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

The new interest law is regarded as
worthless. That is not surprising at
ali. Compromise measures are gem
orally so, and the interest law is one Of
that kind. AS Governor Martin says,
the present rate of and 10 would be
acceptable enough if supplemented
with effective penalties for usury. No
one complains of the legal rates. They
hurt no one. 1t is the charging and
collecting in advance two, three and
four per cent a month that has aroused
strong public sentiment for effective
usury laws. In the absence of such
laws, the act fixing the legal rate be
came a mere nullity. No one who
wanted or could get a higher rate, had
any regard for it, or stopped to think
about it. Money became and was an
actual commodity in the market, and
was let for whatever could be got for it
1t will be precisely so under the new
rate. The penalties for usury amount
to nothing. The law is a sort of forma
compliance with the demands of TIT
people, and will be called a fulfill
ment of platform pledges. 1t il
mere chaff and bran, a delusiol
and mockery, phantom
reform. Honest banks, doing legiti
mate business confine themselves T.
the legal rates. Strong penalties ar
not needed for such. Nor is any com
plant made against them. 1t is tn
army of irresponsible sharks who d
the deYilment, who pray upon the wea
and the helpless. These are the fel
lows for whom penalties are needed
None have been declared, consequent
they will goo as their friend, Senate
Kimball, said, charging two per cent
month as they have been doing. S
far as the interest law is concerned,
is no better than If the legislature ha
not touched it, or wasted moment
discu ssing it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

From T. F. Byrnes, who was pres
ent, we learn that the Emmett celebra-
tion at Strong City Monday night was a
most enjoyable affair, and altogether
very successful. An affair of that kind
at the present juncture could not easily
be otherwise. The startling events in
London during the last few days have
added greatly to the interest, always
more or less thrilling and inspirin,g
albeit somewhat mournful, attaching
to the memory of the young but gifted
and eloquent patriot, Robert Emmett.
A number of speeches, recitations and
songs we're heard, all commemorative
of the young hero and the cause for
which he died the death of felon.
Robt. Ruggles of the Normal delivered
Emmett's speech in very acceptable
manner, and in addition recited "a
piece we did not hear what. Miss
Spencer of the Normal was there also,
and gave recitation which pleased
everybody very much.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

WHEN the attempt to prove Parnell
the author of the forged letters be-
came a disastrous and ignominious
failure, every one thought. ''Well,
that's the end of the business" No
one could quite understand how pa
per that had disgraced both itself and
honorable journalism in such a reckless
manner, could any longer continue the
fierce. They did not know the Times.
With naughty condescension it admit
ted that a mistake in Judgment
had been made, that it regretted the
circumstance, and that such formal
acknowledgement was due Mr.. Parnell
Having delivered itself of this icy apol.
ogy, it proceeded cody to take up ian.
other branch of the inquiry as il
there was any merit in it, or the public
felt any further interest in it. Fol
cool audacity the Times has no para
| lell
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

Hodgson, William Pinckard, G. e.
Roux aud j. A. A, Rousseau, who as.
sisr the commissioners in the detail
work. These are all prominent and
well-knoWn business men of New Or
leans. Seated upon the stage was the
genial Colonel Dan" Wilson. SO well
known to every one in the Crescent
City. who never fails to witness the
grand drawings.
On the stage were two large boxes,
which contained the ten bags in which
were the tickets-1O0, 000-each wrap
ped or tightly rolled and encased in a
strong gutta percha tube, the ends of
the tickets slightly projecting beyond
the ends of the tube or case. Each
ticket is printed. from to I00, 900. in
great big black type, so as to be readily
read by the audience in front when
held up to view. The prize tickets.
S4S in number, are similarly printed
and eneased in like tubes, for be it un,
derstood that while there are but S4s
prize numbers drawn out, there are il
addition 2,298 approximation prizes
which are explained below. In tn,
first place, to be explicit and give
definite plan of the present mammoth
drawing, there are 94S prize tickets
enumerated as follows:
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

THE barriers have been thrown down
and the way made clear for entrance by
the people into Oklahoma The fight
has been a stubborn one, but right tri-
umphed. The triumph is but partial
to be sure, but when you have driven
in the enemy's outposts. made. a large
breach in his works and effected a Sc
cure Judgment on the inside. of large
portion of your forces, what is bound
to be the result? Why, the capture
and possession of the entire place. I'm
der the provisions of the bill Just passed
several millions of acres of ceded land
will soon he ready to receive settlers.
Next winter, in all probability, the en-
tire twenty-five million acres constitu-
ting the whole of Oklahoma will be
taken 10y congress from the cattle men
and given to the people. Now that an
entrance is made, the end is not far
away.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07
NOTICE.

