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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-03
Open House.


. The announcement that the Y. nj.
G. a. would keep open house yes
terdsy brought out hundreds OF both
old and young people and they all had
good time They were warmly well
coined by the many ladies assisting and
were at once made to feel at home,
The assembly room contained several
tables on which were served sand
witches. coffee, cake, cold meats, etc. in
abundance. To these the callers were
at once taken and waited upon most
generously by the hostesses. This
was continued from two
until six and many hundred
called. In the parlor and library the
time was passed in social conversation
and games. Altogether the affair was
quite success.
In the evening the book reception
was largely attended. The programme
was excellent. Mrs. Cross sang solo,
the orchestra rendered several selec-
tons, and vocal numbers were fur
nlshed by others. DIR. Hendv made a
very pleasing and instructive address
on the choice of books and method of
reading them. The library was large
| " increased.
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History of the .Broomer."

'tMy dear old mother was really the
inventor of that peculiar costume
afterward made famous by the name of
Boomer" said Capt. Edward E. Pot
ter, United States navy, the command
ant of the League Island navy yard,
yesterday. ~ was born at Seneca
Falls, N Y, and Mrs. Bloomer and
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton were our
near neigh bOrs, and mothers most
particular friends. Mrs. Boomer was
my Sunday school teacher. Mother
was very intelligent woman, and,
although she didn't favor the extreme
advanced views of her two friends, she
had a mind of her own, and was very
original and inventive.
zone day in the spring of 1S47 it
became necessary to clean house,
and mother got ready for the arduous
work. She found that her gown dis
commoded her, and at once set about
inyenting a substitute. In ten minutes
time she had evolved the BlOomer cos
tune, and cutting the material for a
suit out of some calico that she hap
pened to have on hand, she sat down
at the sewing machine and in a short
time run it together. She donned the
new garments, found them just what
she wanted, and, whitewash brush in
hand, mounted a step-ladderto freshen
up the kitchen ceiling.
''She was busily engaged when Mrs.
Boomer dropped in, AMI was at once
struck with the utility and convenience
of the new garments. She asked
mothers permission to make the dis
covery public. and when through the
columns of her paper she described
the 'breeches,' and began to wear
them herself, the costume took her
name. and although it was very popu-
lar at one time mother never claimed
the credit of being its inventor.-EbitG-
Clelphid Press.
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FlLE-MYERs.

Tuesday at o'clock at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Myers,
in Strong. Mr.. Harris File and Miss
Minnie Myers were united in marriage.
Rev. Stafford of Cottonwood Falls Off
ciating. The brides brother and Miss
Mamie Martin, both of this city, acted
as master of ceremonies and lady in
waiting. After the wedding most
delicious repast was served which
was enjoyed by all.
The bride and groom were formerly
residents of this city and have many
friends here, quite number OF whom
went down last evening to attend the
wedding. The newly married couple
left this morning for Minneapolis,
Kansas, where Mr.. File holds a posi-
ton as operator on the e. K. s. W.,
and where they wiz make their future
home. They were the recipients of a
large number of valuable presents. THE
NEWS joins their many friends in
wishing them happy and prosperous
welded life.
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HARTFORD ITEMS.

