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20 KANSAS WESLEYAN ADVOCATE. in dazed bewilderment but like a consoling angei the image of the pure, simple, childlike Esther floats to his vision. Esther and Iras, wonderful blending of light and blackest night. Esther all light, all truth, all tenderness. Iras all vanity, all avarice, all hatred.

Esther dutiful, sympathetic, open hearted. Iras crafty, ambitious, revengeful. Esther all self-sacrifice, all forgiveness, all serene-ness. Iras selfish, harsh, cruel. Cruel to herself, cruel to humanity, and the worlp soon becomes cruel to her.

Her life becomes a burden. In a fit of despondency she craftily tatses the life of Messala. The doom of her own downward course of destrctuion is sealed. In shame, misery and want she wanders from place to place. The charms of her youth have fled.

Sin has stamped its mark upon her brow. There is none to love, none to protect. In despair and remorse, plunging beneath the murmuring waves of the bay of Cumanus, she intrusts her fate to silent lips. In silence yet the muru urirg waves their darkest secrets hold fast a mortal endowed with nature's fairest gifts a decietful, perfidious life a life of misery. Historical Sketch.

A. W. JONES. The original people of Kansas called themselves Kanzas, which by some means has become changed to were undoubtedly first seen by the white man in 1541, when Vasquez De Coronado, in his vain search for the mythical seven cities of Cibola, marched from Mexico to the Missouri River near where the city of Atchison now stands, and called the country Quivira. Coronado speaks of a very fertile soil, well watered by brooks and rivers and says he found wild prunes, mulberries and grapes.

He also says the great plains are swarming with herds of crooked-backed cattle, which is the first mention we have of the American bison. After this it was probably not seen hy a whiteman until visited by French missionaries more than a century later. "Thus Quivira as forgo en And the world forgot the place Until centuries apace ame th blue-eved Saxon race And bade the desert waken. Coronado gives us no particular account of the Indians who inhabited the country, but according to late authority, these Indians as well as their white successors, proved the good quality of the soil and climate by being superior to surrounding tribes. This tribe was once a powerful nation of several thousand members, and Kansas.

The great French explorer, Father Marquette, gives the first mention that I have been able to find of the Kanzas and sneaks as follows: "About six seven days below the Illinois river is another great river flowing in from the westward and along this are prodigious nations who use wooden canoes and among these are the Kanzas. The next account is given by Zebu-Ion Pike, who went from St. Louis to the Rocky Mountains in 1810-11. But the first account that tells us much about them is given by Major Long, who traveled through the state to the mountains in 1819-20. They left their steamboat at the mouth of the Kansas River and made the whole trip overland to the Kanzas village, which was situated at the mouth of the Blue River near where Manhattan now is.

Their visit is described as follows: "As we approached the village we perceived the tops of the lodges red with crowds of natives. The chiefs and warriors came rushing out on horseback painted and decorated followed by great numbers on foot. The party was received with.