The Fulton Independent from Fulton, Kansas • 1

The Fulton iindepenbenx FULTON, BOURBON COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891. VOL. VIII. PROSPERITY HERE. A LUCKY FARMER.

TALMAGE'S SERMON. Business of all Kinds Steadily Improving. He Inherits an Estate and a Seat in Parliament. He Reviews the, Career of Christ While on Earth. HowT7mn Say to4-By.

Cincinnati Times-Star. She was going on a long journey, and she must say goodby to her friends whom she had been visiting. "Well, good -by, Annie," said George, with a handshake. George," re-died Annie. "Good-by, Annie," said George's young wife, Stella, imprinting a kiss on Annie's lips.

"Good-by, Stella," replied Annie, returning the salute. "You must come again soon," said George. "Yes, do come again soon." added Stella. "Oh, I will," said The Earl of Caithness Raising "Wheat and The Week's Wheat Receipts Seven Time Last Tear's An Unprecedented Demand for Dry Good. Notes.

Feeding; Figs in the United States-Value of the Estate History The Savior's Birthplrce The Holy Man on the Mount of Temptations-Judas' Kiss The Final Victory. of the Case. New York, September 25. R. G.

Dun Weekly Review of Trade ays: No disturbances threaten to af Anaie. "And you must stay longer the next time," said Stella. "Yes, and you must stay with us all the time," said George. "Now, good-by, Annie," said Stella. "Good-by, said An- Rev.

Talmage's discourse at the tabernacle was on the "March of Christ Through the Centuries," and his text Revelations xix 12: "On His Head Were Many Crowns." He said: fect the general prosperity which the enormous crops now promise, and the failure of a house of extraordinary re pute and strength to sustain the price May your ears be alert and your of corn is at once proof of general prosperity and a warning that whoever gets Census Office Returns of the Totals in Kansas Counties. The much-talked-about census of Kansas mortgages has finally been completed. There are, or rather there were when the facts were gathered, Kansas mortgages to the amount of This includes both farms and city lots everything in the form real estate mortgages. The total assessed valuation of real and personal property in 1890, not including the value of railroad property, which is placed at was "$209,593,711. It appears, therefore, that the mortgages on real estate amount to within.

$55,000,000 of the total assessment on real estate and personal property in the state. The statement is made at the census office that the real comparison is not nearly so bad as'that. It is.said that the assessment does not represent one-third or one-fourth of the real valuation, and that this true value is over 6800,000,000. The census ofScials think it is fair to say that the land mortgage debt of Kansas is about 27 per cent of the estimated true value of all taxed real estate. The average amount of debt per mortgaged ecre is put at $6.65.

Mr. Porter says that the largest debt exists in the sections where there has been an advance in improvements. He considers that this favorable showing for Kansas, which he says is the heaviest in debt of any state, is an encouraging indication of what this inquiry will show relative to indebtedness in other states. There has been a great deal of iscussion in regard to the mortgages of Kansas. The farmers' alliance agitation has given an importance to the question which, makes it one of more than local interest.

Below are given the farm and city lot mortgages: for the entire state by oounties: on the wrong side when this country is growing is liable to be hurt. Reports indicate tne continuance of the general improvement in trade al ready noticed. At Chicago the week was one of the largest on record in cattle receipts, which were over 95,000 head, and while some increases appear flour, oats and corn, dressed beei. hides and wool, the receipts of wheat and rye were nine tinies last year's, though in barley, cured meats, cheese, lard and butter tnere was some de crease, xne sates oi ary gooas, ciotn nsr and shoes exceed last year's, and Grand Forks, N. Sept, 30.

From a small farm on the Da'-ota prairies to a fine old English esw.i and a seat in the house of lords is a long step, but James S. Sinclair, of Lakota, Nelson county, will make the stride in a few days. For months Sinclair has plowed and sowed, fed his pigs and milked his cows, while letter after letter crossed the Atlantic, first bearing the news that he had become Lord Berriedale, and later that he had inherited the title of Earl of Caithness and all tbe honors and acres that went with it. But the letters did not reach their destination, and seeding' time grew into harvest and harvest into threshing before the officers of the dead letter office located the heir and told him of his altered condition. The change in James Sinclair's fortune is brought about by one of those unexpected shifts of fortune's wheel that are occasionally read of but rarely encountered.

Sinclair's father was James Augustus Sinclair, a professional man who had not made a success of life. His father was Lieut. CoL John Sutherland Sinclair, after whom the oldest son of James A. Sinclair was named. Col.

