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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-12-13
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New York Tri5unr: The maltii'lics-
ton OF textbooks is = growing evil Il
our pubic schss.i system which should
attract tie careful attention of school
officers and teachers every With
in the past few years almost every text
book has been developed and expanded
into SERIES" a child is given ST
eight years old '.primzy" arithmetic
Next year lac Is promoted Ia = higher
class aRd must be provided with an .'In-
termediate" arithmetic. A year or t~o
later this must give place Ia q new VOL
ume bearing the imprint. 'common-
sch00l" Further on he drops this end
secures q grammar school" or facade
mIc'' And before his commOn-schOol
education is flushed, he must add, per-
haps, q 10 legiate' or 'uniyeTsity''
arithmetic 20 the list. Here are four or
| five books. costing his parents. or the
public, under the free book system, three
four, or five dollars, which he must have
if he would keep his place in the arilh-
metic class. In The grammar. geography
and other classes the same system pre-
walls. The scholar, during mis- six or
eight years course, must be provided
with from four to six tcxt books for each
study pursued
But this system Is not to be CONDEMNED
because of it's cost, though that be bur-
densome. Cost must not be considered
when Intelligence is at stake. The mag
nItude of the evil is in this fact, that be-
yond certain limit, the more books q
scholar has TO study, the less ne learns. In
others, numerous textbooks and frequent
changes, are substituted for personal IN
struction by the teacher; and inevitably
with bad results. fthe teacher had the
proper ability and opportunity. he or
she could teach the scholar all that is to
be learned in schools of arithmetic, OF
OF grammar, or of geography, from not
more than two books to each study.
Bot, with some, through Incompetence
or carelessness, with Others through
lack of time because of too large classes,
very many teachers have become mere
machines for listening to parrot like rec
itations and recording marks" The
scholar, made to depend entirely upon
his books, must have those books chang.
ed every year or two. 10 suit his expand
ing comprehension. At eight he com
mits to memory the primary" at ten
the intermediate" at twelve the 'com-
mon school," at fourteen the
grammar school !" at sixteen the "uni-
versity." From first to last he commits
10 memory and recites by rote; and
when he gets stuck" aud asks for in
formation, he is told, "Look at your
book and see what it says" and gets
demerit for dullness.
Authors and publishers encourage
this system; for the more books they
sell the more money they make. Many
teachers and school boards, acting as
publshers' agents, encourage it for the
same reason. The parents who buy
the books, and the children whose
search for knowledge is bewlldered by
q multiplicity of guide books but pauc-
ity of guides, are the losers. If the mon
ey that is wasted every year On worse
than useless textbooks could be applied
70 hiring more ana more competent and
more earnest instructors, our school eYs-
ness hundred per cent.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-12-13

Chicago Herald: The most stagger.
ing blow which the enthusiastic admir-.
ers of Samuel ]. Tiiden have received is
the announcement that he is preparing
to turn over his GramercY Park mansion
with its costly library and rich works OF
art, to the city Of New York. Dana and
Waterson have insisted for months that
the ex-governor would not, under any
circumstances, accept another presiden-
tial nomination, but the supporters Of
the old ticket idea have refused to be-
lieve them, holding that at the proper
moment Mr.. Tilden would announce
himself candidate.
To this class OF patriots the intelli.
gence that the old gentleman has begun
the distribution of his worldly effects
will come with crushing force. The
man who Is busily engaged in closing
up his earthly affairs, and presumably
making his peace with God, Is certainly
Beyond the reach of q Democratic nomI.
mating convention. Unless the New
York veteran can prove that he is moi
giving away his valuables, the Herald
fears that he will haYe to be hidden 6
fond farewell,
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Asnitoba's authorities having ayerred
that ia their dfy atmosphere cold is not
more severely FELT AT SO degrees below
zero than il Is 81 zero in the humid air
of Great Britain, and that building
operations are carried on all winter IN
Manitoba. writer ia tie Kansas City
Times says: The thermometer al de-
grees below free zing point in England
causes more discomfort than when il is
60 degree, below in Manitoba; and, In
fact, the lower the thermometer goes the
less is the cold felt. owing 10 the extra.
ordinary qusntliy OF oxygen in the air
II is no uncommon sight in Manito0a,
when the mercury registers SO or 60 de-
grees below zero To see settlers walking
about in their bare feet and with
shirt sleeves rolled up, enjoying 10 the
fullest extent the ozone In the atIncs
phere, aud instead of building opera
tions being suspended ia winter, il is q
remarkable fac, that as the cold increas-
es building work increases. and the NOR
tar becomes so plastic as T. render it a
work of considerable difficulty for the
bricklayers to spread Improperly. la De-
cember and January, when the days
ploughing is finished. the settlers are
constantly in the habit of allowing the
fires to go out IN the evening, while they
sit outside on the porches in the warm
winter moonlight and listen to the de
iightful warbling of the nightingale in
the neighboring woods"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-12-13

