Emporia Weekly Gazette (Newspaper) - February 9, 1911, Emporia, Kansas GAZETTE VOLUME MATTHEW And as from Teri u great multitude And behold two blind men alt ling by the wayside that Jesus passed by outray ing David v them because they should peace they cried the saying Have mercy on us O Lord thou And them and said What will ye that I Bhair dp unto say that our vV So Tesua bad compassion on them and touched their eyes imme their eyes received sight and they followed him THE C 0 3 was th hundredth anniversary of the birth of Horace Greeley was fo many years the foremost Amerl can editor His work was dom XII K VIRTUE p A farm paper that to the Gazette office prints a ringing ed calling upon the farmers to use plenty of paint before the spring open On nearly every Western farm there are many imple which would look better anil bf of more service if they were painted some good rich warm color for instance The Junk Editor once worked for an fanner in Kansas This farmer hart great faith in paint He bought his lin seed oil and Venetian red in large quantities and the hired man spent most of his time in the late winter applying the gorgeous color to cul wagons harrows and all the other traps As he along with his paint brush he was ex to look out for defects such as rotten bolls loose screws and to make the repairs AS a result when the Springtime and Gentle Annie arch of all she surveyed that farm ers implements went into the field ready for hard service every bolt was in place the shovels of the cul scoured and the plows worked like Neighbor ing farmers were having all kinds of a time with rickety implements that called for repairs when they were most needed and with plows that wouldnt scour and with har Pass that broke every chance it had No farmer can afford to economize in the matter of paint and that same is true of people who live in towns In there arc doz ens of houses which look shabby and unkempt for lack oE paint If they were painted would when conditions in this countri were totally unlike the conditions of today Life was simpler people were poorer there were no tele no rural the tele in its infancy and the greater part of the country was a wilderness The daily his time cir exclusively in the cities and the farmers subscribed for weekly papers where they sub scribed at alj They led lonely iso lated lives generally and read every word in that came to them Naturally they preferred the newspaper that them the most for their money and the New York Tribune paper was as to quantity He wrote 8 bout things in which farmers were Interested as well as about politi cal problems j had an amus ing weakness for discussing ture of which he knew less than nothing His advice on that kind was but the farm ers read some of it seriously lo hearts ofthe farmers of the country in those airly days because he took such a warm interest in thorn and because he togged himself out like a scarecrow Nowadays everybody clothes and boiled shirts but in the days when men farmed with ox teams homespun was the rule hi the country There were no readymade clothes and every farmer was his own tailor or his wife acted for him in capacity the hickory shirt that and tho town and their value would ba increased far more than the cost of the paint Unsightly fences and outbuildings can be made ornamental at a small cost If the head of the family foels that he cant afford lo hire a cap were familiar objects and the men who wore such deco rations had a profound dislike for welldressed The dandy was an object of ridicule and con tempt in the rural regions Greeley this as well as Jerry Simpson understood certain things Me wore the worst ever scon in New York He wore straggling absurd whiskers and an old hat that wasnt lit to seta hen His pants always were about six inches too short and showed his cowhide boots reaching up to his knees ings were scarce in those days but was an abundance of pictures t and X every f a the homely ure in the disreputable clothes Ilia weakness in tills direction was THE Hon Bert Taylor says in the Chicago Tribune that reads Shakespeare This is wrung for a good many read him Some people seem todo little else and they write essays on him and er ciphers in his plays and incessantly as what he meant in certain passages It may be inferred from Mr Taylors occasional refer ences that he is not overwhelmed with ad for the Bard of Avon and in this lie deserves credit for his courage It Js moral duty to profess a greati admiration for Shakespeare Every library has a copy of his book but does anybody ever sit down to read the book far the sake of enjoyment of he finest tilings in any language may be in but the treat bulk obscure average to the of his stuff and tedious is for reader lie refers man to do the work lie borrow a pair of overalls and do it himself dinins his spare time That is better than talking politics down town A carnival of painting this spring would bo as good tiling for 15m poria as anything ithe Gazette of