Bismarck Messenger from Lawrence, Kansas • Page 1

1ilfiiiiHrUr iti cmcuxjATiorj aooo daily. Jul liXAI. nMl'AN'Y. FliKi: (ii: I I.ATION. mi iJ VfcJ VijZ5 Via Vi wLiaX twltlutt) Ths SouthwBstePB Zrcn Fence Ccmuny I Hi I J.

T. RICHEY, MM AGENT 1st to 7th, ISf.O. L. D. L.

TOSH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC, LAWRENCE. IrA7D0ANE, REAL ESTATE AND LOAN AGENT, linys, Sells, Exchanges, and deals in Heal Estate of every description. Negotiates Loan secured by Chattel ami Keal Estate Mortgages. OjKce orer Steinhery's "Bee Hire Store" iMirrrnee. G.

M. LINDLEY, Locust Street, North Lawrence, Kans. Only Irug Store on the North Side. Stock large ami well selected. A thorough medical student prepares all prescriptions.

Is a Kansas Institution, and makes a BARB FENCE WIRE Warranted ecpiaTto any other made. The Cheapest and Best Fencing Material is the Two-Pointed STEEL BARB WIRE With ire lim b. It simply prick the cattle and does not cut like much of the four-pointed wires now in use. The llarh Fence Wire manufactured by the Southwestern Iron Fence Company at Lawrence, Kansas, has now hail a fair trial for two years, and is pronounced equal to any made, by those who have given it a fair trial. Ife soit if frtttlc outsit)' of ti iistts We expect to meet any fair competition from any source.

We invite Kansas custom. I trders from responsible parties will receive prompt attention. SOUTHWESTERN IRON FENCE LA WHENCE, KANSAS. WHITE SEWING MACHINE Needles and Supplies for ALL MACHINES. All Machines repaired and warranted.

LUDINGTON HOUSE CORNER, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. Tempi of Fashion E. T. VERNON, Patent Washing Machines, Winthrop Street, opp. Luiington House, LAWRENCE.

VOLUTION STORE! T. B. JOHNSON, G. Massachusetts Lawrence. tiik LEADING BARBER SHOP IN THE CITY.

THE LA KG EST STOCK OF is, ad Vsslisigs IX THE "WEST. H7 M'lsntirh usrfs St. The only exclusive Notion and Fancy Goods Store in Lawrence. The cheapest place in the city for you to buy NOTIONS FANCY GOODS, For Ladies, Misses and Children. Making a specialty of this line of goods, enables me to handle them cheaper than those carrying all lines of goods.

You should not fail to visit the REVOLUTION STORE. when in need of anything in the Notion line such as Hibbons, Fans, Hosiery, Cloves, Laces, Hamburg. Collars and Cutis, Rushings, Towels, Handkerchiefs, Ties anil liows, Corsets, Parasols, Dress Buttons, Combs, Iiracelets, Jewelry, Picture ami Motto Frames, Large Chromos, and thousands of other things not enumerated. Don't fail to call and examine our stock and prices. Remember the Place RED FRONT i7 Mas.

St. E. L. COOl'EK. B.

B. PORTER, Dinini Rooms aiii Confectionery, No. I.i MASS. ST. Weals at all hours.

Ice Cream to order in anyquantity. MOUNT OREAD POULTRY YARDS. High Class Poultry a Specialty, including BRONZE TURKEYS. First place South of Old University, Ohio St. 11 AH LI 1'RKNTICE, Manager Facts Worth Knowing Thut pictures niaJe by All Goods made up in First Class Stylt and good Workmanship Warranted.

SAM. a. McCONNELL, The Artist Tailor, No. 75 Mass. LAWRENCE, KS Hisniarck sinned almost deserted this afternoon.

At 2 o'clock, however, the Veil was rung to call in the scattering few who were utrolling about the grounds, and twenty minutes later when about thiity hud gathered in the tabernacle, the. meeting was called to order by a dignified, venerable looking gentleman, who, we were informed, was Judge Fisher, ot Wichita. The chairman, with very little explanation or ceremony in regard to the object of the meeting, or what was to be done, called for Prof. Phelps, of Kansas City, who had just arrived on the grouuus. Mr.

