widow in 1854. In the fall of '59 she
came to Emporia with her family, max
ing her home with Mrs. Schmidling,
who proved to her faithful and devoted
daughter in sickness and in health, and
was the main staff upon which she
leaned in the closing years of her earthly
pilgrimage. Besides Mrs. Schmidling
there survive the deceased her sons
Charles. Horace V. and Addison, and
her daughters, Mrs. Asa Bancroft and
Mrs. Morrison.
Mrs. Bundrem was raised Friend
but after her marriage united with the
N. e. church, of which she was a con-
sistent member for over fifty years. II
was her dying request that the services
at her funeral should be conducted by
Rev. Bernard Kelley, of Wichita, former
ly pastor of the III. Z. church here, and
he was invited to be present on that
solemn occasion.
The deceased met the terrible ordeal
ofdIseolution with that calm composure
with which the Christian learns to face
the king of terrors. She had wrought
faithfully for nearly three score
years in the Masters vineyard
and the blessed assurance of her accept
ance with God, which had sustained ant
cOmforted her all along the toilsomt
journey of life, did not fOrsake her wher
she descended into the valley OF the shad
ow. She had accomplished her worl
and was ready and even eager to entel
upon the reward which is vonchsafed Il
them who continue faithful until the end
She was gathered In even as a shock o.
ripe corn in its season, and the peaceful
close of the vell-spent life and her tri
umph, through faith, over the teIrors 0
the grave, cannot fail to prove source
of sweet consolation to her bereaveC
children, who have the sympathy of thu
entire community in this time of deeI
sorrow.
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Tenohers, Reading club.


The club met according to adjourn
ment, the first Saturday in September,
Miss Hurlburt in the chair.
A lesson for the next meeting was as
signed, including book of England
Under Foreign Kings"
The following program was then made
out:
SaXons in Germany-Mr. Butcher.
Story of Beowuef-Carrie Ebey.
The Celts-Mrs. A. p. Morse.
The Druids-Miss Josie Ebey.
Brut of Wace-Miss Hurlburt.
King Lear-Miss Maynard.
Idyls of the King-Carrie Morse.
Romans in England-Mr. Eastman
Ivanhoe-Sena Dixon.
By motion the bylaws of the club
were suspended and the hour of the
next meeting changed TO three O'Clock
p. m.
The following amendment to Art. 1.
Sec. of the bylaws was laid on the ia
BILE:
All regular meetings of this club shall
be held after the Lyon county teachers
association, on the first Saturday of each
month.
Adjournment 10 tlfe first Saturday in
October.
The above program promises to be ca
tertaining as we'll as instructive and we
hope all interested wall make it a point
to be present.
SENA DIy0N Soc
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octagon CITY.

In the latter part of May 1856, small
party of reformers found their way one
night to the Barbee house, Cofachiqui,
then the county seat of Allen county. Mr..
Barbee, the proprietor of the log cabin
hotel, was sick and the writer assisted
Mrs. B. to entertain the strangers. They
were talkative, like all other men who
have mission in the world, and soon
led Us into the secret of their adventure.
They were the founders of vegetarian
colony who were seeking location for
town and farming community. They
dispised meat eaters, and Toasted them
selves on beans. We had no bread at the
time, and they refused our well baked cat
fish. They belaboredsthe writer for setting
troutline and taking the unsuspccting
fish for culinary purposes. They claim
ed it was very cruel to take the life of
any creature. But to my story.
They selected site for their town,
about five miles south of where Hum
boldt now thrives, laid it offcight square
and called it Octagon City. The farms
were planned for an outside border.
The people were to live
IN town, have all things
in common, tend their fine farms in
partnership, and live happily on the
good things of earth. The town and
farms looked well on paper. Their the
DRY of living was good as far as 1t went.
But some how or other their town and
farms persisted, and their country is now
held by Defeating Jayhawkers.
visited the old site a few days ago
and failed to find one stone upon an
other. Indeed, the man who lived near.
est by did not know he was near such a
city. There is nothing left of that col
ony. 1t seems but the name Of "Vege-
arianf creek. But one or two persons
in the country know why it bears that
| name.
The most of those reformers went
back east, poorer, sadder, and it is to be
hoped, wiser men. 1t was said thai
their common treasurer Jared hettel
financially than his brethren. The col.
ony formed in common. broke up as
such formations commonly do-with g
bit of row. CIR. r.
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THE PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE


AGAIN.
There are some points connected with
the establishment of college at this
place that deserve special attention. 1t
is settled fact that the Presbyterian
church will establish a college some
where in Kansas. Not simply the
church in this state but the churches in
the entire nation are back of this move
ment. The Presbyterian church has
both the culture and the means to make
this college one of the highest order.
Wherever they may locate this college
they will concentrate their educational
efforts for the state. 1t means the spend
ing of from $4,000 to. $4,000 in, build
ings; the spending of $4,000 or $4,000
a year in salaries; the bringing together
of faculty of learned and influential
men; the assembling of some scores or
hundreds OF students, and the drawing
together of cultured families to educate
their children.
In a mere business point of view,
count good college as worth more to
town than a railroad, if the railroad do
no more than pass through it. 1t will
bring people and money and business.
The village of Oberlin, one of the best
towns in Ohio, with 5000 people, owes
its existence to Oberlin college. The
city of Ann Arbor, one of the most
beautiful towns In Michigan, with TO-,
600 people, owes its prosperity to the
State University.
Wherever the Presbyterians locate
their college, they will carry this in
fluence. The thing itself is a fixture.
II is merely waiting location. If they
should locate it on the prairie and sus-
tain it, it would create a fair sized viii
lage It will certainly add that much
to any town that secures it. In a bust
ness point of view, it will be worth to
any town all it may cost.
But beyond all this, will be its elevat
ing influence on our society and institu-
tions. 1t will complete our system of
education. We have excellent public
schools and well organized Normal
school, With this college located here,
any child can secure complete educa-
ton without leaving home. Il Will
make our system of schools complete
within themselves R.C.
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PERSONAL aIENTIoN.
Mrs. F. W. Drake returned Friday
from visit TO the east.

Mrs. F. w. Drake returned Friday
from visit 10 the east.
w. II. Suppe has returned from a
business trip 10 the south and south
west
DR.. Tomlinson and wife, of New Jer-
sey are the guests of Captain L. T. Her
itage.
We are glad TO learn that Mr.. w. B.
Luther, of the Park Place, is able to
sit up.
B.A. Jones has accepted a position as
book keeper at the Santa Fe train dis
patcher's office.
Mrs. w. w. Carnage has returned
from a visit of several weeks with
friends at Jamesport, Missouri.
Mrs. Greenwood, wife of the janitor Of
the State Normal, started Thursday to
Joliet, Illinois, on visit to her sons.
Mrs. ]. r. Walkup and her daughter
Lizzie started Friday for Colorado
Springs for the benefit Of Mrs. Walkup'l
health.
Val Best, one of the solid farmers o.
Reading township, has sold his farm Il
the Patten Brothers. The consideration
was $500. We trust he will not leave
the country.
Mansfield Wells. and Edgar Gibson
who started for California in August
have returned TO Kansas and will stal
here until they can be convinced tina
there is better place to go to.
Hugh Hinkle, son of j. B. Hinkle
came in with his family from Morgan
county, ILL.,, Thursday, and will take vi
his residence here. He has been absen
from Emporia for eight years.
Mrs. J. II. Morrison, of Canon City
Colorado, arrived in Emporia last Fri
day being summoned hither by III
death of her mother, Mrs Bundrem
She is stopping with her sister Mrs
Schmidling, at the fremont house.
Mrs. r. A. Rhuland and her daughte
Alice have returned from a proiracte,
visit to friends in the east. They ar
stopping at Mr.. Madden's until they ca
rent a place OF their own. Mr.. RhulanC
who is in Colorado, will Join them i
the near future We welcome theT
4
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brought to the town by the students,
and it was estimated that the removal
of the university from that place would
depreciate the value of real property
from 80 to 40 per cent.
Scores Of other towns throughout The
country could tell the same story, end
those who know what the Normal
school has done for Emporia need not
be reminded of the benefits tina; good
schools confer upon the towns wherein
they are located It would not be ex-
travagant to say that the. location Of the
university in question at this place
would increase our population one-half
and add at least s. per cent. 10 the
value of our property
To board, clotbe and shelter 200 stu
dents would require an expenditure of
from $4,000 10 $1C0.0G0 annually. be-
sides the indirect benefits that would
accrue from saving the money now spent
by many of our people IN educating
their children at distance, and the
families who would come here for tie
purpose of educating their sons aud
daughters at home
Lyon county parents now pay out up-
wards of $4,000 annually for the edu-
cation of their children at other points
in aad beyond the state, and this amount
will increase every year as we increase
in wealth and numbers. More than
$4,000 is paid this year TO one institu-
ton in Missouri, by students from EN-
poria, and this and other like amounts
might be kept at home if we only had
the kind of institution we are talking
about; and our children could have the
benefits Of home comforts and home in
fiuence 10 broaden, deepen and purify
their education.
In this matter let Emporia, as she has
always been. be liberal, be generous, be
entcrprising, and she will add to her
wealth, her fame and her power, and be
come in fact the queen city of Kansas.
r w T.
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The EmpOria News.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. 1882
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school Notes.