Sinclair had a pension during his life, but it ceased with his death, and his son and his family had nothing: to depend on but their own exertions. The Sinclairs were distantly related to George Philips Alexander, Earl of Caithness and Lord Lieutenant of Caithness, but so slight was the tie of kinship that no one in the family expected to profit by it. When James Sinclair, the son came to realize that there was little to be gained fighting fortuneln England, he decided on emigrating to the United States. He had inherited the pluck and energy that was largely instrumental in advancing his grandfather from a subordinate position in the Royal artillery to a lieutenant colonelcy, and decided to try farming. He purchased a tract of land about four miles from Lakota, in this state, stocked it and bent every energy while collections are not quite satisfac tory, there is some improvement.

At Minneapolis trade is especially brisk in flour, the output being 180,000 barrels, against 160,000 last year, and throne He mounted. It was the grandest day heaven had ever seen. They had Him back again from tears, from wounds, from ills, from a world in which He was the chief delight. In all the libretto of celestial music it was hard to find an anthem enough conjubi-lant to celebrate the joy saintly seraphic, archangelic, deifiv. The islands of the sea are hearing His voice.

The continents are feeling His power. America will be His. Europe will be His. Asia will be His. Africa will be His.

New Zealand will be His. All the earth will be His. Do you realize that until now it was impossible for the world to be converted? Not until very recently has the world been found. The Bible talks about "the ends of the earth" and "the uttermost parts of the world" as being saved, but not until now have "the ends the earth" beeu discovered, and not until now have "the uttermost parts of the world" been revealed. The navigator did his work, the explorer did his work, the scientist did his work, and now for the first time sincS the world has been created has the world been known, measured off and geographized; the last hidden and unknown tract has been mapped out, and now the work of evangelization will be begun with an earnestness and velocity as yet unimagined.

Tke steamships are ready, the lightning express trains are ready, the printing presses are ready, the telegraph and telephone are ready, millions of Christians are ready, and now see Christ marching on through the centuries. Marching on! Marching on! But most certainly the day will come when heaven will be finished and the last of tho twelve gates of the eternal city shall have clanged shut, never to open except for the admission of some celestial embassage returning from some other world, and Christ may-strike his scarred but healed hand in emphasis on the arm of the amethystine throne and say in substance: "All my ransomed ones are gathered; the work is done; I have finished my march through the centuries." When in 1813 after the battle of Leip-sic, which decided the fate of the nineteenth century, in some respects the most tremendous battle ever fought, the bridge down, the river incarna-dinee. the street choked with the wounded, the fields for miles around strewn with a dead soldiery from whom all traces of humanity had been hashed out, there met in the public square of that city of Leipsic the allied conquerors, and the kings who had gained the victory the king of Prussia, the emperor of Russia, the crown prince of Sweden followed by the chiefs of their armies. With drawn swords these monarch saluted each other and cheered for the continental victory they bad together gained. History has made the scene memorable.

Greater and more thrilling will be the spectacle When the world is all conquered for the truth, and in front of the palace of heaven tbe kings and conquerors bf all the allied powers ol Christian usefulness shall salute each utter anl -recount the Tstrug-giea-- by which they gained the triumph, and then hand over their swords to Him who is tbe Chief of the conquerors, crying: "Thine, Christ, is the kingdom; take the crown of victory, the crown of pominion, the crown of grace, the crown of glory." "On Hi3 head were many crowns." wheat receipts were 1.800.000, bushels, while lumber is strong and higher prices are contemplated. At Kansas City trade steadily improves. Counties I Total I Oa Acres I On Lots they turn Ou. their couches and blush from awful palor of helpless illuess to rubicund health, and the swollen feet 01 the dropsical sufferer becomes fleet as a roe on the mountains. The music of the grove and the household wakens the deaf ear, and the lunatic and maniac return into the bright intelligence, and the leper's breath becomes as sweet as the breath of a child, and the flesh is roseate.

Tell it to all the sick, through all the homes, through all the hopitals. Tell it at 12 o'clock at night; tell it at 2 o'clock in the morning; tell it half past three, and in the last watch of the night, that Jesus walks the tempest. Still we follow our Chieftain until the government, that gave Him no protection, insists that He pay tax, and too poor to raise the requisite $2.75, He orders Peter to catch a fish that has in its mouth a Roman stater, which is a bright coin (and you know that fish naturally bite at anything bright), but it was a miracle that Peter should have caught it at tbe first haul. Now we follow our Chieftain until for the paltry sum of $15 Judas sells him to his pursuers. Tell it to all the be-ti ayed! If for $10,000 or for $500 or for $100 your interests were sold out, consider for how much cheaper a sum the Lord of earth and heaven was surrendered to humiliation and death.

