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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

the least, is contemplate practice. 1t
is unjust and undemocratic, and no
self-respecting paper or individual
should be guilty of it. In America no
mans trade or occupation should be
considered as uniting him for office,
provided he has the necessary qualifi-
cations to fill the position.-Emporia
Republican.
Correct. But how much easier it is
to tell dozen men what it were good
to do, than be one of the dozen and fol-
low your own counsel. We remember
that not a great while ago "a number
of papers several in Kansas, and one
in Emporia, - sought to stigmatize and
ridicule the nations chief magistrate
by calling him the ''ex-sheriff," the
''ex-hangman, :" ''hog;'' g tub of in
testines'' and so forth. Was that not
Contemplate practice, unjust and
undemocratic, and such as no self res
pecting paper would be guilty of?'' If
not, why not? The NEWS has never
dubbed Mr.. Wanamaker 1.-The breeches
maker'', but if it had, it would certain
ly have been as near the mark as was
our esteemed contemporary when it
flippantly referred to Grover as "a hog
| and Tub of intestines.''
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

JAY GOULD warmed up the other
day and let out several things of more
or less interest. Things, however, that
coming from another, would be but
very little regarded. Among other
things he said that what he has, he
made by "hard work. No doubt,
hard head work, good share of which
has been devoted to the task of devils
ing ways to head off the law and keep
in the open air. Ives and Stayner were
addicted to the same species of ''hard
work, - but those Napoleons of finance
are now looking like a geminl of bah
oons through prison bars
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
Star Clothing House.
A. SCHLESINGER,
Proprietor.

Twenty years of suffering from ca
tarrh and catarrhal headache never
found anything to afford lasting re-
lief until tried Ely's Cream Balm. 1
have used two bottles and now consid-
er my catarrh cured. / have recon-
mended it to several of my friends with
like good results.-D. 7. Higginson,
145 Lake street, Chicago, LII.
Having used EIy's Cream Balm for
arrh and cold in the head, 1 am salts
fed that it is a first rate preparation
and would recommend it to anyone
affected. r. W. Cheever, Editor Her
aid. Clinton, Wis
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

That banquet given in honor of Hon
Thomas Ryan Friday night was reg
ulation affair in which powerful eff
fort vas made to meet the require
ments of the liquor law . Nothing
stronger than Roman punch and
Claret lemonade was tolerated. But
another banquet as was a banquet
was given the honorable gentleman
Saturday night at the Hotel Throop il
which variety of high priced wines
were placed before the twenty-five
choice spirits invited. The particu'
lars, as given by the State Journal will
be found elsewhere in this issue of the
NEWS.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

JOHN j. INGALLS, and Geo. w. Click
ran against each other on the train at
Kansas City Friday night and the two
travelled together to AtchisOn. Mr..
ingalls, greeted Mr., Click without any
paiaver by saying that the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat's Washington dis
patch quoting him as having denounced
Mr.. Click to the president as copper.
head, and as such distasteful to the old
soldiers who draw their pensions
through the Topeka agency, was Who'll
ly uutrua, in substance and spirit, and
without the shadow of foundation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

A clear pearly and transparent skin
is always sign Of pure blood. and all
persons troubled with dark, greasy,
yellow or biotehed skin can rest as
Sured that their blood is cut of order.
A few doses of BEGGS' BLOOD PU-
RIFIER s. BLOOD MAKER will re-
move the cause and the skin Will be-
come clear and transparent. Try it.
and if satisfaction is not given it will
cost you nothing. 1t is fully war
ranted. d. w. Morris. Druggist.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
Only Two Bottles.

Messrs. Johnston, Holloway s. Co.
wholesale druggists of Philadelphia
Pa, report that some time ago gem
tleman handed them dollar, with a
request to send good catarTh cure to
two army officers in Arizona. Recent
ly the same gentlemen told them that
both of the officers and the wife of a
well known u. s. A. general had been
cured of catarrh by the two bottles of
Ely's Cream Balm.
/ have used one bottle of Ely's Cream
balm and it is the best remedy / have
found for catarrh in fifteen years.-V.
G, Babbage, Attorney, Hardinsburg,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

The killing of Deceive Gilley in the
presence of the court in Kansas City
Kansas Saturday by the prisoner Smith
who reached from behind his victim
and with sharp knife almost severed
his head from his body, will stand as
one of the boldest and bloodiest acts of
butchery and murder in criminel re-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