st. Louis Globe Democrat: Rev. Mr..
Utter, of Chicago, who attempted to
show, through an article In the North
American Review, that the memory of
John Brown should not be respected and
honOred, has gained good deal of ad-
vertising, but he has at the same time
been placed in very unpleasant atti-
tude as writer of history. The facts
upon which he relied to prove the rug
ged old hero hypocrite and repro
bate turn out to be not facts at all, but
idle and malicious gossip long ago thor
oughly refuted. HIS article has served
the timely purpose, however. of renew.
ing interest in the life and character Of
man who died for principles sake and
love Of his fellow men-"and his soul
goes marching on" Mr.. Utter, being a
clergyman, will no doubt take carly &C.
casion to acknowledge his error and re-
tract the unkind things he was led to say
of noble Christian and martyr.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-12-13

Web Wilder has purchased the Herald
at HiaWatha and merged it into the
World, giving that paper circulation
of 5000. This is good thing for the
people OF Brown county. Wet. Wilder
can cover the whole newspaper field
there and in such a way as few other
men in this state could do. He writes
much about Kansas things and with a
degree of interest with which none of
his contemporaries invest their work un-
less il may be Prentis, of the Champion.
Well venture the assertion that there
is not an editor in Kansas who exehane-
es with the World who does not know
it by the wrapper, and this familiarity
with any paper serves as an index TO its
distinctive character and place in the
newspaper world. The World, under
Its present management, has always been
so good that we doubt whether it can
be made much better, though it affords
US pleasure TO note that its publisher
and proprietor is anchored to Kansas
by an investment which win make him
fixture in state to which he belongs
by the supreme law of natural affinity.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-12-13

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
|heproduces from its old files the follow
ing extract from a speech made by Mr..
John G. Carlisle when a candidate for
eongress in 1876. The speech was de-
iyerOd at Cynthiana, Ky, October %,
l679. and was reported rerbdtfm. Mr..
Carlisle said:
deny thatt the United States is q ma.
licn. 1t is q vicious system that has
destroyed sovereign states and oppressed
nlne millions OF people In the south. II
state has no right of secession, she
certAinly has the right Of revolution.
The Republican party wants another
amendment TO tho constitution. Why
/ DO they want ng Is itnot that the gov.
aFnment shall take the school fund Into
/ Its own hands, and appoint q commits
aioner who shall select the teachers and
Beries Of books TO be used In
the schools, and your child and my
child be denied the right to learn the
Alphabet except in snch . book as shall
reach them TO forget Washington, Jack
ron. Jefferson, and the statesmen Of Vir
|giniA and the South? But the day vii
come when South Carolina will, undel
'IDomocratic rule, take her place beside
Virginia and other sovereign states, anC
rid herself of the barbarous politica
'lhuzzards Of the North that have fed Oh
| liner carcass for the last eleven years, anC
robbed white and black without dis
.criminafion.
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suing for slave.