But hero while following Him on a spring night between 11 and 12 o'clock, we see the flash of torches and lanterns and we hear the cry of a mob of nihilists. They are breaking in on the quietude of Gethsemane with clubs like a mob with sticks chasing a mad dog. It is a herd of Jerusalem 'roughs" led on by Judas to arrest Christ and punish Him for being the loveliest and best being that ever lived. But rioters are liable to assail the wrong man. How were they to bo sure which one was Jesus? "I will kiss Him," said Judas, "and by that signal you will know on whom to lay your hands to arrest," So the kiss which throughout the human race and for all time God intended as the most sacred demonstration of affection, for Paul writes to the Romans and Corinthians and the Thessalonians concerning the "holy kiss," and Peter celebrates the kiss of charity, and with that conjunction of lips Laban met Jacob, and Joseph met his brethren, and Aaron met Moses, and Samuel met Saul, and Jonathan met David, and Orpah parted from Naomi, and Paul separated from his friends at Ephesus, and the father in the parable greeted the returning prodigal, and when the millennium shall come we are told righteousness and peace will kiss each other," and all the world is invited to greet Christ as inspiration cries out: "Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and ye perish from the way" that most sacred demonstration of reunion and affection was desecrated as the filthy lips of Judas touch the pure cheek of Christ, and the horrid smack of that kiss has its echo in the treachery and debasement and hypocrisy of all ages.

As in December, 1889, I walked on the way from Bethany, and at the foot of Mount Olivet, half mile fromthe wall of Jerusalem) through the garden of Gethsemane, and under the eight venerable olive trees now standing, their pomological ancestors having been witnesses of the occurrencss spoken of, the scene of horror and of crime came back to me until I shuddered with the historical reminiscence. In further following our great Chieftain's march through the centuries, I fird myself in a crowd in front of Herod's palace in Jerusalem, and on a movable platform placed upon a teselated pavement, Pontius Pilate sits. And as once a year a condemned criminal is pardoned, Pilate lets the people chose whether it shall ba an assassin or our me. ijOoa-Dy," saia jeorge. vjtxxi-Vy, George," said Annie.

"And sav, George, you must write, too," she continued. "Oh, I will," said ho. "And. Stella, you must write," said Annie. "Well, I'll write this evening, right away, before I forget it," replied Stella.

"Now, you must come to see me," said Annie. "Oh, we will," said George and Stella together, "and you must come to see us again, too." "Oh, I will, I've had a such a nice time," replied Annie. "Well, good-bye, Annie," said Stella, with another kiss. "Goodbye, Annie," said George. "Good-bye, George," said Annie.

"Oh, what time will you get to Dayton?" asked George "Oh" I don't know, replied Annie. "Well, you'll get therein time for supper?" queried Stella. yes, I hope so," said Annie. "Well, the train is goinsr to start, so good-bye." said George. "And good-bye," said Stella.

"Good-bye," said Annie. They passed out of the car, but it did not start, and the next moment a soft voice was heard outside, aslStella came under the open window where Annie sat and said: "Good-bye, Annie; I forgot to send my love to your mamma." "Oh, yes," replied Annie, "Give my love your mamma." Good-bye, Annie," said George, coming up and reaching for a last hand shake. "Good-bye, Annie," said Stella, stretching up her too. Good-by, George; good-by Stella," said Annif The train began to nrove. George shook hands again and Stella threw a kiss.

"Good-by, good-by, good-by." The last farewell had been said. When a man starts on a journey, even be it to Europe, his friend says, "So long, old boy," and the incipient traveler says "So long," and there is an end of the matter," Preventing Frost. The manipulators of the elements ara now about to turn their attention frpm rain-making to the artificial prevention of frost. Mr. L.

C. Xniffen of Chicago has written to Secretary Rusk in regard to the matter, suggesting that the materials used by Colonel Dryenfurth in producing rain if they ever produced rain be tested as a means lor "creatine: a sort of fog which will be a Reports as to tne money marKets are 1 10.357,911 2.256.992 1.231,043 2 133,44 1,578.048 1.632.980 generally favorable. Money is easier at Boston and Philadelphia, in lair supply at Cleveland and Cincinnati, and sufficient for mercantile needs at Chicago and Milwaukee; easier at Kansas City and Louisville, but very active at 1.761.524 359,819 Allen Anderson Atchison Barber Barton Bourbon Brown Butler Chautauqua. Cherokee xeyenne i lark Clay Coffey Comanche Cowler Ui'citur. New Orleans.

Collections are good at almost every point. 1.514,075 1,911.021 63 Gold receipts Have as yet Hardly bal 1.150.284 2.355.704 anced the large shipments to the inte thoughts concentrated, and all the powers of your soul aroused, while I speak to you of "the march of Christ through the centuries." You say, 'give us then a good start, in rooms of vermillion and on floor of Mosaic and amid corridors of porphyry and under canopies dyed in all the splendors of the setting1 sun." You can have no such starting place. At the hour our Chieftain was born there were "castles on the beach of Galilee and palaces at Jerusalem, and imperial bath rooms at Jericho, and obelisks at Cairo and the pantheon at Rome, with its corinthian portico and its sixteen granite columns; and the parthenon at Athens with its glistening coronet of temples; and there "were mountains of fine architecture in many parts of the world. But none of them were to be the starting place of the Chieftain I celebrate. A cow's stall, a winter month, an atmosphere in which are the moan of camels and the baaing of sheep and the barking of dogs and the rough banter of hostleries.