CHIEF MAYEs and his Cherokee band
are manifesting good share of obsti
macy it seems, in refusing to summon
the legislature, OF to agree upon fail
price for the 5000 .OHO acres in the
strip. The price asked, 81, or IS is
preposterous. There may be some
choice spots in the strip worth that
price, but 20 say that the entire s 900,
coo are worth it. is to talk rank nom
sense. The chief will have to come
down several pegs, or be brought
down.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Mr.. WANAMAEER has had a change
of opinion. He thought when he first
became postmaster general that for
him the road to fame lay through one
cent postage. He thinks differently
now he says and cares only to give the
people good and satisfactory service,
something we suppose like the excel
lent fits which he gives his custem-
ers. They may come a little high but
they are warranted to give satisfac-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

The Kansas City base ball team
mopped the earth with Louisville a
few days ago. 1t gave them the big
head to such an extent that when Bal
timOre came they couldn't play little
bit, and went to grass like babies.
Saturday they tackled the Columbus
club, and we're done up again. Better
hire Louisville to come back, and let
the boys have another whack at her
Unless they whip somebody pretty soon
our own college team, which seems tC
be perking up of late. will want to try
them bout.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THE White Caps still find something
to do, as at Hamilton, where they
logged fellow numerically for break
ing the seventh commandment. AS
long as these festive gentlemen devote
their kenergies to maintaining invio-
late the sacred character and com
mands of the decalogue, and Furnishing
such infIactions of them, as that al
Hamilton, an induIgent public viii
find but little to complain of.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THERE is no installing the fact~that
Benjamin Harrison is president. In
the appointment of L. F. Wilcox as
collector in the Eighth collec-
tion district of Illinois he disregarded
the recommendations of both senators
from that state, and named a new man,
thus giving senatorial courtesy q
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

sensibly about erecting the frame work
of their new state up in Montana. Pol
itics are to be ignored in selecting del
egates to the constitutional convention
in order that the constitution prepared
by it may meet with the unanimous ap-
prevail of the people.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THE Nebraska supreme court has
decided that mortgage on growing
crop cannot operate as a charge on
corn in the crib, even if proved to be
the product of the mortgaged crop.
This decision, if generally Endorsed in
other states, will put an end to sys-
tenn of raising money which is common
in the south and west, but which makes
the small farmer a slave to the CAPT
taliat
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

BISHOP PoTTER's centennial sermon
has kicked up quite rumpus in the
press, and called forth an ocean of adj
verse criticism. What does the bishop
care? 1t has advertised him in a way
to make Kansas politician green with
envy. Jay Burton would almost swap
his hopes of salvation for Polter's no.
| fnrintu
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

LORD WOLsELY is nuts for JEFF Da-
Wis. The old man comes back at the
Englishman with stinging sarcasm, and
alludes to him as man eff great prom
Use and little performance. In the
matter of promise and performance
there is quite a resemblance between
the careers of both the worthless.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THE three Drexel sisters of Philla
delphia are worth q millions. Yet the
prettiest of them with her seven mil
lions has entered nunnery for life.
What commentary on the young men
of that sleepy old town. We Occa-
sionly hear of young women in the
west going into converts, but they are
not of the seven million sort.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THE weather, which has been for
two or three days on jamboree, is now
trying to brace up by startiug out this
morning with steady gait and conf
dent air. But for all that, it may go
Summing during the night and turn
up tomorrow morning despatched and
bedraggIed, with its klk tile crushed
and both eyes dark and discolOred.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

LATEST accounts from Samoa tell of
the fruitless effort to take the Nipsic
from Apia to Auckland, where it was
to be put upon the dry docks and
permanently repaired. AS her rudder
had been destroyed in the storm, tenn
porary affair was contrived by the aid
OF which, it was thought by Admiral
Kimberly, she could be towed to Auck-
land. But before she had got clear OFF
the reefs and out of the harbor, ii
broke, and she had to be taken back
again and wait until better and
stronger rudder could be made fol
her.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

WHATEVER goes up must come down.
Those who witnessed the fall of Prof.
st. Clair, saw frightful spectacle as
an illustration of the childhood saying.
Nothing more CHASTITY or sickening can
be imagined than that of human be-
ing shooting like a meteor earthwards
and-but the thought even is too much
for ordinary nerves. What must it
have been for the multitude whose hor-
TOR stricken eyes beheld the awful
aiOhf
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Because the Bald Knobbers did not
commit murder for plunder,'' the
Globe-DemOcrat thiAks executive mercy
should have been extended to them.
Then, if that view of the case is the
correct one, man should not be hung
for committing cold blooded and pre-
meditated murder as the Bald Knob
bers did, unless he added to the enor-
nifty of the bloody act by riding his
victims pockets. Boshl
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

