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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

THAT was very foolish mob at Bir-
mingham, Alabama, that went III such
a noisy fashion about lynehing Dick
Halves, the murderer of his wife and
daughter. Hanging bees like that are
arranged under cover and carried out
stealthily, so as not to arouse the au-
thorities. 1t is to be hoped that they
viii manage it more successfully the
next time; and if not too much trouble,
they might carry an extra bit of rope
for Sheriff Smith, who richly deserves
it for ordering his posse to fire into and
kill and wound any number of his
toWnsmen. The man who will shoot
down his neighbors in defense of a
bloody murderer is ripe for the rope.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Death of Mrs. Pollock.

at her home in Center township,
eighteen miles southwest of. the city,
Mrs. DIX. Pollock died Monday, after
an illness of about two weeks. A little
over year ago she was married to Mr.
Pollock. The blow falls very heavily on
the young husband as well as her pa
rents and friends.
She is better known to many of our
young people in this city. as Miss EN-
ma Gilman, who. a few years ago.
stopped with her grand parents in this
city and attended our schools. She was
of a very modest and unassuming dis
position and her acquaintance rapidly
became warm friends.
The funeral services were held Tues.
day at the residence at 1 o'clock, and
the remains were inferred in Bitter
cemetery. Rev. j. L. Hervey of this city
conducted the services. The bereaved
husband and family have the hear tfelt
sympathy of the entire community in
this deep affection.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

The question of starting butter and
cheese factory is purely business one.
It Is solely question of dollars and
cents. VIII it pay2 How much is there
in it? OF what advantage is it? These
are the questions by which il must be
tested. First then of what advantage
is it? To town in which factory is
located there is this advantage-it
brings to that town daily forty, fifty,
or maybe one hundred farmers who
viii buy more or less goods every day.
1t makes that point their permanent
trading place; it puts into circulation
monthly from $500 to s., GEO; it gives
employment directly and Indirectly; it
relieves the merchants of handling a
vast amount of butter, on which though
he pay but a small price for it, he an
nuau loses a considerable sum. It
gives him more cash and less credit
trade: it builds up town and makes
it place of Importance. Now what is
there in it for the farmer? 1t gives
him a cash market for an article he
has got or can easily produce, that he
cannot without factory, realize
money out of. 1t is true he, or his
wife. rather. has made few pounds of
butter weekly which has been taken
to the store and traded for goods at
the rate perhaps, of pound of butter
to pound of soap, or pound OF dried
apples, or few boxes of matches; but
this is not realizing money out of it.
Now how much can he get out of his
milk through the factory Suppose a
COW gives ten quarts of milk a day;
and this sells for two cents g quart; that
would be twenty cents day;
month would be So. Suppose the far
mer takes reasonable care of her in
respect to feed, shelter, etc, she will
then keep this up for eight or nine
months, and he will realize the
neat sum of $50 for the milk for one
season. Twenty such COWS will make
their owner 81 $50 in eight or nine
months, 800 month or more. Many
farmers can keep this number and
milk them easily, Suppose there are
four in the family who can milk, this
would he five cows apiece. An hour
in the morning and the same time in
the evening will do the milking, and
another hour will get 1t to the factory.
No great task this for 500 a month.
Again, in community whore there is
no factory, COWS are slow sale at SIS to
SIS. Immediately on the starting of a
factory, good COWS are in demand at
$25, $50 or S35. Farmers, especially
you who are feeding $50 worth OF milk
to calf that will bring you from s. to
50, think of these things, then act in
your interest; get a factory in your
community, and so help yourselves to
competency.-Norwich News.
Emporia has creamery.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