ST. Louis, Dec. 6.-Furtber iacts ~
garding the suit soon to be brought be-
tore the count Of claims at Washington
for the recovery oil Tie value of slaves il.
Texas. ara as follows: Il is alleged HAT
Texas was admitted 20 Iha nai..li under
peculiar and different circumstances
from those oil any Other state. AID this
action will be brought in gos,d faith on
the advice OF some OI iii;, ts,-s i.ass gers in
Texas and without the i.iesl nf Creating
political excitement. The Ttegnsia;io.lS
tor thu nHs-XsstIoa bi Texas began
during T'yieF's administration, and joint
resolutions prnyitsIRg inr tie annex alton
passed 10y cs'ngT, 50 hid we're approved
by the president II ,Fch 1, 1915.
These resolutions contained cos,di-
| tioEs and guarantees, the most
significant al which. in regard 20 the
present case. are as fellows: Sect'Ca g.
New states of convenient size, II ex-
I'cee1Ing four III number, a aG-
dition to the said state of
Texas, and having sufficient
population, may hereafter. by oonseut of
said stat. be formed out of The territory
thereof, which shall be entii1ei 90
admission under the provisions
of the federal constitution and such
states as may be furGled out
of that portion of SAID terri
tory lying south of 80 degrees
a1d so minutes nsSrth Iatituia, c.Dm
monty known as The Missouri cGmpFom-
| lisa; line, shall be admitted intD the union
vith or without slavery. as states seek.
Ing admission may desire. The
Texans took advantage of this
and in framing their stats constitutions
under which they would be willing 20
come into the ualon, they stretched
the slavery guarantee to admit which the
LAWYERS OF the present day think makes
the United States government responsible
for the loss of slave property At the
| next congress of the United States this
constitution was submitted, and pro-
vOked long and bitter struggle, and 1t
is noted thst the clause ia it on
which litigation Is based was then
pointed out as not only objection
able but dangerous and virtually
making congress guarantee the
property. The constitution was
. finally accepted, however, and the joint
resolutions adopted admitting Texas.
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st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Senator
Edmunds does not feel at all dIshearten-
ed with respect to the suppression of
polygamy. He has "reason 70 believe
that the legislation already adopted is
operating favorably TO the end desired,
and if il can be supported and supple
mented by legislation which the CON-
mittee, on the occasion Of the passing Of
the former bill, stated they expected to
bFlng,n he has "no doubt that with good
administration, without which all laws
are useless, we shall gradually exnrpate
the crime" The Senator promises %
brng the supplementary bills needed
before congress this winter. If aitcs
congress has suppressed polygamY, II
will separate Mormon politics from the
church, it will have settled the Mormon
question. bat the latter will proye 8
much moe difEcult job fhaA the former
There will be room to be thankful, how.
egeS, If polygomY is put down.
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1t is to be hoped that congress win pay

It is to be hoped that congress will pay
some attention to Secretary Teller's rec
ommendatIon in favor of civilizing the
Indians by compelling them to go 10
work and earn their own living. There
is more good sense in a suggestion OF
that kind than in ali the elaborate and
profound theories that have ever been
evolved for the solution of the Indian
problem. The noble red man will never
be anything but burden and a vaga-
bond as long as the government is will
ling to support him. Let him be forced
to take care of himself as white men
have to DO, and the matter OF his destiny
will be very much simplihed not to men,
tion the saving of the money it now
costs TO maintain hmm in Idleness.
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Capital Cullipr.

