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The Dickinson press., 1889-06-01

Shopping is done for ladies residing out of
town as well as for those who have neither
tile inclination nor time to attend to it them
selves, ladies wishing to make a summer tour
through Europe are provided with response.
bic chaperons and companions familiar with
the continent and its languages. orders are
taken to cater for parties, receptions, lunches
and afternoon teas; orders for portraits in
oils, decorations in china and for crayon
work will be executed, music, both vocal and
Instrumental, is taught; in fact, all that q
woman can do is dono here.
On tho first floor is n large luncheon room
for ladies', where home made delicacies are
served each day from ! until 8 o'clock. The
business done by this branch of the exchange
is very great, and two additional rooms are
fitted up to increase the culinary facilities.
On the second floor is tho reception room,
for the use of ladies during CRATER a shopping
tour Here packages are received and taken
care of until called for.
On the third and fourth floors are a num-
Der of studios and private apartments, which
are rented to artists and others by the month.
Miss Howell and Mrs. Dart aro always to
be found in the building engaged in directing
the affairs of the exchange. The amount of
work in connection with a charity of this
kind cannot be realized by ono not wholly
familiar with the manner of conducting such
an establishment, yet these two ladies attend
to all of it. columns might be filled with
stories of tho immense practical good that
has been accomplished, of the women who
come daily to thank Mrs. Dart and Miss
Howell for their timely assistance, and of the
many other charitable acts performed by
these two ladies for poor women who have
not even anything to sell. No one, if really
deserving and needy, is repulsed; but all re-
ceive a kindly welcome, s~isterly encourage
ment and practical help of the best possible
kind-that which shows them how to help
themselves New York Star.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-01

A marked man.-Thet attooed individual at
the dime museum.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-01

Over the strings of my harp today
Floats n song that is half a sigh,
Like the sound of leaves when the
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

To bring into holder relief the genius
and able generalship of Stanley, the
Globe-Democrat makes the following
comparison: 1.-THE legions led by the
successors of Cyrus across the burning
plains of the Tigris, as we'll as those
conducted by Ney over the frozen
steppes of Russia, were disciplined
troops, accustomed to act in concert,
to obey the orders of the men who
commanded them, and to the use Of
the weapons with which they fought.
All were veteran soldiers whose brav-
cry had been shown on a dozen battle
fields, while those commanded by Stan
ley were the opposite in all these re-
spects. The Greeks and the French,
too, Travelled through countries which,
however inhospitable they may have
been to them, had some of the ele
ments of civilization, and the
routes through them were tolerably
we'll known. 1t was Stanley himssl
who was the inspiration Of the raw,
timid and treacherous African levies
which he commanded. A large part of
the 1000 miles which he traversed in
his successive marches between the
Congo. Aruwhimi and the Nyanzas was
through region never previously trod-
den by the foot of man of the Cauca-
sian race. In much of this course he
commended not only with the physical
difficulties which swamps and the dense
underground of tropical vegetation in
terpOsed, but with hostile natives and
the fatalities of the climate. Death
confronted him in a dozen shapes. and
all this peril was braved not for con-
quest or revenge, but in the service of
science and humanity.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

The Republicans in the Colorado
legislature have hit on a scheme to
break the deadlock in the senate. In
looking about them for means to get
around the present embarrassing stu
alton, they found that a Democratic
senator, Mcnamara of Fergus county
is ineligible, because his home is on an
Indian reservation in that county.
This idea had not occurred to anybody
before now. The defeated candidate
never dreamed it, until the managers
brought him down to Helena to act as
dummy in their behalf. Mcnamara
and all the citizens on the reservation
have been for years voting and holding
Office, and no one ever dreamed before
that they were not citizens of the state.
Watson, the contestant, has no certifi-
cate, but that makes no difference. He
will be admitted and the senate organ
lied. The work of electing two United
States senators may then be taken up.
1t makes very little difference whether
the governor takes any notice of the
proceedings of the legislature or not.
Bills may be sent to him for his sigma
ture, and after the usual time elapses.
if not signed by him, will become laws
ipso facto. This looks good deal like
showing the limit, and overriding the
rump busines5-that is, if the scheme
is carried out, as now seems probable
A more decent method to undo the
existing middle is to compromise, and
allow each PARTY senator.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

