Parsons Weekly Herald from Parsons, Kansas • 1

saw T7 T3 A Jt A jSL 11 -a IIehald rr.iSTixo Company FOR THE EIGHT, Piullsiikus axd Proprietors VOL.1 PARSONS, KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1S73. NO. IS. GRANGE DECISIONS. they have taken the four degrees, of Colorado irrigate, and dam (no! rock.

We assured hi 1 a that we saw CITY HOTEL. Rjggs Avenue, hct. Johnson and Bkiddy. TODD, Proprietor. My table Is furnished with the bef the market all'ords, itnd my motto Is srood beds and good board at reasonable rates.

PARSONS HERALD ISKtTKD EVERY THCRSDAY EV THE JIERALD PIIIXTIXO COMPAXV. O. tflWAKIW. A. VT.

OIFFOIID. A. C. CORY KIMBALL, ATTORNEYS AT IAW PA RSONS KANSAS KzSOfJlce. JVo.

4 Forest arniucij The following communications are officially published by the authorities of the Kansas State Grange. BY DUDLEY W. MASTER NATION AT RANGE. OF Ar-Qtor wptirr -irP ihP nroner nersons to vom-li for visit i i I The chain of evidence seems to tlif court to clearly csiablsh the faet that the boy Martin was not adopted by Mrs. Ames and that the record of adoption was made after her sudden demise.

The estate is estimated to be worth at least Mr. II. S. Coley, siuc? the decree of the court, has been appointed receiver and a portion of the effects have been turn- members None osiers but these t'on to le in a11 accompanied and meat shop of the country, while he claimed to be, for, though no ge-are quuliOed to 'vouch, and these only the ful1 fee of 5 for en. and $2 the rushing, rocky streams of Newiologist, and never having tended a A i 1 1 i i ,1 1 iji i antl llie use1 could not well be construed otherwise, than that the full fee of $5 for men, and 2 for ladies, should accompany the petition.

('c- 8d of article 25th constitution of State Grange, says the applica for ladies G. W. Spurgeon. Sec, Kansas. State Grange.

All petitions and communications ter tate will receive prompt attention as soon as the con- i stitution and by-laws are out.l We desire that all things shall be done legally. ally. T. G. Boling, M.

S. G. JAY COOK CO. I The failure of the great banking! that it had done more to develope house of Jay Cooke can hard- her resources since McCoy solved the ly fail to have a bad effect on the I problem by driving the herd to Abe-general feeling with which Aineri- line than any other interest. In that can securities and American met h-! interest she had built railroads and ods of doingbusincss will be regarded I made laws, and is ready to make still abroad.

And yet there is no sound others in order to foster this immense reason for any such result, because and growing trade of the Southwest, the failure differs in no respect, ex- It strengthens the bond of friendship cept in its magnitude, from any or- that unites the three States, and dinary suspension of a private bank-j brings us nearer together. In Kilning firm. For some time past it lias sas we will lead the Texas steer by been no secret that the securities of the side of still waters, and make the Northern Pacific Road were not him to lie down in green pastures, for members of their own Grange. Any member admitted by show of hands instead of the regular ballot, is not a Patron, and should never be recognized as such by members of the order Master and Deputies are only persons that can give the A. P.

W. Members are liable to expulsion for communicating it to each other. Deputies cannot admit over 30 Charter Members. Persons may sign the application for the Charter, pay their fees, and not be present at the organization. They will have to wait till the Grange is read to initiate.

Business must lie transacted at the regular meetings. Regular meetings are those named in the By-Laws. Granges or Deputies who knowingly violate the rules of the order may be reported to the State Grange by any Patron. NATIONAL GRANGE OF THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. Yf ASHINOTON, I).

INOTON, D. ig. IX, 1S73. At To Deputies "Worthy brothers To expedite the work of my office, and prevent com plaint of dolay or neglect on either your part of mine, please adopt this plan Send the application on Form to me, with the fees, as soon as possible after you organize a Grange. Use Form as furnished gratuit ously by me; do not write out your applications on lips of paper, as three ap- some do, putting two and plications on one sheet.