All persons interested will take notice that
my petition il on file in the Office of the Lyon
county. Kansas, Probate court, asking for Au
thority 10 sell the following described real
estate. situated in Lyon county, Kansas, be
longing to the estate of A. J.. Sax, deceased.
tor the purpose of paying the deDts of said
estate and the expenses of administration, to-
wit: The northeast quarter of section p.
township IL. range TO-
Said petition is set for hearing at the Office
of the Probate Judge I'm the city of Emporia.
said county, ON Thursday, the 18th day of
March, 1889, at which time you can make
known any objections you may have to the
granting of such order. 7. H. SAX.
Administrator of said estate.
Dated February 18th, 1879.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07
Thar Only Medicine chsrt.

William ". B. Miller, DeerIouge
Montana, writes:
81 have been using Brandreth; Pills
for the last thirteen years. and though
I have had nine children. have never
had doctor in the house, except three
times, when we had an epidemic OF
scarlet fever. which we soon banished
by a vigorous use of Brandreth's Pills.
have used them for myself. two or
three a night for a month for liver
complaint, dyspepsia and constipation
In diarrhGsa, cramps. wind collie, indi-
gestion, one or two Brandreth's Pills
fixed the children at once. A box of
pills is all the medicine chest we re-
quire in the house. We use them fol-
rheumatism. colds. catarrh, biifousness
and impure blood. They never have
failed to cure all the above complaints
in very few days.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

THINK of it. Here is the Times, a
great newspaper accusing Parnell of
afiliating with wicked men, revolution
lists and the enemies of peaceful and
orderly methods. What does the late
expose show? That instead of Parnell
being 80 associated. the Times itself is
now seen to have been leagued ali the
while with the basest wretches and
most Infamous scOundrels in the king
dom, whose secret and stealthy plot
tings to ruin and disgrace leader and
destroy a noble and patriotic cause have
no parallel, save in the black records of
anarchy itself. The hideous crimes of
the anarchist are hardly sufficiently in
famous to complete the parallel, for the
latter are only calculated to destroy in
dividuals, while the Times dark meth
DDS destroy, politically at least, the in
diyidual and the cause in which the sal
walton of a whole people is involved.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

y CANADA thinks the time has come to
smoke the rats out. A bill is now be-
ing discussed in the provincial parlia-
ment providing for the extradition of
boodlers. If it passes, what a scam
pering there will be of well dressed,
well fed and distinguished looking gen.
tlemen of the Doodle colony. Dis
patches say that they are in state OF
CONSERVATION. The bill is retroactive,
and for that reason fatal to the colon
lists now taking their ease in theil
inns
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07
The Luoky DAYTON BOYS Drew sl5 GOO.

Two of the luckiest young men in
the city of Dayton are Edmond G. and
George c. Albert, who held the one
twentieth of ticket No. 6,621, which
drew the first capital prize of $500, 600
in the November drawing of the Louis
lana State Lottery. George is eighteen
and works at the shops of the National
Cash Register company, while Edmond
s twenty and at Stoddard's Machine
shops. Both are honest and hard
working. Their father, Casper Albert,
a respectable barber, died several years
ago, and they have had hard and up
hill work, assisting their widowed
mother to support the family. They
now own their coZy cottage home on
Marie street, and the lift the prize they
have won has given them places them
in comfortable ciTcumstances.-Day-
| ton (Ohio) Democrat, Dec. 9th.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

a. NJ. Legg, formerly a special exam
liner of pensions, who travelled in Kan
sas upwards of two years in the inter
est of the United States pension bu-
reau, will be at the Whitley hotel, En-
poria, Kansas, until March 2Ist. and
during that time will be glad to see all
the old soldiers in his vicinity. His long
service of twelve years as Adjudication
of pension claims has given him a
thorough and intimate knowledge OF
all pension matters, enabling him tc
give valuable information to all old
soldiers and their widows, which he
does freely and without charge.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

Twenty years of suffering from ca
tarrh and catarrhal headache never
found anything to afford lasting re-
lief until I tried Eiy's Cream Balm.
have used two bottles and now coDsid-
er my catarrh cured. have recon-
mended it to several of my friends with
like good results.-D. 7. Higginson-
145 Lake street, Chicago, Ill.
Having used Ely's Cream Balm fol-
arm and cold in the head, am salts
fed that it is first rate preparation
and would recommend it to anyone
affected. II. W. Cheeyer, Editor Her
aid. Clinton, Wis.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