He takes His first journey before he could walk. Armed desperadoes with hands of blood were ready to snatch him down into butch-cry. Rev. William H. Thompson, the veteran and beloved missionary whom I saw this last month in Denver, in his S6th year has described in his volume entitled "The Land and the Book." Bethlehem as he saw it.

Winter before last I walked up and down the gray hills of Jura limestone on which the village now rests. The fact that King David had been born there had not during ages elevated the village into any special attention. The other fact that it was the birth place of our chieftain did not keep the place in after years from special dishonor, for Hadrian built there the grove of Adonis and for 180 years the religion thero observed was the most abhorrent debauchery the world has ever seen. Our Chieftain was considered dangerous from the start. The world had put suspicious eyes upon him because at the time of his birth, the astrolosers had seen stellar commotions, a world out of its place and shooting down toward a caravansary.

Star divination was a science. As late as the eighteenth 'century it had its votaries. At the cour of Catherine de Medici it was honorad. Kepler, one of the wisest phylosophers that the world ever saw, declared it was true science. As late as the reign of Charles IT.

Lilly, an astrologer, was called before the house of Commons in England to give his opinion as to future events. For ages the bright appearance of Mars meant war: 2.777,715 rior for products. The great industries are doing weiU 978,080 4,404,346 2,386,963 1,801.010 3.U8.714 2.1S5,053 4.470,60 1.331,817 1,601.451 2.233.848 672,698 1, :8,80: 3.372,028 1.601.07)! 1,111,934, 7.527,418 2,782.750 938,3:18 3.944.8 yo 813.a5) 1,786. 887,327 2, 92,107 812.299 419.421 There is a distinctly better demand for" iron without an advance in price. The 1,883.377 114.899 832,735 1.334.970 253.550 225,908 1.445,739 443.529 620,733 125,731 87.436 311.V38 1 18,559 576X99 595,313 106,16 133.1 '5 3,123,077 8i9.373 99 68') 1,029.180 47.304 179,177 211.652 842.973 410,232 313,498 295,582 492,791 439,32 i 44,844 74.351 18,7:7 342.167 57.S28 838.858 2,902,650 distribution of tin is larger and lead is 765,751 stronger.

The steady sales of wool give 708.15 1,885.455 a profit equal to last year's, tnougn in dress goods it is larger, desirable fabrics being sold beyond the capacity of many firms, and the better grades of 1,3 12.768 626,722 1,063.375 worsteds, all wool cassimeres ana neavy cheviots are selling well, with an un precedented demand lor good white flannels, while medium "veneered" and 1.520,624 1,047,554 374.851 572,929 419,675 cotton warp goods and cheaper flannels are no longer wanted. 617,280 713.833 403.46s 418,627 It is a notable evidence ol tne grow ing prosperity that the demand thtw 443,11 changes from inferior to better goods. 2,463,356 preventative against the ravages ol frost." That is to say, the bombard In cotton goods buying is larger than 2,228,9 2.9S8.822 508,848 2,592,204 3,807.282 745,083 1.802.9J7. 1,317.029 for many years in many ment ortne ciouaswill not bo to the extent to so rip them open that the rains Wheat advanced cent, due corn nac fallen 6 cents during the week. Cottonf may descend upon the earth, but sim- 1,205,127 2.870.617 is -three-sixteenths Higher, with better mv enouarh to produce vapors or a sort 3,042 52 3,000.267 of fog" sufficient to keep off frost.

This Douglas Elk Ellis Finney Ford Franklin. Garfield Geary- Gove. Grant Gray Greeley Hamilton Harper Ilarvey lasKcnrrrrr; Hodgeman Jackson Jefferson. Jewell Johnson Kearney Kiowa Lane Leavenworth Lincoln Linn Logan Lyon MePherson Marshall Miami Mitchell Montgomery Neoshd Ness Osage Osborne Ottawa exports, but a sharp fall of li cents occurred in coffee. 577,87 2,635,716 341.142 2,848.877 1,016.014 2,316.021 The fall in stocks Thursday averaged 1.228,146 SI.

80 per share. 668.7.30 74368 3,148,624 1,644,434 Business failures the past weeK numbered 224, compared with 239 for the 1,434,18 1,560.169 1,152,403 1.973, H22 previous week. For the corresponding is likely to require 6uch delicate marksmanship that the military may have to be called in and the whole proceedings transferred to the war department. These anti-frost people may as well be notified that they will array against them tbe largest part avoirdupois weight of the public press. The blanket newspapers will oppose this interference with frost as being a direct interference with their usefulness, for BABIES' HOWLS.