WELL, it is rather funny business
after all. We speak of the debate on
the senate tariff bill.
There seems to be an evident pur-
pose on the part of western senators to
demand a reduction in several sched-
ules. at any rate SO goes the talk.
The bill as framed by the senate and
submitted as the very best that it could
do, as the acme of tariff legislation, as
an embodiment of the republican idea,
is now to be put on the stocks and over
hauled from keel to turret and modified
in many important particulars. Per-
haps it needs it.
But what Will the manufacturers
say? They accepted the bill as
prepared by the senate as salts
factory, and on the; the strength
of it submitted to the fat
frying process cheerfully. They bled
freely. Their money carried the day.
or at any rate they think so. Are they
to be swindled in this fashion out of
their reward? VIII they not feel that
they have been made the victims of a
confidence game?
VIII they stand it? 1t may be asked
"What can they do?" Much. They
can do lots, dear friend and fellow
countryman. Their representatives in
the senate. if obnoxious amendments
are insisted upon may recommit or il
some other way kill it off for the pres
ent. That is what can be done, and
what probably will be done, if western
senators persist in the plan now fore.
Swallowed of lowering the rates on &
number of important schedules.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
JOHN e. MOORE. n. D.
. r u G. CTS II,
SOC Commercial Street.
READING NEWS.

READING, Kans., Dec. 1.-THE beau
tiful weather for the past two weeks
has given the farmers chance to husk
out their corn.
L. Severy & Son shipped in train
load of cattle from Texas on Monday
for Winter feeding.
Henry j acoby is having sick spell.
the first for ten years.
Mrs. Mary Z. Jones and her dapgh-
ter Jennie are about to return from
Colorado and again live in Reading.
Coal is down to eight cents at the
bank. and for all that some people are
seldom known to buy load, but still
use coal stove.
Reading has a splendid society OF
Young men. Our schools of late years
have had the tendency to elevate the
moral tone of society and induce our
Young people to cultivate manners that
lit them for usefulness in the commu-
mites in which they live.
The young men have organized
brass band Of eleven pieces aside from
the drums. DR.. Cranston is the leader.
The boys are doing we'll. There is also
a reading club that meet every week.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

To punish the sAloonists in St.
Louis for their alleged treschery in the
late election many Missouri democrats
VOW their determination to work for
the enactment this winter of q saloon
license bill high enough in its provi-
sions to be practically prohibitory.
This would be all right if it did not
play directly into the hands Of the
republicans who in spite Of their
feigned horrors for such an alliance,
would be glad to join hands with the
obnoxious dispenser of the ''liquid
.hell'' in order that they may rescue"
the state from the t'mossbacks.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13


An interesting marriage ceremony
took place this forenoon in the parlors
of the Fifth Avenue hotel. The-We
can hardly say contracting parties, for
there was not much of a contract about
it as will be seen further on-bride and
groom were young man of twenty
two and a handsome young lady of nine
teen, both of Ford county. Justice
Evans was the high priest of the occa-
sion, and tied the nuptial knot with an
old sailors dexterity. Why shout |
Ford county people come to Emporia
to be married? A very natural inquiry.
Well, there might be many good rea-
sons therefor. The reason in this case
was this:
The young man loved Clarinda-that
is not her name, but it will do. For
two years they kept company with each
other. Stern parents came between
them and the realization of their fond
est hopes. Their love became Illicit,
with the natural consequence.
About Thanksgiving the fact be-
came known. Then the parents
saw the propriety of as early
marriage as possible. Search
was made for the young man. He
had fed. The search was continued
even into Missouri and then to this
city.
A deputy sheriff, armed with thu
necessary papers for his arrest, anC
accompanied by the young lady, ar
rived in town Monday. The youns
mans trunk was found in the city
He had gone to the country presum
ably in search of employment. Tht
officer kept his eye on the trunk, vel
knowing that the owner would sool
turn up. The officers patience wa
soon rewarded. Yesterday the youn,
man came for it. He was nabbed ant
the irons slipped on his wrists. HI
was given the alternative of marrying
the girl or-He accepted the girl ant
cheerfully too, for he went to the sac
rifice to-day in the best of spirits, re
joiciDg that last he could call her hi
own.
So ends this hymeneal chapter, witt
the addendum that ''AIl's well tina
ends well.''
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Teachers Meeting

A largely attended and highly profit
able teachers meeting was held in Gar
field building Saturday afternoon.
The different sections of the county
were well represented and the pro-
gramme was good. Among the dis
cussions was one on the establishment
of libraries in country schools, led by
Prof w. Fl. johnson. A resolution
was adopted to the effect that the sew
eral schools in the county should give
entertainer is ON February 22nd, and
charge a small admission fee, the pro-
ceeds to go towards the establishment
of libraries in the respective
schools. The association holds its
next meeting January 18th.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Ths HolidaYn.