These have i to be copied here, and it causes de- i lay. Do not write letters on the backs 1 of these forms, as they are all bound fpr reference, and letters, to meet attention, should be on separate sheets. Instruct the new Granges as to Uhe. length- of tra; for your application to reach me. It will seldom be retained longer than two days, and if the package of documents does not reach the express office designed within fourteen days, let the Master notify me, and a tracer will be sent.

Delays are as tedious and ant to us here as to yourselves, and occasionally cause unpleasant feelings. It is our intention to send off every package of documents within twenty-four hours after the order is received. IS. has happened several times that the original applications and drafts have been lost in the mails. Some deputies have sent them in separate letters; this causes dela).

Therefore if deputies will follow instructions, and express companies will be expeditions, there should not be anv long delay. Be prompt lo send duplicate to the secretary of your State Grange, that he may be enabled to keen the work accurate in his' office; but do not number vour ranee: that be longs to the ofiice of the it very plainly. 'Well, said he, I planted dat domick when I was no bigger dan a warnit, (walnut) de day I fust settled heah, and you may know dat's been no little while." We believed him, and came to the con- elusion that he was really older than crop of rocks, we are satisfied that it took substantial Carrington several i thousand years to reach his present imposing proportions. "When ws suggested that it Mas that ancient mariner, Admiral Noah, for whom he cooked, he empahtically insisted that it was Columbus, whom he maintains, was a better sailor in a minute than Noah was in a three years' voyage. Not being posted in nautical matters, we gave in to the old darkey's superior knowledge of things pertaining to the sea.

He thinks his life prolonged by drinking the Olympian waters, the only beverage he uses, a barrel of which Mr. Gill has had hauled over to his cabin regularly every week for about a hundred vears." SEED WHEAT. The farmer would do well before selecting his wheat for sowing, to confer with his neighbors and others, on soils similar to his own, for the purpose of ascertaining from their combined experience which is the best variety for his soil and cli-climate. Having settled this point, let him insist upon a clean sample of the kind he is to sow, having no mixture of rye, oats or other seeds. It should be wheat that was nearly ripe when cut, that stood in the field a little later than the best time for harvesting to grind into flour, and that was cut in good weather and secured without heating.

If a large extent is to be sown, it is well worth while to place a counted number of the kernels into a moist soil, and ascertain Avhether all will germinate, and if not all, what portion. "Wheat will sometimes look well, when it is unfit to sow, owing to having been heated at harvest time. The trial suggested will show in what degree its vitality remains unharmed, or to what extent it may have been injured and it is but little trouble and no expense, to make trial of seed before putt ing it in the ground As good seed is one of the least costly requisites for a good crop, it is unwise not to make sure of its being good. Since wheat is liable to have some of its grains affected by fungi, it is well to soak it a short time before sowing, in tepid water, and then dry-it off in quick-lime recently water-slaked. This, it is believed by many, prevents the communication of the disease to the future crop.

As regards the quantity of seed per acre, we believe, that if the soil is rich and well prepared and wrought into a idee seed lied, that one bushel sown evenly and covered to nearly an equal depth, is as good as more. THE AMES SUIT. The finding of the court, together with the rulings as expressed by the judge, are so voluminous and exhaustive that farther comments ujon our part seem out of place. The conclusions of the court on the whole seem to have been anticipated by many who had opiortumty to hear both testimony and pleadings, though some may have expected milder expletive and a few insignificat modifications. It is indeed a serious matter when so many of the warm personal friends of the prominent defendants are forced to draw painful conclusions as to the result.

The ease is of too great magnitude to be concealed beneath the folds of the mam le charity. It influences the conclusion that designed, ignorantly, a portion of the defense had been led to become party to crafty temptation, covetous- ness and greedy grain under circum- stances uniieuii. iu uiseiose. uau hoped for more favorable results. We have reason to believe friends of the defense were at the bar and on the bench, who conducted the case with magnanimity; for the suit as brought is a mere bill in equity, while profanity,) and sweat, to bring crops out of earth that the Almighty meant for the purse and treasury of the na- tion.

