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BMFOIIIA NEWS.
FRUJAY,MAY 21, lifsT "
THE EMPORIA-NEWfe,
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CHAPTER XVIII. .
Mr. Ilinlcin at the end of seven
years deemed the church or Strait
Creek able to support a minister all
hU time. Such bad been its pros
perity during ihe seven years of
Jir. l.inkln'a services that it had
b come a large and strong churob.
C.Mieequently, tie resigned Lis
charge of that rhurch, and relln
juished a hundred and fifty dollars
of his salary to give the church of
Hipley his whole time, which for
some years was unable to give
more than threo hundred and fifty
dollars a year, and Mr. Rankio had
no talent for getting a salary.
He suffered often great inconven
ience through the waut of a com
petes support. During twenty
three years the church was very
harmonious ami pioperous. It in
creased from tbirty-aix members to
two hundred and twenty. During
the twenty-fourth year of Mr. Kan-
kiu service two of the wealthy
members or the church took oflei.te
at Mr. Rankin, without any JdiS(
Ing caiiKo. At the commencement
of the trouble Mr. Rankin express
ed his williugnets to bavo the pas
toral relation dissolved, but the
congregation voted largely against
It. Some time afterwards Mr. Ran
kin sent his son, A. L. Rauklo, to
preach to the church, and read to
the congregation a written request
from his father to take a vote and
release him from any further serv
ice as their pastor. Ihe congrega
tion broke up in confusion, and re
fused to take' the yoto. On one
time, when some of the members
were absent, by depriving a color
ed man from voting, the majority
of one was gained in favor of dis
solving the pastoral relation. A
majority of the church members re
monstrated against dissolving the
pastoral relation, and proved that
the majority was wrongfully ob
tained. The Presbytery, instead of
dissolving the pastoral relation,
should have ordered another vote;
but they forthwith disolved the re
lation, aud that gave the house to
the wealthy part ot the congrega
tion, and turned the poorer part out
to 'build a, house for themselves.
The party thus turned out declared
that they would disperse, rather than
unite with those who had acted so
uujustly. As they had shown firm
ness and loyalty to their pastor, he
continued to servo them. They
were named the second Presbyteri
an church of Ripley. They went to
work, as if one family, on the first
r August, and collected together
all the timbers, plank and shingles,
and employed carpenters. Two
merchants, Robert McMillan aud
James Reynolds, men in moderate
ly good circumstances, employed
two men to mould ten thousand
bricks a day, and gave each of theui
two dollars a day. They soon mould
ed enough to build the church.
They employed a man to burn thorn
and soon had them in readiness for
laying np. Mr. McMillan lelt hid
store, and he and Mr. Rankin su
perintended the work of putting up
the church, and assisted in prepar
ing material for building. . As they
progressed, they took up what sub
scriptions they conld obtain. Mo
Millan. ami Reynolds subscribed
largely, Mr. Rankin subscribed
two hundred dollars. A church
forty-four,by sixty-four, with ft base
ment above ground, nine feet from
the floor to the ceiling over head,
aud an audience room, twenty-
three feet high from the floor to the
over head ceiling, was erected, Mr.
Raukin was preaching in the base-
. raent by the first of January. Da
ring the spring -it was entirely fin
ished, with bell, and cupola, all in
good and neat style. McMlllau and
Reynolds paid all the workmen.
This .brought the church twenty
two hundred dollars in their debt.
The division of Mr. Rankin's
ohurch was one of the sorest afflic
tions of his Hie, but It pot him Into
a church that at that time had no
equal between Ripley and Cincin
nail.
The second church was dnrlcg
some years in debt to Mr. McMil
tan and Reynolds. They were gen
erous, and never asked the church
to pay, bot the debt was there and
increasing, aud it waa a just debt
that ought to be paid, and to be in
debt injures a church. Mr. Rankin
wait discouraged about it, and
doubted the ability of the church to
pay. He went to Mr. McMillan and
Reynolds aud proposed making an
effort to have the debt paid. They
said that they did not believe that
it could be done. Mr. Rankin pro
poned the taking of a subscription
payable lu five annual payments
with eight per cent, interest. To
this they consented, and subscribed
nil hundred dollars, sir. Rankin
subscribed two hundred dollars, and
he presented the subscription to all
the members uf the congregation
and kept them as long as he could
tip to two huudred, aud then one
hundred, and theu to fifty, aud theu
to tweutv-nve; aud in live dy he
took up a bubsctipiiou equal to tho
church debt, aud McMillaa aud
Reyuolds took the subscrlptiou for
Him church debt, aud thus Ihe
thuicu wii liberated from debt.
The Fieuch aud English 11 -.her
ineu are said to be quarrelling up in
(he Newfoundland regious, and the
i'Veuch and English Government
propose to scud war vessels to keep
the peace. It would seem that
there are fish enough in the sea for
French aud Eugliah alike aud that
there is uo ueceaaity for throwing
each other overboard to feed the
tealy things.
"Spring's coming," exclaimed an
enthusiast the other day. "I saw a
red-beaded worn in peeling potatoes
iu the back yard, and singing like a
inockingale."
Volume 18.
" . lCIDE.'Vr!.
Philadelphia produced 219 twina
during 1874.
In lenna, wis., a aweet child of
is months recently fell into a kettle
of bot soap and was boiled to
death.
"Now don't be rough," remarked
a person who had been arrested for
stealing the other night. "Pray
don't ay I am a thief. Be polite
and call me a canal contractor."
Among the presents at a wooden
weeding in Allentown, Pa., lately
was an immense cake it being re
served for the last ; when they cut
it they found it was only a cheese
box covered with icing.
A little child in Indianapolis was
vaccinated the other day, and hap
pening to knock off the 'scab which
formed over he wound, put it, child
like into its month. ; It, U now suf
fering from an attack of varioloid.al
mot aa severe as actual small pox.