The Central Loan and Land COM
pany. the oldest money loaning con-
Germ in the country, always lends its
money at the lowest rates of interest
obtainable in the state and on any
kind of time you wish. closes loans
the day yen apply if security and title
IS all right. No extra or unexpected
charges. Interest payable hele.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

THE Kansas legislature says there
shall be no combinations, trusts or
pools in this state. That law will be
more difficult to enforce than the pro-
hibition law has been.-Arkansas City
Traveller.
The law. if there be such, is a
sham and delusion. 1t is like the in
terest law. worthless, and was only
meant as sort of formal compliance
with platform promises. If the
legislature had been honest in it's pur
pose to restrain trusts it had an excel
lent opportunity to show it in putting a
check on the dressed beef monopoly,
the most deadly enemy OF the Kansas
farmer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

So FAR as the main issue, the tariff
is concerned, Sam Randall is as good a
republican as Pig Iron Kelly. His mi
tiation into the q. a. r., soon to take
place with considerable pomp, seems
to Indicate purpose to abandon dem
ocracy altogether.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

A YOUNG man about Topeka called
Admire-he can't be any kin to Jake,
or be would have more sense-wrote to
Jen Davis, asking for his opinion
about the change in the name Of Davis
county to Geary. The young man
hopes OF course that Jeff will reply, and
give him an opportunity to publish
both letters for the notoriety in it. A
very sicxly ambition. If Jeff has no
more sense than his interrogator he
VIII answer his letter
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

THE weather was tough on the thou
sands who flocked to Washing to have
q nigh old time. Heaven frowned on
the folly Of people who would travel a
thousand miles for the pleasure OF
aauandering $50 a day for a room.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

4. NAN has been found who can
speak French enough to blow in S5, GOO
as Kansas commissioner at the Paris
exposition this summer. We hope Mr..
Emile Firmin of Marion is blessed
with good stomach, otherwise the
expedition will be failure, and the
money thrown away.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

WE shan't be long without an Eng
lish ambassador and may be couple
of them. One London cablegram says
that SIR Julian Pauncefort is coming.
Another tells us that Sir John Melon
aid, the Canadian prime minister, is
about to resign, go to London, beraised
to the peerage and thus loaded with
honors directly from the hands of her
majesty, present himslf to Uncle Sam
as the successor of Lord SackyilIe.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

The Republicans will have two ma
jority In the next senate and three in
the house to commence business with.
AS there are several contested cases in
the house they will be able by a party
vote to increase the majority to six or
seven, probably.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

TIL universally with which Kansas
papers publish the fact that the gov
ernor of Michigan gets only 1915 day
while the house janitor gets So indi-
Gates a feverish desire among the
brethren of the press to make Governor
Humphrey feel entirely satisfied with
hfa galary
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

81 HAVE altogether rejected the sug-
gestion of a special executive policy for
any section of our country" Import
ant passage from President Harrison's
inaugural address, that will sound I'M
pleasantly to few gentlemen who
think the war is not vet over.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

DAN LAMONT IS not salary grab
Der. He had the independence to re-
fuse the 5000 back salary offered him
because of the increase provided for his
successor. Dan is a manly fellow, and
next to Mrs. Cleveland, the most pop
ular member of the administ ration.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07


"a TRANSACTION in Hearts" is the
title of a new story by Edgar Saltus,
who has gained some notoriety as the
writer of spicy and salacious books
that sell. From the title one must
suppose that this latest literary vent
ure of his is in his old vein. and will
have big run. The smuttier and
more suggestive a book is nova days
the faster it sells. Instance the publ
cations of lola, Saitus, Amelia Rives.
and the warmly pulsating periods of
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Anacreontic
lines. Popular taste in fiction seems
to be returning rapidly to the demon
allied condition of the times of Field
ing and Smollet. tom Jones" OF
"Peregrine Pickle" if written now
would make their authors wealthy.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

At the residence of Mr.. Charles
Johnson, in Pike township. March 8,
1889, at $50 p. m. by Rev. II. A. Cook,
Mr.. Alva Moon. of Pike township,
Lyon county, Kansas, to Miss Laura
Bogue, of Plymouth, Lyon county,
Kansas. We wish them prosperity and
success in their new relation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