21.396 4t.814 week last year tne figures were oi. 2.530,790 3.974,759 How That Species of Koiae Saved the Life of a Boy. 2,748,9 19 3,414.644 41.91 9 3.481. 135j 2,111,219 One Way to Make Money Fanning- Topeka Capital: The Chicago Hef- 1,883,772 758.782 1,444,876 1,7:34,198 1,916,307 does not every reasoning being know ald relates the following story of what a thrifty young German accomplished on a small American farm. The story can be substantially duplicated by 8 2.001,66.? 2,436.7 5 3.

778. KM 416.027 2,522.841 409. 9 JO that the chief use of a blanket sheet is to cover cabbages, sprouts, cucumber and pumpkin vines from the distinctive fingrers of Jack Frost? Each year the blanket sheets are making it possible hundred instances in Kansas, particu larly among the thrifty Mennonite far- 1,947.940 1,2:8,488 1.564,9 0 1,072.2 1.181.958 for tne farmers to. cover more and more 8.863.961 mers, wno nave pecome ncn vj aiwnu ing strictly to business which they thoroughly understood when they went into it: acres'ffe. and therefore blanket 1,9.

-7. 645 1,31.493 2.479.236: 1.093.490' 1, 14,39 1,557.255 30,87 65,406, 11,902 171,935 364,551 30,731 603,221 212,142 588,664 116,013 454,753 176.012 78,898 63,453 1,066,154 6 2,183 227,947 96,941 305.431 181,811 632,577 255.91 io 36,467 187.5 0 288.289 180,580 105.751 43,316 171,680 243,1184 48M30 126,51 i 237,921 337,7.:9 51,513 2J5.513 620,503 338,036 184.337 161,161 1,786.418 64,232 II, 507, 85.H8J 8,921.335 34.35'j 7.Mu5 126,04) 248.545 11,6 1.2 4. 10 181,735 67.737 323. 32 8,753 238,156 72.563 13 ,883 1 5.73 8 037,035 newspapers may be expected to fall up 2.SW.473 2,781.353 1.544.0S3 1.440.914 The old saying that the German far il on this aa It were, ana essen tially smother it-Chicago News. 1,872,247 2.077.455 2,025.4431 mer piles up green dscks wnere ino American sets out for the poorhouse is strikingly illugtrated in Kankakee 792.79: 3,791.926 2,261 538 county.

Fritz Loeb, an awkward youtn Tlio Fumes of Petrollmn Healthy. As a health tonic and fat producer, the fumes of petroleum have more vir 2,241,801 841.344 7.49fi.:89 2.19I.M9 3,251.651 1.544,447 2 876.i414 trudged into the county asinng tne price of twenty acres of land. Young 1,156.414 of Jupiter, meant power; of the Pleiades meant stormes at sea. And as history moves in circles, I do not know but that after a while it may be found that as the moon lifts the tides of the sea and the sun effects the growth or blasting of crops, other worlds besides those two worlds may have something to do with the destiny of individuals and nations In this world. I do not wonder that the commotions in the heavens excited the wise men on the night our Chieftain was born.

As he came from another world and after thirty -three years was again to exchange worlds, it does not seem strange to me that astronomy should have felt the effeGt of his coming. And instead 'of being unbelieving about the one star that stopped, I wonder that all the worlds in the heavens did not that Christmas night, make some special demonstration. Why should they leave to one world or meteor the bearing of the news of the humamzatiooof Christ? Where was Mars that night that it did not indicate the mighty wars that were tues than all the nostrums in tne mar 1,043,875 2,474.663 1,214.443 farm, laughed at the little German. "Twenty-acre farm! That wouldn't 4,760.486 732.842 6fi8.741i support a hen and her chickens." 5,075.94 lr.5 75.002 11.9S2.8K) 659.623 From Mr. Bunch he bought twentX ket.

If anyone doesn't believe thisj says the Philadelphia Record, let him travel down to Point Breeze and look at the stout and robust commanders and sailors who man the steamships that carry oil in bulk between this port and Europe. These men live and sleep amid the fumes of petroleum. They breathe them with every inhalation. When the tanks are empty the fumes are even Pawnee Phillips Pottawat'mie Pratt Rawlins Keno Republic. Rice Hooks Rush Ku-sell Saline Scott Sedgwick Shawnee Sheridan Sherman Smith Stafford Stanton Stevens Trego Wabaunsee Washington.

Wichita Wilson Woodson Wyandotte 378. 87 acres and a small dwelling. Then be 344.521 422.334 2.055 (Si rolled up his sleeves. Driving daily to town behind a span of bays, Mr. Bunch 1,5 0.20) 1.748.; 518.8 toward improving ms little estate, lie called the place Berriedale, an old family name, and the titlo bestowed by courtesy upon the eldest son of an earl of Caithness.