WASHINGTON, Dc 6-Johu g. New
has called = meeting of the Republican,
and Democratic Congressional delegates
iron Indians II his roOm5 in the treas
Dry building On Saturday to take meas
Gres TO secure the meeting of both Re
publican and Democratic national con
ventlons at indianapolis.
a large delegation of ladies and gen
tlemen from the American Humane AS
socialion, who are now ia session here,
| called at the white house to-day aud
paid their respects to the president
The secretary OF the interior rejected
the application OF the mayor and city
council of LeAdvIlle TO enter certain
lands for TOWNSHIP purposes on The
ground that the greater portion Of said
lands are patented rs placer claims'' or
reserved Tor hospital and cemetery pur-
poses Such portions of land, however,
not already disposed of may he held sub
ject to entry by the city.
The bill introduced to-day by Senator
Ingalls,. to amend the homestead laws,
provides that section 2.301 ofthe revised
| statutes be amended so as To read as
follows: Nothing ia this chapter shall
| be so construed as TO prevent any person
who availed himself of section 2 $50,
from paying the minimum price tor gov
i CsAAiCHS luA40 % CuSCGCQ a. SuI L1LllS al
| ter two years from the date ef the en-
try. and before the expiration of i've, and
obtaining patent therefore as in other
cases, on making due proof OF c0mpli-
Hnce with the Homestead laws up 10 the
time OF making proof; that notice OF the
| intention to make final proof under the
homestead and pre-emptlon laws, re-
Quifed by an act OF March 8, 1879, shall
not be Raven noc shall final proof under
said laws be made until after twelve
months from the time when the entry or
fling is recorded in the local land office
a. provided by Lag, irrespective of the
date OF settlement on land prior 10 such
entry or filings that the FIST section of
acceptance by locA! land Offices of relin.
quishment OF public land entries and
the re-entry of land, without action by
the commissioner OF tina general land
Office, be and the same Is hereby re-
pealed.
The tenth annual reunion Of the Ma
tionsl Association OF Veterans of the
Mexican war begun to day. with a large
attendance. General Denver, president
OF the association, called the assembly to
order and introduced Captain Merrick,
who delivered en- elegant address of wei
come, which was responded TO by Gen
eral Denver. General Rnsecrans spoke
hopefully of the prospect of securing
pensions for veterans. Various COM
mIttees were appointed. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: president. General Denver; first
vice president, General Mansen; secre-
tary, A. NJ. Kennedy: treasurer, b. ".
Miles. Resolutions were adopted that
the survivors of the Mexican war had
never received the rewards due citizens
and soldiers, and in the opinion of this
convention they should be laid upon
the pension roll on an equality with the
survivors of the war of 1872. Copies of
the resolutions were sent to the pFesI-
dent, senators and representatives.
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Atchison Globe: A Community OF
Capons having long witnessed with In
dignatlon the LaWless Career of che Fox,
imported 3 venerable Cock endowed
with great Lung power. with whom they
took counsel in the Premises al am
for discriminating the Criminal" said
the Old Bird, "but - that may seem "a
Extreme Measure. I will Suggest a'Sim.
pie Remedy: Euzzle hint" The I'D.
vice was received with Frantic Enthusi.
ssul. aad the Venerable Chanticleer left
town with 9 Liberal Fee, and In e WhiEl
wind ofApplause. Bot a the next meet
ing II was found that the Old Cock hat
omitted 10 mention How it was 20 b,
done. Each Fowl present had . Per
sonal Objection to taking q Prominen
Part In the Glorious Work, and on,
young and tender rooster went so fal
AZ 70 say that he hsd aNo SymDethy
with any Star Chamber Proceeding"
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The Inter. Ocean of Nov. 20, said
"Just fifty years ago today the first Chi
csgo newspaper was issued. One hun
dred and forty-sevcn copies were worked
of, the editor being also printer snG
publisher, all combined. MF.John Cal
houn was the embodiment of the art o.
printing in all its notifications, so fal
as this town was concerned. To day
there are more than 1000 compositors il
the city whose entire time is devoted Z
composition. That one newspaper, thG
Democrat. has developed by q natura
process of evolution into 275 regular
publications, dailies, weeklies and all.
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Atchison Globe: A gentleman from
Topeka informs rs that the prose
cutlon of whisky sellers in that city IL
being pushed forward with energy.
Zimmerman, one of the most prominent
saloon keepers, has thrown up the
sponge, and closed his establishment
Prominent prohibitionists OF Topeka
declare that every saloon in the city will
be closed within sixty days.. and they
claim that within three months such 8
thing as selling liquor openly will be
unknown in the state. The prohibition
lists are much elated over the result Of
the late elections in Atchison and Lea
YenWorth.
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Kansas City Times: Civil Sersics
Commissioners Thoman, appointed pei
reason of his strong intellectual atsri
butes, was recently heard asking hov
many days there ere in October, and
upon being told, delighted the clerks b,
humming that charming poem. begin
ming "Thirty days hath September
Tals vast acquaintance with the iitera
ture of the language saves Mr.. Thomal
much ANNOYANCE.
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ss,.,or Fdmnn1iss nm - ~ =,