AMI the colder winter weather are
now rapidly approaching. The joyful
season is eagerly anticipated by young
folks in thousands of homes; but in
nearly all there are one or more older
ones to whom the cold waves and the
storms mean renewed suffering from
rheumatic back or limbs. It is not
claimed that Hoods Sarsaparilla is a
positive specific FOR rheumatism. we
doubt if there is or can be such rem
edy. But the remarkable success
Hoods Sarsaparilla has had in curing
this affection is sufficient reason for
these who are suffering to try this Pc
cular medicine.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

THE Topeka Journal raises its voice
in condemnation, denunciation we
might say, of the ''crowd of old car
buncles swelled to enormous proper
tionsn who now come forward to de-
mand the government offices at the dis
posaI of the administration. The
journal very properly says that these
old fellows who fed for twenty-four
pears at the public crib should be sat
isfied. They have had their share of
the Of the loayes and fishes. To the
young men who have been doing the
fighting belong the honors and the Of
fieaa
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

Mrs. a. Fl. Rich died at her residence
on Rock Creek yesterday at the age
of -twenty-seven. She has been sick
for some time with typhoid fever, but
the immediate cause of her death was
congestion of the lungs. She leaves a
husband and three children to mourn
her untimely death. The funeral ser
vices will be held to-day and the
remains inferred in Cottonwood ceme-
tery.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

THE author of 1.-The Quick or the
Dead?" thinks newspapers are not ele-
waiting. Perhaps not. Not nearly as
much so as one of her novelettes,
whose spicy suggestions, if a man
should undertake to duplicate them,
would elevate him in such way that
the descent would in all probability
break is neck.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Rsporf d PIrnauth eohool.

For the month ending November D.
1888. Number enrolled up to date, IS;
number enrolled this month, So.
Honor Roll Samuel Bennett. Ross
Bennett. Those averaging 90or above:
Grammar Grade-JOhn FIickinger,
%; Guy Walker. 90.
Intermediates ade-Joh Mcmillan,
80: Maud Bishop, 30: Lille F1ickinger,
90. CLARA a. MACY.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

The Woman's Relief Corps at the
last meeting elected officers for the
coming year as follows:
Pres. Mrs. Hattie 5. Graves; S. v.
P, Mrs. j. N. Griffith; j. V. p. Mrs.
Mary Nj. Knox; Treasury, Mrs. lisa
Penny; Chaplain. Mrs. Keziah Melon;
Conductor, Mrs. Domm; Asst. Con-
ductor. Mrs. Waldo WOrster; Guard,
Mrs. Burchfield; Asst. Guard, Mrs
Richer.
Delegates to State convention, Mrs.
Branch, Mrs. T. NJ. Jones. Alter
mates: Mrs, Griffith, Mrs. McMurtrie.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

THAT Alaska is not the poorest of
our territories is shown by the report
of its governor. That official states
that one of the small islands belong
ing to the territory has enough prec-
ious metals in its mines to more than
pay the national debt. The fish catch
last year amounted to $4,000, 900. and
the supply is apparently inexhaustible.
There is enough coal in Alaska to
supply this country for centuries to
come, and the gold diggeSs are very
successful.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

WE learn from the Hartford Cab
that Prof. Hamill. the elocntionist is
to invade Hartford December 18th with
a choice selection Of recitations and
''Shsksperean Representatives It
is lucky for the professor that he does
not choose to ges of a few ''personall-
ties" Even Brother Means would be
ready with his shillaly to. resent cor
duct so unprofessionai. We hope the
professor win be sufficiently ''imper-
sonaln to please and instruct the am
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

FARMER SMITH couldn't be govern
or. He now thinks he hears "a call''
to the pension agency managed by Gov.
Click, Anything but farming for the
man who prides himself on being
known as Farmer Smith,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