Sinclair worked industriously to win a fortune in the west, and cut off, to an extent, ail communication with his old homo. When Sinclair left England, George Philips Sinclair, fifteenth earl of Caithness, was 27 or 2s yars old. This was four years ago. Tho young earl had health and strength, was married to a daughter of the late J. MacNeiie.

and, in fact, seemed lik -iv hold the title ana estates for half a century to come and then to pass them "over to a son. In 1889, however, the young earl died. He left no male heir to perpetuate his name, nor were there other near relatives. For nearly a year the title lay dormant, until it became certain that the earldom must pass to another branch of th family, when Sinclair's father was adjudged to be the nearest of kin. He became Earl of Caithness, and James Sinclair, the Dakota farmer, Lord Berriedale A letter was forwarded to James notify mg him of the changed condition of his father and himself, but it seems It did not reach its destination.

Sinclair's father did pot long survive" after inheriting the title arid estate" Whether the unexpected fortune thai had befallen him, old age or the gptit had struck him down is riot known, but he died early last spring quite suddenly; Efforts were at once made to communicate with the son in Dakota, who by hia father's death became James Sutherland, Earl of Caithnes, but without success. Letter after letter was forwarded, but no answer was returned. Either Sinclair had been extremely careless or his friends and the family solicitor had an exceedingly contracted idea of the erea of the northwest, as the letters were simply addressed to "James S. Sinclair, Berriedale Farm, near Dakota." One alter another of the communications found its wav to the Dead Letter Office at Washington, and five months were spent by the department officials in discovering the right man for whom the letters were intended. Tracers were sent out to every city and village in Minnesota, Nebraska and Dakota, and finally tbe lost heir was located.

Sinclair at last received his foreign correspondence, and he learned that he was Earl of Caithness, after having been Lord Berriedale for a year without his knowledge. Sinclair steps into a neat thing. His title, which is one of the oldest traced back in Debrett's peerage, dates from The family estate which de' scends to him includes, besides parks' and manors, 15000 acres of land, from which an annual rental of 5,000 or 6,000 is received. The house in town, on Belgrave square, occupied by the young earl and countess of Caithness at the time of the death of the former, is not included in the inheritance, but re mains in the possession of the countess. The larger but less valuable portion of the property is in Caithness county, Scotland, where is located the old fam-iiy castle.

Here it was that Marie, countess of Caithness and Duchess de Pomar, who has succeeded Mme. Blavatsky as the head of tho Theosophist Society in Europe? had her famous interview with the spirit of Marv Stuart, Queen of Scots. She was the wife of the fourteenth Earl of Caitb ness. The interior of the castle was refitted during" the reign there of the present high priestess of the Theoso-phists, and is in fairly good condition. I-ost in Big Bora Canyon.

Salt Lake City, Sep 30, Several members of the Burlington Missouri River railroad surveying party which have been running lines through the Sinking Water country in the big basin between Buffalo and Yellowstone park, seperated from the main body nearly two months ago, to undertake the perilous enterprise Of running a line through the Big Horn canyon. Nothing has been heard from them since. Except in winter, when the river is frozen over, there i9' hot an instance on record oi-toay one traveling1 through this rent'in th.6 mountains and coraicg out alive, 504.20S saw Fritz weeding the garden, cutting 6U.431 515.2 9 4,2 r.92 thistles, hoeing corn. Which was the better farmer? The German's land 622,640. 'Confound that child, how he yells!" exclaimed an irate passenger on a Coney island boat.

"I'd like to see the orat spanked or chucked overboard. I don't see how children are made so that they Can howl so loud anyhow' -Of course you don't;" replied the irate mail's companion who had been listening to the infantile squalls without any signs of perturbation, "of course you don't. How should a crusty old bachelor know anything about matters that pertain to another sphere of existence. But I can tell you that I once saved a life by vigorous howling when I was a little bit of a -Saved a life by howling? Go and tell that to the marines!" "It is a fact, I assure you," replied the imperturbable man," lighting a frGsh cigar. "I have my mother's word for it tiiat when I was a baby in arms I used to be a prodigious howler.

When I was 3 my elder brother was 6 years old. One wiuter morning he w-nt out to a pond that was covered with ice and I toddled after him, luckily for him. He begun poking at the ice with a stick and in he flopped and came up under the ice. so that all the chances were dead against him. I didn't waste an' time to get him out.

I just devoted my energies to doing what I could do best 1 howled as I Lad never howled before. One of the servants was in the garden along way off hanging up clothes. But my penetrating howl reached her, and instead of howling back to me to shut up, as you would have done, she clapped on a full head of steam and made a bee-line for that poud. Fortunately she kept hold of the clothes prop that she had in her hand when my signal of alarm reached her. and arrived just in time to fish my brother out before life became extinct.

My howling did it. And that's why whenever I hear a child howl I never murmur. You can never tell' when the howl may come in handy. New York Herald. 44 1.905 stronger than when thev are full, but the men on board flourish and grow fat all the time.