ONE, and perhaps the greatest
trouble with prohibition is. that
the fellows who say most about it,
who talk lOudest for it, and hurl
the dirtiest epithets at whisky drink
ers, are drinkers themselves, and fire.
quently indulge in revels that would
do honor 10 Bacchus himself. Such
apostles would damage any cause, no
matter how worthy it may be. When
the Hutchinson News enters the arena
as champion of the cause, its enemies
answer its editor by fiinging his bibu-
lous habits in his face, and sneerinp
contemptuously at his hypocritical pro-
fessiOns. Does he grow furiously in
dignant and give them the lie in the
throat as deep as to the lungs? Not
much. The inference from his silence
is easy enough and perfectly natural.
Such men may bray themselves hoarse
over the loneliness of prohibition. but
as long as their own lives and habits
give the lie direct to their vociferous
professions, they do the cause more
harm than good, by invoking upon il
the ridicule and derision of those on
posed to it. 1t can never prosper as
long as shams, frauds aud hypocrites
are its chief mouth-pieces, organs. adj
vocates and defenders. There are no
hypocrites among anti-prohibitionists.
3 circumstance that may account for
their success in so many states this
year.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

THE suggestion in the presidents
message that the benefits of protection
should be extended to the farmer, is
Lantamount to a confession that the
farmer does not now, and Of course
never has enjoyed such protection;
that he has hitherto been ignored, and
his interests disregarded, while con-
grsssmen were falling over each other
in their eagerness to pander to the
wishes of the manufacturers. 1t nee
essarily follows from this that the far
mer has been deceived all these years,
during which time he was duped by
his protectiOnIst friends into believing
that he was enjoying his share of the
benefits of protection, when he was
not. Now when evidences begin to
multiply that the farmer is gradually
being undeceived. the cry is raised,
''let the farmer be protected - Yes,
but how? Will the Emporia Repub-
lican say? If there be any way to do
SO fairly and efficiently, the Lord
knows, no sane man would say nay to
it, for if any one needs help, it is the
farmer, upon whom all o-her thrive,
grow or fatten.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
"MAHoNE OF VIRGINIA., no

"MAHoNE OF VIRGINIA. no longer
registers in that way. He sets himself
down in this style on the hotel book:
General William Malone. Peters
burg, Va" But he is the same old
Malone. He will not live at hotels
any more, but has established himself
in Washington with Mrs. Malone, in
handsome and elegantly furnished
house on Connecticut avenue. Here
his family will be launched into Off
cial society, while Malone is playing
poker and drinking mint juleps with
his cronies of the national Republican
committee. He laughs specifically
when asked whether President Harri-
son will direct the att orneV general to
prosecute his friends in tbs Old Do
minion Republican League who broke
the law against political assessments
for Mahone's benefit just before cleo
tfon. Mahons thinks that Harrison
will pay no attention to the report of
the civil service commission on this
flaw-bredking so painstakingly pre-
pared by that fresh young man, -
Teddy" Roosevelt, which he has had
now nearly two weeks. Malone is
against all reforms on principle, and
he doesn't see how any practical poll
tician, such as he is willing to conccde
Harrison to be since the patronage of
Virginia was turned over to him, can
differ with him. Between drinks and
games Malone will continue to distri-
butte patronage at the old stand and to
his old customers.-St. Louis Republic.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

IT is very well for demagogues and
jay politicians like Funston and others
to pirate about extending the benefits
of the tariff to the farmer" for no one
pays any attention to such fol de rol,
but when the president admitted such
clap trap into his message, he dishon-
ored that document by tainting it with
the vilest demagoguery, and the siIliest
tiapdoodle. Besides, the western farm
er believes, or the majority Of him does,
that he Is already protected; how, he
does not know, but it is done some
how. "Cap'n Pumpernickel'' told him
all about it when he ''heerd him make a
speech down to the school haouse.'
Therefore, it must be so. Now, why
disturb such blissful ignorance by init
mating that the farmer is not, but
should be protected? Where is the
craftsmanship in such laundering bosh?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.