There was once a Pennsylvania
Legislator who laid bv thirtv
thousand dollars in one nct,aIon.
When he wan asked how he man.
aired this with a salarv of one
iiousand dollars, he said that he
saved it by doing without a hired
ri.
In play In 2 cards with four men at
Mlllwaukee one evening this week,
until- t i . - ... 1
ti uiiiu Liiuumsa got lerrioiy beat
en, lie irot beaten over the. hiail
with a chair, and waa "ordered nn
and down on the floor so vehement
ly that be came within an "ace of
losing his lire. While on the "high"
bis "low" companions slaved th
duce" with him, and broke up the
game" by break Id his leir. He
thinks he was a "lack."
While buyinir her ticket reeenUv
the train left a Utica woman, carry
ing away ber twin babies, whom
sho had stowed away in a seat. Ap
pealing to the symrathles of the1
railroad wuperintendeiit, the anxions
mother was soon flying down the1
track behind a switch engine at
newspaper train speed, and, thanks
to me courteous f tnouarh bachelor1)
official, overtoos: her cherubs before
hey reached Trenton. This waa a
chase after twins ; the first authen
ticated ease, we believe, in history.
XII K wonEx.
Wanted A hand ta hold my own
Aa down lire's atream we glide,
Wanted A band to milk the cows,
And be my own iwm bride.
A young lady in Dubuaue com
mitted suicide the other day becuuse
her step mother ordered her lover
to leave the house. ......
In some parts of Louisiana, when
girl Bets the marriage day, she
counts up her a&ue davs so as to
have the ceremony come on the off
uay.
Unless a Milwaukee eirl can take
brick in each hand and make 8
feet and 4 inches at a standinsr
jump, she rarely gets into first class
society.-
"Women lack nerve " Indeed. "Mr.
Spinner 1 A woman with dyspep
sia has more nerves to the square
inch than a New Jersey swamp has
muequitoes.
A Texas woman has learned to
use the lasso so deftly that she can
slaud in the door and haul the hat
off tho lightning-rod peddler while
he is unfastening the gate.
Man" says Yicto Husro. "waa the
conundrum of the eighteenth cen
tury ; woman is the conundrum of
tho nineteenth." We can't gness
her, but we'll never give her up no,
never.
Veils have been constructed with
nose pockets, to allow the veils to
be pinued back closely and yet set
well on the face. In giving orders
for the article, the length of nose is
to be stated.
An assessor asked a woman how
many chickens she bad, and doubt
ing her word, proceeded to count
tbem. She took him to the bee
hive, kicked it over, and asked him
to count tbem.
That was a shrewd method which
an Iowa girl recently adopted to in
duce all her friends to attend her
wedding. She did'nt let tbem
know up to the last moment who
the groom was to be.
A lady defines Heaven as "getting
on your runners." uanoorian.
Yes, and by "getting off" your rub
bers too early in the spring, many
ladles go to Heaven sooner than
need be. Wiscasset (Me.) Oracle.
Golden hair is common with the
barmaids of London. It is produc
ed with a powerful solution of
chemicals, making a very beautiful
tint, and a suns intense enough to
Knock over an .Egyptian pyramid.
Lucy R. Hooper says in one of
her Paris letters that "there is noth
ing on -earth that French actresses
can better portray than girlish inno
cence and pnrity, which proves
what very great actresses they are.1
A Dnbuqoe printer received the
following note from his girl : "Mav
I git yanked out of bed at mldnlte
every nlte by a cnas like Theydore
Tilton, an' carried up a million pare
of stairs, if ever I sese to love yon,
Jim."
There are times when all of a wo
man's self posession and dignity
are required. That is when
she shows her first babr,
hair-lipped one, to an old beau,
whom she had jilted for the sake of
her present husband.
One of the speakers at a recent
temperance meeting ..In Boston
charged that lots of Boston women
chew tobacco, and said that he coold
get ten men to - leave oil chew
tag where one women will give up
the weed.
A sentimental youog man of Chi
cago wcut to see his girl the other
day, and found that his letters bad
been pasted over the tops of pre
serve can, those beuiuniuir with
"My Darliug Susan" went over the
peache, and those commencing
with "My Own Darliug" were put
over iuc appies.
"You may talk," says the Milwau
kee News, "about marryiug an heir
esfl, a ueiicate unman Dioxsom, a
tairy. an angel ; but give me a girl
lika Nancy Terwilliger, of La
Croasp, who rau out of doors the
other night, and straddling a horse,
veiled out; 'good night, pld man;
i n on for the spellln match V
About tne first thing a woman
docs in a moving la to cut ber fing
er, aud every object she wishes to
call your attention to is pointed out
with a band that is covered bv a
half pound of carpet rags, and
smelling strong enough of arnica
to knock over a stable boy. The in
jury Is sometimes caused . by
closing ner eyes as sue strikes
nail, but is most frequenUv done in
taking up tacks with a Umber case
knife.
HOW KACI1 9IAF ?.! OUT
HOMEY.
The Lawrence Journal, noticing
the fact that W. D. Kelley, of Phil
adelphla, ha9 been traveling South,
and fonnd money terribly scarce
there and business stagnant, and
that he therefore is going to urge
upon the next Congress an increase
of the currency, says :
Mr. Kelley is a man of sufficient
Intelligence to know that the coun
try is full of money for those who
have anything valuable to exchange
for it. Did these Southern people
who had no money haye any cot
ton ? If so, they can get money for
it very quickly. Did they have
rice ? Rice will bring money. Did
they have wool, hides, butter,
cheese, wheat, corn, pork, cattle,
horses any or all of these things ?
If so, they can get money. We re
peat there is an abundance of mon
ey for those who have anything to
exchange for it.
This is the exact and only solution,
in each and every case, of the great
money problem. Kachmau must
cure his own financial weakues.