Dyspepsia, insomnia and all the ordinary diseases are unknown 83 1.832 yielded more an acre, his cows gave 2.33V2 3,099.3 to come between righteousness and 55.614 47.052 2,372. 183 59,5.222 to them. Sailors broken down with dis sipation in port soon pick up when they 2,615.642 1.772.9S3 1.0(6.88 12,629,938 1,5819.9 iniquity? Where was Jupiter that nighs that it did not celebrate omnipotence incarnated? Where were the Pleiades that night, that they did not A luminous outburst in the sun was 981.816 3 4.59J.9J0! observed by M. Trouvelot, a lew morn-ia rs ago. First a luminous spot appear announce the storms of persecution that 167,1 45.0:;9'$'W,3 43.059 would assail our Chieftain? Chieftain, and they all cry for the liberation of the assassin, thus declaring they prefer a murderer to the salvation of the world.

Pilate took a basin of water in front of these people and tried to wash off the blood of this murder from his hands, but he could not Tney are still lifted and I see them looming up through all the agesv eight fingers and two thumbs standing out red with the carnage. Still foliowing our Chieftain, I ascend the hill which General Gordon, the great; English explorer and arbiter, first made a clay model of. It is hard climbing for our Chieftain, for He has not only two heavy timbers to carry on His back, the upright and horizontal pieces of the cross, but lie is suffering from exhaustion cause by lack of food, mountain chills, desert heats, hip-pings with elm wood rods and year of maltreatment. Something of its overwhelming awful -ness you may estimate from the fact that the sun which shines in the heavens, could not endure it; the sun which unflinchingly looked upon tbe deluge that drowned the world, which without blinking looked upon the ruins of earthquakes which swallowed Lisbon aad Caraccas and has looked un-biunched on the battle fields of Arbela, Blenheim, Megiddo and Esdraelon and all the scenes of carnage that have ever scalded and drenched the earth with human gore that sun could not look upon the scene. The sun dropped over its face a veil of cloud.

It withdrew. It hid itself. It said to the midnight, "I resign to thee this spectacle upon which I have no strength to gaze; thou art blind, midnight! and for that reason I committ to the this Then the nighthawk and the bat flew by and the jakal howeled in the ravines. Now we follow our Chieftain as they carry His limp and lacerated form amid the flowers and trees of a gardeD, the gladioluses, the oleanders, the lilies, the geraniums, the mandrakes, down five or six steps to an aisle of granite where He sleeps. But only a little while He sleeps there, for thereis an earthquake in all that region, leaying the rocks to this day in their aslant and ruptured state declarative of the fact that something extraordinary there happened.

And we see our chieftain arouse from His brief Blumber and wrestle down the ruffian Death who would keep him imprisoned in that cavern and put both heels on the monster, and coming forth with a cry that will not cease to be tchoea until on the great resurrection day the door of the last sepulche rshall be unhinged and flung clanging into the ed on the disc of -the sun near its western limb. It was of -a golden yellow In watching this march of Christ through the centuries, we must not tinge, and shortly afterward a companion spot appeared a little above it. The walk before him or beside him, for that would not be reverential or worshipful spectroscope showed the first spot to consist of a central eruption, from which volcanic bombs were thrown to It must be borne in mind that the above is the mortgage debt of Kansas in force January 1, 1890. Sinca that time the mortgages have been considerably reduced in number and amount. There is an unpaid debt on state and railroad land contracts, which are eiuivalent to mortgages, dot including the table, as follows: State Contracts $3,667,735 Kailroad 3,993.983 So we walk behind him.

We follow Iiim while not yet in bis teens, up a Jerusalem terrace, to a building 600 feet long and CiOO feet wide, and under heights above the chromosphere, where thev seemed to rest as dazzling balls. tne hovering splendor of srate wavs A few minutes later these were replac ed by brilliant jets or filaments. and by a pillar crowned with capital chiseled into the shape of flowers and leaves, and along by a wall ot bevelved Total. Talks War. masonry and near a marble screen un til a group of white haired philosophers A British officer going to inspect the defenses of British Columbia, has been heard from at Ottawa, Ont.

He speaks ana tneoiogians gatner around him and then the boy bewilders and confounds, and overwhelms these scholarly septu with the assurance of a member of the privy council. He says that tne gov agenarians with questions they cannot more milK, nis nens iaia more egjju. More money was made from the twenty acres than from the eighty. Pretty Mrs. Bunch glancing at the German's well filled pocketbook, said to him: "You should marry." "No one not have me." "Some little Dutch girl might." "So?" Years rolled on.

Fritz worked so late in the field that he milked the cows after dark. He wore his old blue coat until Bill Todd offered to give a dollar toward buying him a new one, just tor the appearance of the neighborhood. Mr. Bunch rode to town behind the span of bays. He now borrowed money from Fritz, mortgaging the farm and stock.

