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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
The Modern Granddaughter.

The new grandmother has come to
the front of late years and made her
presence felt in the most emphatic
manner. The old grandmother whom
we used to know has been shelved.
How she used to sit in the corner. al
ways in the same place, with her great,
kindly eyes watching the sparks fly up
ward from the back log in the fire.
place; how she used to be demure and
silent when there was company pres
emit; how she used to take q back seat
when the beau came in to see the
granddaughter, and how she used TO
say Eyes" when the granddaughter
asked her what to say to the beau-an
these things some of US know and re-
member. But the new grandmother is
different sort of q person. You found
that out when you were counting your
wife. How often when you called on
the latter before marriage and said
something about going to the theater or
out for supper or out for drive did
this new-fangled grandmother make
the response in first person, plural
numberP When you married, the
grandmother was around. This was
all right. Now that some years stretch
back of that event, in the evenings at
home you find that while the corroding
finger of time is tangling itself in your
hair the acknowledgements to rear up
in stateliness. She Is quite handy in
every respect. You buy two spring
bonnets instead of one. You get three
theater tickets instead of two. You
get two opinions instead of one. In
| the long and dreary winter this modern
grandma does now and then seek her
couch, and you do have a chance to
hear your wife talk. But oh. in the
| summer time, when the robins nest
again and the green grass is growing
| all around. and she comes out-grand-
ma-and sits down on the steps, and
sits and sits until ''the eternal dances
| of the midnight sky" run down, and
she continues to sit until your wife
says it is so very oppressive that ice
cream would be q luxury-then you
know how sturdy grandma is; how
much better she looks than she did.
| How much stouter than the poor old
grandmother you used to read about
when you were a boy. Brethren Cor
the quiet), have we not on this first
Sunday in spring pounded a responsive
chord in your bOsoms? Don't ali speah
at once-but haven't we?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 10.-A
telegraph wire to Battleford is apparent
ly an the ground, and when the latter is
frozen q weak current is established by
this means Word was sent from Battle
ford last night that the Indians at Frog
Lake had killed eight whites. w. URN,
nephew of the Indian agent, escaped
from the Indians and made his way TO
Battleford on Wednesday. He reports
the fate of the Hudson Bay Company'S
agent, Cameron, as unknown. Frog
Lake is 100 miles northwest
of Battleford and thirty miles
from Fort Pitt reserves. These are oc-
cupied by three bands of Crees. They
number over 200 Battleford Is sur
rounded by 1000 Indians, but no attack
has been made on the barracks. The In
dian agent, Roe, has not bsen killed as
reported. AdvIces to the Hudson Bay
company from Saddle Lake via Ed
monton and Colgary says the Indians
there have rsided the government ware
house al gone to join the rebels. Sad
die Lske is in the E1mouton agency
about 100 miles west of Frog Lake. It
locks now like a general Indian up
rising. The Hudson Bay company
have received cipher message from
the agent ~ EIlnC9 AioeIl uaOeo 1AoLCA
Dist saying: The whole populs-
ton is on our hands, am
securing the country 20 collect provis-
sions. Send -four and bacon at once.
The Indians are perfectly quiet except
the Sioux and fifty Crees, who have
Joined the rebels. A company has been
formed IN Bsttleford under command Of
Captain Nash fully armed and equipped |;
there is also home guard OF sixty
members, and the Saskatchewan river 10
now omen.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
liz MALNE LLonoR LAR.

- ~ ~ ~ - Ia " OA~ @N~A "
The amendment to the prohibition
law in Maine went into operation Tues
day. A dispatch sent to the New York
papers says that tor the first time IN
many years all drinking places are ef-
tectually closed. The law Is so vigor-
ously enforced that ali the
hotels have closed their bars and refuse
to serve liquor to their guests even in
their private rooms, and the authorities
are constantly on the alert for violators
Of the law. Even the railway trains and
the steamboats, that arrive at the ports
are closely watched.
One strange feature about the present
status of affairs in Name, is that the
saloon men and -prohibitionists
make no effort to evade the
law, but submit without a
struggle. It seems that Maine that has
tried SO many years, the prohibition law,
is still improving it, and at last the
whisky element tired of the continued
struggle to out-strip the law and sell
and drink what they please have finally
succumbed. It will probably be some
time yet before the "anti" element IL
this state submits so gracefully. Kan
sas factions never give up sfghi.so lonG
as there Is hope, and hansans always
hope so long as there is life.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
BLAOK,s RLAnKNRss