The government can't give a man
money because he needs it. Take
a farmer for instance. He is hard
up, and needs money. How is he
to get it. Land isn't very valuable,
and this Is well, for where land is
sale able It readily brings high pric
es, and a poor man cannot buy it.
We hope land in Kansas will always
be slow of sale, and so keep cheap.
Nor can the farmer afford to sell
his plow,or wagon, or work person,
or stock cattle. These, with his
land, constitute his capital, and it is
by making with them that be pro
duces that which he ran afford to
part with, andean always get mon
ey for. Nor can he afford to bor
row, for the borrower is always the
servant of the lender. The only
way a farmer can. really afford to
get money is by selling what he pro
duces by his labor and intelligence,
and it is therefore his necessity and
interest to be just as indnstrious,
skillful, and Judicious, as God has
given him the power to be. He
can get money by raising good
crops, good cattle, good fruit. lie
should not expect to any other way.
To ra'se these thing", and to take
care of them, when he has them, so
that they will bring good prices,
should be his chief object and en
deavor. If he doea this, ho will
have money, whether others do or
not, or whether the government in
creases or decreases the supply of
currency. There is no other ad
visable plan. Labor, good care,
good management, continuously
working upon a Kansas farm,
will bring the owner of that farm
money, will finally bring him into
easly circumstances, as sure as the
sun rises and sets, and the seasons
come and go. That this, is so,
thousands of cases in Kansas
prove, and our readers in
this county cau readilv name
many of their neighbors who
have weathered adverse seasons
and all discouragements and finally
secured a compitency iu this coun
ty.
Cease trusting to politics or to
parties, to an increase of tho cur
rency, or to "better times," for mon
ey. Money can be had by each and
every one simply in exchange for
the marketable products of labor
and skill, and labor and skill pay in
iarming, ir tney tion't in other avo
cations. Put tbem on the farm,
and the farm will return products
which will bring money even in the
dullest times.
Married Lire.
"Make vour home beautiful, briu
: to it
nowers;
Plant tbem around you to bud and to
Dioom;
Let them five life to vonr lovllett tirmrt
L-ei tneua bring Ugnt to enliven your
gioom
A lad of 23 waa married to a wo
man of to recently in Cornwall,
ionn.
A man in Monroe county. Pa..
ronsed to trenzy by the news from
Coacord and Lexington, has lust
aeciarea nis independence by floor
ing bis mother-in-law with a hot
griddle.
"I say, Uncle Reubeu, you ought
to settle as much money on your
pretty young wile as you can.
Why so, James?" "Because her
second husband, poor fellow, may
not nvve a dime.
. A hen-pecked husband is seldom
blessed with troops of friends. His
"modest stillness and humility" are
pernapa virtues, out soraenow or
other, folks won't rally much around
a man who ain't capable of getting
up and raising a row when occasion
calls for it.
Blifkins was down in Chicago
ine otner uay wnen ne received a
letter from his young wife, saying
to him that "on this lovely spring
morning a bird is singing in my
heart," and old Blif. just looked
wild a minute and then took a
freight train for home, muttering to
himself, "Them's Beecher's senti
ments, old roan ; keep yer eve peel
ed."
Jane Grey Swisshelro, in a recent
letter to the Woman's Journal, savs
the women of Centra Pennsylvania
marry at from sixteen to eighteen
aud at once begin to add to the
populatiou. She adds : "From that
age uum iony-nve tney average a
baby every two years and a half
that is if they live so long. They
seldom trouble a doctor about so
small a matter as a birth, but some
oue or their number, who never
saw a Medical College but has fur
nlehed her quota, attends to mother
and cluld, and death or serious mis
a
nap ai sucn times is a rare occur
rence."
Jimmy Brown came runuing into
Mrs. Jones' house the other dav.
mjiuk ; ,vn, aear, Jira. Jones!
ucn an accident has happened.
Your son John sot under a. fnnr.
horse load of pig iron down in the
river, aud it ran right over his
head. Oh, dear. !" Poor Mrs. Jones
screamed and nearly fainted. nhn
the little rascal added : "Don't cry.
airs. Jones, be wsn t hurt a bit."
-way, what do you mean? Run
over oy a lour-borse load of pig
iron and not hurt?" "Well, you
ee l8 w-ou was passing over
the bridge and he fit sitting under
it fishing." replied the little rascal.
snooting out or tne open door.
EMPORIA, KANSAS, FRIDAY
OLD FEOPM2.
Old Mother Hubbard, of Car
thage, is 183 years old. .
William E. Gayle slipped "bis
wind in Cincinnati at 100 years.
- The oldest man Schuyler county
N.Y. is 96, and his name is Sheldon
BassetL
Raphael Price died in Arm
strong county. Pa., the other day,
aged 10-1 years.
Last month Mrs. Christina De
war died in Wisconsin, in the vain
attempt to spell Waukesha, at the
age of IOC years and 11 months.
At a spelling match in Candla,
N. II., a few evenings ago, Deacon
Ezekiel Lane, 83 years old, spelled
down all the young folks and took
the first pi ize.
tensions naUtena.
A Colorado tombstone remarks:
He was younjj.
- He waa fair.
But the Injuns .
Raised his hair.
The British Government, potting
more trust in grit than in piety,
refuses to allow its Arctic expedi
tion to be encumbered by a chap
lain. The Baptist churches are rais
ing a Centennary fund of $1,000,
000, each member of the church
to contribute a dollar and to re
ceive a certificate.
' A grand international Sunday
school convention was held May
11,12, and 13th, at Baltimore.
Delegates were present from every
state of the Union, and from Can
ada. In Germany, by the recent law,
all church property is taken by the
state : all monastic orders are dis
solved, except those having invalids.
wmcn are given lour years to wind
up their affairs.
A ffrca Presbyterian Confer
ence is to be held next Julv in
London, Eng., at which there are
xpected to be representatives
from all the different Presbyterian
bodies in the world.