As our people are voting bonds, toiling with costly steam en- gines, and praying to make a manu- facturing State out of the grainery England, flowing idly to the sea, or turn only enough machinery to make them laugh, as they flow on forever, knowing they have the power to turn iuuhumu i ru- tire nation. But it will come in good time, when nations, States and men will do those things they are permit- ted to perform, not attempting all, but doing their own work and fully. "Kansas feels that the cattle trade is the very breath the nostrils; his lines shall be cast in pleasant places with us." Itt A CLOSE CORNER. The great railroad combinations are getting in a close corner, and are playing a desperate hand. While the farmers and business men of the West are looking up the law to see whether the public have any rights which railroads are bound to respect, the manufacturers and shippers of the East are holding meetings, atone of which, they recently resolved that "railroad corporations must no longer be permitted to water theirVstock three or four times'and then charge eight per cent.

Meantime Tom Scott, Vanderbilt and a few others are consolidating all the principal lines, forming the strongest combination known in the history of the nation and watering stock more rapidly than ever before. If the people give up, the railroad kings have won, but if they should conclude thr-l railroads, as chartered public institutions, built largely by the aid of the public funds, were amenable to law, that watered stoek was not very creditable public property, and therefore liable to there might be serious trouble. Wesrtern Planter. THE OLDEST MAM IN THE WORLD. We copied recently a sketch of Fortune Snow, a colored man near Louisville, Kentucky, who is said to be one hundred and twenty-four years old, and was styled "the oldest man in America." The Sterling (Ky.) Sentinel, now prints the following account of another colored man of that State, who may with safety be called the oldest man in the world.

Perhaps the end is not yet: "Sam Bowles, who lives near the foot of that wonder of nature, Car-rington's rock, one of the attractions ol that cliarmmg reson ot summer, the Olympian Springs, in Path conn- ty, is the oldest darkey in the country. Sam is so old that the clock in his rude cabin long ago ceased ticking off the hours, old Father Time having given up in disgust the job of numbering the hours, days, weeks, months and years that stretch out that old nigger's life a long ways back toward the dying hour of the late Mr. Methuselah, who was said to have been no spring chicken when ne nanuea in nis cuccks. claims t-a li 1, to have been cook on the vessel that brought Christopher Columbus over. He doesn't know his exact age at the time, but thinks lie was upwards of foi tv.

He was born in Africa, and was presented to Queen Isabella by a Moorish Prince who courted her favor. "He is one of the most remarkable specimens of humanity in existence. He doesn't remember how long he has been blind, but distinctly recol- lects that the last sight his eyes ever looked upon was that great warrior, Ponce de Peon, kissing an Indian princess behind an angle of the stone for that eminent military general erected at San Augustine, Florida, nd which still stands as a proof of the correctness of the old darkey's menory. His blindness was brought about by his being stung in the eye-by a mosquito, or an aligator, or a buffalo, he doesn't know which, as he was asleep. He lost his last tooth one hundred and Sfty years ago, owing to chronic rheumatism in me gums, has been compelled to subsist oy smelling his victuals.

"Taken altogher, Old Sam Bowles is a curiosity, and we have no doubt of the trurii 'of this story, for he i .1. IN AXJKT1, Wholesale and Retail dealer In Cigars Tobacco Isnow prepared to supply the wholesaleand retail trade with the finest brandsof cigars, smoking and chewing tobacco, and smoking articles generally to be found Jn Southern Kansas. No. 13 Wall Street, FORT SCOTT. WILDER HOUSE FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, PALMER PARM: LEE, Prop's.

Rest accommodations in the city. Kf ti h-N TLt.M LUNCH ROOM For choice Wines and Liquors. Also, OYSTERS AND GAME. X. W.

Cor. Main Wall FORT SCOTT, KANSAS. CHURCHES. CONGREGATIONAL Rev. P.

M. Orlffi.s, Pastor. Residence, Forest A near scuce: building- Church, corner Denison lit lmont Ave's. Services every Sabbath i.i, a. and 8 m.

