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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

ADMIRAL LUCE, at the head of a
squadron, is on the bounding pillows
bent for the insurrectionary island of
Hayti. Unless the Haytien Republic is
released before he arrives, look out for
something lurid. He will paw his re-
spects to President, King or Emperor
Legitime with ouch cannon salvOs as
would shake the isle from its propriety
were it not already in volcanic state of
turbulence and bloody war. Uncle Sam
uel has been very patient with Monsieur
Legitime's lackeys, but does not pro-
pose to suffer them to gallop all over
his manly frame.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20


vain. Every few seconds the immense
bell would ring out. Thus it contin-
tinued for over an hour.
When the first thoughts of IRE
were driven from the minds of the
rudely awakened citizens, the mellow
tones filed their hearts with giadness
as if they had met an old friend.
About month ago the clapper of the
college bell disappeared, since which
time it has remained mute. Half of
the clapper was returned several days
ago, and the ringing at the early hour
this morning announced the return OF
the other half.
Who carried it awayP Who returned
it? Ask of the boys who were out al
night that night.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20
KANSAS NOTES.

Cunningham signs for creamery.
Phillips county is infested with the
White Caps.
The great disideratum at Lawrence
is shoe factory
For ten days no one has fallen off the
state house at Topeka.
A 81 pound lobster has been caught
in the Ninnescah river.
The state bar association meets at
the state house january s.
Abilene thinks there is gas in the
neighborhood that wants vent.
At Usage City a stove pipe came in
contact edgewise with John A. Mar
tins nose with the usual result.
The Gueda Springs bath house cost
ing $40. 900 will be finished this week.
Sanitation is the thing at Gueda.
Judge WelIhouse of Leavenworth
county has 437 acres in orchards. This
year he sold 10000 bushels of apples.
Mcpherson has lots of what Is vul-
garly called sand. She has bored into
it to the depth of $50 feet, need we ado
to no purpose?
The Leavenworth Sun kicks" about
the caste in that city. a young man
was expelled from dancing club be-
cause he was only sergeant i'll the sig
nal service.
The Horace Messenger thinks it is in
1.-The interest of every poor man in Kan
sas'' that the Oklahoma bill should he
defeated. Horace contains at least one
natural freak.
The Winfield Courier kicks because
the Salvation Army there charges 10
cents admission to its Saturday night
meetings. Can't the editor ''work"
the captain" for few ''comps?"
John Fewman, a COwly county farm
er out hunting stopped to talk to some
friends. He set the stock of his gun
on the ground and leaned with both
hands on the muZzle. The gun was
accidentally discharged, and the sur
geon amputated the remaining frag-
ments of one hand
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20
Pals. Alarm.

Thursday morning about 4o'elock
the citizens of the northwest part of the
city were aroused from their peaceful
slumber by the vigorous ringing of the
college bell. A number of persons
thought the college building OF some
structure in the vicinity must be on
fire, and waited with almost breathless
interest for a response from the city
Gre hell. But, happily, they waited in
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20
TIE SOUTHERN QUESTION.


Ultra republican journals demand
that the basis of representation in the
south be reduced. The Louisville
Courier-Journal suggests that the
elective franchise be taken from the
negro instead. In either case the re-
suit would be the same. For our own
part we can see but little difference
between the two modes of settling this
veXed question.
If the federal government should ex-
ercise the power vested in 1t by the
fourteenth amendment, and lower the
basis of representation in the proper
ton which the negroes bear to the
whites in the southern states, would
not such an act be tantamount to dis
reimbursement?
Would not the result be the same as
If the negroes were in terms denied by
the government the right to vote?
OF course they are not so denied by
law. but a diminished representation
in the electoral college is, and must be
based on the admitted fact that they
are denied the right to vote by some
body-a denial and abrogation which
the national government recognizes,
confesses and indirectly indorses.
Diminished representation is predi-
cated on actual existing disfranchise-
ment. Without the latter the former
could not be.
Now the fifteenth amendment saws
that negro disfraneisement shall not be.
Its express language is that 1.-The right
of the citizen to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States, or by
any state on account of race, color or
previous condition of servitude."
Neither the United States nor any
state shall so deny or abridge the right
of the citizen to vote,
What fS1owss Why this, that low
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THE Topeka Democrat calls the pay
of our state legislators "a beggarly pit
tance" and says that it should be SO
day. Perhaps it ought, but what is it
to the Democrat? If the members
themselves are satisfied with their pay
why shouldn't the Democrat be salts
fed. They are the doctors. NOBODY
drags them by the nape of the neck in
to the state house and compels them to
serve the state for "a beggarly pit
lance" Whenever they get tired of
their present pay they will increase it.
The uremedy is in their own hands.
Besides, there is well defined belief
current that the services which these
solons render the state are already
sufficiently well paid.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