The progress of Christianity in
apan is reported bv missionaries
as very slow. Fourteen mission
ary societies have representa
tives in that country, but converts
are ridiculously few.
Father Chininuv. the r.nnvprt.fwl
priest, who is preaching to large
congregations in Montreal, has
been again excommunicated. But
ne seems to be no more alarmed
at these spiritual missiles than a
Catholic would be if a Methodist
should throw his bvmn-book at
mi.
The London Daily Telegraph
shrewdly says of Mr. Moody:
"Notwithstanding all the easy talk
about hysteria, epidemics, magne
tism, nervous systems, and the
like, the philosophers and divines
have yet to explain to us why it is
a bad thing for these Yankee itin
erants to turn people by the thous
ands to right and virtuous lives,
and a good thing when a bishop
or a Cardinal manages to convert
half a dozen."
During the revival services at
Vallejo. California, a gentleman ob
served that one of Mr. Hammond's
handsomest and most energetic lady
assistants was beinsr vieroronslv
bugged by a young man while the
singing was going on. When the
inquiry meeting commenced, the la
dy approached the gentleman who
had been watching her, and asked
him in a meek, plaintive voice:
Do you love Jesus?" "I fear I
don't loye Jesus half as much as
you do the boys," responded the
gentleman, itie fair damsel was
not disconcerted a bit. and she curl
ed up her pretty mouth and said :
"Don't yon wish yon were one of
tho boysr'
A Bill t Protect the People
ot HanwH from Emplr-
Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful
for any person within the limit of
the state of Kansas, who has not at
tended two full courses of instrnc
tion and graduated in some respect
able school of medicine, either of
tne united states or of some foreign
country, or who cannot produce a
certificate of -qualification from
some state or county medical socie
ty, and is not a person of good
moral character, to practice medi
cine in any of its departments, for
reward or compensation, tor any
sick person witnin tne state of Kan
sas; rroviaea, 'mat in all cases
when any person has been continu
ously engaged in the practice of
medicine tor a period of ten years
or more, ne snail be considered to
have complied with the provisions
of this act, and that where persons
have been in continuous practice of
medicine ror live years or more,
they shall be allowed two years in
which to coinplv wiin such provis
ions. Sec. 2. Any person living in the
state of Kansas, or any person com
ing into said state, who shall prac
tice or attempt to practice medicine
iu any of its departments, or per
form or attempt to perform any
surgical operation upon any person
within the limits or said state, upon
violation or section 1 or this act,
shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined in not less than fifty nor more
than one hundred dollars for snch
offence ; and upon conviction for a
second violation of this act, shall, iu
addition to the above fine, be im
prisoned in the county jail or the
county in which said offense shall
have been committed, ror the term
or thirty days, and in no caee where
in this act shall have beeu violated
shall any person so violating re
ceive a compensation for service
rendered; Provided, That nothing
herein contained shall in any way
be construed to apply to any person
practicing dentistry.
Sec 3. This act to take effect and
be in force from and after its publi
cation in the statute book.
4 Approved March 3, 1870.
4 1 hereby certify that the forego
ing is a true and correct copy of the
original bill now on file in my of
fice. Thomas Moonlight,
Secretary of State.
Two Englishmen, in search oi
sulphur on the island of Dominica,
West Indies, have discovered,
eight or ten miles inland, in the
crater of an extinct volcano, a boil
ing lake. It is half a mile wide,
and two miles in circumference,
and even at the shore the hand
cannot be immersed in the water
without pain.
TIIE NEWSPAPER Rl'SI-
''' - . - - v'.
What s Well Kaowa Western
Edltorand Publisher '
Ifsui to Say Abeat Ir. ' c '
Col Aikens, editor of the 'Mil
waukee Evening Wisconsin, in re
ferring to the newspaper business,
says: The average ' oewpaper
reader thinks ' he could improve
the newspaper he reads, if he were
the editor. It is very common for
editors of long experience men
who have . given a r lifetime
to the' profession to : get let
ters from subscribers offer
ing advice. Xo doubt , some
editors need advice; f but as
a rule an editor, lit to be 1 in his
position, Knows ieuer than any ;
one reaaer wnat snouia go into
his ; paper. The readers ' ' of : a
newspaper are a community, and
their wants and tastes are broader
than those of one man; hence the
acute editor will find his way to
the satisfaction of . the greatest
number. In this course he will
circumscribe himself only by a re
gard for truth, right and public
good. lie is, however, constantly
tempted, by the large sale of pure
iycast' and immoral papers, to
increase his at the expense of de
cency. But only on the ground
that the devil is the best paymas
ter can this course be justified.
Edit a paper within the bounds of
decency and right, and the best
test of the editor's " work in the
sales of his wares the number of
his readers. Edited upon any oth
er principle the paper becomes a
tract, and people don't buy tracts
-tne oenevoient societies give
them away.
Another popular fallacy with re
gard to newspapers is the very
general belief that fabulous for
tunes are made by publishing
them. Of course everybody knows
that not much money" can be made
in printing a small paper in a
country town; but we speak of
prominent papers in great cities.
It is a common remark that we
hear with regard to Chicago
newspaper fortunes. There afe
five principal newspapers in Chi
cago, and we understand from
most excellent authority that there
has been no money made by them
for some j-ears. We know the news
papers have not paid expenses the
past year. The diftiulty has not
been withjthe papers, for they have
been good. It is the loss of ad
vertising. Business has been dull
and the merchants and manufac
turers have not attempted to ex
pand by advertising. In the
United States are printed some
six thousand publications. We
do not call to mind twenty men
who have made fortunes in the
business. So w repeat, it is not
a money-making business.