HARTFORD, Kan, Jan. l.--This is a
bright, beautiful and pleasant New
Years day, day on which many new
leaves will be turned over and new res
olutiOns made, some to be kept and
many broken. Yet the world will be
better for them having been made.
The Drummer boy and Spy was
played three nights last week to good
houses each evening, under the in
structions of Captain Dobb. The play
was far better than was expected for
the length of time taken to commit
and rehearse. Only six nights for
drill before the Amateurs came before
the pnblic. Every one said it was we'll
done and many attending three even
ingS.
Mrs. WI. Miner spent the larger
part of last week in EmgOria, called
there by the sickness of her father, S.
G. johnson, who we learn is danger
ously sick.
Captain 1. A. Taylor came up from
Parsons on the p. m. train yesterday.
Will return to Sedalia to-day.
The Stockholders of Union Hall met
yesterday and elected new board OF
trustees.
b. N. Hunt, whose barn, horses and
buggies burned lately, started out a
new term this morning, indicating
that he will again come to the front.
John Dudley has sold half interest
in his meat market to his brother
George.
Miss Anna Muir of Kansas City, is
visiting friends in town.
Frank Parker and Maggie kimber-
ling of this place will be married to-
day.
A select party was given by Miss Car
roll Dudley at her fathers house last
evening, to watch the old year out and
new year in. Prof. hartman of En-
poria was present. The time was most
pleasantly spent in recltatiOns, music
and luncheon until 1889.
a wake was held at w. H Flick
ineer's bv the young folks and merry
merry time was had. You could hear
them laugh all over town. The Occa-
sion was the leaving of Miss Alice for
Baldwin college.
Miss Ida Holt of Uniontown, Kan
SaS, aeice of w. B. and 5. T.. q. Holt,
is visiting friends at this place.
Miss Ella HaZlett gave pleasant
party last evening to her young friends.
Refreshments were served, the first
course consisting of oysters with their
heads chopped off.
Mrs. Fuller and Mrs. Stratton will
entertain their many friends at the OPP
era house this evening, where the
light fantastic toe may go till day
light in the morning."
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Another case of thievery was I'M
earthed yesterday morning. On Mon
day evening some time before IL o'clock
one of the front windows of Halls mu-
sic store was broken into and several
musical instruments stolen. A passer-
by noticed the broken window about IL
o'clock and at once notified one of the
Hall brothers, who came down to the
store. He discovered that S25 violin,
violin of a cheaper grade, mandolin
and several harps had been taken. The
hole IN the window is large enough for
man to crawl through and must have
been broken with stone. The valua-
BILE violin stolen is one with a fancy
back and can easily be detected. The
other instruments also have marks
whereby they may be traced.
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When Men Cross Their Legs.

Men generally cross their legs when
there is least pressure on their minds.
You will never find man actually en-
gagged in business with his legs cross
ed. The limbs at those times are
straighter than at any other, because
the mind and body work together. A
man engaged in auditing accounts will
never cross his legs, neither will a
man who is writing an article, or who
is employed in any manner where his
brain is actually engaged. When at
work in sitting posture the limbs
naturally extend to the floor in a per-
fectly straight line. A man may cross
his legs if he is sitting in an Office
chair discussing some proposition with
another man, but the instant he be-
comes really in earnest and perceives
something to be gained his limbs I'M
cross as quick as fash, he bends for
ward toward his neighbOr and begins
to use his hands. That is phase that
believe you will always observe.
Men often cross their legs at public
meetings because they go there to
listen, or to be entertained; they are
not the factors in the performance, and
they naturally place themselves in the
most comfortable position known to
them-namely, leaning well back in
their chairs and crossing their legs.
A man always crosses his legs when
he reads a newspaper, but is more apt
to lie down when he reads a book. He
reads paper, of course, to inform him
self, but at the same time the perusal
of its contents is recreation to him, and
his body again seeks its position of re-
taxation. When a man is reading a
newspaper and waiting for his break
fast his legs are always crossed, but as
soon as the breakfast is brought to
him he puts the paper aside, straight
ems out his legs. and goes to work
that is, begins to eat, his mind now
turning on the duties of the day before
him. Liverpool Courier.
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Washington News.



WASHINGTON, Jan. Under the
agreement made respecting the tariff
bill the senate will meet tomorrow
morning at IL o'clock and continue so
TO do until vote is taken on the pass
age of the bill. After the miscellan-
eOus business is disposed of,
consideration of the tariff bill
will be resumed and it will
have the right of way over all other
measures until action is taken on the
21st inst.
Mr.. Chandler gave notice the day be-
fore the holiday recess that Immediate
ly on reasSembling he would call up his
resolution on privileges and elections
to investigate the general elections in
Louisiana and Rhode Island within the
past year, and to investigate elections
in any other state if the committee
deem it necessary. That resolution
will therefore come up tomorrow, but
the opposition will in all probability
cause a postponement of its consIdera-
ton at the most, until the tariff bill is
out of the way.
The prospects are that when the
house meets tomorrow it will imedi-
ately proceed to the consideration of
some of the appropriation bills now on
the calendar. The unfinished bust
ness is the bill to incorporate the
Nicauraga Canal company, which has
been faverably reported to the house
with amendments from committee of
the whole. The friends of the bill
will call it up on Friday and secure a
vote on it
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OPPOSES CAPTAIN BOOTH.