The Clerks OF Appropriation Committees
Show Greater Revenues and Expenses
Than the Secretary OF the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The clerks of
the Committees on Appropriation of
the Senate and House have prepared a
comparative statement of estimates,
appropriations and expenditures for
the maintenance of the Government
for the fiscal years 1890 and 1891, from
which it appears that the net in
crease of the estimates for 1891 over
those for the current year is 800, 1857, 1853
and the net increase of the estimates
for the next year over the appro-
priation for this year is $39, 092, 112.
The total estim ates of regular and per-
manent annual appropriations for
the next fiscal year are S4O6, S43, AIS,
while the total revenues are estimated at
$3.50, Al, SS7-an excess of estimated
revenues over estimated appropriations
next year of S43, ST., O22. The net sur
plus for the present year is placed at
$53, 532, All or SO, 961 ,4S9 more than the
estimated surplus for the next fiscal
year. This prospective decrease in the
surplus is stated too without reference
to the possibility of the enactment of
a River and Harbor bill, for in the esti-
mates submitted by the Secretary of the
Treasury there is anotable omission of
the ordinary provision for river and
harbor improvements. For the preserv-
alton of existing works the sum of
1921, 900 is asked, while the report of
the chief Of engineers says that $685.
532, $50 can be proftably expended next
year in these improvements.
The statement above quoted differs
materially from that prepared from the
Treasury Department and exhibited in
the book of estimates just issued, for
the reason that the postal receipts and
revenues are differently treated by the
treasury and the Appropriation Com
mittees.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

THERE is mourning in the south over
jeff Davis, and the eulogies and fun
eral orations that will be uttered over
the dead chief may sound trife
strange to people of the north, but.
rightly considered, they should not be
wondered at. He was their hero, who
rose, reigned and fell with them.
Must they desert him when the bal
lance of the world frowned on him?
They would earn the contempt of all
right thinking people in the north if
theys hould do SO. Let them pro-
nounce their eulogies in peace. The
war IS over, and whatever ardor of af-
lection or extravaganza of praise may
be bestowed upon the dead chief, can
harm no one at the north. and ought
not to provOkeany uDgenerous feeling
towards the people of the south.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

MASSACHUSETTS has had the speak
ership ten years, Indiana eight wears.
Maine, North Carolina and New Jer-
sey six years each, and Georgia, when
Howell Cobb was speaker, two years.
says the New York World. TWENTY
four Of the states have never furnished
speaker, and we have-never had a
speaker west of Indiana. Henry CLAW
was the youngest speaker in point of
age and term of service in the house.
He was elected when he was only 30
years old. and held the speakers chair
longer than any other speaker. He
was reelected Eve times and he re-
signed more than once. If Reed could
carry out the policy of Clay, the party
would lose nothing by having him in
the chair. Clay did not let his speak
srship Office prevent him from taking
part in the debates, and he was one of
the NEST frequent speakers in congress
during his term as presiding officer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

So far as his duties in the senate are
concerned, it does not make the slight
est difference whether John j. Ingalls,
is a prohibitionists or an anti-prohibi-
Zionist. The only difference is that it
gives the wolves chance to howl. The
writer of this is plain citizen, with
out any political ambition, and it seems
TO him that man who advertises
Kansas every time his name is men
TONED, and who is the equal of his
most promising rival in honesty and in
dustry, ought to be returned to the
senate without dignifying the bowling
OF the little jays who are envious of
Naturalization Globe.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
TIE indications are faYorable