I'helps began by saying thai lie cmi gratubited the audience and himself, too, on being able to congregate in the pleasant grove of Bismarck and discuss the great and leading questions of the day. The philosophy of infidelity and skepticism is little understood. An infidel, in the true Hcnse of the term, is one who has disci.rd-ed the various tenets of orthodoxy and has become an independent thinker. The philosophy of infidelity is a system of free thought; thought cannot be free unless the bnly be free. That grand old clause in the Declaration of Independence would mean nothing unless we were free to carry it out.

The enslavement of the mind is the result of the enslavement of the body. The speaker ished to say soim tiling in regard to the illiberality of Liberals, he did not wish those who were free from the Bhackles of the church to Impose their own shackles on others. It was impossible for all to think alike. No two persons could cognize the same thing so as to con-vey the same ideas to the min is of ea'-h. Liberals should not desire to mold every mind in the same as their own, tiiat sivors, of orthodoxy.

The pride, of the nineteenth century, as uttered by Tyndal, D.irain, and Others, is that we change. The speaker illustrated this by telling about the origin of the plow, which, he said, wuj made Lorn the folk of a by a priest. The. inventor lorba.le anyone making anvthiiii! like it, he got up monopoly; finaKy the plow broke, ami some one SiitgeMi-d an improvement, but the priest said to improve upon that plow would be to as ume that the sugyestor knew more than the Creator of the universe, lor it was lie who showed him how to make it; but the improvement was made, and tiie result is the evolution of the modern plow. Thus change has been gMng on in opposition to the church, and it has no claims on civilization whatever.

If any were present who would think to the contrary, he would refer them to Mexico under the influence of Christians, and to China, whose religion, rlbu of Confucius, as und pure us any Chiistiau religion. Civilization depend-upon the amount of brains in a race, and the shape of the head, and not on the Christian religion or any other. There are several things that aid civilization and free thought, nnd free the mind from the burden of orthodoxy, and the greatest of these is journalism. The press is the power that may move us on to great end. in the West could be made the power of unearthing fraud, exposing corruption, and denouncing evil, and thereby contribute materially to the achievement of universal mental liberty.

The speaker made a lew remarks on the kind of religion in which he believed, but it was not that kind which ha! Gods, Chrlsts, prophets and ghosts mixed up with It, Ho believed the devil developed Mr. I'helps was not so radical in his remarks this year as he was lust year for theu he, by his extreme views, was dubbed "The wickedest man in the West." After the speaker took his seat, a gentleman hose name wo did noo learn, arose and said he was well acquainted with his Satanic majesty, the devil He sang a song entitled "The Devil is Dead." The following is the program for today: MOltNINII Ol'KN AT O'CLOCK. Huport of committee on permanent organization. Conference meeting. Address by li (II.

Fisher. Subject, "Im-mortutily of the Soul." AFTERNOON Ol'KN AT 2 O'CLOCK. Conference meeting of one hour. Address by Mrs. M.

II. Parry, of Wisconsin. Subject, "Meutal A. 0. (ViEHGER, Manufacturer ot'and Dealer -OK THK We may live without poetry, music, nnd art We may live without conscience, and live without heart We may live without friends, we may live without hooks.

civilized man, cannot live without cooks. 1 le may live without books What is knowledge hut gi ieving He may live without hope What is hope but deceiving He may live without love What is passion hut pi nine But where is the man that can live without dining And to dine well and be especially happy he must buy his oots ONSiudio CANNOT LE EXCELLED. Shoes, AT THE C3T" That tlio host baliy pictures, nitule in the State, arc mailc at this justly Celebrated Studio. No. 67 Mass.

near Ludington House. 82 Massachusetts LAWRENCE, KANSAS. Green Front Grocery No. 127 MASS. ST.

ROB'T D. MASON, F. W. WIEMAN, Manufacturer "of FINE CIGARS, Affent, WM. WEIDEMANN, Manufacturer id' Pure Ice Cream "Wholesale and Retail AND DEALER IN AND DEAI.EK IN Boots, Shoes CIGARS, TOBAGGOS.

PIPES, SNUFF, ETC. No. 70 Massachusetts Street, LAWRENCE, KAN. -AND- P.UHE CANDIES Fruits, Nuts, Cigars, Fancy Confectionery, and a General Lino of TOYS, Best 5 and 10 cent Ciprs in Town. taw war iLam alaa MtaJnea tihwrp 135 Massachusetts LAWRENCE, KANSAS.

tcjf Orders from abroad promptly attended to. 129 Mass. Lawrence, Ks..