The Topeka Journal, in a column
and half editorial, opens war on
Captain Henry Booth of Larned as
leading candidate for speaker of the
house. 1t charges that he as chairman
of the state convention held last July
packed the state central committe with
friends who would favor him for the
speakership as well as make
him chairman of the commit
tee. That as such chair
man he conducted the campaign last
fall in the most extravaganza manner
at an expense three times as great as
ever before incurred for like purpose:
that he employed at good salaries, a
number of persons who did the work
of the campaign while he was pulling
the wires for his own use; that he
assessed every state officer five per
cent of his salary for campaign ex-
penses and squandered the money in a
needless manner, putting much of it
where it would do the most good for
himself.
The Journal tells him plainly that
not his wise management, but the
fact of its being presidential year
produced the flattering result now
seen.
For these reasons % the journal
thinks Captain Booth is Dot entitled to
the speakership as reward for his SER
vices. Who does it favor?
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Horace GresIey.

Mr.. Greeley was always sensitive to
errors in his proofs, and sometimes
broke loose in thunders of Reproduction.
A serious blunder of this sort turned
the milk of his kindness into koumiss,
which exploded and deIuged the office,
making printers and proofreaders pale
as the element which engulfed them.
An inverted comma stung him like
mosquito. A mistake IN a table of
election returns set him into shch a
fury as the red flag of the picadore
kindles in the Catalonian bull. Hen
dersou," he said once to the compiler
of those sterile statistics, who had made
an error of two votes in the returns
from the Nolly-muck-a-chuck district
in the Mooselucmaguntic region of
northeastern Maine; 81 discharge you;
[ don't want to see your face around
here any more'' But Henderson was
at his post as usual the next morning.
IS How is this, Henderson said
George Ripley, as he came into the
Office at his customary hour. II
thought Mr. Greeley discharged YOU
Yesterday Yes. he did, - said Hen
derson, .sbut didn't put any confidence
in what he said. - One day Mr..
Greeley wrote that if man were to
shoot haPhazaTd out of 4 window he
would not be morally responsible for
any harm he might do. In print the
s'haphazard" became ..half a yard, {" q
rhetorical conversion which SO de-
pressed Mr.. Greeley=s spirits that he
had no strength left to discharge any
body. not even Henderson. which was
his constant resource in great emo-
tioBal crises ketO York Sun.
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AMAN noIRLE HEARI.
cansss His Heart, Pulse sad Temple to Co,
Beating and Changes the RibsI Position.s

cansss Els Heart, Pulse aad Temple to Cease
Beating and Changes the Ribsi Positions
TRENTON, n, ]. Jan. 1.-The Mer-
Ger County Medical society devoted the
better part of its session yesterday
afternoon to the examination of Will
liam King, the colored man who
is said to have two hearts. He is
about IS years old. The examination
proved that he has a divided heart,
such as is found in the lower animal
kingdom. The heart beats as percep-
tible on both sides, excepting that the
sound is less perceptible on the right
than on the left side. He claims to be
able to drop his ribs like a set of double
action window blinds, but when this
was done it was detected by his con-
troll of the oblique transverse and rec
tus mueles. He claims that he can
change the locality of his double
heart but this was pronounced a
piece of jugglery, the result of long
practice. He caused his heart, pulse
and temple to cease beating for a
period of sixty seconds and the ply
sicians pronounced it a successful
effort. King is now in the county
Jail for being drunk and disorderly.
He announces that his mother DIS
| covered his double heart when he was
! six months old.
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Normal Notss.