THE indications are favorable for a
union of the knights of Labor and eth
Farmers and Laborsrs' union. Steps
are being taken by committees of both
organizations to that end, which If
consummated.w will present to the coun-
try a united body of three to four mil
lions of farmers and laborers. Such
an enormous body of voters if properly
welded into an organic whole, would
have the power to control the politics
and the legislation of the country,
could take trusts and combines by the
throat and wiring the life out of them
as well as out of of. their defenders and
abettors in congress. It would have
the power, as ie has or would have the
disposition, to do a great many useful
and needful things. The query re-
mains. can a body so vast IN numbers
be organized and held together long
enough to. accomplish any of these
things?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12


CONGRESSMAN PERKINS has taken
20 letter writing. He indites q very
pretty epistle to the editor of the Par
sons Sun, in which he declars that he
was among the first to advocate years
ago the adoption of prohibition, but
such has been the rancor and unreason-
able kicking and clamoring Of the rad
ical third party prohlbitionists, that in
his opinion, if the matter was resub-
mItted to to the people, prohibition
would be discarded, sat down On and
beaten. This" says he, 'is my hon.
est judgement, and if in confessin0 it
or stating it, have committed any
crime, suppose must be held res
ponsible for the consequences. The
overwhelming majority against prohi-
bition in Pennsylvania, and the change
OF public sentiment in Massachusetts
and Rhode Island, and in
many sections of the country, in my
judgment is more the result of the par
tisan, bigoted and intolerant spirit
manifested by the third party prohi-
bitionists than of all else combined.
While frankly stated at Wichita that
was not in favor of resubmission and
did not believe that the legislature
would be convened for the purpose of
submitting the question to the people
Of the state, yet did suggest to some
how in my judgment, the question
could be'~managed next year so a. to
give to the people of the several legis,
lative districts an opportunity of ex-
pressing their convictions upon the
subject without hurting the republi-
can party particularly in the cam
paign.''
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

PRATT, Kan, Dec. 5.-W. w. Smith,
a prominent and well-to-do farmer,
was killed at an early hour yesterday
morning in his barn, six miles north
east of here. He was Smelling corn,
and was shot three times from
behind. His son-in-law, Charles
Young, was in the barn at the time.
Young says that while he was water
ing stock he saw man talking to
Smith and then heard shots. He ran
to the house to get a gun, and saw no
more of the mysterious man. Young's
story is not altogether straight. Smith
was known to have had no difficulty
with any one previously.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Dec. 5.-Early
yesterday morning a number of Jersey
Central laborers walked up the track
to meet the labor train. Suddenly a
freight train approached at high speed.
The men jumped from the northbound
track to the southbound, when the ''la-
bor'' train, rushing around sharp curve,
plunged into the midst of them. Many
were thrown down or against the two
trains. Two men were struck by the
freight and two by the Labor train u
Two of them were killed outright and
two fatally injured
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

Now that the speaker is elected and
the presidents message and the report
OF the secretary of the treasury given
to the public, the next matter of su-
preme political interest is the organi-
cation Of the committees. This is one
OF the most laborious, distracting and
generally unpleasant tasks which a
Speaker encounters, and yet it is the
earliest and most important of all his
duties. The committees will hardly
be announced many days befor the
middle of she month.-Glebe Demo-
crat.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

IT is said that New England is pre-
pairing a petition to congress asking
for free wool, free iron ore, free coal.
etc. II such a petition is sent in, it
will bother the brethren nightly. But
how such a petition will astonish and
amaze, if it does not quite paralyze the
Kansas farmer. who thinks he knows
better what is good for the New Eng
land factory lord than does the lord
hi mseIf
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