lie ever you get crippled under the
hat-allowing that you are not so al
ready-and feel that you are bigger
than anybody, your malady will be
called softening of the brain, unless
perchance you are very wealthy. In
that event you will suffer froma much
more polite and aesthetic malade du
tete called ParesiS,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THE late election has made great
man of General Harris0n's son Russell.
The cattle firm in which he was inter-
ested in Montana went up the spout
the other day for over seven hundred
thousand dollars. Now the young man
is in New York on diplomatic mis-
sion for his father. We shall look to
hear of great things from Russell.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

JEWISH circles in the cities of the
east. are to some extent agitated over
the question of a Sunday service.
The experiment has been tried in a
few instances in Chicago, New York
and Philadelphia, and seems to give
satIsfactiOn
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THE rumor is abroad once mo e that
President Cleveland's mother-in-law,
Mrs Folsom, is to be married, this
time to a Chicago man, Henry F.
Merritt at present consul at Chenlnitz-
The marriage will take place in the
spring when the birds begip 10 mate
Later-The rumor is mailed" by a
relative as absolutely false"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

STICK to Kansas. You think prOba-
bly, that you can do better, but you are
mistaken. A reputable gentleman
went from Wichita TO Washington
Territory in hopes of improving his for
tunes. He now writes back to warn his
friends against following his example,
and to say that Kansas is far more de-
sirable place in which to live than the
humid territory by the sound.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

The November of IA the grassnoper
year, had the greatest snow fall of any
November since the records of the
state university have been kept. The
following year, or 70, and for a series
of years the crops were splendid. The
greatest November snow fall since
then was that of last month, being
twelve inches. The precipita-
tion for last month. including
both rain and SNOW, was the greatest
of any November in the history of the
state, being Asa inches.-Wichita Ea
gle.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20
A Good Appetite

Is essential to good health; but at this season
It is often lost, owing to the poverty or impu-
rity of the blood, arrangement of the digestive
organs, and the weakening effect OF the
changing season. Hoods Sarsaparilla is
wonderful medicine for creating an Appetite
toning the digestion, and giving strength to
the whole system. Now is the time to take
1t, Be sure to get Hoods SarsaparilIa.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

EIGHTY-FIvE thousand dollars
think of it-paid recently for the Eng
lish stallion Ormonde, by an Ameri-
can. Nothing is too good for the
Yankee. When he took fancy to
Jumbo, the big fellow had to come.
The price was the last thing consld-
cred. So with Ormonde, whose blood
will go far in this country, where fast
horses are so much admired.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

AN immigration convention is in
session at Montgomery, Alabama.
devising ways and means to encour-
age immigration to the south of ''intel-
ligent and energetic" people who will
ploduce more than they consume. :"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

The empress of China rules the coun-
try, and she is just now spending the
surplus trying to turn one of the larg-
est rivers out of its course. This pre-
posterous scheme shows plainly enough
that women are no filter to govern than
men, in spite Of the argument of the
Kansas +. 5. A.-State Journal.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

BEN BUTTERwoRrH of Ohio is too
busy trying to annex Canada to the
United States to make the race for
speaker of the house. Consequently he
has stepped out of McKinleY's way.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