Mr. Bunch died, the debts unpaid. The property having for years dacreased in value, must be sold, leaving little for the widow and her two boys, aged 10 and 12 years. Fritz said to her: "Der lettle boys could dnve oop der cows und dig 'taters. Let dem live mit me." She consented, and the boys, fond of Fritz, threw up their hats and turned somersaults on the grass.

A thunderstorm in July drove Fritz from haying to the Bunch farm house. The widow, fearing the lightning, was glad to see him, giving him the best plush chair in the parlor, filling and lighting his pipe. As the smoke curled up over his head he said: "Der farm vhas mine?" "Yes, Fritz." "Der span of bavs vhas mine?" "Yes, Fritz." "Der little boys vhas "Yes, Fritz." "I no likes to leave noddings. VLas der vedder mine?" She looked through a window at the rainbow arching the retreating storm cloud, and answered in a low voice. 'Yes, Fritz." At 3 o'clock yeetarday afternoon tbey drove to th pmcnf behlfi4 tki Cf bavB.

ernment of Great Britain intends to greatly strengthen the defenses of the dominion on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and on the great lakes. He asserts that the Atlantic and Pacific answer, ana under his quick whys and whyfor3, and hows and whens, thev pull their white beards with embarrassment and rub their wrinkled foreheads in confusion, and putting their staff hard down on the marble floor as they arise to go, thev must feel like chiding the Murder Trials and Executions. squadrons are to be largely increased, In the United States annually about 2.500 persons are tried for murder, with an average of about 100 lega executions. boldnesa that allows 12 years of age to and mitmates that England does not feel at all sure of the pacific termination of the differences between the United States and Canada, and means to be in Waller, sent as consul to Madagascar, Writes that he arrived at his post July 24tb. He was received with great pomp by the governor in the name of Queen Ranavanola.

After the reception the governor sent a 3-year old beef, six chickens, two ducks and a gooae for his dinner. Waller refers td iridethig Thomas Prentis.vvho has been consul at Mavutins for twenty yearsi and. is a cousin of Noble Prentis. He inquired about old John Brown, Jim Lane, Mark Parrott, John Spear and ex-Senator Pomeroy, the latter being the only one he knew personally. The Kansas City Star says that Eugene F.

Ware has been figuring on the nationality of Kansas' population. He says that Kansas is an exceedingly pure blooded state. It is a state with a pedigree. It is composed of 84 per cent, native born, white Americans; that is to say, the American born Caucasian is 84 and 54-100ths per cent, of the total population, and in the balance a little over 15 per cent, are found to be colored, Chinese. Indians and foreign born a position to espouse Canada's quarrel eliecuveiy.

Original Etymology. The New York Advertiser editorially undertakes to derive "vamoose," the expressive name of Mr. Hearsts' new debris of demolished cemeteries. yacht, from the French "va mouche." ask 7o years of age such puzzlers. We continue to follow our Chieftain, and here a blind man by the wayside.

It is not from cataract of they eye or from ophtbalmin, the eye extinguisher of the east, but he was born blind. ''Be opened!" lie cries, and first there is a smarting of the eyelids, and then a twilight, and then a mid noon and then a shout, "1 see! I see!" Tell it to all the blind and they at least can appreciate it. And here is the widow's dead eon, and here is the expired damsel.and here is Lazarus! "Live!" our Chieft-Ei i cries, and they live. Tell it through all th Dereft households, tell it among the graves. And here around Him rather tbo deaf and the dumb una the tick, and at hja word JNow we follow Our Chieftain to the If the linguist of the Advertiser had The widow of Chief Justice Waite, though 71 years of age.

ha? dark hair aud a comparatively un wrinkled face. Mrs. Waits, accompanied by her sister and daughter, has been journeying leisurely to the Pacific coast, and will stop at Salt Lake City on her return. It is a well known historical fact that King Brie, of Sweden, wanted to marry ueen Elizabeth. It is not bo well kuown that he made a similar proposal to Mary, Queen of Scots.

Mary'? letter, politely rejecting Ida offer, was sold in London tbo other day for about fUOt ever ridden for a day across a Texas shoulder of Mount Olivet, and without winers he rises, the disciples clutching for his robes too latd too reach them. prairie with a cowboy, he would have discDvered that the word is nothing and across the great gulfs of space with more or less than a corruption of th one bound he gains that world which persons. This was bv the figures of 1880. Mr. Ware thinks it is safe to commta Spanish word "vamos," which may be ft-eely rendered into the English of tba plains, -'Let's git!" nnd it i commonly ftccoB3paai4 violwrt for thirty-three vears had been denied Hia companionship, and all heaven lifted a ehout of welcome aa he entered and a coronation aa up the mediatorial presutne that the Kansas papulation of to-day is 90 pr pent.

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