Sabbath school immediately after mornlnir service, l'rayer-incetiiijr, Thursday evening at o'clock. FIRST BAPTIST No pastor nt present. Prayer meeting every ednesday evening in Methodist Tabernucle. PRESBYTERIAN Rev. .1.

II. Meeter. Factor. Services in ilews' Hall every other Sabbath at A. M.

and 7:) p. m. Sabbath School, It. L. Gosling, Sup't, every Sabbailj Afternoon, at 3 o'clock, in Iltws llall.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL Rev. C. R. RICK, Pastor. Services every Sabbath, in the Tabernacle, A.

M. and 7:110 P. M. Union Sabbath School, E. S.

Stevens, superintendent, in Tabernacle at 3 p. ji. every Sabbath. CHRISTIAN Elder Shick. Pastor, Services every otberSabbath, in Hews' Hall, at A.

M. and P. M. LODGES. I.

O. O. C. Parsons Lodge, No. 01, meets every Tuesday evening.

Hall in Ibiford's block. AH members of the order in good standing are invited to attend. A. L. WILLIAMS, N.

G. M. O. Secretary. NIG IITS OF PYTHIAS.

Pioneer Lod so No. 7 meets every Thursday eveninc. Hall in Uuford's block. All members of the order in good standing are invited to attend. W.

T. SMALL, C. C. J. R.

it HOWS, V. C. MASONIC Lode, No. 117, A. F.

A.M. Stated communications tied on Saturday on or preceding the full of the moon in each month and the second Saturday thereafter. All Masons In good, standing are Invited to attend. O. W.

OAP.R1KU W. M. IT. L. Part in I joe.

Secretary. CITY GOVERNMENT. R. STEVENS, Mayor. WILLARH DAVIS, Police Judjre.

KORFIU'O. KINOLKTON, City Treasurer. COUNrtLMKX ANOFI.L MATTHF.WSON, A. 1IRR, (i. W.

OABlllKIi. P. Y. THOMAS, AliilAM CAKY, J. J.

PLAIN. O. W. HAWK, City Clerk. Z.

HAYS and CHARLF.S WATSON Constables. Officers of ths National Grange Master Dudley Adams, Waulton, Iowa iverseer Thomas Taylor, 'olumbio. S. C. Lecturer A Thompson, Plain view, Wabash county, Minnesota.

steward A Vauirhan, Early Grove, Marshall county, Mississippi. Assistant, steward (i Thompson, New Brunswick, New Jcreey. Chaplain Reb A li Urosh, Washington, D. c- Treasurer McDowell, Corning, New York. Secretary II Kelly, Washington.

O. C. Gate Keeper Dinwiddie, Orchard Grove Lake com. ty, Indiana. Ceres Mrs I) Adams, Waukon, Iowa.

Pomona Mrs Kelley, Washington, D.C. Flora Mrs Abbott. Clarkesville, But ler Iowa. T. i.aoy Mcwaru uis-s Washington, I).

C. OFFICERS OF THE KANSAS STATE GRANGE. Master, T. O. V.

Holing, Leavenworth City; Overseer, M. K. Hudson, Bourbon county; Lecturer, John Hoyd, Montgomery Steward, K. 1). Smith.

Jewell county; Assistant Steward, J. 11. Richey, Franklin county; Chaplain. W. S.

Hanna, Frankdn county; Treasurer, H. H. Angell, Cherokee countv; Secretary, l. W. Spurgeon, Neosho county: Gate Keeper, C.

W. Lawrence; Ocren, Mrs. Mat tie Morris; Flora, Mrs. M. H.Charles; ljuly Assistant Steward, Mrs.

Jennie D. Richey; Pomona. Mrs. Amanda C. Rippev; Executive Committee; F.

H. Jacksonville, W. P. Popinoe, To-peka, and J. li.

Sehaefer, Grasshopper Falls; State Agent, John G. Otis, Topeka. LIST OF DF.rCTIKSVVIIOSF.COM MISSIONS II AVE BEEN EXTENDED IJY OCR NEff JIASTEl: OF THE STATE UltANGE. General Deputy, J. a.

i.ramer, i.a rencc. For liutler county .1 Sitton, Kldorado. For Montgomery county I Peacock, Independence. For Iibelte county John Nelson, Jacksonville. For Shawnee county Alpheus Talnier, Topeka.