CoNGREss seems bent on going into
the monument business. There are at
present before that body bills for the
following monuments:
To William Henry Harrison, 500, 900;
to Zachary Taylor, $50, 200; Valley
Forge, $50 600; Nathaniel Green, $780,
900; Daniel Morgan, S25, 900, George
Rogers Clark, $25, 900; Gen. ]. Warren,
S15, 900; Washington's mother. $20, 900;
Battle of Trenton. $50, 900; John A.
Logan, 0,O00; Battle of Point Fleas-
ant, $25, 900; prison ship martyrs, $780,
600; Newburgh monument, $4,000;
General Knox, $25, 200.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THE physician who accompanied
Robert Garrett around the world now
brings IN bill for thirty thousand dol
lars. 1t is worth it. The man that
could endure to examine his pulse and
tongue and take his temperature as well
as the countless spurns that patient
merit of the unworthy takes, is entitled
to all he can get.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

MRS. FRANCIS ANN RERECCA TOP
is Michigan lady, who contrary to the
rule among her sex, loves to tell her
age She is 10 years old, and both
chews and smokes, but never drank
whisky, save only once when she Law
six days in snow drift, and thought
she needed "a drop Of something y to
warm her blood little.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

KANSAS would like to see her son
Ryan speaker of the house in the next
congress without doubt. The contest
at present seems to be confined mainly
to Reed, Cannon and Mckinley. Mr..
Ryan's day seems destined to come la
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

GENERAL HARRISON does not know,
but thinks that probably he is de-
scendant of the Cromwellian Harrison.
He is fortunate if some of his posterity
do not, in years to come, talk IN the
same doubtful manner about their re-
lation to him.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

If things continue at the present rate
in Sedgwick county the time will come
when it will be inhabited only by old
maids and bachelors. The records
show that people are getting divorced
there faster than they marry.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THE momentous question agitating
the east at present is--did or did not
General Harrison use the word per
sonally'' in imparting to New York
World reporter his knowledge of Ed
tor Dana's hostility to Cleveland in
the late campaign. At last accounts
the dispute was still warm. The funny
part of it Island perhaps it is not so
very funny after all-that the contro-
versy is carried on mainly by those
who know nothing about it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20
THE Panama canal appears TO bel j!

THE Panama canal appears to be in
a bad way. The Credit Foncier will
not advance any more money to the
company unless the French govern
ment will guarantee payment of the
bonds. This it is not believed the gov
ernment will do, for fear of clashing
with the Monroe doctrine should it at
tempt state control over the canal.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

CHAUNCEY DEPEw will not accept a
place in Harrison's cabinet. But the
ministry TO England-well that is a
different matter. AS the American
minister at London has but little to do
besides making elegant after dinner
speeches, Chauncey thinks he can fill
the bill to at, and so he can.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

The county commissioners met Fri
day to approve bonds of county and
township officers. They completed
their work Saturday and adjourned.
s. V. Bitter was sworn into Office az
commissioner and Mr.. Flickinger re-
tires. He has made faithful and Ell
ticient officer and has made man,
friends since his election to that re
| spousihle nosition
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

REV. HEBER NEWTON of New York
says that the want most advertised to-
day is-"wanted, a new religion. .
This is what it is to be hobby horsical.
st. John believes the thing most want
ed is prohibition, Susan sB. Anthony
thinks ii is equal suffrage, ana Grover
more democratic votes.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

"A WHOLESOME respect for the law"
is the nature of the sentiments attri-
buted by an exchange to the Chicago
anarchists. a wholesome fear" would
more nearly hit it. The anarchist re-
spects nothing. If he did, he would
not be an anarchist.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

WEST VIRGINIA is democratic on the
national ticket. The Lord only knows
what it is on the state ticket, both par
still claiming it. Better draw straws
for it, and let us have an end of the
goVernorship dispute.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

ious turn. He has been removed tothe
insane department of the Ohio peniten
tiary. Hopkins. in the same "Pen'
and another Fidelity swindler, is dying
of consumption. Briggs Swift, presi-
dent Of the bank is broken in mind and
health. and Baldwin, director, dead.
Such is the fate that overlook these
men when their dishonest schemes for
making millions fell to pieces. Had
they succeeded. however, different
story about their health, social and
commercial standing would be told.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

SENATOR BLAIR. if he could have
his own way, would stop the mails on
Sunday. A contemporary is moved
to say that he is male that should be
stopped all the time.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THERE are other white caps which
inspire even greater terror than those
of Ohio and Indiana. They are usu-
ally encountered by the fellows who
insist upon using shoe buttoner for a
night Memphis Avalanche.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