Perhaps the most popular fal
lacy with regard to newspapers
is that generally entertained that
newspapers ought to be printed
and published in the interest of
the communitv particularly the
indigent portion of the communi
ty. Churches, poor-houses, asy
lums and all sorts of charitable
enterprises run to the newspapers
ror gratuities, as a child runs to
its mother for help. Politicians,
office-seekers and scallawags, gen
erally count on the unpaid sup-
pore oi newspapers. jow a news
paper, to be worth anything as a
business enterprise, should be
printed in the interest of its pro
prietor just as much as a mer
chant should run his -business in
his own interest alone. This pop
ular fallacy has been largely bred
by the establishment of party and
personal organs, that live by beg
ging for support, and other news
paper medicancy.
Another very common fallacy
that has possession of the aver
age mind is that an advertise
ment or one's wants and business
inserted in a newspaper, is patron
age, is a generous sense. The fact
is that the publisher of a first-class
newspaper usually charges less
than the cost of the white paper
covered, for the insertion of an
advertisement. So, if there is any
patronage in the transaction, it is
on the part of the publisher. A
stranger picking up a paper from
an unknown city, judges of its bu
siness and general reputation for
enterprise more by the advertise
ments than by the ed ltorials.
love Before. u.al After.
There is a good deal of ohiloso
phy about the words of the cool, re-
1 .1 "J f . a , l . . .
jiecuve inuivmuai wno smoKea ana
talks to his better half in the annex
ed: The girl is generally educated
in novels, ana ber first disappoint
ment comes in on the quiet indiffer
ence of the busband after the hon
eymoon. "You love me no longer,"
Bald a bride after a few months to
her better half in sown and slio-
pers. "Why do you say that. Puss?"
be asked quietly, removing a cigar
from bis lips. "You de not caress
me or call me sweet names ; you uo
longer seek so anxiously for my
company," was the tearful answer.
"My dear," continued the aggravat
ing Wretch, "did you ever uotice a
man running after a car? How he
does run over stones, through mud,
regardless of everything till he
reaches the car, and he seizes hold
and swings on. Then he quietly
scats himself and reads his paper."
"And what does that mean ?"
"An illustration, my dear. The car
is as important to the man after he
gets in as when he is chasing it, but
the manifestation is no longer call
ed for. I would have shot the man
who put themselves in my way
when in pursuit of you, as 1 would
now shoot any one who would now
come between us, but as a proof of
my love you insist upou my run
ning after the car. Learn to smoke,
my dear, and be a philosoDher. The
two combined clear the braid? quiet
tne nerves, open tbe pores and lm
prove the digestion."
The London Daily Telegraph, af
ter reading the Police Court reports
ot the Detroit Free Press, condemns
the levity of American magistrates,
and solemnly weighs the matter
thus: "We may . not approve of
jocularity, in a magisterial court,
but on the wtole, it may be ques
tioned whether the mirthful readi
ness of the American judge may
not be preferable to the solemn in
justice which .local courts in Eng
land to frequently witness."
- MAX 21, 1 875.
TIIE
ISAHGESt OP
"At the lias It UitUeth !Lbe n
- Serpeatt auatl Xitasrelli laice
!-- - rnsi Adder.
, ' !
C CProverba 23:32.)
ft I - ' -
.The use of Intoxicating drink
tends to create a inirst for it, so
strong that but few will overcome,
That this is true a few facts will
prove. I am now in my eighty
third year. When I was a small
boy, but few, if any, deemed it
wrong, to make whisky. Two
farmers, one a Baptist, the other a
Presbyterian ; each had a family oi
sons, and each, set up a distillery.
The Baptist man and the wife of the
Presbyterian had a debate respect
ing their distilleries aud the means
of preventing them from, injuring
their families of boys, r-s.cn bad a
plan of preyentation. ' Tl, Baptist
man said he wuhld give his -boys' a
dram every morning and being ac
customed to that thev would not
desire any more- This bt- deemed the
safest plan. Tfee Presbyterian wo
man said she would give hers none.
She deemed her plan the only safe
plan. He replied that wben her
boys would go where it was used,
they would not Know how to use
it, and then they would be more lia
ble to get drunk than if they were
taught at home how to use it. But
he could not convince her that his
plan was best. He gave his sons a
dram every morning, and she gave
hers none. I was present, heard the
debate and marked the results. All
that man's sons became drunkards,
aud last of all he fell himself. In
the other family there was no in
temperance and the distillery soon
went to wreck.
On a certain day one of the Bap
tist's sons was at my father's house
and one of my brothers told him of
a shocking death that hod occurred
in the neighborhood. A drunkard
crept into a distillery at night after
the distiller had left, got drunk, got
Into tbe fire and was burnt to death.
A hungry dog ate part of bim be
fore morning. The young man be
ing greatly shocked, exclaimed
"Well, if I were to get drunk and
burnt to death and a dog eat part of
me, I would never drink another
drop!" But he continued to be a
drunkard.
l was called to marry a young
man and on my way to the bride's
house, I fell in with the groom and
his company. On the way the
groom's brother drew out his bottle
to treat the company. I expostnla
ted with him in respect to the danger
of dram drinking. He affirmed
that there was no danger, and as
proof be referred to persons who
had long used whiskey without iu
jury, and then referred, to. his own
experience, he had been in the habit
or dram drinking without injury,
or danger of becoming a drunkard.
I said to bim "if 1 may judge from
your appearance you take too much
already." He advocated taking
morning drams. When we arrived
at the bride's house, her father, an
old gray headed man, was drunk,
and annoyed the people with his
foolishness. I pointed to him and
said to the young man "there is a
looking glass for young men who
iace morning araras. ' lie com
plained to Bome of his friends of
my reproof. Some years after
wards I saw him standing on tbe
sidewalk, at Ripley, Ohio, like an
idiot, a ruined sot. Thus dram
drinking created in him such an in
tense thirst for ardent spirits as pro
duced his utter ruin.