For Franklin county Hanna, Ottawa. For Douglas county Taber, I.aw-rence. For Wilson conntj Thirley, Imlfalo. For Allen county I Cuppy, Humboldt. For Coffey county James Brooks, Burlington.

For Cherokee county McDowell, Columbus. For Marion county A Hodge, Marion Cen er. For Johnson county Meredith, Olathe. For East half iiourbon county Ra ker, Applet on. For West half Bourbon county R.

A. Johnson, Hepler. For Dickinson county II Parmenter, Pept Solomon. For Jefferson county J. X.

Insley, Oska-loosa. Deputies may open granges in any county where there is no other Deputy. state officers may open granges wherever called upon. Persons wishins membership bhould ap-plv- to their nearest grange. ieputies cannot open granges with names on the petition thsU have beeu rejected by other granges.

All officers should send lists of granges, as soon as organized, to the State Lecturer for publication. ranges of Labette and Neosno Counties GRAKGE. Osage luka Xeosbo Spring Val'y Fairview Oak Grove Elm Grove Noosho Val'y Harv't Home Green Busli Mission Frbana Cen tor Vallev Ctty Libcrty Franklin 1 SFCHETART POSTOFFICE jVv MeGuire (Jacksonville Thurston Parsons I Ode ission Kdw Hiatt jParsons Feck Montana Anderson i Parsons Miss Curtis Mission James White Montana Labette City Robinson smith. Mission Cross Greess Urbana A I)one Evans .1 Felix KHotloiwaj- jGalesburg island Parsons Prairie Hector VraitiH Val'v Kich ras'ii Mound al i ed over to him. Thus ends one the most remarkable civil suits on the annals of court.

-pt id tut. OsiC1'') Ind FROM NEW YORK. New Yonic, Sept. 14th, 1ST3. Fkiexd Herald: Having a few minutes leisure, I take up a pencil to scratch a line to the leaders of a journal I admire, and to the citizens of a town that I am particularly interested in.

The great question that the Parsons Herald has started, "Cheap transportation, the rights of the farmer in opposition to railroad monopoly, is beginning to take root-Our leading papers, the Herald, Times, Tribune and several others are all dwelling on it in almost every issue. The Times is becoming quite uneasy about it, as it is evidently on the anxious seat; it sci-s the justice of the Farmers demands but it has not come square out yet for the producer, it has correspondents all through the west, picking up information, and writing every particular both for and against thu movement. It will not bo long until it will have to come out for cr against the measure. I am proud of the Herald for the open way you speak; and I have told more than one of the writers on our "great sheet" that the "Western press wa of them, and they did not deny it. Put the public here to, are.

becoming interested; you can hear the subject talked about all over cit', at both large and small gatherings, in the city cars, and one particular portion of our citizens. 11. K. officials, and their name is legion wholive aye, wallow in wealth feel doubly anxious; they see that small cloud in the west, which as it moves up on the political horizon is going to grow to such size and strength, that, in its progress, it will contain elements of power, which will sweep railroad monopoly out of existence. The desperate efforts that those officials are now making here before the Senatorial Committee to prove that they try lo show that it will be ruinous to the wholo Union to attempt to cut down three hundred per cent, profit in lh' freighting business.

I know I am intruding on your valuable space, so I will discontinue tbis topic for the present; but will keep tho good people of Parsons and Kansas (through tlie Herald,) posted by letter and extracts, how the monopolists smart unner the western rod. That gully of roguery, "Wall street, when 1 say street, you know I meau those vultres who prey ujM'nlhebusi- public, met with a little of their just reward the past week. A few of the larger birds, corjnt sine 'tores, had got up a ring, aud run up to 1.1C; but at that ilgure.lhe ring got a crack, and from a crack it went, into pieces and su a fall, from 1H down to 1.11, but uooneof any stand- I ing or character was hurt, in fact every man outside of that pest-plt was benefitted, for in forty-eight hours after there was a great improvement in I1 branches of commerce; merchants and consumer. freer, and with more courago. I wish that prince of sheets.the New York IIoraM would pitch into tho evil-doers of that brimstone high way, with a zeal it does into Many tilings; I really believe if it ould, it could rout them out, so that in a few short months their places would bn filled with honest and upright business men I say this about the Herald, because I think so; I do not want you to imagine I am flattering your prototype, for I am not; for I have watched the Herald for years and I can give several instances where it ias taken up a question in earnest.