IT is consoling to note that while the
Kansas press is almost unit in CEN
surfing the legislature just deceased,
the Kansas City Times finds much in
its work to praise. 1t is questionable
which is the most injurious, the Times
praise or the other fellows censure.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

Some robbers inv AIDED the premises
of Milton Chamness living on Dry
creek, three miles south of town, Sun
day night On being detected they began
to stone the house, and shortly after
ward ran away. One stone went
through a window and fell on the bed.
nlr
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

The small pox is getting quite pre-
valent in the state. Papers at several
points are noticing its presence there. If
you are not proof against it get vaccin-
ated. 1t is always well to be fore
armed, though you may have to be
sore armed.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

THE contractors who are putting in
sewerage in Wichita are trying to make
a fortune by grinding the mems wages
down until not enough is paid them to
provide bare subsistence. They are
expected to be happy and contented on
seYentv-fiVe cents a day.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER got on a
high lonesome" during the closing
hours of the senate, and had to be re-
moved by force, 70 show his con-
tempt for the senate, he wired his res
ignation to the governor of Virginia.
Riddleberger has some good qualities
but liquor is destroying them and him
with them
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

JAKE ADMIRE considers any man IAN
ass" who VIII circulate petitions, espe-
clally among legislators asking for an
Office. In his opinion such men are not
entitled to and should never be ap-
pointed to an office high or low.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

The legislature sought to do good
work, especially in the direction of re-
form and economy, but had the mis-
fortune to be dominated by few lead
ers who cared nothing for either and
played hari-kari with both.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

the trusts and monoplies feel better
now. They were never in much dam
ger, but there is no accounting before
hand for the course of a body like that
assembled at Topeka for the past two
months
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

WHILE apparently exhausting its
supply of sympathy on the victims of
dives, the Kansas City News has
enough of that honorable sentiment
left to bestow big chunk of it on a
few horses near New York city whose
tails were "docked'' by their swell
owner. Nothing but the bigness of
its heart, and the broad sweep of its
charity prevents the News from be-
coming a reformatory institution for
the correction of vice and CRIME.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

THERE is a condition of things in
West Virginia. The contest between
Goff and Fleming is still pending in
the courts. Golf claims his election
and took the oath of Office yesterday.
Carr, president of the senate, also
qualified as governor yesterday under
that clause of the constitution which
provides that ''in case Of death or fail
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

ure to qualify the president Of the SEN
ate shall act as governor. The In
cumbent. Governor Wilson, refuses to
surrender the Office. claiming the right
to hold over until his successor has been
declared elected in due form.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

SOME very pathetic scenes marked
the closing hours of the Kansas legis-
lature. To behold the tears trickling
down the face of Jim Legate was a
sight indeed.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07
A Big Wall Pansr Pool.

1t appears from eastern advices that
after two years of general scratching
and hair pulling the wall paper manu-
facturers have agreed upon basis for
an iron-clad pool, which will have the
effect of materially advancing the price
of this commodity. Republican.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

a farewell party was gottenIup Mon
day by Miss Dora Miller at the home
of Thomas Reeves on Dow creek in
honor of Miss Tinney Jones who leaves
to-day for her home in Western
Kansas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07
Per Sale.

A well improved farm OF 100 acres
in Holt county, Missouri, six miles
from the county seat and two miles
from the town of New Point. VIII
sell or trade for property in Lyon coun-
ty, Kansas. For particulars apply TO
Rev. S. Wenger, West South avepue.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

SINCE the failure of the Reading iron
mill, it is clearly the duty of the presi-
dent to call an extra session of congress
for the purpose of raising the tariff on
manufactured iron.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

TT cost the state 81 900 to ascertain
through the investigating committee
that the management of the penniten-
tiary was "a model in its way. The
bill of expenses is quite a model also.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

TIE Kansas legislature discussed, in
yestigated and talked about the dressed
beef monopoly, and then did nothing
That is how it kept its platform
pledges to the people.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss. she chung to Castoria,
When shehad Children. she gave them Castoria.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

Two couples were married by Judge
Combs Tuesday James Hamilton
to Annie leighton. and C. A. Miller
to Jennie Evan, the former couple of
Summer county and the latter of Hart
ford
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

AS WE advised some time ago, sharp.
en- your plowshare and go to work
Oklahoma viii be all right after awhile.
Make stake and be ready for it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

THE Topeka Journal gives credit to
the rumor that Chancellor Lippincott
OF the state university will resign his
post in that institution to accept the
passionate of Methodist church in To-
Dska.