DIR. PARSONS of Wamego, Kansas,
has an idea that if the farmers of
western Kansas would dig ponds on
their farms and keep them full of
water the rainfall would be increased
thereby. Another of the numerous
theories for supplying natures defic-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

CRoPs are promising great things
now. They always do in May. 1t is
a way May has. May is the Mulberry
Sellers of the calendar. 1t promises
wonders. But, alas! it dies in thirty
days, and the duty of redeeming its
promises deyolve on that bankrupt
month August, of which SO little can
be expected. If only May, with its
gentle and cOpiOus showers. could be
extended to the end of August-yes
if. If we all had wings, etc.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

only seemed to stand still, while as a
matter of fact it went on about its
business as of old. This view may not
be agreeable to Dr. Talmage, but no
doubt great many will concur in the
opinion of the bishop. 1t would be in
teresting to have his opinions about
the story of Jonah and the whale.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

IT now appears that the anti option
bill signed by Governor Francis OF
Missouri is either unconstitutional OF
so worded as to make it valueless
Hence the reason why the governor
could afford so well to tickle the grang
er by signing it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

IT is a little unfortunate for that
good man Bessey at Abilene who beat
his friends out of a few thousands,
that he has to go to Mexico instead of
Canada, and at the beginning of the
hot season, too. Considering the
amount of the swag and the season we
should say that Bessey is in rather
hard luck.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

WATER, wind and lightning have
been running riot in the east during
the last day OF two doing vast amount
Of damage. Out here in Kansas the
weather has behaved better. treating
US to copious rains without the other
and more disagreeable accompani-
ments.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THAT South American war rumor
sounds very much like fake. They
are given to such connections in the
tropics. Perhaps that Mexican liar
has faxed the associated press third
time
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

ACCORDING to the official govern
ment report, Kansas wheat stands at
the head, as to condition and
prospects. Nothing can now prevent
an enormous crop but the depredations
of that little pest, the chinch bug which,
we regret to say, is not altogether
idla
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
i ord HHolsleu the innnnrted E.nuii,

Lord Wolsley. the imported English
Shire stallion, and Bob Ingersoll, the
Abdallah, viii stand the present season
as follows: Bitlertown, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays. Balance
of time at $50 Constitution street,
Emporia. Terms, SIS insured.
JOHN b. McKNsEY.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Two Kansas City banks have offered
Congressman Peters $1,000 a year to do
their law business. Better accept.
That is 81 900 year more than he gets
now, unless he values the privilege of
abusing democrats at that. or higher
ann
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

T. L. Ryan has received
a carload of eastern bug
gjes, which he will sell in
connection with his own
work. He pledges him
self to duplicate Kansas
City prices. Call and ex-
anime his stock OF
buggies, eurreys and
phaetons at 113 east
Sixth avenue, Emporia,
Kansas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THE fact is noted in contempor-
airy that the president and his cabinet
all dress better since they went to
Washington. That is what it is to
have a merchant tailor in the cabinet.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THE Episcopal Bishop Usher main
tanned in at sermon a Kansas City Sun
day evening that the sun did not stand
still over the vale of Ajalon, while
Joshua made short work of the Amor
ties. It was, he says, obscnred and
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
Watches and CLOCK.

We are headquarters for fine goods in
this line. and we would rather have
your money than these goods, and in
order to make the exchange we are go
ing to cut the prices. Call and see.
Id. Fox & Co., Jewellers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

WE are assured by Dave Lamont
that Mr.. Cleveland does not want mol
would not have the presidency again.
The bringer of pleasant news is always
a welcoma pueRt.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
indiana on Che var Path.

Three hundred Oklahoma boomers
killed and scalped. If they had stayed
in Kansas and bought the j. 1. Case
cultivator of Peters Hardware compa-
ny they could laugh and grow fat.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Bishop, the mind reader, died in
New York city at noon yesterday, from
over-exerting his brain.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
CEAIRmAN RARNUm's successor

SHA AAkAMAN A1AAnUmS SGCCESSOAS
There seems to be no occasion for
ali the the pother and clatter in the
newspapers about the difficulty of find
ing in the democratic party suitable
and satisfactory successor to Chairman
Barnum Of the national committee.
Men in plenty of the requisite ability
are to be had. The tariff question
should and viii have but little to do in
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

WE fancy that Oklahoma will hardly
hold Captain Cooper since some one
managed to have him photographed in
the Polica Gazette.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Our stock is too large and must be
reduced, and we will make prices lower
than ever.
b nice little genuine diamond shirt
stud for $1,000. Diamond rings. 5000.
Call and see US.
Id. Fox s. Co.. jewelers..
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
Wy LIE