As the days OF Democratic admins
tration roll around, the errors bubble up
and float on the surface, showing that
the forces beneath though they ap-
pear to work reform are as subtle and
deceiving as the mirage of the desert.
Gen. Black, commissioner of pen
sions, and mentioned as a probable can
didate for the Senate from Illinois, has
exhibited the true spirit of the Demo
Gratis in asking for the resignation OF
Miss Ada Sweet, United States pension
agent at Chicago. Not that he
asked her to resign, but In the manner
and purpose Of his asking. In the open
telegram he sent her he said: "You will
readily appreciate the fact, which 1
gladly state, that there is no reason per-
sonal to yourself or TO the management
OF your Office which induces this re-
quest" Miss Sweet replied that she
had discharged the duties of her Office
with an eye single to the interests of her
charge, and that as her commission
would not expire until 1886 she pre-
ferred not 70 resign.
The following dispatch from Wash
ington exhibits the true inwardness OF
the request and also shows Blacks
blacknees.
'Some ten years ago Miss Sweet was
appointed by General Grant to the Of
fee which she now holds after the death
of her father, General B. j. Sweet That
she has been capable, faithful and eff
ficient officer is admitted by
Commissioners Black. Why 1t should
have been thought necessary to use the
telegraph TO transmit the demand for q
resignation to take place three months
hence when 1t could have been trans
mitted by mail in twenty-four hours
may seem inexplicable to some persons
but the reasons are not difficult to dis
cover. On Tuesday was held
the election for city officers II
Chicago. and Carter Harrison is the
Democratic candidate tor mayor. The
hungry and thirsty" Democratic "strik
ers'' who have been faithful hitherto il
consideration of the municipal spoill
dealt out to them with SO liberal hand
have shown q disposition it seems 4
strike for higher wages. They wanted
to know when, if ever, the spoils of fed
eral Office and employment are TO fal
within their grasp, and whether it b.
true that the president intends to ALLOW
Republicans to remain in Office until tn
expiration of their commissions, am
their representatives in Washington
warned the administration that If thi
should be the policy at Washington tn
first important political contest of fh
year would result in Democratic defeS
in Chicago. The warning was heede
and lest the assurances would be too lai
|, If conveyed by the mail it was dispatch
ed by telegraph
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

The following story is going the
rounds of the press: "Trees have been
found in Africa watch are computed TO
be $3.50 years old, ard cypress in Mex
leo is said TO have reached still greater
age. The Oldest tree. IT not the Oldest
living thing upon the globe, is the cy-
press of Santa Maria del Tule in the
Mexican state Of Voxaca. The life of
this venerable forest monarch has
SPAWNED the whole of written history.
At last accounts it was still growing,
ana in 1s41, when Humboldt saw 1t. it
measured AZ feet in diamter, 126 feet in
circumference, and $50 feet between the
extremlties OF two branches. We are at
loss to tell which is the biggest" the
tree or the story.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
One Meal a Day.

Just now when perhaps the cheaper
ing of living is. of more Importance,
temporarily at least, than the most
finished craftsmanship, the example of
a man up in Massachusetts who had
been subsisting and performing the
average work that farmers in the rocky
soil of the Bay State usually perform,
on one meal per diem, may be regarded
as an interesting exhibit, if not exam
ple, of what may be accomplished in
dieto-eeonomics. As he is said TO bear
himself with un-Yankeelike slowness
at table, the probability is that the
weight of food consumed does not
amount to more than that furnished to
and carried away in dyspeptic shape
by the average individual at the thirty
minutes-for refreshment railroad sta
tions. Yet it is within the possibility
that a man who has evidently devoted
so considerable attention to dietary
affairs may have so systematized the
habit and necessity as to have built out
of them science and art, in which case
it is not beyond belief that he has
| demonstrated that in eating, or IN
many other things, the truth OF the
adaGe ssthe more haste the less speed
| holds pre-eminently true. However, as
/ to the quality it is fair to believe thai
/ it is not so large by one-haf as whai
| he would have eaten had he continued
| intermediary man. His theory
| was at the outstart that man consumed
more food than necessary, and really
| more than is conducive to health, anC
| he seems to have proven this.-PtttS
burg Telegram.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