LIE IX was another windy war am childish as lo destroy the of the lawmaking body There should be some in congress other day Macon became so wrought up that he a newspaper man as a liar It is probable I he newspaper man is a liar but there was no use in mak matter public The reporter losl his temper and tried to got il the congressman but sundry and centurions in and the angry men could only stand frothing at the mouth ami glaring at each other Of course they expected to be hold They doubtless saw that plen ty of centurions were around be fore they opened hostilities When congress adjourned they might have met in the alley if they really were suffering for a fight hut snob an idea never occurred to them Many American citizens are growing unspeakably weary of the growing custom of quarreling in congress and inline stato legisla tures H is so utterly foolish ami dignity punish ment worth while for the alleged statesman who calls oilier people liars Ho usually makes an apol ogy afterwards the mat ter is dropped He should be sus pended or fined a months salary AS TO The people of perhaps do not realize that Raymond who comes to town tomorrow night is one of the best men now upon the lecture platform in Judge Lindsey when he was hore last spring told a member of the Normal faculty that he considered Raymond altogether the strongest man upon platform in America The iazelle rarely gives unqualified en to any man but it can does do so for Raymond Robins lie is the best lecturer who will appear in this That iocs not mean that ho is r word painter or that he will tell funny He is a serious nan with f big message whose life has been with his doctrine The Supervisors considered a harmless eccentricity In New York and in the country it was i sure indication that he was one oC the common j people In and so the goo old man got a grip on the lions people that lusted n long as lie did and then became sacred memory lie fitted his times and surround ings exactly ami was justly con a groat man But if he cam back to earth now and started an other newspaper ho would have comparatively few readers am would be laughed at rather thai revered His style of editoria work has been outgrown entirely to things which were import ant in his own time but which are dead and forgotten now and it is lard work to discover hs is at halt the time If you dont like Shakespeare it s a good plan to say so even if tho confession a few highbrows Youll have the consolation of know ns that you are ingood company lie of a century or two igo were more candid than those of he present i clay If they didnt like in hesitated about aying has been enounced by many opinions re to respect Byron Sam el Johnson and Lander attacked kirn in prose and verse Milton is generally accepted no oC the worlds great poets but o was voted a dreary bore by many who were Distinguished who was something of a critic was woni a series of fits Milton was mentioned Hj regarded Paradise Lost as the poorest ex cuse for a poem in any language Milton took the first chapter of said anil It into an Old Sam Johnson hated Milton and all bis works and opin ions in his day had great weight When Sir was at height fame there wero many who could see admire in or poems Coleridge said GIVE TIIE Tho Kansas legislature has doti wisely to give the of Kansas chance to vole at the election o 1012 on the question ot giving wo met state the ballot It is now to fie The is not presence of tlu the polls will or will no improve politics not whether make 0111 state better or worse Hy Tho question fs this t en pay taxes maintain partners in business and human beings they the right to vote The answer should bo affirmative vote be cause they have a fight under the laws of Godand should have under the laws of man lo an equal participa tion in the affairs of ihe government with men for without the consent of the governed is In principle and vicious in practice Kansas should be tile sixth state in the Union to to women by giving them the right lo vote So long as women pay taxes and main tain homes and and help men lo What small they have women have the right to vote The Kansas are now given an opportunity to their manhood by giving women a voice in the affairs wherein both men and women OX 1JEIXG A You may remember nib a pretty girl who went to the High years un usually pretty married a gay young to reform him reformer hiin He set tled down but the con of the town when ho died ten or a dozen years ago he had a job but that was all and sho had a houseful buckled to her oC She work and reared THE DEATH OF 3selriiBka Horace died of a broken heart so is commonly said The centenary of his birth lust week renewed the discussion of the Disap at his defeat for the Is the common explana tion and tho theory is sustained at least superficially by tho fact that death came only about three weeks after Hie election in lie carried but Another explanation not commonly given an interesting variation the talc As told by Louis