The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-03
NOrEs And NOTIoNs.


Providence seems TO be sgainss Wall
street. No wonder. It is time that hot
bed OF corruption should 80.
Wood-cut illustrations in the cam
paigu papers serge ons good purpose, e
least-they act ~ q terrible warning 70
keep many good man cut of politics.
Umbrella merchants are fleeing from
New South Wales. where thsrs has been
norain for twelve months. If they want
to strike 1t rich let them come 70 Kan.
sas.
Atchison Globe: A Truly Good Man
having announced his intention of Re.
forming the Universe, and, mindful OF
the fact that It took God week to make
it, modestly declined 10 complete hla
own job under Sixty Days.
Philidelphia Press: The demand which
comes from out Of the West for coin.
age of hGlfcent pieces is accounted for
on the Hypothesis that William English
OF Indiana, contemplAtes making 9 con
trIbutiOn 10 the Bartholdi pedestal fund
Adrian HIT, the cowboy poet Of
Texas" who recently started to tramI
from New York to San Francisco, will
on his way, peddle copies of his works al
ten cents apiece. He says he will take nj
train or ferryboat, and will take to the
mountains in preference to the plains
He expects TO average thirty miles day
except on Sundays, when he will lay of
and write poems on the events of the
work.
The Moody revival campaign in Eng
land seems TO have been eminently sue
cessful. Thirteen different meeting
have been held every week. He est
mates over one million and q half per
sons present at the services. All classe
of society were reached and Influenced
Peers and paupers sat side by side drink
ing the message of salvation. Tn
number of persons converted will reacl
into the thousands. Among them wer,
some prominent skeptics.
There is no force in the argument o
telegraph monopolists that the great dis
tsnces Ia our country make it impossl
bic to offer the public cheap rates OF
messages. The chief expense In tn,
business is in sending, receiving and de
livery of messages. The distance makes
q very trifling difference. Let any com
pany reduce their tariff twenty-five o.
thirty per cent and their business weulC
double and treble in few years. 1t i
q cash business. The telegraph SHOULD
be as accessible to all the people as tn
mails.
The Rev. Robert Laird Collier in speak
ing of London, says: "There is no mis-
taking the American anywhere. On tn
streets, In the galleries, at the theatre.
he is to be met. For one, 1 am Away
glad to meet him. He is the heartiest
frankest, all in all the truest man to b
found walking in shoe leather. He l
different from all other foreigners j
London. He speaks the same langusg
as the EnglIshman. l can Instantly III
derstand all he is saying, and SO it
that his voice and intonatIon and acceI
seem somewhat unframed, and, perhap
just the least bit underlined"
Globe-Democrat: The current year
immigration will not quite equal that I
1888. Still, with over half a million a
rivals there is nothing to complain Of
unless it be held that fewer would l
better for US than more. This opinio
seems to be gaming ground in som
quarters not hitherto suspected of know
nothiDgism. The logical sequence I
the exclusion of AsiatIc cheap labor
the exclusion of European cheap laboI
, and DEMONSTRATORS in favor of the latte
policy are not unknown. But what
to become of the theory that AmeriC
offers an asylum for the oppressed mil
ions'' of the ''effete despotisms?"