and carried it through, lut one of rr- cr.nt date wiil suffice Our "reform" with but two scathing articles against the meanness of the action, and tho shop girls as one of the V) called them, were left alone. "We have had a big fizzle here, iu a balloon that was to start for TTu-roje. The only rune that was made was in the gaie-keeper raising fDOOO; an.i he has gone no one knows where. More iu ny next. Fabek.

"The Unicerxity Press at iladison. in publishing the course of H.D.WADE, STONEMASON AND PLASTERER PAR-SONS, KANSAS. Good work done on short notice Work warranted and satisfaction guaranteed. Leave orders at City Hotel, Iiiggs Ave. A.

C. CALKINS Dealers In Lumber of all Kinds Lath, shingles, doors, blinds, and plastering material, which is ottereu at red need price. Lumber yard oil the east tide of the railroad PAPJSONS. 11 K. SillTU, WATCHMAKER AND JEVELER Watches, clocks, fine Jewelry, suctacles, pold pens, silver plated ware Ac.

The best Hoods In the market, and warranted as represented. Hepalrins natly and promptly done. Post oillce building. PAUSONS, KANSAS. Dr.

HENRY tlu d'HUY, (Late of Kentucky) Physician, Snrgscn Obstetrician Corner Iligijs and Sklddy aves, at the OK It MAX IIOUSK, PARSONS, KANSAS rtEFKUFNCES Itlclinrrt Gilbert, Ow-ensboro, Ky. Dr. Sturimin, formerly professor ot Louisville Fnivcrsity Dr. S. lies-ton, Hardinburii, Ky.

23 so SSivo Store, Cor. Main and County OrfAOE MISSION, KANSAS. Always prepared to fiecornmodate cus-tomers Vltli anytliin In my -line. A. 15.

SToDDAT, Proprietor. GEliERT ATCHISON Iealer in Shelf Hardware Stoves, tinware and aiiricultural implements. Opposite 1st National Bank KANSAS 3. 1. SIXi 'Li, "WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DKALKlt IN DRY COODS, (iEOCEIIIES, II ATS, CAl'S, LOOTS, SHOES, AND QUEENS WARE.

Shipping of PRO DUCK Made a Specialty. Johnson Avenue PARSONS, KANSAS. 3tONITOIl BLANK BOOK ZNIaiiTifa ctovy, FORT SCOTT, KANSAS. Every description of Mngnzino Rinding neatly and promptly executed. Orders left at the IltvitAi.i) office will be promptly attended lo, or address P.

H. TIERNAX, Sup't of Monitor. JOHN B. CAUPBELL, Wholesale and Retail dealer In SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONERY, Wall I'aper, Illnnk books, Toys, Notions; Also agent for the Eureka School seats and all kinds of School furniture. Seboll orders taken in payment.

Send for price list. No. 12 Wall Street, Post Office Block. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS. M.

JOHNSON, Dealer in Dry Goods, CLOTHING, GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, No. 8 Jc'inson Avenue, FARSONS, KANSAS. M. J. RACER, Surgeon Dentist Corner of Riggs and Johnson Aves.

PARSONS, KANSAS. MRS. SCOTT JONES, Manufacturers of ALL KINDS OF HAIR WORK. Ladies Hair work a speciality." Chisnons, Frizes, Coils, made to order. Also Indies "Switches made from their own hair, matted hair orcornbiiiirs straightened and worked up.

Next door to M. M. Neeley's. Johnson Avenue, PARSONS, KANSAS. GO TO J.

W. FOR YOUR DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, ROOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, NOTIONS, FLOUR, FEED, I No. 7, East Johnson Avenue. PARSONS, KANSAS. TERMS: TWO DOLLARS PEH YEAR, Invariably in Advance.