University Courier: A most pleasing
reception was teLcered the board of re-
gents last Wednesday morning, as they
(their first meeting after their reorgani-
z4tion) appeared on the faculty platform
In the chapel. Judge Otis was the first
to respond to hearty call for speech,
to be followed successfully by Judge
Peck, Prof. Fitzpatrick, Judge Smith
and Messrs. Mitchell and Simpson, all
of whom were most enthusiastically re
ceived. The students of the Kansas
State University can well feel proud of
their board OF regents.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

Richard White Grant who died at
New York, on Wednesday, was born in
May 1922 He graduated at the New
York University il 1889. and was al
mitied TO the bar in 1915. While wait
ing for practice he made his first at
tempt az literary writer. and in 1857
appeared the first part OF his edition
of Shakespeare. Words and Their
Uses" appeared in 1865. and is one Of
his best works. For more thsn thirty
wears Mr.. White has been contributing
articles upon literary matters and art TO
the magazines, and his productions have
always been highly appreciated.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

During recent storm at Washington
the Washington monument was repeat
edlv struck by lightning. Even the
platinum tip OF the monument was un-
injured. Platinum Is of blush white
metallic lusire and is one OF the most
resistable metals in existence and is IN
affected by atmospheric action.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

A bill has just been introduced into
the Ohio legislature to prohibit the sale
OF intoxIcatIng liquors within q radius
of four miles of any educational of Sun
day school meetings. A very good bill.
Let it pass, and then csll every school an
educational meeting. That would Ge
nearly as good as a state prohibition law.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

j. Harley Brock, an active newspaper.
maker, presents in The Current of April
IL his views on Traits IN Modern Journ-
alism." He finds some things to CEN
sure, his opinions being frankly out
spoken, though provocative of criticism.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
A MoDEL sERMoN.

Il should be brief; II lengthy it will steep
Our hearts in apathy. our eyes in sleep,
The duh VIII yawn, the chapei-lounger doze,
Attention nag, and memcry's porta-s close.
It should be warm, q living altar coal.
To melt the icy hsart and warm the soul;
A sapless. dull ksraHgue, how ever read,
IL should be simple, practical aud clear,
No fiae spun theory 70 please the ear,
40 curious lay TO tic ale lettered pride,
Ana lsaye the poor and plain unedIded.
It should be manly just and rational,
Wisely conceived and well expressed withal,
Not stuffed with silly notions. such as stain
a sacred desk and show muddy brain.
It should be mixed with many an ardent
prayer,
To reach the heart and tx and fasten there.
when God and man are mutually addressed,
God grants q bIessing-mBn IS truly blessed.
Walnut Valley Time
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

Lord & Thomas one of the best and
most reliable advertising firms in the
United States, now have charge of the
entire advertising business OF most of the
religious papers of Chicago and the
northwest. The publishers are thus re.
lIeved OF much labor and lose no &C.
cDnntS
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

Russia, England and the United States
still go on preparing for war. The for
mer two in the line of guns, ships and
ammunitions, and the latter in the man.
ufacturing of canned meats. The
United States will make more money
ont OF the war than the power that wins
Afghapiston
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
a Great D1soorau.

aava. GMv wife has been eeriozsiv al
fected with 9 cough for twenty-five
years, and this spring more severely
than ever before. She has used many
remedies wIthou. relief, and being urged
TO Try DIR. Kings New Discovery, aid
so. with most gratifying results The
first bottle relieved her very much. ant
the second bottle hiss absolutely cured
her. She has not had 80 good health for
thirty years" Trial bottles free at B
Wheldon's drug store Large size,
Al m n
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

A Shanghl journal says that the vice
roy of Youn Nan and the Kweehong
provinces has ordered ell the Roman
Catholics settlements destroyed and thst
all Catholics and foreigners be killed.
1t is said that several hundred people
have already been killed. The prospects
of war seem to have made the Cinnamon
raying mad
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

1t won't do to put confidence in Dem
ocratic statements. Last fall Mr.. Hen
bricks made public speeches and de-
clAred that there was q surplus IN the
treasury of $2Oo, O0O,o 600 A Democratic
investigation only accounts for see, 000,-
600 Hendricks should either be held &C
countable for the SITS .OO0.0 900 difference
or be set down as man estranged from
the lrufh
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
wonan,s Fore,en MISSION.