A gentlemaa, a member of the
Presbyterian church,assured me that
he thirsted more for ardent spirits
than ever I did for water. lie had,
notwithstanding his profession of
religion, sometimes fallen by it, and
again he arose and withstood the
intensity of his thirst, and seemed
to be a pious man.
Many years ago an old gray head
ed man -came twelve miles to get
me to visit a young woman on her
death bed, sick o f con sum ntion . He
had been a long time a drunkard.
While we were riding that distance
I endeavored to get him to aban
don his habit of drinking in toxica
ting liquors, and to become a sober
man. I said to him "it injures your
health, it injures your family, it de
stroys your reputation, and will
ruin your soul." "The drunkard
shall not inherit the kingdom of
God." He admitted all I bad to
say, and said "I can't quit it." The
young woman lived some weeks,
and I preached often for her, and
he attended, and I did the best I
could in my discourses, to bring
him to repentance. After the
young woman died, I preached at
his house and adapted my discourse
to his case. He received my en
deavors .for his salvation kindly;
but did not quit drinking. At , last
he got drunk, lay out all night, took
cold, and his bowels mortified. He
sent for me, and I hastened to his
death bed ; found bim rational, his
bowels bad ceased to pain him. 1
prayed for him, aud quoted all the
passages I could from the scriptures
to meet his case, and encourage him
to believe in the Savior ; bnt he
camly said, "I know that religion
is all Important, but I have no heart
to embrace it."- Aside rrora his
drunkenness he had no bad traits of
character; bot he had no heart to
embrace the Savior and therefore
could not be 'saved. Neither the
hope of heaven, nor the fear of hell,
could cause that man to resist his
thirst for strong drink, which
brought him to both temporal and
eternal death. And such is the
thirst implanted by the retail deal
ers of Ardent spirits. Hence I say
to all youBgmea and old: Shun
those houses, for they lead men to
eternal death. John Raxkis.
XII i: HOUSE THAT ROW E
....... ItUlLT. . .
From the Daily Grapbie.
' - :- , I. . .. .... ,
.Plymouth Church this is the
house that Bowen built.
ii.
" Grace, Mercy and Peace This
is the meal that lav in the house
that Bowen built.
. in.
Paroxysmal Kiss This is the
mouse that hid in the meal that
lay in the house that Bowen built
IV.
Gossip This is the cat that
hunted the mouse that hid in the
meal that lay in the house that
Bowen built.
v
Dissimulation This is the do?
that worried the cat that hunted
the mouse that hid in the meal
that, lay in the house that Bowen
built.
VI.
Vickv This is the cow with the
crumpled heel that kick
ed till the dog was ava ge speil
that worried the cat that hunted
the mouse that hid in the meal
that lay. in, the house that Bowen
built. , .
,.- vii. ,
Sir Marmaduke This is the
swain all tattered and torn who
soothed the cow with the crum
pled heel that kicked till the dog
was aw ge speil that worried the
cat that hunted the mouse that hid
in the meal that lay in the house
that Bowen built.
vm.
Elizabeth This is the maiden
all forlorn who iilted the man all
tattered and torn who curried the
cow with the angry heel that
kicked till the dog was aw ge speil
mat worried the cat that hunted
the mouse that hid in the meal
that lay in the house that Bowen
built. "
IX.
H. W. This is the priest all
shaven and shorn who almost
wished he had never been born
when he kissed the maiden all for
lorn who jilted the swain all tat
tered and torn who coaxed the
cow with the lively heel that kick
ed till the dog was aus ge speil
that worried the cat that hunted
the mouse that hid in the meal
that lay in the house that Bowen
built.
x.
Mrs. Moulton. This is a "Slice
of the Judgment Day" whose
"downright truthfulness" carried
dismay to the naughty priest in
-tne cave oi gioom ' wno "sat on
the ragged edge" of his doom
when he kissed the maiden all for
lorn who ill ted the man all tat.tprpl
and torn who soothed the cow with
the vicious heel that kicked till
the.dog was aw ge spiel that wor
ried the cat that hunted the mouse
that hid in the meal that lay in the
house that Bowen built.
XI.
"My dear Von Moltke." This
is the name of the Mutual Friend
who carried the secresy through
4 A. 1 1 - . .
io me ena ior tne siy out priest in
the cave of "loom who kpnt. n. dan
gerous cup in his room when he
uisseu tue maiden all forlorn who
jilted the swain all worried and
worn who coaxed the cow with
the versatile heel who kicked the
log till he was aus ge spiel that
teased the cat that hunted the
mouse that hid In the meal that
lay in the house that Bowen built
XII.
Mrs. Morse. This the typical
moiuer-in-iaw witu tbe terrible
tongue and flexible iaw. the rao-lo
eye and avenging claw, who told
oi an tnat sue Heard and saw, who
indulged in various comments
aloud, and made it sultry for all
the crowd lor the Mutual Friend
who dared to refuse to let her sret
at his .budget of news; for the
priest who, caught in what he had
done, said, "Mother, I wish you
would call me son ;" for her deso
late daughter all forlorn who jilt
ed T. T. (Tattered and Torn) who
curried the cow with the frisky
heel that kicked till tho do? was
aus ge spiel that worried the cat
that hunted the mouse that hid in
the meal that lay in the house that
Bowen built.
XIII.
The Graphic. This is the cock
that will crow in the morn when
Justice blows her delinquent horn,
commanding all to acknowledge
the corn; for the mother-in law
with the lingual thorn; for the
Mutual Friend with his lofty scorn ;
for that Slice ot the Day of Judg
ment born to comfort and scare
and guide and warn ; for Bessie,
who, as she has sworn, by Mar
maduke from her bed was torn,
and unto his screaming and sleep
ing borne; for the social priest all
shayen and shorn who kissed the
maiden all forlorn who jilted the
man all worried and worn who
soothed the cow with the limber
heel that kicked till the dog was
aus ge spiel that worried the cat
that hunted the mouse that hid in
the meal that lay in the house that
Bowen built.