"a TEMPORARY Device is what the
Globe-Democrat calls the scheme
to give subsidies to ocean ship
ping. Yes, we know something
about these temporary devices. The
tariff was to be temporary de-
vice" also, when fixed at its present
high rate about twenty-seven years
ago, and still it is with US, and, like
the poor, would stay always. Better
let such temporary devices alone,
especially when they are resorted to
for the purpose of enabling such people
as Gould, Huntington and the Cramps
to make more millions.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

IT was little unfortunate that the
man who wanted to succeed the blind
preacher, Milburn, as chaplain of the
house and got left was cOusin-in-law
OF the president. And yet it is highly
creditable to the humanity and courage
of the few republicans who bolted the
caucus nominee, and voted to retain
Milburn because they would not take
his daily bread from the mouth of blind
man, even though it were done for the
sake of relative of the president.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

A RELIGIOUS revival at New Hope
made raving maniac of q young wo-
mana not uncommon occurrence
while writing poetry was enough to
turn the head Of cultured young lady
at Wichita, 1t is getting so at the lat
ter named place that neither man nor
woman can tell what moment he or she
may become as crazy as loon, and 60
tramping aimlessly over the country.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

The New York World discovery
that Chicago has thus far as many
congressman pledged to its support as
New York and st. Louis combined,
gives the hustling city in the northwest
an excellent start in the race. Atchi-
sen is gratified by the preference of
Senator Ingalls,. Plumb has not de-
clared his views, but is doubtless in
favor OF Emporia. These Kansans are
very administrative in their loyalty
x G. Star
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

A BOSTON capitalist tells reporter
that Kansas farm mortgages are con-
sidered admirable investments; that
"the security is adequate and the in
vestment sound" This seems to be
satisfactory from capitalists stand
point, and as the Kansas farmers are
satisfied with public policy which
encourages mortgages. there ought to
be general good feeling and content
ment.-K. e., Star.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

THE Emporia NEWS talks of protec-
ton to farmers in way to convey the
impression that it knows very little
about the subject. If Mr.. O'Connor
will consult the tariff schedules he will
find that the farmers NEST important
products are protected by customs du-
ties.-Emporia Republican.
Just so. And what are they worth?
The best thing that can be said in IA
vor Of such protection is. that Kansas
"most important product corn. is
now doing duty as cheap article of
funl
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12


THERE are some queer Laws in this
state. A physician may have gradu-
ated at a medical school with disting-
uished hOnors, and though he can
write prescription he May not fill one
unless he has graduated at a school of
pharmacy or passed an examination
before the state board of pharmacy.
Iowa has similar law but nowhere
else is 1t found.
THE Atchison Globe says sagely
enough that Igoe, the telegraph opera
tor in the Minneapolis Tribune build
ing, who remained at work
when he should have taken to his
heels, acted very foolishlY. Such te-
merity is not bravery. After all, we
suppose he did not know his danger.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

IF a Democrat should write and
publish column of trash as stupid,
fiippant, bumptious and offensive con-
corning President Harrison and John
Wanamaker, as Sol. Miller published
this week in derision of Christ and
Zaccheus, how the old sinner would
roar and hurl anathemas at the poor
devil of a trespasser. When Sol I'M
dertakes to rival InGersoll in ridiculing
and deriding biblical characters, it is
time for his friends to look after him.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

AN attempt is being made to credit
Senator Plumb with the appointment
of Judge Brewer to the United States
supreme court. 1t is probable that
Kansas men had very little to do with
it; Brewers backing" probably came
from his uncles, Cyrus W., David
Dudley and Stephen J. Field. 1t has
always been understood in Kansas that
they secured his appointment to the
circuit court.-Atchison Globe.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

THE Kansas City Times began tive
or three weeks ago the running of an
early Sunday morning train to distrib-
ute papers throughout Kansas. Now
the Journal and Globe will follow with
another. The next step we suppose
will be the issuing Of Monday morning
papers by our Kansas contemporaries,
and further desecrating the Sabbath.
IT'S truly wicked world.