j. M. Rhodes, of the Normal class of
's9. has accepted ward principalship
in Council Grove for the remainder of
the year, and begins work to-day. He
hopes to finish his course with his class
and graduate in June.
Miss Laura Brown, of last years
class, now teacher at Burlingame, is
A>yisitor in the city.
Prof. Wilkinson will conduct this
summers institute in Rice county.
Jessie and Kittie Taylor returned
last evening from a visit at Neosho
Falls.
Mrs. Kelly, Miss Lura Baker, Miss
Retta Gapen, the Misses Gillett and
Messrs. Addison Rich, T. G. Coffman
J. NJ. Mcbride and A. A. Stephens
were among those who visited the Nor
NAL to-day.
A large number of new students
were in attendance this morning.
Miss Spencer, who has been at
Girard attending an oratorical con-
test, returned home to-day. Prof. w.
S. Ruggles conducted her classes this
morning,
The clubs have all started up in full
blast.
This afternoon was spent by the new
kStudents in undergoing examinations.
Entertainment at Second Presbyterian Church.
A Christmas Tree entertainment
was held at the Welsh Presbyterian
church, Market street Monday evening
under the presidency of John Bagshaw
AS a general rule this treat is given
the children on Christmas eve but ow-
ing to the Eisteddfod this year it was
postponed until last evening. The
juvenile classes of ::the Sabbath schoo
entertained their parents and friends
| with songs, recitatiOns, orations etc. in
most creditabIe manner and the
smiles visible upon the faces OF parents
and teachers were true signs of the
pride and esteem in which they were
| held.
The tree was burdened with presents
| of toys, candies, etc. and in many in.
stances the adults were not forgotten
Each child was also the recipient of 6
sack of candy and popcorn, the gift of
the Sunday school. The chairman
made few remarks at the opening
ceremony and considering this to be his
maiden speech acquitted himself in ar
acceptable manner and went through
the remainder of the proceedings il q
business, pater-famiiiaS style.
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nANGRR AHEHn.

General Harrison has considerable
reputation among the clergy for being
that wonder of wonders, Christian
statesman. Let him beware. The fin
ger Of warning has already been point
ed at him from Columbus, Ohio. The
inaugural ball stands in his way and
threatens to wreck his religious char
acter. It is the Charybdis whose frown-
ing rocks will mar his gentle vessels
side if he approaches it too near?
Yet what can he do? Turn political
engineer, and with some powerful ex-
plosive blow it, like Hell Gate, out Of
his wayp That would be bold step
indeed, and one that would ALLEVIATE
powerful political friends who have the
affair in hand, as well as hundreds Of
society women at the capital, who look
forward with eager expectancy to that
grand occasion, when they will dazzle
the beholder with the gorgeousness of
their attire, and fascinate him with
their graceful dancing.
No, that wont do. Nitro glycerine
edicts of that kind wont go. The gen.
eral will have TO face the music, will
have to brave the wrath Of the clergy.
The boat is being got ready for him.
Sail in it he must. Dangers must be
laughed at. He must say to his crew,
as did "the hOOk-nosed fellow OF
Rome, /" ''You carry Caesar and his for
tunes" and sail away to glory Or
well, let the clergy say what.
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tionists and as friends Of '.infant in
dustries'' talk very loud about the
blessings of the tariff, not so much to
themselves as to their men.
Well, they have all the protection
they ask, all they want to enable them
to pay their employees good wages. Do
they pay it? No, five may believe the
Ford committee. They don't have to,
as the boys say. They pocket the pro-
lection and permit the law of supply
and demand to govern in the labor
question.
1t is probable that the committee
will recommend suitable measures in
each case to check the evil of foreign
contract labor.
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MAGY-L,EWIS.