F Post who was practicing law at that ime in New York and was a little ater an editorial writer On a New York newspaper the story current among men at time was about as follows When Greeley accepted the nomination he was ad ert to resign as editor of the which lie had founded and or many years had brilliantly edit id because it would be undignified or him to seem to support elf editorially for The un was that he should re urn to his old editorial chair if So he consented to the temporarily as ho sup llUll Gomar Davles tho editor of the 1 discussed papers of tho state in the nowi and reference to him contains soni joking allusion to his wooden lej Comers wooden leg Is iho blunt instrument of Its Irim in the United and il in song nnd story he is the daisies Some si ranger not standing Kansas OK Old Goiner might think it unkind to jolly i Concordia man about his eg and be it he wero on the subject but the s Comer started the fun himself Many of the most amusing shots at I bis timber extremity have com from his own pen ami one Infer from a regular reading of his paper that tho celebrated leg is the most humorous in Now as a matter a en leg is not at all amusing to the who has to wear the same is awkward it is in way it is more or less a It is a constant reminder that one Is crippled Most men who josed rom of Whitelaw managing editor rom the and Tribune Reid to edi away office dur kept ng the campaign After his defeat e returned to his old quarters as nothing had happened One of liis was not used Ho or ered its USB peremptorily Still it what have not used Ho then did would ny one in similar circumstances and told that there were standing rders on the subject From he demanded From Mr Reid the e was told Greeley was imlig ant enough lit his insubordination to wear wooden legs u look in their eyes and ut indignation gave grief kept decently dressed wholesome ly fed gave them every ad vantage that this But it took hard anil it took tho of her a stoop in her lines inher iit Hun 1 red s The following estimate of Greeley i from tho pen of the late Charles A Dana one of the greatest men this country over produced He was a man of immense abil ity of instincts of extraordinary correctness in many respects am of the power of Expression of tell ing what he knew in a picturesque humorous way not only instructed the hearer am reader but gave him a satisfaction from the mere art thai the telling He had no education tie had lo pick up his education as he Weilt along reading in the win ter evenings by the firelight and never wasting a chance of learning something But he lacked one of the most precious faculties which will call the critical the judgment which when proposi tion is stated to you or Na fact is reported looks it calmly and says That is or That is false Ihe judgment the instinct the de and cultivated instinct which knows the truth when it is presented and detects error it is masquerading before you with out the necessity of any long ex to determine whether it is or error This great man of whom I am this great and brilliant journalist one of the greatest we have ever produced was deficient in that faculty so some times he was mistaken We are nil of us mistaken occasionally I dura say perhaps his mistakes were more conspicuous because of great power in wilting and rare his hit FU The other day I behold a woman whose husband earns something iess than two hundred dollars a month purchasing her seasons wanl rorie says Cornelia A P Comer in the February Atlantic In to it went one hat at fifty and another at thirty Her neighbors in the ad mired and Ona of the bolder wondered Well I cant help said Mrs Jones T just tell Mr Jones One man claimed that Scotts trilling really written by his brother Thomas who was a soldier in Canada and wrote a book de fending his theory and his book was a whole lat more probable Hum yet written to bhow that wrote Shakespeare All the groat pools mimes are household words now wciu ridi and abused and rate poets wero exalted a poet named Mason who was 2nnsld truly great by eminent writ ers Johnson said his fame would bo everlasting and at tho pretensions wrote tho of who Old Sam called Gruy n H ray is one of the immortals but what lias be come of Mason He was Ilio executor of Gray and thats about all Dials known cf him It is easy to smile nl tho deci sions and prophecies or those old hoys of long ago but at Inast had the courage they believed They were not by any mans reputation and didnt admit that a book was merely because it was a best Duller In these days of Tired Business Men we read what we toid to read and say its good or bad according to the drift of popular opinion Every man has in his happy book case filled with standard works he never reads He is satisfied that they are great because everybody says so bul he time to look into on his own account Yot he looks shocked and i n say anything to the tha Shakespeare is turgid that Scott on that Milton should havi een a Tie and all of