Last week was busy one in school
The reception at the Office of new pupil:
was active and extensive. Eight hun
dred and ninety, eight enrolled during
the week gives an excess of seats over
pupils of thirty-two. At present there
are seats enough if they could be prop
erly utilized. In the higher grade we
have an excess of seats, but in the low
er grade we have an excess of pupils.
We are willing to be disconnected so
long as we know that relief viii come
soon. The teachers are starting well
with their work, and we will som be in
good running order. We shall be
obliged to shit the pupils around some
what until the new buildings are COM
pleted, and we trust our patrons will
forbear to criticise. c.
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Thursday morning at between z and 8
O'Clock, as w. A. Smith was driving in
from the Missouri Pacific depot, on
Sixth avenue. he met three young fell
lows who were making good deal Of
noise, and one of whom drew pistol
from his pocket and pointed it at him.
MIR. Smith drove on and before going
very far met Marshal Birdsall, to whom
he related the circumstance. The two,
accompanied by Geo. Reed, who hap
pened elong, went back and arrested
the parties near the residence of II. G..
Cross. One of them started to run. but
was caught by Mr.. Smith, and all three
were lodged in Jail. They are employ
ed en- the railroad, and the same parties
tried to get up row near the railroad
on Commercial street Wednesday with
John and George Reed and John Smith,
but got the worst of the bargain and
were put to flight after a lively engage
ment with rocks.
The offenders, who appear TO have
been intoxicated, were arraigned before
Police Judge Barnes and being found
guilty Of disturbing the peace were as,
sessed $3.50 each in fines and costs.
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Resignation of Captain Burge.

At meeting of the Emporia Rifles
held last Thursday evening Cliff
Burge rendered his resignation as cap
tain OF the company, which must be
forwarded to regimental headquarters be-
fore it can be accepted. A petition was
presented asking all of the present off,
GERS of the company TO resign with a
view of elfecting reorganization of the
Rifles on an improved basis, next Thurs
day evening. 1t is desired to
increase the membership of
the company and to make it first class
in every particular, and an invitation is
extended to all young men who desire
to assist in building up a first-class mill
tary organization to be present at the
armory next Thursday night.
Captain Burge and all of the present
officers have worked faithfully to pro
mote the interests of the company and
have advanced its standard too far to
allow the organization to go by default.
Let there be a good attendance Thurs
day evening.
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Examples of Indian Cruelty
NouthEs osnn9uiaO