Married at the residence of thu,
BRIDES parents, near Plymouth, Kan
sas, December 25, Wilbern S. Macy of
Lynnville, Iowa, to Lucinda Lewis,
Rev. Harvuot of Emporia performing
the ceremony in a beautiful and i'm
pressive manner.
The scene was witnessed only by
relatives of the contracting parties.
After the ceremony, and congratula-
tions and best wishes were extended
to the happy couple, the guests were
invited to partake of Mrs. Lewis
bountiful board, and ample justice was
done to her excellent dinner.
This was also the thirty-eighth ami
versary of the marriage of the father
and mother of the bride, who were
both present and quite an enjoyable
celebration it was.
The bridal pair were the recipients
of many useful and beautiful gifts.
and we join in wishing them long,
happy, and prosperous life.
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At 1890 p. IN. Sunday evening, De-
cember3 9th, at the residence of his
parents 41S Exchange street, Andrew
]. Mcclure, aged A years. Deceased
was born in Holmes county, Ohio, A.
D. 1874, and was married to Albertine
Voohees 1867. In 1878 he moved to
Fox Greek, Chase county, near Strong
City. In 1888 to Plumb creek, Lyon
county, four miles northeast of Empo-
ria where he has since resided.
One year ago his wife, a most estima-
BILE woman, died of typhoid fever.
Deceased's ill health dates from his
service in Co. ''B, +" Goth Ohio Vols, in
Grants campaign against Richmond.
His demise leaves three children
orphans. A brother-in-law, Mr.. James
Tidball, of Millersburg, Ohio, is pre-
sent and will take the children East
with him. Funeral services at IL a. m
Tuesday
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Minutes of Min1sterial Assooiation.

Association met December 81 at Y.
M. G. A. parlor; p. m. Rev. Hervey
read scripture lesson and led in prayer.
Minutes of previous meeting read and
approved-present Revs. Dyer. Shuey,
Millikan, Vail, Sauerber, Altman, ;;Sar-
gent, Hervey, Walker and Haworth.
1t being regular time for election of
officers the association preceded to
elect with the following result; Presi-
dent, W. P. Haworth; vice president,
L. D. Altman; secretary, J. L. Hervey.
The association then listened to a care
fully prepared paper by Rev. Dyer,
subject HE descended into He'll fol-
lowed by general discussion. Adjourn
>Rent. W. p. HAwORTH, Secretary.
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''OBEY the laws and quit monkey
ing'' is proclaimed by the Wichita Ea-
gle to be the duty of all good demo-
Gratis. Is that intended for Col. Tom
linson of the Topeka Democrat.-Em-
poria News.
We prefer not being too personal.
For democrat the colonel is wonder
fully clear-headed and conscientious
withal. However, it is an undeniable
fact that so far as talk and platforms
go whisky would be an unknown traf-
fic and prohibition and sobriety uni
versal but for the democrats and Mis-
sourians.-Wichita Eagle.
A fair sample that of Wichita humor.
We believe it it was a prohibitionist of
that town who, when asked if hewould
have drink of water, answered con-
temptuously: mo, sir We use water
down here to bath in, not to drink.
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READING NEWS.

READING, Jan. 1.-The holidays at
Reading have been full of life and
mirth. Everybody seems to be happy,
especially the newly married ones and
those about done with single blessed
ness. Some of our young people have
enjoyed skating as wei as sleigh riding
the past week, but to-day when a par
ty of dozen or mora young men and
maidens were enjoying the scenes on
the ice, it gave away and let eight or
ten of them into the water to the depth
of several feet, but fortunately all got
out alive but little wet. One sled
and a pair of skates were lost. The
pleasures on the ice have still some
danger with them, aside from seeing
stars now and then.
Eli Patterson is again shipping more
cattle to Kansas City; also David
Nickel.
w. II. Douglass is planning to grow
several acres of peppermint the COM
ing summer. He regards it as more
profitable crop than farmers are used
to in Kansas.
Corn is selling at from 20 to - cents.
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NEEDS OORRECTING.

DETROIT is very thriving, bustling
city. But few hundred yards of wa
ter separate it from the Dominion of
Canada.
Carpenters are always in demand
there. OF the twenty-five hundred,
about six hundred are said to be Cam
adams who cross the river one way or
another in violation of the labor con-
tract law. The Canadians work for
from so to IS cents a day less than ma
tive workmen.
AS a result the Ford investigating
committee find that about 700 native
carpenters are idle because they will
not accept the wages offered them.
The same thing was found to be true
in the lumber districts of Michigan.
Lumber tarons advertise in Canadian
papers for 800 or a ], $50 hands.
They violate the contract law and the
principle of protection to native labor
both by doing so. But what of thatY
Canadians work cheaper, and that Won
know is the controlling idea with the
lumber kings.
These kings are all strong protec-