Offjck On Hlses avenue. Story of the IIkkai.i. oneUoonsouth of the First National liank. G. C.

WEST, ATTORNEY AT OHiee over store, rAIWU.NM, KANSAS. Will practice In the City Court, District Court and the Siipri'inc Court of the State. Collections made unil promptly remitted. AVAIUILW KLE1SER, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. PAIISONH KANSAS ta-OjlHeeoirr the Q.X.

LlnVAKI) C. WAI1 I ATTORNEY AT LAW KANSAS. ifm County Attorneys KIXJAH E. HASTINGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AKsi iN's KANSAS Bij-ofJIce in Sun Ji lUdi.in, n. m.

ATTORNEY AT LAW PAKSONS KANSAS Mia-Atl buHiinn rntruttfil with him, rarrfullj atirmlrrf ft HAYS riEKSON, DEALERS III QUE2XTSV7AEE tilasswaro, window shades, scliocd liiiukn and stationery. PARSONS KANSAS Am-At th Post C. 8. WHITNEY, MERCHANT TAILORS PA RSONS KANSAS 9 l'trrext nt-rnuCi 9. El).

rALMKK, City Esprosssnciri AM) CliN'ITL" It MOVER. PaoUnefM delivered to anv part of thecltv. I irders left at llm City Dnii: store or O. W. Kverliarl's, will be promptly attended to.

e. r.osis, Ill C017FECTI0ITSSY And Ice Cream. The best ice crenm in the city served nt all hours. Fresh fruit and nuts of all kinds. JOHNSON KANSAS.

Near the Railroad. NOYLS, Proprietor I i 11 XI xi j-j I'ARSONS KANSAS It fOiriu-r Iiijg and Vrtmnnt aiWTii HUT Eli vS: Manufacturerers of and Dealers in Furniture Of all qualities and styles. Picture frames every description made to order. I "ndertaking mado a speciality. PARSONS KANSAS Look for big furniture sijn.

S. V. PETTYJOHN, Proprietor ST. JAMES SAM ON A full and corn pletostock of imported wines am) Manors. A htrue stock of Simmons staiuer's celebrated Sultana cigars always on hand.

Try them. PARSONS KANSAS J. L. ELKIN, House I'iiintor iir.ninlns, calsomininir and paper hanging made a speciality. Orders left at the Pioneer House, Rises avenue, promptly utteuded to.

PARSONS KANSAS Ii. P. MHISSE, Dealor in Tobacco. and eicars. Rest Virginia and Kentucky-tobaccos in the market.

Forest avenue. PARSONS OXSTOTT FARRAN. Manufacturer and Repairerof Agricultural Implements. Poos a pen-Hlai-kstnltiiin business. All work have a machine for upsetting wagon vr the only one in 1 'arsons.

JOHNSON AVE, Opposite Watson's Livery Stable HIST NATIONAL BANK PAIiSOXS KAXSXS. Authorized Capital Paid-up Capital. 60,000 ANGELL MATTHEWSON. CWiior. 4 4 selling fa voi ably, and it was merely a question whether the bank would give up the road or the road would ruin the bank.

The latter alternative occurred, and it will excite regret among- those "who remember the patriotic exertions by whieh the firm rose to success, to honor and wealth and good repute, in the financial world. It is the habit to say that it was very easy to make money during the war, and yet there was a time in the history of the war when a man who acted on conviction of the ultimate success of the Government incurred as heavy a ride as the language of bus- mess ean express. And if there was pluck and patriotism in the way in which Jay Cooke took hold of the loans of the United States, there Avas no less practical wisdom in the methods by which he contributed so largely to their success. He was equally deserving of credit for the ventvrc which he owed his rise, and for the venture which lias dragged him down. The Northern Pacific Road was a mistake, chietly because time was not ready for it, but it is no discredit for any one to have undertaken it.

Its failure, however, will diminish our regret oyer the other mistake which was made when the money which might have opened a central route to the Pacific was lost in a problematic undertaking too near to the North Pole. St. Louis Glohc. Put Kansas to its Right Use. At the banquet given at Kansas City to the cattle men, Mr.