COMMON folks, especially dwellers in
Indiana, will take comfort in hearing
that the king of Portugal has the
chills, and that his nobs will be dosed
with the same nasty vulgar quinine
that plebians have to swallow.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

A YOUNG man at Garnet who was to
be married during the holidays suicided
Monday night by firing load of bird
shot into his heart. How much better
it would have been, or at any rate how
much more in keeping with the mod
ern style, if he had married and pro-
cured q divorce.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

The Globe-DemOcrat makes threat.
1t tells the democrats that if they de-
feat Golf of the governorship of West
Virginia, they will make him very
prominent candidate for a place in
Harrison's cabinet. If Harrison can
stand such catastrophe, the demo-
Gratis should not be disturbed by it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

o. L. LEONARD of the Lawrence
Journal has been appointed president
of Haskell Institute in place of Gen
eral Robinson, resigned. AS Mr..
Leonard is a republican, appointed by
a democratic administration, his polIt-
ical friends will no doubt approve of
the quality of civil service in the ap-
pOintment.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

KENTUCKY has just sustained a
great loss in the death of one of her
best known and most popular citizens.
We refer to w. II. McBrayer the man.
ufacturer of the McBrayer brand of
bourbon, the most popular and high
est priced whisky made in the United
States. All is not lost, however, while
the distillery remains. Thousands
who have worshiped for years at the
Shrine of Bacchus viii drink libations
to his memory in bowls of rich and
mellow 'McBrayer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

CHIEF OF POLICE HUBBARD of Chi
cago appears to be endowed with an
unusual amount of good, firm back
bone. Orders have been issued by him
prohibiting any further meetings of
anarchists. Let the order be executed
to the letter.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

'tcHIEF" the big elephant weighing
10000 pounds, belonging to the Rob
inson circus is to be killed by electri-
city. When not on the road, his home
is at Cincinnati. ''Chief'' is SO vicious,
having killed three keepers, that he
has become useless for show purposes.
Hence the reason for getting rid of
him in the only way possible, as he
won't get sick and nobody viii buy
him.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

MARSH MURDOCH outrivals Mrs.
Malaprop in the use of terms. He
now calls Secretary Whitney "the syn
ecdoche of all the political dudes In
America" All that Marsh needs is
an index to be comprehensive work
on philology.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

ToTEKA has just had prize fight.
The stake was $3.50. Instead of parad-
ing the amount of the city's weekly
clearances, we would advise the Jour
nal to give more attention to sporting
matters. Nothing so well illustrates
the metropolitan and bustling charac-
ter OF a city as an occasional prize
fight. Behold Kansas City.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

Your opinion of the presidents
message depends on the complexion of
your politics. If you are a democrat
1t was patriotic, able and wise pro.
duction. If a republican it was the
surly growl of disappointed ambition.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
FARMER FUNsToN is q very choleri

FARMER FUNSTON is very chOleric
gentleman. He is not satisfied with
the appointment of Editor Leonard, a
republican, as superintendent Of Has
kell Institute. The irate Farmer" is
a good deal of humbug it seems. If
the appointment of neither democrat
nor a republican will please him, what
wiII9
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

SOME one says that clean sweep of
the offices at Washington would re-
move as many republicans as demo-
Gratis. If this is true, the situation
will be rather embarrassing for the
new administration, or at any rate for
the ''clean sweepers.''
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

FIELD MARSHAL MURAT HALsTEAD
says that "the election of Harrison
will not help any monopoly on the face
Of the earth" Hurrah for Harrison
them Some people thought other
wise
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

SENATOR SHERMAN is practicipp a
look of amaZement for the eventful mo-
ment when he is offered the portfolio of
secretary of state.-State Journal.
Not much. He needs only to take out
of the alcohol the well preserved ''look
of amazement" which he relast June
when the Chicago convention sat down
on him so unexpectedly.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

a DEMOCRATIC editor-one of the
smart Alec fellows-suggests that
one of the new cruisers to be known as
commerce destroy ers'' be called 1.-The
TARIFF.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

An Atchison father wants to turn
himself into father-in-law. To
hasten the desired contamination he
offers to settle an annuity of two
thousand dollars on whomsoever will
sacrifice himself by marrying his
daughter. This item is inserted for
the benefit of a number of Emporia
bachelors anxious to raise the wind.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
REGENTS REPORT.

