The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-05-21

fractions. We are not quite so gOoo
looking as you are in your holiday attire
away from home, but we are odd bust
ness VIXEN it comes to corn, wheat, flour
and cattle. Do you mind those
awards the jurIes made? Do you
see these blue ribbons in our
hair and knotted here and there over
our wheat straw dolman and our COM
colored polonsise? We were kind of
an orphan child with not much money
left US, but with good material in our
composition. Please convey, Miss
Dakota, our kindest wishes to Misses
Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Cali
fornia, New York, Texas, Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Missouri, Tennessee,
Kentucky and all the rest of our sisters.
Tell them to cheer up and perhaps they
will make better impression upon the
jury of awards at the next worlds fair :"
About the base of the COM
manding figure and seemingly doing
homage to so worthy a queen, are other
objects, real and representative, OF our
great states resources. A huge map
shows Kansas as she is, with 4, 300 miles
of railroad, 3S2, 1856 school children, 6, 423
teachers, {, 1856 school houses, nearly two
million cattle grazing on her
pralries, as many hogs, and
twelve hundred thousand sheep to
feed and cIothe large portion of the
worlds inhabitants. Stacks and pyra-
mids of round glass balls, filed with
corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, etc., are
labelled "Kansss Ammunition" and
show our defences and means of attack
to be well fortified. Fort Scott crock
cry, Eldorado stone, PittsbuIg lead, coal
sugar, sorghum and silk, speci-
mems of woods, Leavenworth organs
mammoth exhibits of fine flour from
Fort Scott, Lawrence and Winfield, large
cabinets and cases showing the medicines
of the Brown company of Leavenworth,
and the tones of Lsis of Lawrence, all
warranted to cure the ills iasepar-
able from the south and the
states beyond our borders; q
gorgeous display of eYapOrated fruits
made by the Plummer company of Leav-
enworth, of whose excellence 1t is only
necessary 70 say they captured numerous
first premiums. Our own VIM. Hol-
lIngsworth's preserved fruits are promi-
nent, and his Immense pears were the
largest the writer noticed.
Our readers were the first to know.
which Immediately afterwards was
known to tho whole country, of the Kau-
sas triumphs; of the grand array of
premiums she took with her display,
costing the state but $1,000, while
the states OF New York, California and
Texas gave $50, 900 each, Ohio, Indiana
and Minnesota 1900, Nebraska. Wis
consin and Illinois 100000. Iowa $685.
600, and.so-torth.
Kansas not only secured big amount
of display and local advertising for the
money, but she had the goods TO back 1t
up. You were promptly informed on
on the 1st of May how our state beat
the world on winter wheat, on white
and yellow corn, on -four, on sorghum
sugar, and on apples and on other arti-
cles. !. was May day indeed tor Kan
sas at New Orleans The competition
of other states was strong, the contest
hot, but the victory ours. 1t Is but plain
justice 10 say that these triumphs were
not secured without hard work and un-
remitling efforts, in the face of great
oddg no Tnu nisSinnar RacOp and
his assistants Van Clesve of Oskaloosa,
and Captain Asby of Neosho county.
We are personally aware OF the strong
fight they made with the good, but some
what hampered weapons of limited
quantity, but an excellent quality.
At the Kansas headquarters, and
indeed everywhere else, people
from our state were hand
somely entertained. A neat and
cosy room, fitted up with chairs and
tables, provided most comfortable rest
ing place where the Kansan could sit
down, write letter, meet folks from
his own state and read any of a dozen
state daily papers and hundred week
lies all kept regularly on file.
Since the New Orleans dispatch 10
THE News was sent, Kan
sas hiss been awarded other
premiums, of which she may well be
proud. Among these are the first pre-
NUNS gwen the Kansas farm wagon
and the Kansas spring wagon made at
Leavenworth, in competition with some
twenty wagons of the best manufacture
of other states. The Goodlander mill At
Fort Scott took the blue ribbon for the
best corn meal IN the world.
Kansas women did not take the first
premium at the Worlds fair, but
only because they are too
modest TO enter for competition, but the
handiwoTk of women of our state is there
and eXcItes wide and most favorable
comment. THIS department is allotted
space in the gallery of the government
building along with the woalen's DIS
play OF the other states, and Is in charge
of Mrs. Augusta Wilson of Par
sons, who has labored most
diligently and faithfully to make
this department credItable to the state.
She has done this, We understand, toe,
at her own expense and under trying
circumstances which would have utter
" discouraged many q man. Mrs. Will
son is the generous hearted lady who in
stituted aud founded the public library at
Parsons with its handsome building and
store house OF books and newspapers for
the use of the good people of that town.
We noticed in the newspapers of New
Orleans many kindly mentions of this
exhibit and the lady in charge. One Of
the most noticeable displays here is the
large silk exhibit of Mary Davidson of
Junction City. In it is shown beauti-
full blue banner woven from silk raised
by the lady from Usage orange leaves,
the embroidery and devices worked by
her from cocoons and raw
silk of her own raising.
Mrs. A. B. Supple, practical photog-
rapher of Parsons, exhibits specimens of
her excellent work. Mrs. DR.. Taylor
OF Lawrence, and, by the way, the first
woman graduate from college of den.
tistry, displays mos, creditable evidence