them were proud of The girls are well they seem lo know what it cost their mother lint that seems to have an to be n sport His mother sees it and H her sec it and they are ashamed They wonder whals Ihc use of trying up and be sonic body and if it not for the blood of their mother in they would slump Iho boy bus lo n sport Mo has to sneak through i blind door and up a stairway on Hast Sixth and get whisky and he has to loaf around the pool shucks he learned that lie was in ecd no longer at the editorial elm of the Tribune and grief was oon followed by death Ono is not compelled by the acts however lo accept either It might have been ovor grief of another before his overworked nomination kind for years lo the presidency He increased the strain during his campaign To cap the load he was called upon during the hours oC liis campaign to by the bedside of a dying age might easily have accompanied the lion from labors following the close of regard less of any personal disappoint ment either as candidate or edi tor HUE A A young widow of Kansas Cily advertises that sho want a a hus good hardworking man who has no bad habits When people advertise for hns and wives their menls usually arc foolish or ab surd That 1s why tho of lin ing the public for i purpose is Rut this a breath that would sour a cc Kansas Cily womans advertisement sidewalk and lie linn to wear in eminently and practical the loudest and the brashest I and Hm sincerely hopes she tragic gnash their teeth and some the hat If a man has an unwholesome long ing for pity his wooden log is of value to him But Old Homer Davits doesnt want pity Me want anybody to tell what a pity it is that liu must wear a red elm limb He pro losses to find his log highly amusing and is always over its adventures and everybody Ohio laughs with him The spirit cf Old Gomor is a lino nnd people should lo it The general disposition s to make a whine IViry little or infirmity a great deal bell or lo it as a joke hat he can got in mother pays for it all by Heaven knows what hard All for the I Hie wealth boy to be a sport What a loafer he is Mow worth less ho Is becoming Does ho think any merchant wants him They all know about him The whole town knows that he is mooching on liis mother They could stand uis drink ing they might stand his loafing and his general cussed sponging and is too much What a miserable foundation he Is putting under his life liow It will crumble when the rains fail and the winds blow upon that house AXI America and China are n ov hound writes icl in dii on How America Get ii he February Century first by conv non recognition of the necessity tt China of Independence integrity of of territory and jurisdiction and reedom of development and o the promotion of which America s committed and second by rea on of common rewards and rebuffs abstained in promoting Chinas policy Hid Americas diplomacy Together villi Ihe Invasion of the can the imperial sanction to the contract completes Americas entry into the Chinese em ire It supplies the desired basis nd displays the unprecedented op achieved for American and trade and for Ameri can Influence in Eastern Asia by President Taft and Secretary within the short period of I Tt was a bright sunny morning fora trip to the penitentiary om tho ihe new felt mattresses i fair trial life isnt worth livin if 1 cant delegates probably enjoyed boudoir in the court house what I their little jaunt THE 1AV Today is groundhog day Accord ing to the faith of our fathers If he comes out and sees his shadow he will go back into his hole and slay for six weeks of rough wintry weather Today is full of sunshine and if ho is not too pcor to cast a shadow the ground hog will sec a shadow as back as the Inside of your hat If there is anything in the ground hogs who would bo so base as to doubt are to have all our winter between now and grass It will be well to his warn ing The groundhog is a wise old boy Ho knows Ho was here be fore man He Ihc weal her bureau Ho is not so beautiful as the peacock nor so wise as the serpent nor so sly as the fox nor so fine a songster as the mule but when it comes to tho large fat juicy hunches on the follow the groundhog He has the goods no trouble to show them may secure the best kind of a mnn Sho says nothing about lavishing of her affection upon anybody slu quotes no poetry she is not nt all romantic not bad Hie Senator is of re signing In Oder to save his friends Hr might him self a small quantity at the same Imc Ono pleasing result of the open winter is the few women have I ain is modest and Mont of the women who advertise fur that they have a distinguished appearance when they are not positively beautiful Sho emphasizes tho fact that she Is an unusually good house keeper and of a cheerful disposition What more could any man ask Theres really no reason why matrimonial advertising should not bo useful and dignified Many wo men who need havent lime to look around for them and legions of men arc in the