Sixth Biennial Report of the Board Of Regents
and Faculty of the State Normal, for the Two
Years Ending June 80, 1883.
Through the courtesy of President
Taylor, we were shown this morning
an advance copy Of the sixth report of
the regents and faculty of the normal.
Many very encouraging things are
found therein and the school certainly
has bright outlook for the future.
After few general remarks on the
progress of the school during the past
few years, the report then goes into
detail of the expenditure of the $25, 600
appropriation. 1t was found neces-
sary to expend 81 200 over the appro-
priation on account of changes in the
specifications and the addition of wa
ter closets. When the wing was COM
pleted the heating apparatus was found
insufficient. Old boilers were taken
out, reset, one new boiler added. and
other expenses incident to the work.
amounted to So 300, and the legislature
is asked for an appropriation covering
this.
1t is recommended that the north
end of the Normal grounds be sold and
that the lots on either side be pur
chased. thus making the grounds
wider and preventing the building of
stables, outhouses, etc., near the
scoool building. Estimates for the ap-
preparations needed in the next two
years are given.
In the presidents report are many
interesting facts and suggestions. The
table giving the attendance for the last
seven years shows that from an attend
ance of 4O2 it has grown to s75. THE
last figures being the attendance in
'S7-'SS). From a representation of
forty-one counties of the state then,
we now have pupils from eighty-two
counties, and instead of only eight
states being represented, we now have
fifteen. In regard to the nativity OF
last years pupils, we find 1874 are Kan
sans, while Illinois comes next with
l25 and the other states are far below,
Indiana being the next, with seventy
nine. Another interesting fact is that
large majority come from the farm
ing classes of the state. Four hundred
and four of last years pupils are farm
ers' children, while thirty-five are from
the homes of carpenters, other trades
having a still less representation.
On memorial day it was found thai
800 soldiers families were represented
Out of AIS that reported 800 had .haC
experience in teaching. Suggestion
are thrown out as to the future needi
OF the school in the way of extending
departments for manual training, de
partments for training special teach
ers, etc.
In the pamphlet Is a cut of tn
building as it now stands, and ais
floor plans OF the building. The bool
contains very valuable information ii
regard to this deservedly popular insti
tuition.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

SENATOR HAWLEY is sixty-two
years old and for the first time in
his life, father. He is said to he
very proud of his young daughter,
preferring that distinction to the pres
ideUoy
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

Suicides appear to be increasing. On
one day of last week six took place IN
New York city. Why is it? Why are
SO many getting reckless about living,
and growing enamored Of the grayeY
How does it come that death has lost
its terrors for so many, who instead OF
waiting for it in fear and trembling, go
forward to embrace it. wooing it with
dose Of morphine, laudanum or a
chunk of lead from an English bull dog.
1t is not the aged, nor the hoDelessly
i'll, nor he whose reason is temporarily
overthrown by some dire misfortune
that gives himself the ''quietus. The
young, both men and women, strong
men and beautiful women, all go about
shuGiing off this mortal coil, as they
would snuff out candle.
Not SO very long ago, it seems to us,
the most loathed earthly life was, in the
language of the bard Of Avon, a para
disc TO what we feared Of death. Is it so
now? To many, yes. TO other many,
no. Why? Answer it who can. Some
thing, perhaps, in our modern civiliza-
tion, in our broad and latitudinarian
system of religion, in the growing be-
lief of a no hell.
This latter, the conviction that the
ills they bear are greater than any they
can fly to is perhaps, responsible for
more suicides than any other one thing.
Inspire people with the doctrine of
birthstone and blazes preached by JON
athan Edwards, and you minimize sui
cides. Remove the effect of such doc
trine, the fear of the hereafter inspired
by it, and what is there to prevent the
o'erwrought and wearled traveller from
laying down his load, and sinking into
a dreamless repose.