New YORK, April 9.-The woman's
board of foreign mission of the Presby-
terrain church. continued its session to-
day. Officers elected for the ensuing
ear were president, Mrs, o. B. Hub
bard; vice presidents, Mrs. VIM. E.
Dodge, and other ladies; treasurer, Mrs.
G. p. Hart. Home secretaries, Miss II.
w. Hubbard, Mrs. 81. W. Humphrey
and Mrs r. A. Booth. Foreign secre-
taries, Mrs. Jasper E. Corning and Miss
NJ L Post. and corresponding secretary
Mrs. W. 3. Waller.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

A New York doctor has written the
Tribune a long article in which it de-
lends the poor dogs that must go muz-
zled for fear they will 20 mad and spread
hydrophobia. AS the doctor has not
completed his examination why would
1t not do TO assist him in his beneficial
labors-send all the dogs in the country
to some lone isle, and the doctor too,
and when the public Is ready for it, call
Tor a rar,nrA
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

1t wasn't Barrios that Mexico hated !;
IN FACT she doesn't hate any one in
Guatemala. Mexico loves Guatemala
dearly, and whom she loveth she chas-
teneth. Mexico VIII declare war, and
Guatemala and Mexico will be united.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

A bill has been introduced into the
New York legislature to prevent the
moneyed people from building tall
buildings in the large c'ties, as they sf-
feet the health OF the poorer people sur
rounding them, by cutting of the sun
hight. Why not supplement- this with a
bill 10 prevent the erection Of colossal
fortunes. they not only cut of: the sun
hight from their poor surroundings, but
lots Of the good wholesome necessities
of life.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
Too Much Intimacy.

POPLAR BLUFF. Mo-, April Ga
bloody tragedy, growing out of family
troubles, was enacted here last night and
caused great excitement. Louis Derry
q member of the city council and at one
time city marshal, struck his wife four
times, killing her instantly, and then
blew his own brains out. Jealousy is al.
legged as the cause of DerrY's act, he
having accused his vile of being too in
innate with another man.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
Purchasing vessels

WASHINGTON, d. c.. April, 11.-It is
stated on authority OF naval officer that
the Russian minister to the United
States has eadeavered to sucure the ser
vices of q naval officer here, in purchas-
ing q number of small vessels, used be-
tween San Francisco and the Sandwich
Islands IN transporting sugar vessels.
They are 20 be used as the ofhcer says in
preying upon English commerce 10 the
japanese and Indian waters, should war
be declared bstween Russia and England
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

An EnglIshman living in China writes
to home paper that the position of for
eiguers ia China is not materially
changed by the war with France. Skat-
ing remains the principal amusement
and balls and receptions are frequent.
The inhabitants are ignorant about the
affairs of state and do not seem as much
concerned about the war as the visiting
foreigners.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
LIST OF LANDS
For Sale by the
NEWS LAND AGENCY.
For Sale by the