Two brothers named Gaff have
established a mammoth hennery in
Colorado, ten miles from Denver.
It covers about four acres, which is
laid out like a village, with streets
and avenues, along which are built
long rows of houses of various de
signs. Regular families of hens are
assigned to these houses, and it is
tound that they quickly domesti
cate themselves without troubling
their neighbors. Tbe population of
the village is 2,000, divided closely
Into social cliques of Brahms s. Co
chins, Shanghaes, and Dorkins, and
me enter proaucts are eggs and
spring chickens. Sundays includ
ed, the industrious matrons of the
village turn out daily from forty to
fifty dozen of eggs, which are sold
in Denver from thirty to fifty cents
a dozen. The brothers Gaff express
bat a siegie regret, and that is they
did not found their colony fifteen
years ago, when eggs brought 5 a
dozen, and a spring chicken was
worth a pennyweight of gold duBt.
A New Zealand paper publishes
an account of the capture of two
living moss In that country. The
genus of gigantic birds was be
lieved by zoologists to be com
pletely extinct. This specimens
are described as respectively eight
and five feet in height.
JNumbek; 2V
LEGAL.
Administrator's Notice.
"lT"OTICE is hereby gircn, that th nnitei
jLi sigrneU was, on tho 16th ay ot April, 1ST3,
appointed by the ProUate Court of L on coun
ty. Kaneaa, administrator or the estate of
vm. Iiyucm, deceased. Alt iotrret-ltl will
take notice. JOH N K. HADDOCK.
20-53 . '
NOTICE.
TO all creditor and others interested in
tlio estate or Venj. Dnamire. deceased, is
hereby given that I, a admiaislrntrix of said
estate, at tho next term or the l'robate Court
of Lvon county, stale of Kaus;i. com mcnrtDg
on tiie nrt Moik1.it in Julv. A. T 133, shall
m.-iko ilital settlement or sniri estate.
AXXIK DI XMIBK.
RANDOLPH A SElXiWlCK. ' Ailmi'X.
Attys lor Ailmi'x. 30-21
LYON COUNTY TOWNS-
Hartford Nursery.
WE affer a larg-e quantity or homo grown
mat trees, everereena and ornamental
Shrubs at very low rates. One hundred choice
varieties oi appies. xrees z to 6 years old at
rrom seven to ten dollars per hundred, and
""s "to i..uu per iw at tne nurserv.
Como and examine ottrstock. It is firsfr-rlasa
, CUAUBEBS BAYSlMiKR.
Hartford, T.yon County, Kansas. iain-2
MIlS. VAN BUSKIRK,
Fashionable
MILLINER & DRESSMAKER,
Amerlcus, Kansas,
Ha a complete stock of Spring Good
now on band. Please call and examine
before purchasing-elsewhere. .
BleacMng and pressing done to order
on short notice. if
Hartford Water Mill.
mHE proprietors of this mill take
A. pleasure in informing the public that
uwi win is now reauy lu gnuu wneat
and corn at tbe customary rates of toll.
Willpay the market price in cash for
KOGA.S, WEXGER & TAYLOR.
Hartford, Nov. I. 44
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.
School Books
Dlank Books
of all descriptions.
Pens, Inks and Paper
Slates and Pencils.
Toys,
Fancy Articles and Confectionary
All to be found at the post ofticc, nt
Amerlcus.
All Prices to suit.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
HARTFORD, LYON CO., KAN.,
DEALER 121
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES
V- ii d IV otions,
EXCHANGES for PRODUCE.
Goods sold at lowest Cash
Prices. 22
Loolc and Ierani
Thanking our Patrons for
past favors, we again
solicit your trade.
W'c defy all competition. If you want
DRV GOODS AMD GROCKRIKS,
go to
HARDEN & -BRO
If you want FUKSITL'nE fit 20 licrrpiitlws
low cost, goto Harden A l!ro. If you want
Wtirtjery Wtock
Cheap, go to HARDEN & CR0-.
HARTFORD. Lyon Co. Kan.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WINDSOR HOTEL.
TkrU. LUTHER, at a heaTV exnense. has
ixl. just completed a new hotel, opKMite the
depot. He is now prepared to furnish better
accommodations tnan any notel in tne city.
sa v. n. LUTUEii.
300.000 Pounds of
WOOL. ALL GRADES
Wanted at tbe
Chicago Branch Store.
E. EPSTEIN & CO.,
rROPRIETOES.
Where CASH will be paid at the highest
market price for all grade of
Wool, Hides, Furs, PBlts, Ac.
I3T Speeial attention paid to Country
dealers.
Place of bnslneM, B. T. Wright' old
stand No. 130 Commercial street,
EMPORIA, - - KANSAS.
CHEAP STATIONERY !
Envelopes
5cts per package !
Note Paper
10 cents per quire,
OTHER PAPERS IN THE SAME PRO-
PROPORTION,
at the Postofflce and
CITY BOOK STORE.
WALL PAPER,
Window SliadeH,
PICTURE THAUE3
at the lowest Cash price
ELLEN PLUMB.
Emporia, Kansas. ...
BY ST0TLER & GRAHAM
TEEMS Strictly in advance fio vex ; T
A filrst-class Job Printing-office c6n
necteU with. The New. Plain and Fan !
ey printing executed on short notice. . . . ,,
BUSINESS .CARDS.",
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
" 1 Bv KELUKJO, i n - r
ATTORNEY AT UW, Emporia, Kansa.
Ooice In Mw8 block, up stairs. nut'
EAXDOLPH & SEDGWICK.
ATTOE5EY9 AT LATT. Office over
Dunlnp & Co.'s bank, east roein. r
ATTORN EY AT UkW, Kuiporia, Kansas."