E. Rariktt responded to the toast, "The Grazing Grounds." "We merely extract the following great truth from his remarks: "Kansas for the ten miles of railroad within her borders nine vears. ago, now shows 2,300 miles of glitter- ing iron, drawing with magnetic force the commerce of the "West and South to her doors. The language of th toast proposed, states a great in regard to our State that I is not sufficiently appreciated. world, allotted by the divine llie Hnl.e for that narticular niii-ino.

A thf. r-nref ul and nrudent irmer cfra nir wrti in ruirtwtii ol KllliV yL ma iui i ui 11, tuiuuivi iui 'i'jai- ry, a third for wheat, and so on, but never neglecting to make a- liberal provision "for the pasturing of his f.AiTo it it nocdhV that il.e head and ruler of the world should have made a which the most foolish farmer never commits Vet from our action it would seem we thought so, we establish a dead line beyond the farthest outskirts of the agricultural communities, which have been forced a hundred miles beyond its natural limits, and say to the drover, 'thus far and no anj to spare behind you; there is a market, neighbors and comfort, be content, and do not seek to gather craws oUherns, nor figs of It may take years for our people to learn this lesson, as the sturdy have been scraping! thcir granite bil Wit plows ted planting their wheat with rifles from I 1 I 1 Kimsa3 is one portion of If occasion requires you to m. nntv1 Af ihn duplicate to the National Sec-j retary, please be sure antl mark it "Duplicate" in bold letters. ing, writing, and sending out about nflnon mLLf hmisanri documents rer monin, some may i but let us all be lenient towards each other. None of the errors we may make will be of a very serious nature, and can easily be corrected.

All orders for articles to be sent by mail, are filled promptly the day they are received; but are put in the Post Office at the risk of the party ordering. O. II. Kelley, Sec'v. of National Grange.

Cady, Llnx County, Aug. Spergeox, Pro: 1 irate malice would suggest criminal school board were about to cut dow procedure and whether sustained or I mir over-worked, and poorly paid -not, would have served the purposes male teachers, the Herald came out Our Granges wishes a decision from Each year the line is extended west-yon in regard to articles 5 and 0, of i ward by the clamor of deluded men the constitution; and article of by- wuo go beyond Ellsworth to farm, laws for subordinate Granges (as that God intended to be pasture published by the Spirit of Kansas.) and forever and ever. Pet the State The question, whether it is two dol- gx jt3 dead line for the fanners, and lars or whether it is rive dollars that say to them, 'beyond this you will must "accompany the petition," as j'trespass ion the greatest trade and spoken of in art. fi of the said by-! profitable commerce of our laws. Please inform us as soon as state.

There is farm land enough of envious scandal, pending the suit The bulk of the case rested on evi- dence and was not therefore a bare question of informality in law, irregularity in record or misapprehension of facts, with a judgment banging on technicalities and pending solely on the legal ability, caprices or whims of the court, leaving the unsophisticated listener without the bar in bewildered, befogged obscurity as to tenor of the case and its inevitable result. It is with the evidence the public r1 possible. Also have the decision published in the Spirit of Kansas, as some of the Granges in these parts require $0, while others only S2, to accompany the petition. O. D.

IlARlIOX. xxswrx Tho constitution of National Grange in art. 5 says "every appu- have to do. Common place, honest study at the State University, print-people have no taste for false records "comic lectures" in the list of ffibu? IM Adlir 1 cation mast be accompanied by fee time immemorial, trying to make a proved it to us on the spot. 'Why, 1 or cunning practices among those to studies for the first term of Sopio-secretaries win please furnish ns Vith morn'oersliiiC and persons cannot garden of the place that Gcd intend- said he, 'do you see dat dor- whom are intrmted before or after more year, where the professor h.q those omitted, and also as j-s Grjr.rs, be calIei members until ed fyr a work slifp.

As the people nick out darT meaning Canington's death all their earthly possessions, written, "conic sections." ore organized in the two counties. i i 4.