The Southern Cheyennes are the bold
est and most dashing thieves of the
plains. -Four companies of United
States infantry were once encamped at
night in Kansas. The mules belonging
to the wagon train were quietly grazing,
surrounded by herders and guards. Sud
denly the CheyenneS rushed on their
ponies from ravine. Shaking buffalo
robes and yelling like fiends, they
dashed into the herd. In an instant all
were under the full Roadway of a STAN
pede. The command turned out and
fired hundreds of shots, but the bold
thieves got away with every mule.
But the most remarkable ruse, and
one creditable to Indian ingenuity and
cruelty, was tried on the Sixth cavalry.
The incident is told by an old army Of
f1cer.
capt. Topper and his sxlen were re-
turning after a hard scout, wherein
they had scattered band of Cheyennes.
One night the cavalry encamped in a
sharp bend of Mulberry creek. The
horses were hobbled and tied to the
picket rope, at each end of which fire
was kept burning, so that no one could
approach 1t without being seen. The
men were bIvouacked some little DIS
lance from the horses and well beyond
the nTeIIght. In advance of these, the
sentinels lay fiat on the ground and
watched. The camp had settled into re-
pose. when suddenly huge ball OF
flame came rushing into camp, accom-.
panied by the most terrific wells
Through and among the horses it
went, rendering them so frantic with
fear that some few burst their strong fet-
tiers and disappeared in the darkness.
In an instant and without command the
steady and well-disciplined soldiers
seized their arms, and lying fiat on the
ground, gave the Indians such fusil-
lade as 10 put stop TO any desire to
charge. Almost at the same instant the
mysterious ball of fire disappeared The
horses were soon quieted, and the camp
settled itself to resi-.
Next morning the dead body of
miserable pony was found in the mud
where the mysterious frc-ball had disap--
peared. The outside skin and flesh
were burned to a cinder The Indians
had bound light grass and every infiam-
able material at hand all over the poor
creature. Then leading him in the
darkness as near as they dared to go TO
the line of sentinels, they turned his
head in the right direction and set fire
to his burden. 1t shows the cruelty of
the savage nature.
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RIaIr q GiIIett

Blair and Gillet who purchased
the hardware business of ]. NJ. Griffith
& Co. some weeks ago, took formal pos
session ofthe stock Saturday, the inven-
tory of which has occupied nearly two
weeks. The businessi is one which is
thoroughly established, and has been
conducted with great success by there
firing firm, the members of which have
made many friends who will be much
interested in their future prosperity.
Messrs. Blair s. Gillett are known in
Emporia as prominent citizens of the
towns from which they came, and they
start in business here with the advan-
tage of enjoying, TO the fullest extent,
the confidence of the people. They
have ample means TO constantly keep on
hand such a stock as will accommodate
the large trade which they step into,
and we predict for them such measure
of success in their business as will cause
them to congratulate themselves upon
their judicious investment.
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roREPAUaH iAr PARSONS.


Two Accidents During the Performance.
Parsons Sun.
The great Forepaugh show has come
and gomez The parade on the streets
was the most imposing ever witnessed
in the city, the procession being nearly
a mile in length. The exhibitions un-
der the canvas, both afternoon and night,
however, was anything but satisfactory
to either the public OF the owner of the
great show At Emporia the night
previous the tent was badly wrecked by
a heavy wind storm, and our people
were forced to witness the circus with.
out any canvas overhead, and in the
evening the rain deprived a great ma
iority of those who had remained away
in the afternoon with the expectation OF
going at night, from witnessing the per-
Torrance at all.
At the afternoon performance the seats
were all filled. At night, notwith-
standing the rain and no canvas over
head, there were not less than eight or
nine hundred persons in attendance.
The pleasures of the afternoon per
Torrance were also somewhat married 10y
a couple of accidents. The bicycle
rider in doing his great spiral elevated
roadway act, and as he was descending,
fell from his bicycle and only saved
himself from a perhaps fatal fall by
and hanging onto the supports
along the side of the spiral roadway. The
other accident was serious, though
not fatal as many supposed who wit
messed it, fall of little boy during the
trapese act. The little fellow, Walter
Snbon, aged IL years, was thrown by
his father a distance Of sixty feet and
struck the ground just beyond instead
Of dropping into q net as was the inten- !
lion. At late hour last night he was
resting comfortably, no bones being |
broken, and will be able to be up and |
around in a few days.