same boat as regards wives The adver tising of the would bo a genuine blessing lo such people if they would advertise sanely and modestly like that estimable widow at Kansas Tho department of commerce hns selected from the Kansas Court a list of that adapted to the of high school students cf commercial law and tho list han been sent to a num ber of school commercial teach ers who report a of It in their clauses principles of business law and their application to concrete that liave through courts ami as thoy aro by Iho highest court in iliov show authoritatively the law if in Kansas Cam haw been to select cases that are fro from technicalities nnd that nr within of of high school The list will be on request with wildest Ions on how t e HBO cases t any com whn will wilto for it to A head of the ment of commerce LATH MIIS News Mrs Stuart Phelps Ward who died yes was one of Americas must distinguished writers While Hh was not a great figure nlie n woman of line literary and of high Her work made a wide ap peal and yut il was not a vulgar as Is that of Mrs Ward in her lost the mys a sorrow nii comfort from Other stories of Ilium only short had the which wen so eminent In book liy which iKi known Sho saw In life inori nnd raiment in man more than mere frame It IK hov her style In adapt her though and lo her qf life there IK In the that irf so In texture of hoi work It Is n and ami but ulile Of course Hut of Ward were Blie TIIK Tho vote Industry it Dan ville and in county ap Iears to have brandies in Xew Jer sey and other states to and tho matter in attracting of the in tito country 1ave sprung u few the sub ject and this fact leads a ponderous exchange 10 print a Ion and dignified rebuking unseemly TUo exchange points out that the vrto selling lad ia a j menace to our and bul warks and we should civil fooling and view with The editor writes that way must bo importation from Britain Anybody In any timo knows of ioke if hostile fluets wiro throwing into their It s of happiest of our national that we sco the humorous side of everything tumos This does not in win that ws the ple nro frivolous or foolish it rath er means that we arc wise as serr ntH born optimists Vote Helling is an and ihe people realize that it fraught with perils but In by wrist ng of and gnashing of Plm grand juries aro he iml the industry will discouraged nnd thu smile and go about work Tho newspaper jokes on juh cot do more good than tvl They serve to keep sn In mind and tn of the jokes are ureas in which brings the sell rs into the light ens The man who objects lo Ilio jest on any in of ils an editorial hould bo in lsed for her of UK Hut ut thin were which Is inn in ho thing No doubt idle fell OIK of the of grout would be the ill ill we dear in this 11IV And why not Ward nerved he general Ion well rind there nve man who feel that In her doulh havo lost n friend nnd Hut bocks nnd through them her Influence will la rOK Portugal ban agreed to pay her e kinga pension of a to the of Hu and other which royal families In good These or ttu rulor there of doubtless foul Unit whole lu of royally would bo cheap if a king wero permitted to chase around patched Vivien Gould ban been and has made o secure a Such constancy deserves the a subdued Helen Hill tho of ilio oaten thai the now Portugal IK nn cany murk and it will bo a wonder If the tax payers dont Ilio a protest II be all lo pay In keep III in in meal tickets but to hima big roll every monili dl even at Ihin of In do bin 10 In UK Into d of per disrepute He luck Itian he ho hunting for a wife ami man led n pretty and sensible woman who had nore nl tractions Mum the usually have Tile that he has treated her ind she Is parking no nml to to native land and plo f or Until and over anil anon ami K iut wo iHUr wv are not with kings Helen may he a color hut tlie namn pro fanity It sounds i it The ot Kool iho big blondo Illinois in the les ii tlu iull Senator that ler has a against the senate coilo In hnl he been caught work In done Twenty tin re IIKO inon were not thrown out t the uch an r aini when they nut upon evon the people mnt them buck It in i nay the tenI biuk It would Ijo bettor n IP ef Hm sent baili fruili lie big cil Hill been Senator Knot falls upon him u thousand How rabbits who to down will down lint It be I he I Ihe rabbit to hear Koni Hut hail up their mi ills of the It i for a lo some one tn up his mind for him si reel evidently IniM derided mer II JUKI a liule loo Popular of S lias him ami all liis w Old finy of whom Wi with a fork DII hut to out lain luul fostered ilii nnd ami all of ihe nl mention of il They whon KIW Colonel come hiK fork lo of Now This of is it by nnii time cur il inv our It lime you we Itar wih your lipIt no lie duty stir up of I looked ii tht CiliK lie M Un stalls lie anil wcr f Jill ills pi will In i sieve lint I run en inu vill li In H I anil to liat u iiM hi e that lie wm lil 1 hi sii ivc thrown i 1 Kks ii a 8 I I It y o d y it r il u r U I r v 6 V id l X