LAWRENCE is no longer the literary
hub of Kansas. The palm passes from
her TO Topeka. The latter named city
furnished market for 400 copies of
Robert Ellsmere," while Lawrence
took only $50 copies.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THE Kansas City Ministerial ALI
ance is opposed to revivaIs because of
the religious hurrah accompanying
them. They prefer TO leave tile halle
lujah business to the Salvation Army.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

GROVER is doing what he can for the
boys he leaves behind him March 4.
The mail agents and postal clerks APP
preciate his thoughtfulness in throw
ing the civil service shield over them.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

SENATOR INGALLS, resents in rather
vigorous language the imputation of
scandal-mongering flung at him by Mrs.
Whitney and others.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

Z. L. HARPER of the Fidelity bank
swindIe at Cincinnati is now become a
raving maniac, and strangely enough.
too. his mental ALTERATION takes relig-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsyl-
vania, chief marshal of the Inaugural
ton ceremonies, is besieged by applica-
tions for places on his staff.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

FOURTEEN out of sixteen employees
about the White House are hold-over
republicans. That appears to be pref
ty good civil service, what there is of
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

GOVERNOR GRAY of Indiana might
have been more hospitable to Levi p.
Morton than he was without a very Sc
we're strain on his health
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

ID. w. WILDER says that $25, 900
were sent to Kansas to capture the
state for the democrats. Brother Will
der is something of a humorist, you
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THE impression seems to be growing
that Tom Osborn has honors enough.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

TOPEKA seems to be afflicted with
too much mayor, or rather not enough
of the right sort.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

TRUST Young America for brilliant
deeds. A New York lad of seventeen
managed to steal $4,000 worth of jew
elry in five months.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

DANA of the Sun is a most spiteful
editor. He suggests Cleveland and
Hronek as an anti-capitalist commu-
mist ticket four years hence.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

JUDGE COOLEY is wrathy over the
conduct of the railroad people, and pro-
poses to prosecute them to the fullest
extent of the law.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

SOUTH CAROLINA has no divorce law
Separation for cause may be allowed,
hut not divorce.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

No ONE, it seems, has thought of
charging the anarchists of Chicago
with the dynamite explosion in Shu-
feldt'e distillery.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

AN exchange says that ''Edison's
monograph reproduces kisses with
startling distinctness. A very poor
argument in favor of the monograph.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

COLONEL ToNILINsoN of the Topeka
Democrat shifts capital removal in the
air. The colonel has very keen nose
for improbable things.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

CABLE. the novelist. does not pro-
nounce his name "Cawble." An
other important matter settled.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

WEST VIRGINIANs want to change
the states name to Kanawah or ALE
gheny, The question is receiving a
good deal of attention at present.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

To "ANXIoUs INQUIRER:" No,
dear friend, Calvin Brice has not
gone in search Of Stanley. He was
seen in New York few days ago.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

How many wade through Robert
Ellsmere" without comprehending the
most of it, just to boast of the fact to
their friends.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

EUREKA is said to be in a condition
TO give birth to scandal of regulation
proportions and toothsomeness.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

MALONE would like to steal into
Harrison's cabinet in the capacity of
postmaster general.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

IT will take a beef packing estab-
hshment to make st. joseph Mis-
souri,, completely happy.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

cred basis of representation can rest
only on condidition Of things plainly
unconstitutional and illegal, a condi-
tion which the constitution and laws
made in pursuance thereof prohibit and
punish.
Can an act Of congress rest on such
foundation as that? Can a consitu-
tional measure grow out of an uncon-
stitutional annulment of civil rights?
That seems to us to be the question.
This entire southern question seems
to be hedged about with all manner of
difficulties and embarrassments. How
to surmount them is the question. Only
the hot heads and radical Bombastes
Furiosos have remedy. OF course it
i is an extreme and drastic one. All
others are silent or non-committal, pre-
ferring, perhaps, to give old Father
Time chance to solve if he can some
of the puzzling features of the situa-
ton.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

BY an imperial edict the moustache
has been abolished in the German en-
peror's household.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

BLAINE or sherman. Which shall it
be?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1888.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

Is one of the large islands in the Span
ish Main east of Cuba. 1t once be-
longed to Spain but is no longer a
mainstay of the old kingdom.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

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