That people lnger along always com
planning about that continual tired
feeling? One bottle of Beggs' Blood
Purifier and Blood Maker will entirely
remove this feeling, give them good
appetite and regulate digestion.
ID. w. NORRIS, druggist.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
For all forms of nasal catarrh where

For all forms Of nasal catarrh where
there is dryness of the air passage with
what is commonly called ''stufing up, .
especially when going to bed, Ely's
Cream Balm gives perfect and imme-
diats relief. Its benefit TO me has been
wood, Kansas.
For over eight years have suffered
from catarrh, which has affected my
eyes and hearing; have employed
many physicians without relief. I ann
now on my second bottle of Ely Is
cream balm, and feel confident of q
complete cure.-Mary @. Thompson.
Cerro Gordo, III.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

New gold discoveries in Colorado have
created quite stir out there, and a
considerable influx of the men who
sweat and bleed for gold.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
Wanted horses, Mares and Mules.

Joel Thomas will be at my barn Sat
urday. May 25th next, to buy horses
mares and mules. They must be fai
and smooth. T. j. fleming.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

EMMA ABBOTT does the square
thing by her husband by placing at
Ss5, 900 monument over his grave in
Gloucester Massachusetts.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

encies in that region. But theory, or
no theory, a good pond is a desirable
thing ON every farm, whether in an
arid or a moist climate.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

TIE Paola Times would like to have
. reunion of the editors of the state
June at Fort Scott. Very well, but
what do the Fort Scott editors say
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

THE whereabouts of Cronin is as puz'
zling to the Chicago detectives as the
hiding place of Tascott.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Special Sale Of Gold and Silver Headed Umbrellas
We want to close out our entire line
of silk umbrellas, and for ten days will
offer these fine goods cheaper than you
have ever bought them.
l. D. Fox s. Co. Jewellers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Our stock OF silver goods for wedding
presents is very fine and complete, and
we will make hard times'' prices.
1. ID. Fox s. Co, Jewellers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Our entire line Is too big, and in or
der to reduce our stock we are going to
give you our profits. s
I. D. Fox 8 Co.. Jewellers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
Always Keep the Upper Hand Of Disease.

Changes of temperature are apt to
cause dangerous sickness; in the full
blooded apoplexy is to be feared. When
you have pain in the head, feel dizzy,
feVerish, rheumatic or sick at the
stomach, take at once three to ten of
Brandreth's Pills, Such slight affec-
tions are only the harbingers of disease
or sudden prostraCion, and the thing to
do is to master the trouble at once.
Never let little sickness get the bet
ter of you. Drive it out of doors i'm
mediateIy. Let there be no compro-
mise, always have with you a box of
Brandreth's Pills, and you are pre-
pared to fight the worst form of sick
ness in its incipiency.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
THURSDAY, MAY lie 1889.

EX-MINIsTER PHELPS will resume
his duties as lecturer on law at Yale.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
You Cauuot Afford

At this season of the year to be with
out good reliable diarrhea balsam in
the house, as cramps, collie. diarrhna
and all inflammation of the stomach
and bowels are exceedingly dangerous
If not attended to at once. One bottle
of BEGGS' DIARRHGA BAISAM
win do more good in cases of this kind
than any other medicine On earth. We
guarantee it. ID. w. Morris, Druggist.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
PATIENTS!

Patents, Caveats and Trade Marks procured
Rejected Applications revived and prose
cuted. All business before the United States
Patent ONCE promptly attended to for mod
crate fees, and no charge made unless patent
is secured. Send for INVENTORS GUlDE.'i
FRANKLIN H. HOUGH,
Washington, ID. @.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

100 dozen Rogers triple-plate knives
and forks just received. Price and
quality guaranteed.
L. D. Fox s. Co., Jewellers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16
Five Thousand Hogs

Died of cholera because they did moi
eat corn raised by j. 1. Cases cultiva-
tor. sold by Peters Hardware company
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

The Blues aud the Normal base ysIT
clubs play at soden's grove on SATURDAY
at 2.se .. M.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

Co. E viii give grand ball on
Wednesday evening. May q.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

They seem to be going honestly and
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

MONET TO LoAN-On live stock and
personal surikY. E. n KINNAH,
AZ Benne e Commercial
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

]. ID. Fox 81 Co. JeWeIers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

have cost Mr.. Walters a great deal less
than SIS, 900, and would probably have
afforded him and his friends a great
deal more satisfaction in the long run,
if it had been kept filled with fresh
buttermilk or something of that kind. -