II.7. 80 acres; 80 acres In cultivation. .
acrss timber: lSo s6Te0 GSst en- oRo ss0Se
house, rooms; Eood orchard; miles from
Emporia, Price, sao per acre .,... h.,.,,.
land, fenced and cross-fenced with hedge; 9
good orchard; good twc-story frame house q
water; niles from Emporis. Prizes. g, 80.
Ils7. A farm OF 50 aeres arst-cless eSesoH
gocd one and half story stone house. nm
finished; 3 miles from BmPoTiA- Sf1cS' tO.oo"-
IL. AZ SO acre farm, all fenced, % acres
In cultivation, young orchard planted, 5000
stone iagging underneath. soil good. ahund;
SoSss ana ali II @Gles fro@ knpoTia ree a.
iils $50 acres, all fenced, 60 acres In cuIti-
vation, small house, permanent stock water.
j mile TO r O. and raj roso n1Aa sNs : W
Iioi' a farm Of so4 acres. all fenced. leO in
| frame house rooms. barn Sc Z 81 we'll Anisn-
/ ed, apple and peach orchard. good soil, good
location, miles from EmporiA' terms easy
iiei' Alarm of $40 acres, all fenced. 100
S Sotso "a G SS taiiinH Waser small orchard
house Of rooms. near school ans miles from
SO se Hcss s:sE a rSs fsnSSS and
Sc9ss under u sorss tinSsr, ne
ming stock water in graVel-bottom creek
| range first class and permanent; frame house
| of one story ana four rooms; orchard Of SOC
| bearing apple trees, 800 young apple tres
} lust commencing to bear; $50 peach treesi $
, cherry trees and some small fruit; II nile1
from EmPoria; az miles from railroad sta'
: ton; X mile from school.
: 1l50 An Eighty acre bottom Iarm,
ali fenced with hedge; house has seven
siT MI es fom Imports.
lbs Eighty acre farm with bottom land
+: timber and water. small house. good orchard
. 1iTs so acres an fenced 90 acres in cult
\ walton 10 acres timber. 30 acres bottom. res
second bottom. water Dow creek and good
| well, good range, good stable and coFFels
2 small house, Emporia IL miles, railroad Eta
= ton miles, school miles. Price - Pc
. acre.
1I6I. go acres al fenced, 90 cultivation, .
N acres tiAber, leo acres bottom. mile neve
q falling running Wates, fair buildings, SINAI
}; orchard, Rmp0ria miles, railroad station
u miles, shool mile. Price 1850. on cas-
tennis
n tracts varying in size. from 20 acres 20 30
hole sections, we'll watered and averaging
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

India rubber worms, did you eyer
see any? Well the first time you pass
one of those street vendors of worm
candy he will show you bottle full
of them but If you want to see genuine
worms give q wormy child Whites
Cream Vermlfuge, 1t brings'em.
old by d. W. Hainer. az
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

Kansas City Times: "Leavenworth
has not asked for an extension of time
says the Standard. "She is abuDdantly
able to pay the $4,000 whenever it is
required" And thereupon the able
financial editor dropped into contigu-
Gus reiectory and stood of the proprIe-
tor thereof for sandwich.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

The Atchison Champion after the
election of s. Il. Kelsey as mayor, look.
ed very much like boomer" and q
few copies of II distributed IN the north
west might materially aid in putting
down the Riel rebellion. It's columns
were headed by smoking cannons while
the stars and stripes waved VIGOROUSLY.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

A street car driver in Atchison is q
graduate Of Yale college aud his wife
was formerly one of the first bellies of
Rochester, New York. Atchlson must
be a cultured town even its street car
drivers are graduates. Why not call II
AthensY
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

A standing official notice has been
gwen by the mayor of Des MONIES,
Iowa, that on the death of General
Grant. the bells of the fire department,
the public schools and the cAurches
will be tolled whether the death occurs
dining night or dav
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
Bank Failure.

NORFOLK, Va. April 9.-The Farm
ers' bank of this city did not open at
the usual hour this morning. A notice
was posted on the doors stating that the
bank had made an assignment for the
benefit of its creditors.
The liabilities of the Farmers bank
are almost q quarter million, assets not
stated. The cashier says he expects
20 pay IN full. The assignment of all
property of the bank is made IN the in
terest of creditors. All of yesterdays
deposits will be returned.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16

Moore, the Times candidate for
mayor, was elected at Kansas City. The
Times consequently is the bravest paper
in the country, and will now renew its
fight for the "boomers" without fear OF
TREMBLING
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
Shat Dead

CHICAGO. April 9.-Just before noon
one of the strikers at the Mccormack
reaper factory attempted to stop one of
the company's buses on the way to the
works. A P;nkertoL detective inside
the bus shot the man dead. Trouble Is
feared.
Themas Clouch, who made the assault
upon Melville Stone, editor of tie News,
while the latter was at the polls, was
fned 400 TODAY.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
BarriOs' Death Confirmed.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 9.-Mr.
PenaIts. Costa Rican minister. to-day
received the following cablegram from
the president of Salvador:
SANTA ANNA, April9 We confirm the
complete victory at Chalshuapa and the
death of President Barrios and son
Don Nenancia
CSigned1 ZALDIvAR.