(ProlKUe Judge Lyon countv), Jii o iu
News black, Emporia. - i.ttnf'
GEORGE E. TERnr, ' '
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND KOTAItY''
PI BLIC. Succial attention civen t
collecting in this and adioinine count ic.
Emporia, Kansas. Oilice with H. E. Norton.
ALMEHS G II. LETT. K. M. FORPE.
GILLET FOBDE, '
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Eraporl
Kansas. Office front rooms in JCsk
ridge builUin?. .
E.M. BrGOLF.3. C. K.6TERRT
KtJGGI.ES STEMS Y,
ATTORNEYS AT IAW. PraetleMin
all the courts in the Fifth, seventh
anil .Ninth Judicial Districts. Office No.
144 Commercial street. - 43 -
J. JAY BUCK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW ANI REGIS
TER I' BANKRUPTCY. Oaico
with Probate Judge. Emporia, Kansas.
M. WEAVE It.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office over
Irst National bank, Emporia, Kan.
w. t. Mccarty
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLIC
ITOR IN BANKRUPTCY. Ol&ys
iu Nkws buildicj, up stairs.
V. K. BACHl'LLKK, .
ATTOKNTY AT LAW, Emporia; itansai.
Having uracticed In the superior and in- :
icrmr courts for eighteen years, ne feels oenn
dent or renJering satisfaction to all needing
his services. jauHiu
PHYSICIANS
J. J. WRIGHT. M. r.
O
FICE over First National Bank.
iieHiuence on west street.
ANJTA WARREN, M. I.
OFFICE in brick building, next south
tn 1 1 1 i,, .
ner of Merchant and 7th avenue.
L. I. JACOBS. HI. II..
o
FICE in NTiws Block, np stain.
jannrti
J. A. MOOBK, M . I., -
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office
the Drug Store of Moore A Weaver.
janlTCtf
W. W. HIBBEN, "
PH YSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office In
Hanna's building, 188 Commercial street
J. 8. LAWRENCE. D. TTVKrB l lnnn w .
LAWKESCK LAWRENCE. '
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS. Offices
and residence 197 Commercial rtreet.
Emporia, Kansas. Mrs Dr. Lawrenco
will rive Dmmnt arfnntitr, .n. i
country day or night.
BUILDERS. ARCHITECTS. Ac.
12. F. SFRAGUK.
CAEPENTEU AND BUILDER. Shop on
Commercial bt. between 1th and Stli Av
enue. All calls promptly attended to.
. janl73-tt
PHOTOCRAPHfc'R.
n. A. HICKOX,
PHOTOGRAPHER, over P. J. Lehn
hard's more, Emporia, Kansi.
Pictures to 6uit, or no charge.
EMPORIA SOCIETIES.
EBIPORIA IXJDGE. Ko. 1J, A. F. A. Bt.
. Meets at llicir hall. Uuiriclvs it. 1-1 !...
building-, on the Thursday nfor next urecctl-
. .... A,...,., t cmi uiunia. ana every
two weeks thereafter. Master Masons ill
good standing arc ourdiallv Invited to aoeud
T. McCrLLOron. Secret W ' " "
PMPORIA CHAPTER. R. A. M. Mc, M
AJJ Masonic Hull, on the 1st ana 3:1 'rilar
evenings of each month, at Hi oVIoi'k. Com
panions iu KtHKUUuiding are cordially invit
ed to attend. u W. U itBS. U. j
i..W. brEKCM, Secretary.
OKI) FELLOWS. '
nNION LODGE No. 15. Meets atOdd rei
ows' Hall, over Emporia ltauk. every
lutsday evoii,,g at 8 o'clack. Member in
good standing invited Co attend.
M. WEAVER. N.O
J.H- WARXEKE, Recording Sec.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
DAMASCUS LODGE meet in Odd Fel
lotvs' hall every Munday evening-. .Mem
cw in good standing are cordially invited to
attend. Jones c -
C. It. HURST, K. R. S. U,,;.f
GENERAAL
JANCROI T HALL.
This hall is for rent on reasonable
terms by the day op week.
Will Seat 600 Comfortably
Haa a fine Stage, foil et or New Hren
erT Irtia; Itooins, Prhat.
Entrance. Foot UaJits,
Trap, &c.
Is centrally located and in every
respect FIUST-CLASS.
First-class entertainments arc well
patroaie.
Emporia lias 4,000 inhabitants, and U
accessible Irom four direc
tions by rail.
Good i::ii!fe Famished on Apjilieation.
E. r. BAXCEOFT,
Proprietor.
ATYE0 & HERMAN.
MEAT MARKET,
COMMERCIAL ST, OPPOSTE P. O.
FKKSII MIOATK
constantly cn hand,
-C.sh Paid For Hides.
C I. THEIS,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
One Door South of Bancroft & M
Carter'f, Emporia, Kansas.'
anltf
FRANK McCAIN,
Plain and Ornaiental Plasterer.
Emporia, Kan.
llatcrlala fnmiaho.l ami aenrt .lnn tn
abort notice and in the best manner. 2
E. L. Waderhorn,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER.
CIU Ave., ouedoor-eatt of Lebnhard'a atore.
Keeps the bent of ctock and workmen,
and i . t .11 timM mi!v .A i. -
J ww ,11 M p WVfr '
and aboea to order. Satisfaction guaran-
cw. xitairinjr neauj aone and i-nargea
reasonable. 12
W. B. S1IITH,
Formerly II ughrs & Smith.
Stone Cutter and Mason.
ItCAler ia best Cock White I.iroc.
Tbe 1et Bonding- Rtone furnish.! to any
point on the railroad. or delivered to : ,
any part of the City.
Office and yard corner Constitution .street
and iourth avenue, ' -
EMPORIA, KANSAS. j : i
I am ready to ent utone, furnlih it' An the ' ?
ruga. or hnild atone wall, at moderate- iri
ees. First clasn work guaranteed.
Iitf W.il.SMJTU.' 2:1
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