Senator Edmund's bill for the prosec-
ton Of civil rights, provides that when
any material question shall arise in q
state court concerning any civil nights
property, which shall be assailed or de-
MED. any such issue or question depend
ing upon or affected by race, color, OF
previous condition OF servitude of any
persons, the case may be removed to the
United States circuit or district court
and where an adverse decision has betn
rendered in civil rights case in state
court, "A appeal lies to the United
States eouIts
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Governor Pastison vetoed an appro-
priation ball providing for the pay Of
the legislature for an extra session on the
ground that that body did not attend &c
the business for which it was convened
This may be craftsmanship but it affords
9 precedent which viii be regarded with
grave apprehension by men who make
living out of politics.
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Mr. B. WheldOn ways WIDE awake
in his business. and pares no pans e
secure the best Of every article IN his
lire. He has secured The agency for
the celebrated DT. King'saeW discovers
for consumption The only certain cure
known for consumption. coughs, colds,
hoaEseness. asthma. hay lever, bron-
chitis. or aay affection Of the throat and
iuHga Sold on positive guarantee. Will
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size 81. go
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Chicago News: II is said that when
Frank James heard the news from the
Democratic caucus in Washington, he
raised his streaming eyes 70 the stars and
exclaimed in q voice choked with emo
ton: 81 thank thee, o heaven, for thil
glorious Tlndication of my sainted
brosherl Now that am avenged, lei
thy servant depart in peace" And
with this. he coughed up quarter Sec
ton Of the west lobe of his lungs, and
feebly proceeded with compiling the
list Of Missouri freemen he Wiahed hi
jury drawn from.
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No fewer than 1000 bills and resOl

No fewer than 1850 bills and resolu-
mons were introduced into the Forty
seventh Congress, and only . few hun
dred OF them actually passed. If the
FortY-elghth Congress does not wish It's
Regulation to be encountered and clogged
with the weight of an overburdened calen;
dAr. like its predecessor, il should take
early steps to guard against the modern
\ tendency 70 carelessly and uselessly
|. food both houses with bills. Last win.
tier an act was passed to afford some re-
4lief 70 congress and the executive de-
parlments In the matter Of investigating
claims against the government This
|nw viii probably be OF some help 70
lfe present congress-.
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Sunao ScOrehed.

PETERSBURG, Va, Dec. s.-The Su
mac warehouse of e. II. Mccullough, a
Blacks and Whites, this state, was SCI
IRE last night and q half g million
pounds OF sumac is almost q total loss
It was feared for q time that the whole
town would fall prey TO the flames
The ire department here was tclegraped
for, but the order was counteFmanded
es the fire was under control. The losI
is heavy, but the amount Is uncertain
at present; partly insured abroad.
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Finally Acquitted.

KANSAS CRY. Dec. 7.-After a third
trial, n. V. Jones was to-day acquitted
in the criminal court of the charge OF
murder. The history of the case is
briefly as follows: In the spring OF
1882, Geo. Grant, cOlored. resisted ar
rest for larceny, and killed Patrick
Jones, policeman. A mob the same
night hanged Levoy Harrington, color.
&c. mistaking him for Grant
NJ. V. Jones, a cousin of the de.
ceased, was charged with lead
ing the crowd which hanged
Harrington, for which he has just beer
acquitted. Grant, the murderer, is now
in Jail under sentence of death, which
has been deferred, a stay of. execution
having been granted by the supreme
court
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IaaDasparate strait.

CIECINHATI. Dec IA Cayres, local
ticket agent for the Cincinnati North.
ern railroad. arresteds last night for en-
beZzlement. made q most desperate at.
tempt this morning Ia the central sta
ton house 20 commit suicide. He cut
his Wrlstswith . brokea glass ehd q shar,
pened adpencil was thrust deeply into
his neck. He also used pocket comb
in the effort to cut his throat. He says
he did this at 2 O'Clock and then lay IL
the utmost agony, hoping for death. He
Is q young man of good family. His
friends claim that his mind is In sn IN.
balanced condition.
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Many nice delIcacies are often spoiled
by the flaYorings used in them. and gen.
orally their having been spoiled IS at.
tributed % the cook. NoWlf DR.. Prices
Special Fiavoring Extracts are Used,
vii not be spoiled, as they always IN
part their delicate fresh fruit flavor in
Yhsteyer they may be used
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An aged colored couple In Terre
Haute, Ind. who have had twenty five
children. four OF whom were killed in
the war. decline pension, saying that
the government had done enough for
them in emancIpatIng their race.